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Essays 1711 - 1740

Thomas Hobbes - Was he a Liberal?

one to his Will, and their Judgments to his Judgment" (Hobbes PG). Hobbes argues against the contention that through the di...

Protection for the Rights of the Individual in the U.S. Constitution

and prohibits someone from being tried twice for the same crime (Findlaw.com (a), 2002). In addition, this amendment states that n...

British Constitutions and Convention Importance

relations of the various state organs to one another an to the private citizen" (Hood et al, 1987; 5). If we assume this definitio...

Alexis de Tocqueville, Auguste Comte, and Karl Marx

faced with the problem of having to decide who has control over this surplus and this provides the seeds of class struggle. Mark ...

Science Fiction Writing and Ray Bradbury

realms that were considered science fiction. For example, one looks at his work "The Martian Chronicles" and immediately assumes...

Revealing Self Through Writing According to Alice Walker

siblings to be one of the "lucky" ones to go to the fair with him. The image is of a pretty, favored child. Walker next relates ...

Political Ideals and 'Politics and the English Language' by George Orwell

concomitant of transitional periods" (Orwell). Orwell looks behind the rhetoric to the true meaning of this sentence and offers ...

Romanticism in the Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne

powerful issue. While Puritan thought had gotten the country this far, "Religion...was also ready for romanticism and its kind of ...

Comparing the Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne

he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...

Children and Standards of Writing

children, and many others that are only suitable when written in a careful manner so as not to give to much that may frighten or c...

Relativism and Universal Values

proverbial bacon, is the fact that most humans share common basic needs and desires which, for the most part, they fulfill in much...

The Signalman by Dickens

and the creation of tension tailor-made for this particular short story, Dickens effectively conjures up intense imagery that serv...

Ancient Writings Like Epic of Gilgamesh and Ideology

purposes of taming Enkidu, the wild man (Radcliffe, 2001). Enkidu is important to the story as he exemplifies the average man in s...

Analyzing Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Her Poetry

Barrett Browning, See also Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning). Furthermore, her brother dies in 1838 and this, combined with the re...

Comic Writing of Jane Austen

good art and literature. One of philosopher Aristotles most pronounced contentions was that art holds a mirror up to life; with t...

Solving the Problem of the Homemaker in Feminist Culture

most comfortable for her. This is true whether an individual woman chooses to take work outside her home as the CEO of the worlds...

Thoreau and Bryant's Impacts Upon the Writings of Oliver, Stevens, and Frost

or element that he has observed to the human condition or situation. This is directly evident in Frosts poem, "Mending Wall". ...

Analyzing the Book Preaching to Every Pew

as psychology, sociology, and history. This multi-dimensional approach is truly unique and affords a great deal of depth to this ...

A Book Review of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's All the President's Men

under surveillance. The government does all they can to frustrate the story, sending them erroneous leads which go nowhere. In fac...

Learning Disabilities and Cooperative Learning

gone beyond Deweys premises (Brufee, 1995). In the current processes used in cooperative classrooms, students work in small groups...

Emily Bronte and F. Scott Fitzgerald

about, while assessing the characters he meets. In this respect both narrators must take into consideration the past lives of the ...

American West and Frontier Perceptions

of reference, then one will never know, in any given case, what really happened" (Tompkins, Indians, 60; Cochran 69). In this case...

Edgar Allan Poe, September 11, 2001, Revenge, and Judgment

that "justice" was being defined since 9/11 appears to equate it with vengeance. A headline in the November 16th edition of the ...

Poverty and the Views of Plato

Indeed, one might readily surmise that Plato believed man was a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our igno...

Democracy as Viewed by Aristotle

and it was on this that Plato based his philosophical oeuvre (1994). He was not only a disciple of Socrates but a diehard adversar...

Circumstance and Characterization

from his self induced stupor. Chris stood and glared at the man. The dim light offered little definition to the mans face, but the...

Plato, Homer, and Gods

(Garrett(1)). In addition these gods possess many human traits such as jealousy and envy. As Garrett(1) states, "These gods, mo...

Characterization and Ibsen's A Doll's House and Williams' The Glass Menagerie

and makes his way to her dressing room. He knocks, but then quickly enters the room, knowing that she is expecting him. The dan...

Two Canadian Historical Writings Compared

In Peter MacLeods (University of Ottawa) 1996 article "Catholicism, Alliances and Amerindian Evangelists during the Seven Years Wa...

The Male Influences on the Writing of Adrienne Rich

born May 16, 1929 in Baltimore to Arnold Rich, a doctor and pathology professor and Helen Jones Rich, a pianist and composer. She ...