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Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara

proved to be the right choice. Burnside even gained support of President Lincoln, who approved their mission but warned that they...

Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens

therefore, is a nonentity in all ways that do not pertain to business (Adrian, 1984). Dickens uses the interior of his home to con...

Synoptic Gospels and Soteriology

Aquinas goes on to explain Christs sacrifice through suffering in that it came out of Christs love and obedience for mankind. This...

Stereotypes Involving Organized Crime and Italian Americans

crime as a malignant tumor on the face of society. After assessing the facts against what popular culture has had to say about th...

Analyzing Ursula LeGuin's Sur

women unite to help with the birth of her baby. Upon their return there is news of the Amundsen Expedition...

Past and Present War Propaganda and the Media

has essentially been an ineffective battle so far. In other words, while the media and government espouses the "was on terrorism"...

Bernini, Michelangelo, and Donatello's Artistic Representations of David

order to provide more accurate representation of the human body. The advances in knowledge made during these years is evide...

Women in The House of Bernarda Alba by Garcia Lorca

give it up once Agustias is married. Poncia warns Bernarda that the women are going crazy being locked up as they are and that she...

Second World War, the Holocaust, and Slave Labor

of land, and on top of it all, they were asked to sign a war guilt clause which stated that the Germans accepted all the guilt and...

Twentieth Century Art and Psychoanalytical Theory

how Charles Baudelaire, Fran?ois Truffaut, and Sigmund Freud, based on their inheritance of lyricism, shaped and perpetuated a cul...

Power at Play Sports and the Problem of Masculinity by Michael A. Messner Reviewed

observations is that sports changed with the introduction of females and acceptance of gay athletes as traditional male sporting e...

Reality and Films

Indeed, by looking at the role of the women in the movie it is a reflection of the social conditions. There is a reflection of the...

Views on Slave Documents

by one of his masters, Gustavus Vassa (Equiano, 1969). On first being consigned to a slave ship, Equiano wrote that his first reac...

The Fall of the Humanists in the Sixteenth Century by Jacob Burckhardt

individual" (Burckhardt, 1878; Mosaic, 2003). Modern historians often dispute some of Burckhardts claims but most concede that in ...

A Legal Courtroom Visit

the description of the room itself and the way the people orient to that room. There is, for example, the distinct separation of ...

Tools and 'King Leopold's Ghost' by Adam Hochschild

and far-reaching. Defined as a breakthrough for human rights, the significance of his account speaks to the notion of struggle am...

A Feminist Reading of Shakespeare's Hamlet

conflict, whereas Gertrude and Ophelia are blatantly constructed to subordinate and to submit to all of the whims and desires of t...

Colonial Missions in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone, at the current site of the city of Freetown. The newly-freed slaves did not fare well in Freetown; they suffered fr...

Rebecca Wells' Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood

each triumph was their own as well. They trusted each other and their friendships were continually nurtured throughout time by the...

American Society and Body Image

is telling women that they should be very, very thin. While perhaps some women can shrug off such images--like Camryn Manheim who ...

Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare and Roman Values

should take precedence over civic and social responsibilities (Goodlad). Most of the plays conflict and considerable violence is ...

Queiros Mattoso's To Be a Slave in Brazil

and were forced to work on plantations and large land holdings owned by the Spanish. Unfortunately, the Spanish had not the foresi...

Evil Temptation in 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Film Version of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, and I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Conde

were full of all the fire and brimstone of a religious fanatic. Whenever evil would cross his path, such as in the form of an omi...

Historical Significance of Interesting Narrative and Other Writings by Olaudah Equiano

its measure, of showing the enormous cruelties practiced on my sable brethren, and strengthening the generous emulation now prevai...

Beloved by Toni Morrison, Psyche of American Slaves, Ghosts, and Myths

are somewhat consistent with superstitions followed by the slave culture of the time and a segment of the African heritage of the ...

Historical Figure of Moses

Akhenaten, the ruler who renounced the many gods of Egypt in favor of the sun god as the only deity (Wolf, 2000). This position ho...

Computer Games and Gender Prejudice

conspicuous, while at other times remain quite subtle; however, one thing is certain: the formation of these variations originates...

Modern Hispanic Family in the United States

as well. For example, we assume that African Americans largely live in the inner city and that the children are raised by single m...

Female Plantation Slaves and Deborah Gray's, Aren't I a Woman

the world. Their identities were constantly negated and they were devalued for nearly everything which they were. Contra...

Edith Hamilton's Mythology

Chaos. Gaea, the first Titan, was the earth, itself. After she emerged from the Chaos, she gave birth to her own consort, Uranus, ...