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Chaucer/Merchant's & Franklin's Tales

French fabliaux, which provide the source material on which many of the tales are based. Essentially, Chaucer use of gardens sugge...

Turning Points in Japan’s Modern History

taking place in a world that was growing more modern. The authors illustrate that, as is perhaps often in the case of long wars a...

Leadership Models through the Ages.

Greeks it had negative connotations, but also neutral and even positive ones (The early Greek world, 2006). One leader from this...

My Favorite Author: John Cheever

where Cheever first experienced heartbreak. That heartbreak came over the fractionation of his family that occurred when his fath...

The Right Stuff & Technology

conquer it. The focus of the film changes when it shifts to dramatizing the successful launch of the Soviet Unions Sputnik and i...

Muslim and Christian Conflict

"the Quran states: The closest in affection to [Muslims] are those who say: We are Christians, for among them are priests and monk...

Gawain & Green Knight/Wife of Bath

the entirety of those present that one of them should strike the Green Knight with the ax, which he has brought as a gift, and tha...

Dublin According to William Butler Yeats and James Joyce

this work many critics feel that Joyce gave Dublin a feminized gender. They assert that Joyces Dublin corresponds to Claudine Herm...

Le Corbusier's Notre Dame du Haut

faced with whitewashed Gunite (sprayed concrete) and a roof of contrasting beton brut. Formally and symbolically, however, this s...

Shakespeare in Cinema

as simplistic because it stars an action hero (Mad Max becomes Mad Hamlet) and cuts several scenes and all long speeches. Of cours...

Masculinity in Modern Cinema

the natural disaster" (Action Films, 2002). Marchetti also states that action-adventure films have long been the domain of male...

Technology and Batteries

of consumer electronics, expectation of the EV [electric vehicles] and problems of large-scale electricity storage and distributio...

Democracy Theories

on this subject might want to explore various opinions on democracy and society. Socrates claimed that democracy--because it is ...

Types of Corporate Ownership

in the UK, may be seen as making a profit, with many associated uses of brand name (Manchester United, 2002). However, this is unu...

Overview of the Shaolin Temple

his physical insights with the other monks when he returned after nine years, realizing how completely out of shape - both physica...

Ancient History and Interactions Across Cultures

the Romans. Through looking at gender conditions as it relates to the Greeks and Romans we can gain some understanding of pre-cl...

Contemporary Women's Lives and Backlash by Susan Faludi

progress because of the biased portrayal of women by the media and society at large. In this regard, this book is...

Early Modern Culture and Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

protagonist does not only not fight against sin, he embraces it, and categorically refuses all attempts at redemption. The followi...

Homosexuality in the Male From a Clinical Perspective

characteristic. Subsequent psychological researchers and theorists were then able to elaborate on such factors in order to determi...

Art and Architecture of the Renaissance and Modern Eras

world of mankind as much as a concern for the hereafter (which was the sole concern of medieval man). This new way of thinking is ...

Novel Essays by George Lukacs and Virginia Woolf

criticism points toward a different orientation, as she accuses previous writers of materialism, and explains this accusation by ...

Contemporary Application of the Ideal Leadership Theory of Niccolo Machiavelli

Machiavelli had been imprisoned by the opposing Medici and he saw how the conflict between politicians can destroy what issues are...

Modern State and Globalization

community? Or by participation in the issues of a community? Where does one draw the line? As the basic premise of democratic gove...

Traditional and Modern Medicine

was sometimes stronger, sometimes weaker depending on the individual. Over the counter medicines do not offer this flexibility. ...

Nursing Theory, a Comparison

p. 144). Each has value, but each exists with a paradox. The more abstract theories are more easily generalized, but more diffic...

History of U.S. Army Aviation

1909, the Wright brothers built the first "heavier than air flying machine" based on Army Aviation specifications. During World Wa...

Morality and Architecture by Watkin

the human condition. That said, a student writing on this subject might construe those two points by the author as rather weak. T...

Globalization, Standardization, and Theodore Levitt

for decades; Tom Peters and John Kao have supported the precepts of creativity. John Kao is certain that it is necessary to...

Public and Political Bargaining in the Contemporary Presidency

of the presidential office, inasmuch as media influence is fundamentally based upon the element of perception. Contemporary presi...

Premier Modern Painter Edouard Manet

the nineteenth century, painting was characterized by "flights of imagination" and "academic glorifications of the heroic past" (F...