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Teddy Roosevelt's Autobiography

belief in a strong and efficient National Government and Jeffersonian in their belief in the people as the ultimate authority, and...

Overview of the 1857 Dred Scott U.S. Supreme Court Decision

in his 1859 examination of the case points out that the US Supreme Court in hearing this case was also concerned with issues of co...

Comparison of Pablo Picasso's Massacre in Korea and Guernica and Francisco Goya's The Shootings of May 3, 1808

the most defiant aspect of its symbolist tendencies; without uttering but a single word, this work of art is fully able to communi...

Analyzing King Henry's Statement to Prince Hal in III.iii 93-96 of Henry IV, Part One by William Shakespeare

Hal was more interested in the gossip at the local taverns than he was in matters of state. Henry IVs cousin, Richard, who became...

Comparing William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Richard III and Themes of Justice and Destiny

especially apparent when critically examining Shakespeares historical play, Richard III and his final work, the dark comedy, The T...

Analyzing Herman Melville's Moby Dick Chapter 87

moment of hurting Ahab that any vendetta or revenge was directed at him. So clearly, we can conclude the Ahabs vigilant hatred is...

Women, Medieval Attitudes and The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

the passage is a contrast of literal words and actual underlying meanings. Many times what the Wife says is in direct opposition t...

British Soap Opera Coronation Street and Transsexuality

stereotypical images of gender. In traditional soaps men outnumber women in a ration of seven to three (Chandler, 2003). This de...

Analyzing a CNN Moneyline Segment

on the story was Peter Viles, who began his segment with the assertion that the American economy was losing jobs - and many times,...

Life and Works of Nineteenth Century French Composer Cesar Franck

(1822-1890) was born in Liege where he also first studied as a piano virtuoso from 1830-1835. Franck first toured Belgium at the a...

Freudian Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories

the beginning. He states, "From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition. My tenderness of heart was...

Works of Angelina Grimke and Garland Anderson Compared and Contrasted

up and begins to see how hard life is for an African American in society, she decides to never bring a child into the world. This ...

Jesus vs. Thoreau, a Comparison

public inconveniencey, it is the will of God... that the established government be obeyed--and no longer" (1755). Christ was also...

Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine Writing About America

There is no question that through Jeffersons influence, the United States of America was built on a foundation of democracy and li...

Work of Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Influence of Transcendentalism

minister, it was necessary to leave the church" (Chapter Three: The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Essayists and Poets). His philosop...

18th Century Literature and Reflections of Commerce and Trade

The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton have as their basis international trade and commerce and the way...

The Battleship Potemkin and Birth of a Nation

Two sets of lovers from these families evolve over the course of the film: Ben Cameron and Elsie Stoneman and Phil Stoneman and Ma...

Greek Literature as Reflective of Greek Culture

to the outside, the cave becomes a type of conduit, or birth canal which brings him into the life of actual knowledge. What one ca...

King Lear by William Shakespeare and Precepts of Niccolo Machiavelli

the consequences of these actions. King Lear is an eighty-year-old English monarch who is preparing for retirement. His major di...

Rosamond Lehmann, Virginia Woolf and Early Twentieth Century Women's Limitations and Challenges

is basically no place for an intellectual woman within the university environment. On a visit to a university, Woolf is told she i...

War's Effects in Texts of Pat Barker and Sebastian Faulks

mere surface appearances. All this opulent beauty will be hidden with the outbreak of World War I. Having already been inv...

Ideology of Authors Reflected in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and The Color Purple by Alice Walker

slaves and share-croppers and Cherokee Indian. During her time in university and her early years as a struggling writer, in which ...

The Trial Scene in A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

as those which the British themselves aspire to. Mahmoud...

Mass Media and Audience

the media is used by some individuals and a recognition of the power of the media the situation is further complicated, and may le...

Immigrant Experiences and Angel Island

Before actually describing the art and poetry that came out of detainees from Angel Island, a look at the locations history would ...

Human Life in the Films Man Facing Southeast, A Short Film About Killing, and Taste of Cherry

the most fundamental truths of human existence and the ways in which all human beings relate to stress and feelings of social and ...

Ralph Ellison's Philosophy in The Invisible Man

standing and he is awarded a full scholarship to a prestigious black college. This of course doesnt last long, as through a serie...

The Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike

"tumbles" his family into a "financial ruin from which they do not recover for two generations" (Bottum 64). Clarence finds that a...

Ancient Literature and Cultural Characteristics

Oedipus story we have one that seems to offer us the belief that through intellectual pursuit we can somehow avoid the inevitable,...

Ralph Waldo Emerson's 'Self Reliance' and 'Nature' Essays

or change as well as "identity or rest...the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may b...