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'Psy Fi' Genre and its Meaning

In five pages this report considers the science fiction or Psy Fi genre in an examination of texts written by Richard Matheson, Fr...

The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas, Dreams, and Meaning

In five pages the meaning of dreams and how they deprive the protagonist of free will are considered within the context of Thomas'...

Zen Buddhism Term Satori and its Meaning

In one page this research paper defines the Zen Buddhist concept satori as heightened enlightenment comprehension. One source is ...

Meaning and Money in the Works of Wallace Stevens, Ernest Hemingway, and Eugene O'Neill

In five pages this paper discusses how spirituality and money are represented in O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, Hemingwa...

The Meaning of Life According to Leo Tolstoy

This 10 page paper examines Leo Tolstoy's literary works and personal philosophy, and argues that he sought simplicity and spiritu...

Man's Search for Meaning and Existentialism

of their circumstances and wonder "how such a thing could happen" (Frankl, 2006). Nextly, the prisoners would descend into a state...

Various Quotations and their Meaning

This essay is made-up of eleven mini-essays, which all offer explanation of a quote taken from great works of literature by Virgin...

How Buildings Mean by Nelson Goodman

are works of art, and this is not a matter of the difference between good and bad art: in fact, he asserts specifically that most ...

Ancient Egypt's Civilization and its Meaning

In five pages this paper examines the meaning of civilization in this Ancient Egypt consideration that discusses its socioeconomic...

Masculinity Meanings in the Stories of Ernest Hemingway

and repelled by." This writer disagrees concerning the assumption that there was a "blurring" of sex roles during this period. Hem...

Enlightenment and its Meaning

prevents not only the slaves but the Christians who own them from becoming enlightened through religion. Clearly, Immanual Kant a...

Democracy and What It Means

that man has the right to do just about anything he pleases just as long as it does not infringe upon the well-being of another. ...

Meaning of Hate Crimes

are placid and do nothing, allowing these they of crime to continue. If we consider the way that those in society are...

Ambiguous Meanings Long-Term Memory

This essay discusses several issues that have to do with cognition and memory. Attention and Memory are two of the issues, texting...

Mrs. Dalloway and the Meaning of Insanity

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Mrs. Dalloway. The relationship between Septimus and Clarissa is examined at the them...

Meaning of Masculinity

mental well-being. Helping men to find a balance in life in which they feel free to pursue their best interests and achieve a heal...

Changing Meanings - Reconsidering Advertising Texts Regarding Beauty

The writer looks at two advertisements supplied by the student, designed to appeal to men with a dating agency providing contacts ...

Calculating Probability when given a Mean and the Standard Deviation

The writer shows how the probability for a particular outcome for an investment may be calculated when the mean return and standa...

Psychology and its Meaning

a cause and that the cause of a particular reaction could be interpreted through deductive reasoning (Psychology, 1993). Other phi...

Courage, the Theory of the Mean and Aristotle

of any specific society which destroyed the identity of justice and morality as one with the state. Obviously, such thinking serve...

Meaning of Terrorism

style. Terrorism according to Laqueur In his book, The New Terrorism: Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction, writer ...

Meaning of the Lyrics 'America the Beautiful' by Poet Katherine Lee Bates

(Nash 12C). At the time of her composition, Bates had traveled to Colorado with an expedition to climb up the 14,000-foot-plus Pik...

Hard Times by Charles Dickens and the Lack of Hidden Meanings

Hard Times. Coketown as it appears in Dickens Hard Times, is also painted as a rather dismal environment and in fact, some...

Database Directive Implementation of the EU and the Sui Generis Right's Meaning

EU has led the rest of the developed world in examining individuals privacy issues in our electronic age. The result of this lead...

Philosophers on Life's Meaning

one looks at a variety of lifetimes via reincarnation, its purpose explained by knowledge. In other words, people are born and liv...

The Fourth Amendment and Its Meaning in America Today

of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effect, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be ...

Meaning of Patriotism

positive and gratifying experience for citizens, who feel indebted to their country for receiving such blessings as freedom, secur...

Classical versus Romantic Music and Meaning

like the painters and poets of this era, they subordinated emotional expression to an accepted standard of "rules" of form.2. Th...

Journeys and Their Philosophical Meaning in 'Inferno' by Dante Alighieri and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

student who is writing about this topic should consider the ways in which the each author develops the philosophical journey of ea...

'The Flea' by John Donne, Meaning and Metaphor

imagery and emotional intensity alone, but by considering the social context that they grew out of and how they address it, a whol...