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"The Scarlet Letter" - Explicating Dimmesdale's Confession

tearing away the band that identifies him as a minister, as it was his social office as minister that he was able to use to keep h...

"The Great Gatsby" and the Pursuit of Hollow Dreams

value into ultimately empty goals; this is indicated by the comparison of Gatsbys quest for Daisy with the "American dream" itself...

Adam and Eve and Current Relevance

Bible, it is a common experience that they interpret it according to how they have been taught. For example, Barbara Brown Taylor ...

TECHNOLOGY BEHIND THE DO-NOT-CALL IMPLEMENTATION ACT OF 2003

piece of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 which, in turn, was passed because of the technology phenom known as autodi...

Ezra 9:10-14

written, i.e., which one came first (Davies, et al x). This aspect of scholarship is complicated by the fact that both books were ...

Adult Spiritual Maturation Occurs as Children

In a paper that consists of five pages biblical passages are used to illustrate that adult spirituality is developed when the stud...

Property by Valerie Martin

her circumstance. The preface to the quote is that the narrator, Manon, is holding Joels hand while he talks about how things will...

Analysis of Mark 4:35-40

if "the Son of God does not sink, neither shall we" (Darby, 2009). Matthew Henry finds allegorical meaning in the passage, as he...

Doomed Love: Cleopatra and her Man of Men, Antony

of this woman. Enobarbus continues his description of her and her progress through town and her meeting with Antony, whom she invi...

Female Characters and Ancient Texts

is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...

Analyzing the Fourth Amendment

persons or things to be seized." This is very specific as to what can be done, what is needed to get permission to conduct a searc...

Improving America's Democratic Government

in society and in the courts. The failure to do so has allowed injustices and inequities that have persisted since the founding t...

Mark 1:21-28/Healing in Capernaum

they can trust to help them. Do they have the authority, that is, the expertise necessarily to help them leave darkness and embra...

Ahmed, Satrapi/Growing up Female in the Islamic World

through her father that Ahmed first becomes aware of the conflicting political forces that shape her world, as he is hemmed in on ...

Jeremiah 29-33

of editorial activity (Brueggemann 7). However, scholars have yet to reach consensus over the extent to which each layer of litera...

Arming Airline Pilots

the cockpit with lethal force" (Up in arms, 2002, p. 3). There is a great deal of evidence to support Luckeys assessment, as liber...

Exegesis of John 6:51-58

states that he himself is the bread of life. This relates the discussion of Jesus regarding the sharing of what will become the E...

Shakespeare/Comedy of Errors & Imagery

"teach" him "how to think and speak" (3.2.35) and "create" him new" (3.2.41), which is a reversal of the Elizabethan gender stereo...

Plato/Apology of Socrates

Clouds by Aristophanes. Reasonably, Socrates points out that the character in the play speaks nonsense and should not be confused...

Sappho's 'To Evening' Analyzed

evening. Then there is nighttime. In this poem, the last thing that occurs is that the baby is put into bed with his mother. There...

Stylistic Analysis/Dickens' Hard Times

to be "shockingly revolutionary" (Sorensen 12). This feature of his work is considered today to be related to be a reflection of...

Paul's Conversion - Acts 9:1-19; 21:1-21; 26:12-18

important to be childlike but not as na?ve as children (Smith htm). It is important to realize that everyone, regardless of age, ...

Isaiah 1:10-20

and is directed associated with the ministry of Isaiah of Jerusalem, which spanned 740 to 700 BC.v Bratcher cautions that this doe...

A History of Women's Suffrage

he should remember the ladies (Adams, 2003). Of course, the term "ladies" would be discarded down the road as being derogatory. To...

Exegesis of Joshua 24:13-18

been written prior to the time of David due to internal references in the text and, furthermore, internal evidence in the text sug...

Hebrews 2:9-13 - Commentary

(Stedman, 1992). Jesus was the only perfect human being ever born. As such, it was only through His perfection that man could be ...

Thomas More’s Utopia

rely on hopes and prayers for peace. If battle is necessary then they do whatever is necessary to make the battle as quick and pai...

Close Readings/Darker Face of the Earth & Oedipus

an already contradictory situation. Consider how she acknowledges the baby as both "my son" and as "valuable property." Her matern...

Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act and Physician Assisted Suicide

that declared physician-assisted suicide not to be an individuals constitutional right (Zanskas and Coduti 27). It was also in th...

Hamlet & Oedipus

consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...