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Desdemona and Antigone

In essence she marries Othello without her fathers permission, something not done by a traditionally obedient woman. But, this onl...

Analysis of Vermont Teddy Bear Company

Vermont Teddy Bears largest competitor, according to Hoovers is 1-800-FLOWERS, an internet seller of gifts that compete directly w...

Imagining if Medea Had Been Written by Euripides and Not Sophocles

he would take a dim view of Jason abandoning his duty to his wife and children in favor of selfish gain. The chorus would be the...

Learning Lessons in Billy Budd and Antigone

left to be consumed by animals. Creon takes this action because he feels it is imperative to the safety of the state that the peop...

Feminist Heroines Antigone in Sophocles' Play of the Same Name and Nora Helmer in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

However, Antigone dared to do just that. Her brothers Polyneices and Eteocles fought on opposite sides and when both were killed ...

Antigone of Sophocles and Nora of Ibsen

not a political drama, but the battle of wills between two family members -- Creon and his niece, Antigone. It does not take much ...

Medea and Antigone as Representatives of Fifth Century BCE Women

that which was rightfully hers. This was a very grave endeavor during these ancient times and serves to illustrate just one small ...

Is Govermental Power Too Great or Insufficient?

entities take liberties and make rules that do not abide by the clear-cut convictions of a democratic system of administration. ...

Antigone and Medea

men. It is their rules and their decisions that determine how women should act and what role they can play in society. Antigones ...

Principle Theme of Antigone by Sophocles

men...so that we must obey in these things" (Sophocles, 2002). Antigone makes it clear in her reply t hat she is fully aware that ...

Power of Nation States Eroded by Multinational Corporations

to say that while multinational corporations competed "in a world of national states" in the 20th century but in the 21st century,...

U.S. President or British Prime Minister, Who is Most Powerful?

absent, in contravention to the United Nations resolutions for several years. Here, the threats from the US resulted in a climb do...

Literature, Poetry, and Self Reliance

many ways Emersons views of self-reliance can be seen in the following excerpt from the work: "There is a time in every mans educa...

Hydraulic Pressure Intensification and Industrial Fluid Power

such as would be found at a construction site in their backhoes, tractors, graders, etc. Industrial uses for fluid power include ...

Real World Parity Theories Application

several purchasing power parity theories; the absolute purchasing power parity and the relative purchasing power parity, and how i...

Human Nature, Morality, Punishment, Guilt, Crime, Justice, and Law in Literature

(Sophocles). In this she is arguing how she has not followed the laws of "men" or even of the gods in this case, but rather per...

A Comparison of Two Major Characters in Literature, Sophocles' Antigone and Shakespeare's Hamlet

the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...

Societal Struggles of Women

enough, women have generally not had the political voice that would allow for such demands. In fact, in the United States women ha...

Who's Running America? The Bush Restoration by Thomas R. Dye

an elite that is comprised of a select number of corporations and private foundations; how campaign finance reform has done little...

U.S. Nuclear Power Industry and its Historical Development

reactor or core where the heat is generated and fission takes place within a controlled environment (Marcus and Levin, 2002). A c...

The Tragic Hero Antigone?

tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...

U.S. Soft, Military, and Economic Power

the Iranian hostage crisis. We survived the Cold War and witnessed the dissolution of the Soviet Union and today we are engaged i...

Power Status of the United States

varied. Many of these factors of course revolve around the face of our government itself and the factors influencing this governm...

Engineering Products, Politics and Power

divided this process of the development of culture and its maintenance into six steps which need to be followed in order to create...

The Concept of Freedom in the Hispanic Culture

cases through perserverence and the willingness to invest tremendous effort in achieving their freedom. In many cases this effort...

Discussion: Hektor, Antigone, Phaedra and the Melians

could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...

The Emergence Of The Modern Congress And Presidency

and every bureau" (Sundquist, 1981, p. 38) every year. Prior to that Act, each department and bureau had to submit their own progr...

The Canadian Prime Minister and the U.S. President: Who is More Powerful?

House of Commons, which is elected, and the Senate, which is appointed (Anderson, 2003). As in the United States, it is expected t...

Hypothesis Testing and Power Analysis

the null hypothesis. The first is the level of confidence that is set, meaning the alpha. This is an arbitrary measure at best, an...

Power Dynamics and Conflict Management

show concern only for their own interests. The same type of scenario exists with union negotiations, and assessing the unio...