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Elia Kazan's 1947 Film Gentleman's Agreement and the Concept of Jewish 'Otherness'

In five pages this film is examined in terms of how it portrays the theme of Jewish 'otherness' in regards to the treatment of Jew...

Machiavelli, Nietzsche, and Human Nature

This paper addresses Nietzche's Machiavelli's views on human nature, politics, and society. This five page paper has two sources ...

Summaries of Articles by Rawls, Mills, and Dworkin

special vulnerability to prejudice or hostility or stereotype..." (Dworkin 56). II. MILLS Mills poses the question that is of in...

Contemporary Hedonism

In five pages hedonism as it exists in contemporary American society is discussed. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Lessing's To Room Nineteen and Conventionality and Freedom

This research report examines this story and talks about the difficultly of separating in terms of emotional needs and expectation...

The Summer After the Dark by Doris Lessing and Culture

In twelve pages Western society and cultural roles of women are discussed within the context of Lessing's novel with other critica...

Examining Three Plays by Arthur Miller

This 5 page paper discusses three plays by American playwright Arthur Miller. The three are Death of a Salesman, After the Fall an...

Revenge in 'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe

In seven pages the theme of revenge as depicted in this short story is analyzed as the author's personal commentary attacking the ...

Suppressing the Individual in Works by John Brunner and Margaret Atwood

In a paper consisting of five pages the ways in which society suppresses the individual as represented in Brunner's 'The Sheep Loo...

Analysis of The Subjection of Women by J.S. Mill

In five pages this research paper discusses the issues John Stuart Mill addressed in his text and assesses whether or not they rem...

Thomas Malory's 'Every Man' and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Pardoner's Tale'

In an essay consisting of six pages what can be gleaned from these author's respective societies and times based on the stories is...

Redefining Marriage in Persuasion by Jane Austen

of the aristocracy-represented by her family-and Anne develops relationships with the middle class. The middle class characters h...

Social Implications of The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You by Dorothy Bryant

In five pages Bryant's utopian society as it manifests itself in her novel in terms of the sociological implications of physical a...

Historical and Literary Significance of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

This paper analyzes Shelley's novel with an emphasis on how Shelley's own life and the society she lived in impact various element...

Dark Future in the Science Fiction Novel Neuromancer by William Gibson

In nine pages this paper examines how technology can lead society into a dark dystopia in an analysis of William Gibson's Neuroman...

Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Kate Chopin's NegCreole II

Both works focus on an important racial figure as a primary element in the development of the plot. The relationship between Huck...

California Universities and Affirmative Action

In this paper consisting of nineteen pages Affirmative Action alternatives as they pertain to the California university system are...

Public Policy and Affirmative Action 2

In a paper consisting of five pages the argument that the policy of Affirmative Action is beneficial for society is presented. Th...

Deific Coding of Ancient Laws

This is a research overview containing ten pages that considers the Code of Hammurabi as well as Hebraic, Spartan, and Mesopotamia...

Religious Oppression in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In six pages the oppression that existed in Puritan society is the focus of this analysis of The Scarlet Letter. There are six so...

Overview of the Bill of Rights and the First, Fourth, and Tenth Amendments

In about seven pages this paper discusses the Bill of Rights with the focus being on these particular amendments and how contempor...

A World Literature Philosophy Symposium

In eight pages an imaginary symposium discusses the dichotomies of the individual versus society, passion versus reason and featur...

Women in Medea and Lysistrata

In four pages this research paper contrasts and compares the portrayal of women and their roles in ancient Greek society as repres...

Marriage and Women in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

In three pages this paper discusses how Nora and Torwald represent women's status in society and in marriage. There is no bibliog...

The Theme of the Old and New in Tugenev's Fathers and Sons

oppression. They are drunken, thieving, grasping, dishonest and completely ignorant. They would rather break a machine than run it...

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

In four pages this Spanish classic is examined in terms of how this represents the author's commentary regarding the countrymen an...

Cousin Bazilio by Jose Maria Eca de Queiros

In eight pages the late nineteenth century society of Portugal is the focus of this thematic consideration of Cousin Bazilio. Fou...

The City and the Mountains by Jose Maria Eca de Queiros

In eight pages this research paper discusses various interpretations regarding how the society of Portugal during the 19th century...

The City and the Mountains by Jose Maria Eca de Queiros II

In six pages this paper discusses the themes in an overview of this text that features the nineteenth century society of Portugal....

Scene V Analysis of Antigone by Sophocles

In five pages the play's final scene and how its philosophical and theological issues reflect the society of ancient Greece. Ther...