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Essays 1801 - 1830

Coming of Age: Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

revolved around her. She was, in many ways, experimenting with her sexuality as well, a very significant part in coming of age. Sh...

Barack Obama and the Rhetorical Skeleton

to be reducing altitude; since they were on combat patrol they assumed it was an attack (Schank 305). He finished by saying he tho...

Flood Stories Among the Toltec, Maya, and Navajo

(variously called Teocipactli) and Xochiquetzal survived to repopulate the earth (Leon-Portilla). In the Toltec version of ...

Sherman Alexie and Gish Jen: Dealing with Prejudice

would marry white people who would beget quarter-bloods, and so on and so on, until simple mathematics killed the Indian in us" (A...

Williams, Melville, and Jackson

offers a very powerful image of the lives these people live trapped in a tiny apartment and in their individual lives. Melville...

Bless Me, Ultima & The Odyssey

reacts to the presence of the men by eating two of them, Odysseus attacks and manages to blind Polyphemus by stabbing him in his e...

Fitzgerald and Hemingway

alcoholism. That essential plot is one filled with a powerful sense of seeking ones identity and a sense of loneliness. In...

Chaucer/Merchant's & Franklin's Tales

French fabliaux, which provide the source material on which many of the tales are based. Essentially, Chaucer use of gardens sugge...

A Foucaultian View of Kafka's The Penal Colony

Kafka story in respect to Foucaults ideas. II. Foucaults Conception of Law First, it is important to note that Foucault was ...

Fiction and Non-Fiction Narrative

literature, for he is only telling his story. For example, he states such things as "I began thinking about my friend the other da...

Overview of Photosynthesis

the soil itself is nutrified. There are several limiting factors that influence photosynthesis and its effect in the plan...

Daodejing by Lao Tze

48 is actually entitled "Inaction," and is as follows: "The follower of knowledge learns as much as he can every day; / The follo...

Representation and US Voting Rights

the Florida recount), the Court ruled that the "individual citizen . . . has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors ...

Diversity in Occupations in Health Care

hallways of hospitals, it does seem to contain a great deal of minority workers. Yet, it is not clear who are in managerial roles ...

Daisy Miller by Henry James and Realism

women (James). It is clear that if Daisys flirting is not as innocent as it seems, then this would make her unacceptable to Winter...

Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada and History

very powerful historical examinations because slave narratives are a very powerful part of the historical examination of slavery a...

Demons and Angels

angels lost their original holiness and became corrupt in nature and conduct.5 In 2 Peter 2:4, it tells of how some were cast into...

Job Assessments Contrasted

of the ideal will still consciously reject them urging that Naked Power is worthy of such worship. Such is the Attitude inculcate...

Mexican American Experience and Ethnocentrism

the Western Hemisphere is generally perceived. These Native Americans journeyed to Europe and found there populations that did not...

Cartoons About Fashion

of "coochy-coochy-coo" we have "Gucci-Gucci-Goo." The sense of play is also found in the fact that they both rhyme, with each oth...

Dutch Vanitas Paintings and Vanity

the human body. In Leiden, the first important Vanitas painter was David Bailly (1584-1657), and later Pieter Claesz (c. 1596-166...

Issue of Mortality in Literature and in Life

is common knowledge. Who does not worry about death? Even children, from a very young age, often ask the ultimate question which i...

Their Eyes Were Watching God and Zora Neale Hurston's Use of Dialect

dialect, plain speaking, and easily conversational (Bloom 95). The subject of local gossips whispers, the thrice-married Janie co...

Good and Evil in 'Sweat' by Zora Neale Hurston

husband who appears suddenly, as a snake it seems, which is represented by the whip he scares her with. In this we can symbolicall...

Contract Law and Term Breaches

an offer is made as a promise to a wide audience where there is not the need for bilateral communication. In looking...

The Existentialist Reflection in 'The Guest' by Albert Camus

about French geography which demonstrates the potential for conflict and for existential dilemmas. Balducci, the French Colonial ...

Film, Identity, and Language

has remade her into a woman who is now his equal, at least in terms of speech, and since she is "suitable" he finds her intriguing...

Communication, Reality, and Symbolic Representation

none of them can accurately convey the complexity of the natural phenomenon that they are trying to describe. While language is ...

Evaluating The 'Criminal Justice is Not Racist' Assertion

While the statistics obviously support the contention that there is a disproportionate representation of blacks as compared to whi...

The Lack of Relevant Variables Represented by Previous Criminal Records and Seriousness of Crime

not as readily realized is that black Americans also represent the highest number of homicide victims between the two races. In t...