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The Executive Establishment: Culture and Personality by Harold Seidman

the established culture, ideology and values of that institution as well (p. 117). In fact, department heads in the executive agen...

Character Study of Toni Morrison's Beloved

treated like a horse, complete with a bit in his mouth. Sethe managed to escape. In fact, because she was very pregnant and had b...

Race and Unfair Mass Media Representation

the stereotypical racial images portrayed in media today. Racism, which is the belief that skin color "determines intelligence, c...

'The Odyssey' by Homer and Fate

beginning, feels like he is in a position of complete helplessness. His father has been gone nearly 20 years and he is forced to d...

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer and Freedom

pushed too far. Eric Erikson, one of the first pioneers of human growth and development, agreed that each person must go through a...

Geography in the Poetry of W.H. Auden

this new and different land. The paper predominantly examines the following poems: "Consider This and in Our Time (1930)," "Deaths...

Love Poetically Approached by John Donne

for a spiritual thinker, body and soul. In "The Good Morrow," Donne immediately established what critic Susannah B. Mintz refers ...

Machiavelli's The Prince, Fate and Fortune

that men with their wisdom cannot direct them and that no one can even help them; and because of this they would have us believe t...

Order of Chaos in Joseph Conrad's Secret Agent and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse

silent trout are all lit up hanging, trembling. So she saw them; she heard them; but whatever they said had also this quality, as ...

Film Gung Ho

relied formerly on oil, for instance, Japan was able to diversify during the oil crises of the 1970s into the manufacture of elect...

Zeena's Symbolism in Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

opens through the view of the narrator, a young man who ends up spending the night at Ethans house because of a chance blizzard. H...

Religion and Emily Dickinson

who see; But microscopes are prudent in an emergency!" The poem whose first lines begin, "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers" is a ...

Media Representation of the Vietnam War

readily comprehend the seemingly insignificant difference between the two thoughts, inasmuch as some believe that mass media has l...

Gogol's 'The Nose' and 'The Portrait' and the Surreal and Fantastic

forth from the surrounding canvas; two terrible eyes were fixed straight upon him; on the mouth was written a menacing command of ...

Baroque Artistic Period and Meaning

describe the art from the baroque period they would include: spacious, dynamic, natural, colorful, passionate, sensual and versat...

Culture and Women in Slavenka Drakulic's Makeup and Other Crucial Questions and Maxine Hong Kingston's No Name Woman

In six pages this essay compares and contrasts these literary works in terms of their representation of women and culture. There ...

The Symbolism of the Sea in Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening'

person aside from being mothers and wives. In the following paper we examine the symbolic nature of the sea in Chopins book, illus...

British Literature and Issue of Class

pride, and vainer ties dissever, / And give herself to me forever" (Browning 1235). According to Professor Gerald McDaniel, the r...

Fiction and Fate

were viewed as chance (Fate). Other religions view fate in pretty much the same way; in the Koran, for example, fate is based on G...

The Concept of Popularity and the Views of the Mass Media in England

9 pages. This paper provides an overview of the way in which the idea of popularity has changed over the past 50 years, with a fo...

Analyzing Richard III and Macbeth by William Shakespeare

receive our duties, and our duties / Are to your throne and state, children and servants, / Which do but what they should, by doin...

Four Works of Gary Paulsen Compared

They fought and screamed and never should have been married. I can remember hiding under the kitchen table one day and just wishin...

Utopia by Thomas More and Communism

In ten pages the representation of Communism in Thomas More's text is considered. Eight sources are listed in the bibliography....

Overview of Laocoon and His Sons Sculpture

look like, but instead, represents the ancient value placed on the human form. For example, Laocoon, though he is suffering the t...

Content of the Media and Freedom of Speech

In five pages this paper examines the importance of the media in social reality representation and the responsibilities that go wi...

Black Filmmakers and the 'Burden of Representation'

Lees "Mo Better Blues", and Julie Dashs "Daughters of the Dust". The trend continued in 1991 with the release of twelve black dire...

Heaven and Hell in Paradise Lost by John Milton

enough to disgust one with Paradise" (Boesky, 1996, p. 9). Miltons Heaven is a military state that is predicated on a disciplinary...

John Ford's Films and Christian Allegory

individuals who had come before him. At the crux of the journey is the fact that the main character risks his life for his religio...

Jeanne Watkatsuki Houston's Farewell to Manzanar

fit into the structure of a country that essentially considers her Caucasian, to a point, and her familys adherence to their Japan...

Caught in the Middle by Min

were destroyed. The Los Angeles riots were unique, according to the author, because the African American community targeted the Ko...