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Stephen Crane's 'The Monster' and Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown'

In seven pages this essay considers transformation within a comparative context of these short stories....

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

In five ways the protagonist Frederic Henry's transformation from boy to man through his wartime experience and romance with Cathe...

Arguments in Philosophy

In five pages William Paley's teleological argument, St. Anselm's ontological argument, and St. Thomas Aquinas' cosmological argum...

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and the Character of Grete Samsa

himself as comfortable as he wished" (Kafka 145). During those terrifying early days, when Gregor was uncertain what was overtaki...

Medieval Europe's Saints

times. By a rescript of Septimus Severus (193-211) all imperial subjects were forbidden under severe penalties to become Christian...

The Architectural Features of Notre Dame and St. Etienne

generally viewed as a precursor of the Gothic style of church architecture, which began in 1140 with the re-building of St. Denis ...

Hospital Patient Safety

for patient safety identified these specific goals. For obvious reasons, these are copied directly from the Commissions Web page. ...

Francesca and El Greco

He is a fairly old man, and is the figure of "St. Jerome (c. 342-420), one of the four great Doctors of the Western Church, is ven...

Dark Night of the Soul and Interior Castles

imperfections, habitual natural and spiritual, and which is called by contemplatives infused contemplation, or mystical theology" ...

St. Francis of Assisi

he should live a contemplative life of prayer or an active life of spreading the gospel to the world (Hammond 14). This led Franci...

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...

Crucifixion of St. Peter, Ecstasy of St. Teresa

This essay discusses the baroque era and how Caravaggio's Crucifixion of St. Peter and Bernini's Ecstasy of St. Teresa reflect th...

Flawed Political Arguments in The Prince

power. For example, Machiavelli points out that the ruler becomes great in the eyes of the people by overcoming difficulties and o...

St. Eustatius and St. Martin Dutch Settlements

In five pages this paper examines two early Dutch settlements in the Caribbean. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Understanding The Prince Through Machiavelli's Letters To Vettori

This paper discusses the correspondence between Vettori and Machiavelli in terms of how these letters can lead to a further unders...

Leader's Political Role in King Henry V by William Shakespeare

In his political discourse, The Prince, Nicolo Machiavelli believed that political prowess that leads inherently to victory is ine...

Self-Concept Maintenance

Self-esteem and self-concept have always been controversial in the fields of psychology and sociology but the self became an accep...

Palahniuk/Fight Club

267). In other words, scholarship points out that men today are faced with a plethora of conflicting societal messages. They are...

Foucault's Views on Self-Transformation

his works and he also was not enamored of psychotherapy (McLaren, 2002). In fact, Foucault was very critical of psychiatry. For th...

Is God Good?

for them, allowing them to live in a state of perfection. But, in so doing Adam and Eve would not have had free will. They would h...

Augustine, Aurelius And Guibert

Plato and Anselm . He talks about seeking truth and wisdom consistently throughout the text. For Augustine, "Truth is one, and Go...

Early Christian Theology and Jesus

However, the historical record indicates that it was not long before the image of Jesus began to be detached from the historical J...

Confessions by Augustine of Hippo

back by the love of temporal pleasure" (Augustine 167). In accepting Christianity, Augustine records that he "no longer desired a ...

Plato's "Crito" and "Apology"/Augustine's Confessions

This essay focuses on Plato's use of dialogue in his "Apology" and "Crito," and Augustine's use of the monologue in his "Confessio...

Examples of Theodicies

boils and sores but Job continues to praise God. Jobs wife tries to get him to curse God. Then, friends suggest he is being punish...

Politics and Self Interest

In eight pages this paper examines the concepts of Niccolo Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke as they relate to politics a...

The Similarities in Thinking of Bonhoeffer, Luther, and Augustine

In a paper consisting of six pages the writer argues that despite living in different times these men's concepts and thoughts were...

Cape Fear Films, Sin According to Saint Augustine, and Manicheism

In five pages this paper considers the original Cape Fear film and its remake in an examination of changing times, Augustine's and...

The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis

In five pages Augustine's influence and the significance of the heaven and hell bus ride iare considered in this overview of Lewis...

Social Phobias Development

In ten pages a research proposal overview upon the effects of self monitoring and self esteem in social phobia development is pres...