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Essays 1981 - 2010

Responses to Essays in The Bedford Reader

and smells that delight the senses. Beds of daffodils and tulips combine with the fragrance of roughly 3,000 Japanese cherry trees...

Prevalence of Divorce, Cultural Assimilation

also more pressure on couples to work out their differences and learn how to live amicably and keep the marriage intact. 2. My so...

Post-Colonial Theories in Literature

the material hegemony of the colonizer, the colonized is forced into a position where in order to survive in the new culture force...

Ancient Egypt, Belief in the Afterlife

of Osiris. Nevertheless, over time, entry to the afterlife was expanded and nobles were given permission from the pharaoh to make ...

"The Medieval World View" - A Critical Review

culture is a Western culture, is always problematic because of the inherent violence in cultural history. As Benjamin has stated, ...

Marketing - Is There a Gap between Research and Practice?

gathered need to be reliable and reflective of the population that are being researched. If the practitioners were not able to ach...

Lincoln's Addresses, An Analysis

This essay pertains to Lincoln's First and Second Inaugural Addresses and the Gettysburg Address and what these three speeches tel...

The Iliad's Cultural Values

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at a passage from The Iliad. The cultural values of war and honor inherent in the pass...

American Civil War and its Inevitability

This 5 page essay presents the writer/tutor's argument as to why the American Civil War was unpreventable and could not be avoided...

World Corruption and US Foreign Policy

This paper contends that the US must act as the world watchdog and keep those in check that tend to sway from world expectation. N...

The World and US Social Injustice

The author asks the question of how can the US hope to intervene in the world's problems with discrimination and prejudice when sh...

Value of the Rain Forest, "Medicine Man"

This film review pertains to "Medicine Man," a 1992 film directed by John McTiernan. The writer gives an overview of the plot, whi...

President Reagan Hurt Economy

This essay reports on two separate issues. The paper first discussed the similarities and differences between the Korean and Vietn...

Woolf and Wilde - Self-Denial

In a paper of two pages, the writer looks at themes central to both "Mrs. Dalloway" and "The Picture of Dorian Grey". Self-denial ...

American Liberty, 1820-1877, Overview of Issues

This research paper/essay discusses various issues in American history pertaining to liberty. This includes the factors that led u...

Iran's Influence on the Cold War in 1979

The Cold War between the West and the Soviet Union (USSR) was at it's height in 1979, the year in which the Iranian Revolution to...

Gary Jennings/Aztec

eloquent, but "inadequate to catch every individual word, not to mention nuances and adroit turns of phrase" (11). As this illustr...

The Causes of War; Nationalism and Social Darwinism

that brought the political tensions to a head was the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne; Archduke Francis Ferdinand...

"The Cold War Blinders And The Tragedy Of Vietnam" - Critical Essay

about much of its own global discord by virtue of its imperialistic mindset. While opinions about why Vietnam occurred are as vas...

Satire Modeled After Candide

Herbert felt, were much smarter than himself. In particular, Herbert relied on his political adviser Carl Wanderer and his second-...

God Vs. Evil

itself confirms those evils. Mark refers, of course, not only to the goodness of God but also the many evils which exist in our w...

The Tempest/Appearance & Politics

better, he goes off on a tangent in which he imagines himself as the ruler of a utopian society on the island (II.1.148-156). Wh...

The War In Iraq: Our Troops Should Not Leave Too Quickly

- are the nations that have single-handedly caused Americas ideals to be brought into question. Moving forward into the twe...

Bowling for Columbine

emotions and sympathy for the Columbine victims and families. For example, it is difficult not to agree with Moore that the decisi...

Man, Trophic Level, and Environmental Impacts

of a particular ecosystem. The food chain, of course, starts with plants and those are eaten by herbivores and omnivores. Plants...

Robert McNamara and Sun Tzu

and dodged the most important matters, continually laying the blame for the killing of millions at the feet of others (Cockburn, 2...

American Civil War: Just or Unjust?

Orend points out that the mere threat of war, or mutual dislike and disdain, are not necessarily indicators of war. "The conflict ...

Ishmael Beah/A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

verge of being reunited with his family, only to have this chance taken away by another rebel attack. He is changed by his experie...

Octavio Paz/Diego Rivera

portrays him "wearing the local costume of the Cuernavaca region and carrying a sugarcane=cutters machete ("Agrarian Leader Zapata...

Toyota

efficiency, marketing, design and finance (Thompson, 2005). Protectionist policies alone will only limit the presence of foreign...