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James Scott's Hidden and Public Transcripts Regarding Power Use

they present a public transcript that is the result of a power disparity. When a student agrees with a professor in an attempt to ...

Films Based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

novel. However, the film adaptation was to have the monster say nothing at all, something which led Lugosi to declining the part. ...

Martha Graham and James Joyce

about the time of the life of Beethoven, artists needed the patron to support them in order to have the freedom to pursue their ar...

Presidential Character of George W. Bush

Texas), he has not made any grand innovations, in many cases, in fact, he failed at much of what he attempted. But instead of tryi...

Thirty Years War and Source Documents

alliances to protect their interests: the Catholics under Maximilian of Bavaria, and the Protestants under Frederick V....

Princess Casamassima and Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

time period has no choices, that she cannot freely move around and do many things before marriage. Society restricts what she can ...

Fools Crow

the favor of the spirit world, of the gods, and yet they both approach it differently. Fast Horse is presumptuous and arrogant whi...

Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

This is a very unique place in our society and people who grew up in Harlem often have experiences and stories that most people co...

Martin Frye's Views on Sexism

"an instance of a general tendency to make sex relevant where it need not be, which she takes to be a key feature of sexism" (Saul...

Psychological Realism and Henry James

reflection. The concept of psychological realism is based on the belief that man reacts in certain ways that are a direct extensi...

Can Utilitarianism Be Considered a Sound Ethical Theory?

complements that of the utilitarian. The utilitarian focuses on the badness of the victims agony but cannot readily grasp the sign...

James Tent's E Boat Alert

the author also discusses the origins of the E-Boat, providing the reader with a deeper understanding of the Germans at war, Germa...

An Analysis of Henry James' Story, The Real Thing

thinking about making a living. But a predominantly capitalist economy meant that all goods and services, including works of art,...

10 Aztec Culture Questions

that life is a dream (Leon-Portilla 7). The Aztecs reasoned that, eventually, everything vanishes, even things such as rocks and p...

Invasive Species

simplest thing like a rat can affect the entire ecosystem of a region and that "Only recently has the full extent of the impacts o...

Estelle James' 2005 Report on Social Security

contrast the U.S. system with other social security systems abroad, perhaps in an attempt to gain new insights in respect to refor...

James W. Felt's Making Sense of Your Freedom

that everything that happens, happens necessarily because of events that came before it" (Currie ). Felt also makes mention of cau...

'The Boasrding House' by James Joyce and Power

this point, the determined Mrs. Mooney obtains a separation from her husband, gains control of her remaining inheritance, custody ...

Three American Families

someone was sick, or out of a job, or when things were going wrong, they asked God for help (Rodriguez). At home, "God the Father ...

Questions on The Dubliners

isolates him from true intimacy. For example, when his wife walks past him, Gabriel longs "to run after her noiselessly, catch her...

Imagination in Development of Character and Plot

imagination. In offering the reader such a look into the individual the reader is made to see the beauty of imagination as it rela...

Marriage in the Work of Crane and James

in any manner. This story primarily offers one foundational marriage and that is the marriage of Maggies parents. It is really t...

Two Perspectives on General George B. McClellan

book is not on any one person, but on the war and the period of Reconstruction that followed. Having said that, its still possible...

Horton & Horton/In Hope of Liberty

on history that shows how blacks of the Revolutionary War era perceived the issues pertaining to liberty that served to captivate ...

A Clockwork Orange and A Million Little Pieces

deciding what they will do with their night, "a flip dark chill winter bastard though dry" (Burgess 1). He mentions such things as...

Blues and James Baldwin’s Short Story “Sonny’s Blues”

their late mother, who was the familys support system. Of her, the narrator would recall, "I always see her wearing pale blue" (B...

James B Peake

James B Peake was appointed to the position of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in 2007. He came to this poison following a disti...

Theories of Leadership: Kouzes, Peters, Posner and Yukl

suggests that effective leaders rely "more on personal power than on position power" (Green, 1999). That is, they lead because of ...

Report: “Teaching the Elephant to Dance”

in the past is actually keeping them from succeeding in the present. That is, because methods worked for them before, they keep do...

Scott: The Logistics of War

the lessons learned from the process. It is the last that might be most valuable. As an example lets look at Grenada, since it is ...