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Howell Raines and the Civil Rights Movement

is today. In order to understand where were going, we have to know where weve been, and Raines shows part of that struggle in vivi...

Tennyson: “Ulysses”

author or both; the last suggested interpretation is that "Ulysses is an Ancient Mariner who has never learned his lesson" (Landow...

Descartes' Second Meditation

what state they are in. Here, Descartes distinguishes the mind from the soul. He writes: "It further occurred to me that I was nou...

The Souls of Black Folk

work one can gain a sense of this condition: "It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking ...

The Difference Between Human and Non-Human Animals

way they are like human beings who are mentally handicapped. Animals have souls and are loving and lovable, but they do not have t...

Mainstream Society, Underground Music, and African American Culture

D.C.s prominent African American institution of higher learning Howard University in 1965, he proclaimed that he would introduce b...

Dark Night of the Soul and Interior Castles

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

The Theory of Knowledge from the Socratic and Taoist Perspectives

would lead to an early death, he said, "... a man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; h...

Five Conceptual Ways of the Construction of Blackness

This paper reviews key literature like Cornel West Race Matters and WEB Du Bois The Souls of Black Folk to explore the manner in w...

The Soul and the Modern Ministry

This paper reviews David G. Benner's Care of Souls Revisioning Christian Nurture and Counsel. There is one source in the five pag...

Provincialism: Gogol, Chekhov

Using Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls and Anton Chekhov's The Duel, the writer discusses how each author addresses the topic of Russian...

Christ's Teachings and the support of Gregory of Nyssa

a Prophet. Gregory makes a case for Christ as well as for the fact that the bible should not be taken literally. Of the latter poi...

Overview of The Return of the Soul or The Peony Pavilion

women were also shaped by the class system in place. While women in the upper classes were afforded greater mobility and social d...

4 Cultural Topics

America, by contrast, embraces a decidedly more individualistic notion of cultural behavior by virtue of its capitalistic existenc...

Prince Arjuna and the Advice of Lord Krishna

Arjuna sees "fathers and grandfathers, maternal uncles, brothers, sons and grandsons, comrades and friends, father-in-laws and tea...

Five Foreign Films on Social and Religious Identity

In five pages this research paper considers religious and social identities in such films as Omar Gatlato, My Son the Fanatic, Fea...

William Greider's The Soul of Capitalism

their world, aimlessly moving along all for the sake of material wealth and perhaps position in society. In addition, one of the m...

Phaedo, Socrates and Immortality

the harp is broken the music stops; if the human dies, doesnt the soul also vanish? (Plato). It is to answer these concerns and ar...

'The Color Line' as Perceived by W.E.B. Du Bois

purely social we can be separate as the five fingers, and yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress" (quoted ...

Aristotle and Plato on the Soul

human being for a short span of time. The cave allegory is quite well known and has been used by many to interpret Platos philosop...

Saint Thomas Aquinas and Socrates

teaching, in which he pretended not to know the answers to questions, so that students would come to understanding on their own. ...

'Dialogue between the Soul and the Body' by Andrew Marvell

the Body, that is, as the force that gives the Body motion and life. However, Marvell stipulates in parenthesis that "(A fever cou...

Education, Knowledge, the Human Soul, and Plato's 'Allegory of the Cave'

the topic of education. He says, "Next, said I, compare our nature in respect of education and its lack to such an experience as t...

Analysis of 'Metamorphosis' by Franz Kafka

forced to take responsibility for their own lives, they grow tremendously and are obviously happier. The setting for the narrativ...

Female Protagonists in Chopin, Wharton, and Gilman

such endeavors she discovers that this is not the case. She tries to escape through passion, but finds that she is still a woman i...

'On the Immortality of the Soul' by David Hume

the immortality of the soul. The main points are as follows. First of all, Hume points out that the soul is said to be immaterial,...

Tom Shroder's Old Souls

researcher Dr. Ian Stevenson to investigate the validity of past lives, or reincarnation, as it appears in very young children. Th...

Physical World View of Dante

Aristotle. The sky is of course something that perhaps is significant in esoteric matters. After all, the sky is quite provocativ...

Black Literature and Violence

eras and toward different genders. The slave narratives of Douglass and Jacobs Douglass Narrative is the best known first-hand a...

Contemporary Thought Reflected in William Butler Yeats' Poetry

The allusion to Oscar Wildes epigram--What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities--...