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Beer and Circus How Big Time College Sports is Crippling Undergraduate Education by Murray Sperber

according to Sperber, is not casual social drinking but a phenomenon known as binge drinking. Adolescents and young adults who ch...

Premodern Japanese Peasant Life

their unswerving and loyal oath, many peasants were beginning to grumble about the heavy handedness of the Warlords. Marikos hom...

Theme of Death in Beloved by Toni Morrison and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

it we see the power of life and death in the novel and the people. However, Okonkwo did take part in the death and was warned that...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Minor Characters and Humor

agrees that this scene is enlightening on Hamlets background and character. In fact, Bloom argues that loosing Yorick, who died in...

Differing Depiction of Women in Homer's Epics 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey'

Greek society was that imposed upon them by either their fathers or purchasers. They would never aspire to privilege or influence...

TV Portrayal of Race

of a show called Wordpath, which is a 30-minute weekly public access television show about "Oklahoma Indian languages and the peop...

The Fall of the Humanists in the Sixteenth Century by Jacob Burckhardt

individual" (Burckhardt, 1878; Mosaic, 2003). Modern historians often dispute some of Burckhardts claims but most concede that in ...

A Legal Courtroom Visit

the description of the room itself and the way the people orient to that room. There is, for example, the distinct separation of ...

Reality and Films

Indeed, by looking at the role of the women in the movie it is a reflection of the social conditions. There is a reflection of the...

Poetic Portrayals of Icarus's Fall

the tale of Icarus. We do know that Auden visited the sixteenth century painting by Peter Breughel when it was displayed in the M...

A Feminist Reading of Shakespeare's Hamlet

conflict, whereas Gertrude and Ophelia are blatantly constructed to subordinate and to submit to all of the whims and desires of t...

Science Fiction Cinema's Portrayal of Society's Fears and Hopes

robots, coming to Earth to present power and knowledge in how people can live together. They insist that the people of Earth need ...

American Society and Body Image

is telling women that they should be very, very thin. While perhaps some women can shrug off such images--like Camryn Manheim who ...

Historical Significance of Inventing Eastern Europe The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment by Larry Wolff

on, when Russia was but a small eastern European principality, the desire for cultural advancement was not of paramount importance...

The Baby Train and The Vanishing Hitchhiker by Jan Brunvand

so show that certain themes are consistent in the stories and how they are a part of urban and societal life. The stories contain ...

Patriarchy Portrayal of 'Lacking' Women

culture reflects significant patriarchal control, with the manipulation of the female gender a pertinent component of its objectiv...

Artistic Portrayal of Women

altar, they represent Jesus human and divine natures. Believers are also called to be the light of the world. In the Smoking Flame...

Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare and Roman Values

should take precedence over civic and social responsibilities (Goodlad). Most of the plays conflict and considerable violence is ...

A Discussion of Caretakers of Our Common House by Carol Lakey Hess

values within mixed religious communities and they grow from this socialization, women too need an environment where they can asse...

A Reading of Emily Dickinson's 'After Great Pain…'

questions Gods intentions. The capitalization of "He" suggests an allusion to Christ, whose suffering, both mentally and physica...

Willy Russell's Play Educating Rita and the Portrayal of the Teacher

you mean am I determined to go to pub? I dont need determination to get me into a pub" (Russell). In this we see a bit of a condes...

Artist Myth and Cinema

1956 account of Vincent Van Gogh leaves that question open in his sympathetic portrayal of the artist" (TCM, 2003). When watchi...

Approaches to Other Cultures by the French and British in a Quintet of Movies

a conversation with Colonel Brighton (Anthony Quale), Feisal shows that he understands that the British are there to protect their...

Love, Compromise, and Conflict in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

more so when Elizabeth - who relishes the opportunity to manipulate him - opts to dance instead with Mr. Wickham, a man Darcy deci...

Aphra Behn's 'Oroonoko'

untouched. She and Oroonoko consummate their marriage but the very next morning the kings servants come to the young couple and sa...

Roland Joffe's The Mission and the Film's Portrayal of New World Colonialism and Jesuit Missions

forest, which would later represent the convergence of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina, symbolically depict a convergence of the h...

Revelation and Gospels Portrayal of Jesus

Greco-Roman thought and tradition. Nevertheless, traditionally, Christian scholars have been extremely reluctant to give credit fo...

Far From Heaven Film by Todd Haynes, Discrimination, and Lessons from the Past

quintessential young American suburban couple. They are living the ideal of 1950s economic prosperity and have been affectionatel...

'Nature' by Ralph Waldo Emerson

my eyes,) which nature cannot repair" (Emerson). In this he clearly envisions nature as an entity that can fix all mans problems,...

Demons and Angels

angels lost their original holiness and became corrupt in nature and conduct.5 In 2 Peter 2:4, it tells of how some were cast into...