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Subtitle Significance of 'The Modern Prometheus' in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

understand the consequences of what he has done, and this is reflective of Prometheus who also had no idea what he was really doin...

Cinematic Comparison of Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game and Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times

homeless man, or a prison inmate that has been arrested for some outrageous reason (Nissley 165). To illustrate how technology ha...

Clever Women in Modern Detective Fiction

the standard framework for a mystery detective novel, each of these works share similar themes that are indicative of current Amer...

Modern Applications of Ancient Myths

involvement of magical powers that develop the processes and actions confronting the hero. As a direct result, there is generally...

Artists and the Modernism of Andy Warhol, Helen Frankenthaler, and Jackson Pollock

movement, and the unofficial capital of the international avant-garde. This was as much of a shock to American artists as it was t...

Culture Clash in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

as intimate terms, yet knowing little about their culture, has always seemed a shame. But, there were no individuals who this read...

Social Role of Strip Clubs

clubs are such an integral part of contemporary society. "Men love talking about strip clubs. If there is something I have learn...

Old World Encounters Cross Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre Modern Times by Jerry H. Bentley

that have brought forth cultural influence as it is known today. "On the basis of its global analysis, the book identifies severa...

A Hero in Print and Throughout Time

the path to order by bringing structure to the process of understanding. The classical hero was one who was brave, honest, pious ...

Tsarist Period Russian Peasants and Modern Workers Compared

slowly but surely being cast aside. It can be argued that with the weakening influence of World War I, reason and freedom stood l...

Contrasting Modern Psychiatry with Treatments Featured in 'Girl Interrupted' and 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'

Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest", produced during the 1970s. "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" presents a bleak yet amusing picture of ...

Modern East and West Germany

refugees from the Soviet zone to where some had fled during the war ("Germany"). Also among the refugees were individuals who had ...

Solitude in the City

refuge in the cafe. In this work the solitude, while sad, is also one of peacefulness. One might also say that it is a juxtaposit...

Music and Poems

played slightly louder, i.e. piano. The rhythm of the piece would be uniform 4/4 time, but the overall effect of the rhythm would...

Pardoner's Sexuality in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

In five pages this paper analyzes the Pardoner's sexuality in a consideration of the stories from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey...

Questions on Art History

narratives can take on many themes for many different reasons. Perhaps there is a very exciting artwork around which one wants to...

Fine Arts and the Impact of Interactive Media

concept is fairly recent, beginning with the Internet explosion during the mid-1990s and the introduction of the CD-ROM during the...

Modern Europe and Old Religions' Influence

It was also the time that farmers harvested their crops. October 31 heralded in a change in lifestyle for people and animals and i...

Both Modern and Ancient Views of Beruit and Cairo

is still regarded as sacred ground. "The citys long journey across history started more than four millenia ago. Throughout the ag...

A Review of Masks in Modern Drama

depravity of which he is capable. The satiric mask isolates a characteristic, distorts or enlarges it, and freezes it permanently....

1st Example of Modern Warfare, the U.S. Civil War

the vision to build a railroad across the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, and then to continue the railroad across the Unit...

Morality and Architecture by Watkin

the human condition. That said, a student writing on this subject might construe those two points by the author as rather weak. T...

Public and Political Bargaining in the Contemporary Presidency

of the presidential office, inasmuch as media influence is fundamentally based upon the element of perception. Contemporary presi...

Premier Modern Painter Edouard Manet

the nineteenth century, painting was characterized by "flights of imagination" and "academic glorifications of the heroic past" (F...

Facing Mt. Kenya by Jomo Kenyatta

understands their deep significance to the people who have practiced them since birth. This provides a personal perspective that ...

Moral Education According to Aristotle

the right objects, towards the right people, with the right motive and in the right way. He states in Book II, "The moral virtues,...

Modern and Postmodern Sociology Issues

expressed in a direct cause and effect relationship. Also, the function need not be positive or nurturing. Certainly, Durkheim w...

Overview of Security Fraud and Protection

beating the clock and waiting in long lines are becoming a thing of the past. There is no question that the concept of Electronic...

Modern Society and Man

the basis for the stereotype of his day and age. And those who tend to deviate from this norm are assumed to be unmanly. These typ...

Globalization, Standardization, and Theodore Levitt

for decades; Tom Peters and John Kao have supported the precepts of creativity. John Kao is certain that it is necessary to...