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Analyzing a Passage from Le Diable au Corps by Radiquet

In five pages a passage near the beginning between Marthe and the narrator is analyzed in terms of how it serves as the author's c...

Modification of the Body

In a paper consisting of 20 pages body modification is examined in terms of psychology and history with elective amputation, scari...

Unspeakable in Anna Akhmatova's 'Requiem' and Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares how human nature's 'unspeakable' dark side is portrayed in this poem and play. Fou...

Fountain of 1917 by Marcel Duchamp

In seven pages this infamous work of art is examined in terms of its impact and how it forever changed the history of art. Eight ...

Feminism, The Female Form, and Postmodern Art

This paper addresses the ways in which the female body has been adorned and admired throughout the history of art. The author com...

'Thanatopsis' by William Cullen Bryant

In six pages this once influential poem is examined in terms of its celebration of nature's solace triumphing over death fears tha...

Past History of NEA

different media contributed to the "culture wars", photography--perhaps because of its relationship to reality--played a pivotal r...

Poetry of Robert Frost and Immortality

In five pages the Frost poems 'Design,' 'After Apple Picking' and 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' are analyzed in terms of ...

Kinetic Art and Real Movement

only one right way to do something. As artists we are only limited by our imaginations. The same is true for from one "ism" or p...

Justifying Moral Claims

In seven pages whether or not moral claims can be justified is examined philosophically with an integration of views from Foucault...

Death and Philosophical Perspectives

In 10 pages death is examined from the philosophical perspectives of Foucault, Heidegger, Nietzsche, modern deconstructionalism, a...

Theories Regarding Power and Knowledge

In nine pages this paper examines several theoretical perspectives regarding power and knowledge including 'Discipline and Punish'...

Structural Marxism vs. Symbolic Domination

The writer examines the approach to ideology embraced by Levi-Strauss and structural Marxism as opposed that supported by Foucault...

Theories on Conflict

"broadened the Marxian interpretation of social stratification by introducing the concept of status groups parallel to but analyti...

Welfare Consumerism and Family Authority

active in the workplace and as such have more authority as a result of this economic freedom. There is also the increased...

Sexually Deviantl Behavior

explains that the concept of sexuality has resulted from the discourse (2001). That is, sexuality would not have even been a topic...

Mass Media's Impact on Society According to Postmodernism

the mass media has become one of the strongest players in that interaction. While many human traits are inherited genetically, ot...

British Policymaking, Rationality, and Power

be made of fruit (Weixler, 1994). Though a seemingly commonsense regulation that might have little opposition in the EU, the regul...

Comparing and Contrasting Foucault and Barthes

begins." In the end of his essay Barthes states, "We are now beginning to let ourselves be fooled no longer by the arrogant ant...

Postmodernist Perspectives of Bauman and Foucault

It is therefore not possible to allocate it to...

Management in Tech Support

some companies report that productivity has increased between 15 and 25 percent (Nadeem, 2011). Executives of companies doing the ...

Foucault and Arendt - A Reconciliation

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at Arendt and Foucault. An explication is made which reconciles their basic philosophie...

The Psychological Aspects of Prison

brought forth by the Stanford Prison Experiment. There have been many ideas bandied about regarding prison. Angela Davis for examp...

Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck's American Terrorist Timothy McVeigh

home, he was given an opportunity to be a part of the Green Berets but he did not make it due to the rigorous physical training ne...

Michel de Montaigne's Apology for Raymond Sebond

superior to the beasts, in fact, quite the contrary" (Michel Eyguem de Montaigne (1533-1592)). In this we see that Montaigne wa...

Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer

semblance of order and productivity. He did not resign himself to mingling among his fellow Europeans in this vast new world, ins...

The Concept of Ambition in Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Essays by Michel de Montaigne

he was aware of; they are both of them things pre-eminently vain glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and so...

Michel de Certeau's Incarceration Concept

walks they can choose which blocks to go down. On the train, the path is the same everyday. If someone is mugged on the street, th...

Battle of Mont Saint Michel and King Arthur

In seven pages Layamon and Wace and Geoffrey of Monmouth's interpretations of this battle are contrasted and compared. Three sourc...

Voodoo Heritage by Michel Laguerre

In five pages this paper examines the anthropological text in an evaluation of the myths and rituals the author describes....