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Personal Childhood Experience Tale 'That's Cause You're Stupid'

In three pages this essay considers the ups and downs of childhood friendship in an author's personal account of one that continue...

The Formation of a Democracy in East Timor

and waged 20 years worth of guerilla resistance to Indonesian rule. In gaining independence, not all East Timorese residents were...

The Guide by R.K. Narayan and 'Self' Construction

In five pages this paper considers the author's views regarding how the self is constructed as depicted in his novel The Guide. T...

The Economist and the Development Economics

and other leading policy-makers have historically advocated a closer relationship between macroeconomic and urban policy developme...

The War of 1812 by Donald R. Hickey

the Hartford Convention, which was organized by Federalist leaders to address some of the concerns of the states that were not bei...

The Roaring 2000s by Harry S. Dent Jr.

Dent examines the premise that demography is destiny. Looking at the spending habits and lifestyles of the aging baby boomers, h...

C.S. Lewis and Karl Menninger on How Criminals Should be Properly Punished

In nine pages this paper contrasts and compares 'The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment' by C.S. Lewis and 'The Crime of Punishment...

The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis

In ten pages this paper examines the author's religious views, his book The Last Temptation of Christ and the subsequent film adap...

Richard Wright's Native Son

In ten pages this novel is analyzed in a consideration of aesthetics, strengths, weaknesses, development of character, and the aut...

Shelter Poverty by Michael Stone

In two and a half pages this text is examined from the author's standpoint that shelter that is affordable should be the right of ...

Night by Eli Wiesel

arrogance, but indifference. The opposite of hope is not despair, but indifference. Indifference is not the beginning of a proce...

Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson

In five pages this paper examines the author's intentions in Sexing the Cherry. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and Language

In 6 pages this paper examines the author's use of language in this classic novel particularly in terms of the protagonist Holden ...

Women and Gender in Islam by Leila Ahmed

veil to designate between "respectable" and "disreputable" women. However, Ahmed emphasizes the fact that "Mesopotamian, Persian...

Rick Porrello's The History of the Cleveland Mafia

In 10 pages this memoir considers the author's family's organized crime activities during the Prohibition era. One source is cite...

Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, Albert Camus' The Stranger, and Heroism

In five pages these heroic protagonists are compared in terms of their differences and how they reflect the authors' quite differe...

Crime and Punishment in American History by Lawrence Meir Friedman

In five pages this comprehensive American history text is examined in terms of the author's detailed consideration of the U.S. cri...

Judith S. Wallerstein and Sandra Blakeslee's The Good Marriage

In five pages a textual overview includes the authors' explanation of 4 marriage types. There are no other sources listed....

The Use of Allegory and Symbolism in the Epic Poem Beowulf

Goldsmith, who sees Beowulf as being addressed to the "powerful" and designed to "warn them of the dangers attendant upon power" (...

'Sick on a Journey' by Basho

principles such as Sabi and Wabi, are contained in the Bashos last Haiku. By the title one immediately understands that something ...

Arguing About 'Fantasy Violence' Facts

A 2000 article by Richard Rhodes regarding the media depiction of violence forms the basis of this paper containing five pages and...

Kenneth M. Stampp's The Peculiar Institution

In five pages this paper discusses the author's acknowledgment of the profit motive associated with slavery. One source is cited ...

Surprise and Structure in An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce

In 8 pages this short story considers the element of surprise and presents a structural analysis of the author's employment of sty...

Methods of Exegesis

In five pages this paper considers the definition of exegesis and includes a consideration of original author's intent and other r...

Bruce J. Schulman's Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism

advantageous; otherwise, his liberalism perhaps was not so strong, such as in voting against labor in Taft-Hartley in the 1940s, s...

Art and Life of Ernest Hemingway

in Europe. He was seriously wounded in Italy, and incurred nearly a dozen operations to restore complete function to his knee, whi...

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf and Revisiting Childhood

In five pages the ways in which Woolf's novel represents recounting the author's own childhood through characterizations, events, ...

Harry Mulisch's 'The Assault'

A 5 page paper that frames the argument that this is more of an autobiographical exorcism of the author's demons as well as a tale...

Richard Posner's Negligence Theory Applied to Case Law

In this paper of three pages the article written by Richard Posner on the theory of negligence is discussed from a case law perspe...

A Review of Hannah and Her Sisters

A 5 page review of the film by Woody Allen. The opinions of other critics are considered and the author's own opinion delivered a...