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The Importance of Critical Thinking

The importance of critical thinking in modern society cannot be overestimated. This paper discusses critical thinking, what it is ...

Comparing Poems about War to Beowulf

it is essentially the duty of this narrator. Beowulf is a man who sees his duty as that which involves risking his life. He goes...

Ofili and Dalwood's Celebrity in Contemporary British Art

of the artist. Dalwood has, in effect, set himself up as the "visualiser" of the publics imagination: this, he says, is what the o...

Modern State and Human Rights

The rationale is that people who fear the repercussions of breaking the law tend to be more obedient. Authority then becomes legi...

Tragic Form of Aristotle and Contemporary Cinema

had erred so completely, even though he did so unknowingly, his only recourse was to take his own life. In Fight Club, then, th...

Critique and Analysis of How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis

shipped their labor overseas, reducing the already small unskilled labor positions in this country. Secondly, the government, with...

The Sociocultural Dance Influence of Alvin Ailey

a rural to urban environment that would have a profound impact upon Aileys all-inclusive approach to dance (Dingus, 2000; McDonagh...

America's Founding Fathers and the 'Tyranny of the Majority' Issue

not wrong. They believe that people should be able to do whatever they like as long as it does not hurt anyone else. Yet, the majo...

Pressfield's Gates of Fire

the often did not take part in battles. It was assumed that the homefront was theirs to protect while the men moved forward. As...

Evolution of Modern Art and the Influence of Impressionism

(1899, oil on canvas, 211" x 33", Art Institute of Chicago). The objects in the painting, the bridge, flowers, water and trees hav...

Era Transitioning

400 years later and the great socialist "experiment" envisioned by Lenin and washed in blood by Stalin. Catherine the Great...

U.S. Modern Dance History

skirt of transparent silk, being back-lit would produce dramatic shapes of light through the skirt (Eley, 2002d). She created her ...

Choreographers Charles Weidman and Alvin Ailey

which included Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman (Beginnings of Modern Dance, 2004). By the end of the 1920s, th...

What Can be Learned by Meeting a Figure Who Lived in the Past

future for herself and her son. If this writer were to engage in a conversation with Ann, this writers grandmother several times...

Corporations and Learning Organizations

that embodies all of the characteristics of a learning organisation has not prevented the continual attempts to create that organi...

Workplace Creativity

to a lack of creativity as it is not a requirement for progress and does not generally gain any social or political advantage in a...

Comparative Analysis of The Lesson by Toni Bambara and The Standard of Living by Dorothy Parker

society within they wished they lived. In Bambaras story we have one woman, a black woman, who is trying to educate the inner c...

Ancient Athens and Contemporary New York City

Most of us recognize that New York City serves as a symbol of all that is possible in the world today. It is also a city that repr...

A Review of Hunger Of Memory The Education Of Richard Rodriguez

This not only hampered his ability to live and work within the American society, but it also caused a significant rift between his...

8 Significant Anglo Americans Who Lived Between the Years 1607 and 1763

metaphor to rule on cases concerning separation of church and state (1998). Daniel Boone is a legend. Like Jefferson, he was bor...

Literary Genres Modernism and Postmodernism

it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was" (Hemingway 13). He is a man lost in a world with no dire...

Wall Street Theories Considered in A Random Walk by Burton Malkiel

instrument (whether it be real estate or common stock), has an anchor that is called intrinsic value. Intrinsic value, note the th...

Chinese Americans and Discrimination

that time, Chinese workers were brought in to help with the U.S. war effort (OConnor, 2004). Those that werent hired for plants or...

Presidential Elections and the Influence of Lobbying

as soft money and issue advocacy" (Newlin Carney 337). However, pro-reform activist groups are adamant about the issue of raising...

Ideology of Dr. Martin Luther King's Nonviolence and Global Terrorism Applications

its grips on the world? How do black American civil rights leaders feel about that form of violence? How do they feel about the ...

Francis A. Schaeffer's How Should We Then Live

Schaeffer moves into the time of Enlightenment and then modern science. It is perhaps this section on modern science that one can ...

Marxism Lives On

his theory, there is more than just home ownership that is valuable. After all, a critic might contend that Marx was bent on provi...

Modern Society and Literature

written form of expression as opposed to the oral traditions seen in many illiterate cultures. Interestingly enough, our oral hist...

The Modern Museum and the Significance in Defining African American Art

works signed by a famous artist. Rather, the visitor is exposed to the artifacts that suggest what life was and is like to African...

The Dead and the Living by Sharon Olds

suggests, there is often a political context to Olds observations. For example, in "The Death of Marilyn Monroe," Olds suggests ...