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Essays 1711 - 1740

Oedipus: Guilty or Innocent?

and instead gives the infant to another shepherd, who takes the boy to Polybus, king of Corinth, who raises it as his own (Sophocl...

Western Culture and the Effects of Religion

In eight pages this paper discusses how Western culture has been affected by religion in a consideration of such powerful figures ...

King and Douglass' Writing, Analysis of their Rhetoric

his right to be in the Birmingham community and take part in the struggle of the African American community in that city. This int...

Ancient Egypt and the deification of kings

to punishment after death: Budge (1905) comments that many later religions derived their concept of a fiery, demonic hell from the...

Was Oliver Cromwell a Liberator or a Tyrant?

not develop until the 1860s..." (p.188). Some support for the notion that Cromwell would be seen as a liberator comes forth from a...

Martin Luther King Jr.

only try to make changes in the secular world where it involves converting people. King was a man of his faith and his word and he...

Study Guide/Oedipus the King & Darker Face of the Earth

this writer/tutor encourages the student to reread the play, noting passages that support the chosen theme. While certainly study ...

Close Readings/Darker Face of the Earth & Oedipus

an already contradictory situation. Consider how she acknowledges the baby as both "my son" and as "valuable property." Her matern...

Oedipus the King: Character

intelligent man, a man of integrity, and a man who is willing to seek answers, even if those answers point to him as the problem. ...

Creon in Oedipus the King and Antigone

deed in this our present trouble, I care not to prolong the span of life, Thus ill-reputed; for the calumny Hits not a single blot...

Does Oedipus Receive Justice?

the way; at the same time, the "old man," who was watching carefully, "struck me from his carriage, / full on the head with his tw...

Human Rights and Social Welfare: Martin Luther King Jr.

to his assassination (New York Amsterdam News, 2003). "Dr. King understood that civil rights meant more than the right to vote or ...

Colonial America: New England and the Chesapeake

the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...

Battle Scenes: Saving Private Ryan and The Return of the King

graphic violence, others praised the realism, while some questioned whether war is really like that at all" (Haflidason, 2000). Th...

Peer Review of a Fellow Student's Paper

the Jungian archetypes developed through the influence of the ring. Its quite clear and specific, and he argues the point well. T...

Oedipus Explained

concerned for his people; self-regarding but caring. This paper answers several questions about him and his actions in the play. D...

Copper Sun Earns Thanks

make it seem that it was their fault, or that they deserved it. You have shattered this exquisite self-serving Southern illusion, ...

The Average Joe: Willy Loman

workforce. It was the job of people like Willy to provide for his family; that is, most families had only one person bringing home...

MARKETING - A DEFINITION AND EXAMPLES

use Burger King and McDonalds as an example of how this works. On the surface, it might seem as though there isnt much different a...

Martin Luther King Jr.

Introduction Most people in the United States are well aware of the impact made by the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr.. E...

Analyzing the Theories of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes

would affect others (Kahl, 2002). So then, it only makes sense given this framework that people in general tend to pursue that wh...

Gangraena by Thomas Edwards is a Window into 17th Century Life

This essay explores this famous work from the perspective of what it reveals to the reader about the seventeenth century. Edwards...

Politics, Morality, Law, and Saint Thomas Aquinas

In five pages this report considers how Aquinas differentiated between eternal law and natural law in a discussion that also inclu...

Fate and Ancestry in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles

In three pages this paper discusses the role of ancestry upon the fate of Tess which led to her killing Alec d'Urberville and beco...

Thomas Hardy's 'Jude the Obscure'

A summary of this novel highlights this 5 page paper which also includes how Hardy's life is incorporated into the story through t...

The Structure of the Scientific Revolutions Postscript by Thomas Kuhn

In twelve pages this paper examines Kuhn's postscript and then contrasts and compares the views expressed with Max Weber's sociolo...

Power and Gender in Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure and Charles Dickens' David Copperfield

In twelve pages this paper examines the themes of gender and power as they are represented in these works of literary fiction. Te...

Thomas Jefferson's Concepts

In fifteen pages this paper examines Jefferson's concepts as they relate to the church and state separation and democracy. Ten so...

American Health Care Industry as Viewed by Thomas Hobbes and Plato

In ten pages this paper examines how Hobbes and Plato would view the problems currently faced by the U.S. health care industry. F...

Virtue, Justice, and the Common Good According to St. Thomas Aquinas

In seven pages this paper discusses how this preeminent religious philosopher defined virtue, justice, and the common good. One s...