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Good versus Evil in The Milagro Beanfield War and Salt of the Earth

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares these two films in terms of the symbolic depiction of good and evil in each. The...

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Lightning Symbolism

more thoroughly. By considering what lightning means in the novel of Frankenstein, and observing how it is used and in what prete...

Language and Myth by Ernst Cassirer

Language (1946) According to Cassirer, "myth, art, language and science appear as symbols. . . in the sense of forces, each of wh...

Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' and Symbolic Imagery

In seven pages this short story is analyzed in terms of the author's use of symbolic images. There are two other sources cited in...

Symbolic Speech and I Am an Impure Thinker by Eugen Rosenstock Huessy

In six pages various chapters of Rosenstock Huessy's text are examined in an examination of how symbolic speech is represented. T...

Othello by William Shakespeare and the Significance of the Color White

In five pages this paper examines the symbolic meaning of white in this tragedy by William Shakespeare. Four sources are cited in...

Jerusalem and its Symbolic Importance

In six pages this paper examines Jerusalem's symbolic importance in a consideration of both Old and New Testaments along with Acts...

The Symbolic Function of Marriage in Irving's "Rip Van Winkle"

literary works of early America, is awash with allegory and symbolic meaning. Ostensibly, the story tells the tale of a somewhat l...

A Scenario Analysis Using Morgan's Metaphors

are inherently composed of a wide variety of interacting systems, each of which is composed of a number of policies, processes, an...

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" - Kesey's Use of Gender and Race

Chief Bromdens mother, whom he remembers as continuously emotionally abusing his father, "emasculating" him (Kesey 1963). This had...

Early American Dichotomy and the Conflict Between Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton

1997, p. 35). The conflict between Hamilton and Jefferson is apparent in their diametrically opposed views on popular rule, state...

Music as Symbolic Behavior/Alan P. Merriam

"symbols," and their relationship to art and its abstract nature. Having established a basis for discussing symbolism, specific ...

The Elbowing of James Harden from a Sociological Perspective

Guardian, 2012). It is noted that the current suspension will hurt the team as well as Artest as it means he will miss the playoff...

Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown

of African Americans who fled the entrenched racism of the South and migrated North, in search of a "Promised Land" where they mig...

"Family Guy" - A Sociological Reading

cross-country destination to fulfill a nefarious purpose. Despite being a baby and a dog, Stewie and Brian are both fully articula...

Color Green in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

In twn pages this paper discusses the symbolic significance of references to the color green in the Medieval epic 'Sir Gawain and ...

The Piano by Jane Campion

In five pages the piano as symbolic and its thematic significance to the novel by Jane Campion are analyzed. There are no other s...

Symbolic Meaning of Grass in 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman

In 5 pages this paper examines metaphor and symbolic uses of grass in an analysis of 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman. There are ...

Sicilian Mafia, Deviance, and the Sociology of Crime

In five pages this paper examines the Sicilian Mafia in a contrast and comparison of how the connection between agency and structu...

Theories of Social Work and America's Teen Violence Problems

an impermeable substance but provides a subjective sense of self-continuity as it symbolically integrates the events of lived expe...

Narrator's Possessions' Symbolism in Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

In two pages this paper assesses the symbolic value of th narrator's possessions in the briefcase. There are no other sources lis...

Communication Theories

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the concepts featured in Walter Fischer's Narrative Theory and George Herbert Mead...

Birds in Literature

In three pages this paper examines the symbolic meaning of birds in Walt Whitman's poem 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking' and ...

Heroism and Sports

that no two people define heroism in just the same way. Merriam-Webster defines a hero as a person who is admired for his achieve...

Flannery O'Connor's Works and the Symbolism of Stairs

This paper consists of ten pages and discusses the symbolic importance of stairs in Flannery O'Connor's short stories 'The Geraniu...

Precedents of the U.S. Supreme Court and Free Speech

In five pages this paper examines how the 14th Amendment's free speech provisions affects symbolic acts in case considerations of ...

Social Theory and Michael Moore's 1989 Documentary Roger and Me

In five pages this paper applies symbolic interactionism and conflict social theories to Michael Moore's documentary of onetime Ge...

Herbert Blumer and Understanding Symbolic Interactions

In eight pages this paper examines symbolic interactoinism in terms of the 2 premises established by Herbert Blumer along with the...

2 Theories on the Family

was born. Prior to this, says Stacey, often parents couldnt afford to rear their own children and the word "family" hadnt even bee...

Hindu Gods Vishnu and Shiva in Art

In a paper consisting of five pages the symbolic significance of Vishnu and Shiva to Indian art is examined along with the artisti...