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California's Legalization of Ferrets as Pets

during the Medieval era in Europe, ferrets would be introduced into the Palaces and homes of the royals to control vermin. They wo...

Analyzing The Stand by Stephen King

Despite the obvious panic, a visibly ailing President of the United States attempts to reassure a shaken nation by vehemently deny...

Military Strategy and Napoleon's Rise to Power

and spoke French poorly even as an adult, always with a thick Italian accent (Black 10). Napoleon attended military school where...

Character Development in 'The Inferno' by Dante and Book of the City by the Ladies by Christine de Pizan

rather as abstract forces battling within them, which is a critical component of character development throughout the tale. A rel...

Microsoft's Operating Systems Dominance and the Emergence of Linux

According to one author, the clash between Microsoft and Linux is mainly a clash of ideals -- while Linux supporters claim that mo...

Women, Medieval Attitudes and The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

the passage is a contrast of literal words and actual underlying meanings. Many times what the Wife says is in direct opposition t...

The Second Battle of Falluhjah

alongside, those Marines of course, was the US Army. The Battle of Fallujah offers many lessons for us all. The efforts at...

Women as Battlers of Change Since the U.S. Civil War

love that was considered scandalous at the time.1 Woodhull boldly declared in a lecture she delivered in 1871, "I have an inalien...

Dante the Sociologist.

the founders of modern sociology; his interests were wide ranging, including the sociology of politics and the sociology of religi...

Medieval Guilds

power to impoverish a kingdom, this was a powerful deterrent. There were also craft guilds, whose members all practiced the same...

Violence and Pride: Ellison and Morrison

a sense of innocence. "I had begun to worry about my speech again. How would it go? Would they recognize my ability? What would th...

Kasserine Pass - American View

his arrival in North Africa, British General Harold R.L.G. Alexander described the Americans as "ignorant, ill-trained and rather ...

Pressfield: “Gates of Fire”

"device" through which he tells not only the story of the battle, but the story of Spartan life as well. Pressfield structures the...

Comparing Religions in Fundamental and Historical Ways

further, a historical religion while Hinduism cannot be traced to one particular person or era (1998). Further, while Islam is dep...

History of Wedding Dresses

weddings resembled pagan festivals and most of then involved the celebration of spring (important planting season for these agricu...

RELIGIOUS BELIEF AND JAPANESE LITERATURE

Century Japan. Much like Genji, Bridge of Dreams has the same lyrical, almost dreamy prose to it. But unlike the men in Genji auth...

Women's Roles Thorough History: Ancient Times Through 1600

children to term, nurse them, and are endowed with a combination of hormones that render them the desirable caretakers. While wom...

1861 Civil War First Battle of Bull Run

In five pages the first important Civil War battle and its importance are analyzed. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Milton/Satan in Paradise Lost

who displays unconquerable courage. In this manner, Milton portrays Satan as a heroic figure, and elicits sympathy for him. As Sat...

Gilgamesh/An Ancient Man for All Seasons

Mitchells translation, Mark Jarman argues that Gilgamesh enlightens the modern reader as to what the ancient Mesopotamians valued ...

Improving Cost Accounting with Resolute Hospital Billing®

Associates "reported that it expects to record $200 million in bad debt expense in the fourth quarter due to an increase in self-p...

Gift Giving in Homer's Odyssey

he will gild her horns as part of the sacrifice (Homer). Such sacrifices were meant as "gifts" to the gods, which were designed to...

Heroism in the Epic of Gilgamesh

boasts of his strength and courage, believing those alone are the lone criteria by which a hero is judged. The gods intervene to ...

John Milton/Paradise Lost

of the monarchy due to his support of the Commonwealth (John Milton). Married three times, he spent his later years dictating to h...

Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the Gods: “The Epic of Gilgamesh”

established and has sex with a woman and thus loses some of his superior strength. He became more human but "his understanding had...

Scorsese/Gangs of New York

the foreign hordes defiling it" (Mattie 215). Cutting slays Vallon, consigns his son to an orphanage, and proclaims his rule ove...

Wier/Tehano

is one that ties the two brothers together, although neither one of them realizes it. Each fears his own cowardice and has to ov...

The Gods of the Iliad and the Bhagavad-Gita

without specifically worrying about success or failure, "they cannot be stained by action" (Harrison, 1996). Hearing this, Arjuna ...

Achilles' Leadership Effectiveness in 'The Iliad' by Homer

many as he can. If his own life is destroyed in the process, then that intrinsically establishes him as both a stellar leader and...

An Analysis of the Graphic Portrayals of Violence in 'Saving Private Ryan'

period between September 1, 1939 (the date of Germanys invasion of Poland) and September 2, 1945 (the date of the Japanese surrend...