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Star Wars 'Prequel' The Phantom Menace

bits of information from ancient times, which have to do with the themes that have supported human life, built civilizations, and ...

Analysis of the Film Fatal Attraction

In five pages this analysis considers how director Adrian Lyne's Fatal Attraction represents a changing suspense and horror film g...

Children's Literature History

In ten pages the Middle Ages origins of children's literature to contemporary children's writings are chronicled in this historica...

Justice in 'The Odyssey' by Homer

In six pages this paper compares Homer's concept of justice with contemporary perspectives as it relates to 'The Odyssey.' There ...

Definitive Myth of 'A Country Doctor' by Franz Kafka

In five pages Kafka's nightmarish short story is examined in terms of its contemporary myth functionality. There are 7 sources ci...

Imperialism and Athenian Democracy

This paper consists of eight pages and compares imperialism to Athenian democracy with the assistance of Thucydides and the qualit...

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

change to the ethnic and cultural make-up of the United States. He also didnt foresee the growth of major cities, or the changes t...

Juvenile Gang Activity

While gangs are a part and parcel of the culture today, the concept of juvenile delinquency is rather elusive. Many do not dub chi...

Imagery in Aguilar’s Luminous Cities

about Aguilars work, one author notes the following in relationship to intertextuality: "The concept of intertexuality thus dramat...

Anselm’s Ontological Arguments

by humanity, without turning to any other body of factual information or knowledge. In other words, it is possible for people to c...

Chinookan Economy

with all the amenities associated with those villages, these people had the time and the resources to develop other aspects of the...

US Constitution’s Influence on the American Criminal Justice System

In the case of Baze v. Reese, Kentucky inmates who have been sentenced to death are claming that the states three-drug cocktail pr...

Alphonse Mucha & Art Nouveau

"Gismonda" led to long-term association between the Mucha and Sarah Bernhardt, as he produced not only posters for the actress, bu...

Leviticus and Christianity

does not have a split hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you." As this suggests, only animals that chewed its cue and possessed ...

New Testament Confrontations & Today’s Africa

a fact demonstrated repeatedly in Africa. Today, two worlds collide in the sub-Sahara desert as evangelists aggressively endeavor...

Puritan Beliefs, Attitudes and Behaviors

such a doctrine demands its adherents to examine themselves closely and constantly correct any "imperfections" so that they will b...

Thoreau/Importance of Wilderness

requirements of the wilderness can be defined as the "difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony" ...

Multicultural Instruction/Health & PE

direct impact on students attitudes toward both physical education and health-related behaviors (Stetzer, 2005, p. 26). By underst...

Article Synopsis; L. S. Vygotsky and Contemporary Developmental Psychology

social as well as individual. The to important elements in terms of modern though are the "zone of proximal development" which is...

Civil Disobedience and the Vietnam War

act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...

Corporate Governance

not the least of which includes employees, customers, suppliers, distributors, stockholders, interest groups, legal and regulatory...

Ancient Greek Philosophers

Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...

Modern Gender Roles

Danica Patrick being stopped by a police officer. As the officer comes over, Danica begins to primp, suggesting that she will get ...

Air Pollution/Cause and Effect

concerning controlling natural sources of pollutants and it is also a definition that recognizes the serious impact that human act...

Rome & Greece: Good, Dutiful Citizens Versus Athletic Ability, Philosophical Issues And Physical Beauty

fully clothed to completely nude was a symbol in and of itself: Aphrodite had begun a journey exemplifying female physical beauty,...

Deductive and Inductive Forms of Reasoning

by the consequences of these suppositions. Paramount to deductive reasoning is inference -- in other words, people draw their own...

The Lady of Shallot by Alfred Lord Tennyson and Song of Myself by Walt Whitman

best or the worst and the critic could not decide which. Consider these two excerpts from the same critique, the first is in respo...

Thomas Shadwell and John Dryden's Attacks Represented by the Character 'Mac Flecnoe'

In five pages this paper reveals how Dryden's character development of Mac Flecnoe is a scathing attack upon one of his contempora...

Montclair, New Jersey's Municipal Demographics

In six pages this typical suburban U.S. town is examined in a consideration of its municipal demographics including its geography,...

Congress Apportionment

In a paper consisting of five pages apportionment design is considered within the context of both houses of Congress along with th...