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The Defense is Ready by Leslie Abramson

to subjugate her personal perceptions to what she knows she must do as a lawyer. Abramson begins with describing her defense of ...

Comparison of Toni Morrison and Leslie Marmon Silko

In six pages this paper examines how 'home' and 'self' are conceptually depicted in Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko and Beloved by...

Silko: “Ceremony”

it, because he cannot really define who and what he is. Like many Native Americans, his world has clashed headlong into the world ...

The Physical Realm According to Rene Descartes

examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...

Philosophy's Role and Defense of Socrates in Apology by Plato

In two pages this paper examines philosophy's role and human activity purpose as well as Socrates' defense as represented in Apolo...

Do Violent Video Games Encourage Violence Among Children

This paper reviews author Scott Shackford's defense of violent video games as published in the article Imaginary Guns Don't Kill P...

Defense Science Board Study

A Task Force of the Defense Science Board analyzed the energy strategies of the Department of Defense and found the Department had...

Crime and Punishment of the Mentally Ill

While the insanity defense gets a considerable amount of public attention whenever it is used, fewer than 1 percent of all cases s...

Arguing Against Forced Military Vaccinations for Anthrax

In twenty two pages this paper argues against the U.S. Department of Defense's position that requires all armed forces personnel t...

Capital Punishment Defense

do not become innocent or less deserving of punishment because others escaped it" (van den Haag 51-68). Being a supporter o...

The Insanity Defense

in order to preserve the Republican Party (Welner 1996). As Guiteau explained it: "The express purpose of the president has bee...

Deborah Lipstadt Defense and Holocaust Denial

In five pages this research paper presents the writer as a witness called to consult with Deborah Lipstadt's defense counsel in he...

Oedipus’ Trial

and queen of Corinth. As a young man, Oedipus heard the prophecy that he would murder his father and marry his mother. Thinking th...

Lone Defense of Ideals in St. Joan by George Bernard Shaw and An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen

But the community corporate sector, represented by Peter; Hovstad, who is editor of the Peoples Messenger newspaper that is intere...

Smith v. State/Hypothetical Ruling

without permission. There were no visible signs of illegal activity, but Officer Jones decided to push deeply into the drivers sea...

A Defense Spending Analysis

interestingly enough, represented the largest defense increase in two decades, since spending during the Cold War (WAND). ...

Spending Allocations of America's Defense Budget

brought us images of war, live and in color. Regardless of whatever political ideologies concurrently exist, no reasonable, think...

The Legal Defense for Battered Women

To support this assertion, we must first no little more about what BWS is. BWS as a defense was first introduced in court by attor...

Setting and Theme in The Man to Send Rain Clouds by Leslie Marmon Silko

right in their eyes for one who has died. They paint his face, sprinkle corn meal and pollen, and thus give him a very fitting wra...

Marquez and Silko, Two Views of Colonialism

alone in the beginning of the novel and they will be alone again in the end as the efforts to truly colonize this little region pr...

Setting as Portrayed in Works by Richard Shelton and Leslie Marmon Silko

visit time and again, or which makes the reader have a strange sense of foreboding for the characters as the story unravels. Autho...

American West and Frontier Perceptions

of reference, then one will never know, in any given case, what really happened" (Tompkins, Indians, 60; Cochran 69). In this case...

The Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko and Searching for Self

it is as much a story about the Earth as it is a story about the human characters that strive to seek resolution to the very real ...

Silko/Setting in Ceremony

the doctors that he felt like "white smoke" and that he had "no consciousness" (Silko 14). With this allusion, Tayo tried to conve...

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

be a reality and that violence is often something that stems from such conditions as seen in the experiences of Tayo. Anger and ...

Self Awareness and Environment in Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

alienated himself from Mother Earth in his anger and frustration, cursing the jungle rain, which "grew like foliage from the sky."...

Symbolism and Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

with Tayos Indian heritage. Prior to describing Tayos chanted curse of the jungle rain, Silko relates a Pueblo myth about Reed Wom...

Leslie Marmon Siko's - In the Combat Zone

point Silko goes on to illustrate how she was taught, by her father, how to use guns, how to hunt, and how to always protect herse...

Cultures That Are Invisible

In five pages the notion of 'invisible cultures' as portrayed in Blues People by Amiri Baraka, Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, Sp...

Modern Native American Literature and Cultural Conflict

Native American literature is interesting both in content and in the fact that it is a relatively recent phenomena. Native Americ...