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Essays 271 - 300

The Disparity of Work and Productivity

equated with worth. Work is the standard by which the content of ones character is judged. There is a pervasive conception that in...

Theoretical Approaches to Capitalism and Power

The ideas of three theorists are explored in this 3 part paper. The first part of the paper explores the rise of capitalism, and ...

Work, Is It Essential for Human Flourishing?

is it essential for human flourishing? The online edition of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary [http://www.merriam-webster.com] defin...

Nature in Narratives of Americanness Between 1840 and 1860

beginning of this countrys history. Emerson is also noted for his preference for the simpler things in life and for his love of n...

Columbus, More and Renaissance Thought

writing, Columbus vacillates between viewing the American natives as subjects of either the Chinese or Japanese emperors, as he th...

The Farm As A Natural Habitat

point out that the little bit of nature that is left is being consistently squeezed out and pesticides spread beyond the crops the...

A Quarter-Century Friendship: Thoreau and Emerson

friends for over 25 years. The nature of their friendship, like any such relationship, cannot really be understood by anyone on th...

Comparing Themes from McGregor And Thoreau

from what was ostensibly a civilized society, ultimately finding how solitude became one of his closest friends. "I find it whole...

Jenkins and Barthes on Rereading

consumers who become "fans" of a certain film, TV series, or book and subsequently reread it multiple times. Rather than lose inte...

Holton/Forced Founders

describes the motivation of the landed-gentry, that is, the wealthiest 10 percent of the population, he also addresses why small f...

Retroactive Child Support Payments: Canadian Supreme Court

they separated, the father had custody for a time, but "the parties subsequently entered into an informal shared custody arrangeme...

Thoreau on Loss

in which he discusses the great literary works of the past. He says that literature in the Middle Ages was written in Latin and Gr...

Baudrillard, Plato, Sartre and Thoreau

prisoners there is a raised way; and you will see, if you look, a low wall built along the way, like the screen which marionette p...

Shakespeare, Thoreau, and Coetzee and Reality vs. Appearance

In five pages the social distortion of reality that encourages perceptions based on appearance is considered within the context of...

Whitman, Emerson, Thoreau and American Individualism

printed word. He said that, "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." This may not speak well to the concept of cur...

Thoreau, Pieper, and Plato on What Philosophy Is

when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." And, for 20th century Catholic theologian Josef Pieper (1904-97), Gods role in...

Friendship, Victor Frankenstein, and Henry Clerval

book, the first reaction could be "mad scientist" or "ugly monster." Hollywood, if nothing else, has done a very good job of takin...

Mideast State Classifications

Iraq alone stands as an example of the concept. Reminiscent of the manner in which Fidel Castro claimed control of Cuba so ...

The Arabs, Israelis, And Kissinger A Secret History Of American Diplomacy In The Middle East by Edward R.F. Sheehan

Plan after World War II" (Neff 74). Sheehan clearly indicates that the West was able to revel in the success of Sinai I as an exe...

Expatriates and Their Writings

each other often about literary topics as well as the war (Tender is the Night). It was during this time in France that Fitzger...

Workplace Politics and Power

was little he could have done to avert the situation, short of signing his name to the report knowing that the equipment was fault...

Themes in Henry James' Daisy Miller

in the dark foreshadowing of Daisys ruin in the shadowed cavernous scene of the Colosseum" (Anonymous List of Major Themes themes....

Relationship Between Henry IV and Prince Hal

that he has mercy as well as wisdom. None of this his father sees. King Henry IV tells his son in scene ii, Act III, that familia...

Henry Clay Frick's Art Collection

In five pages this paper examines the publicly donated art collection of Henry Clay Frick after his death in terms of how the vari...

Sharon Kay Penman When Christ and His Saints Slept

which involves the story of King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine (Penman, 2002; Penman, 1995). Maude was considered as t...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 'Paul Revere's Ride,' Its Inaccuracies, and the Real Paul Revere

slumber to acts of resistance. However, Fischer demonstrates that Revere did make his famous ride and that the ride was signific...

William Shakespeare's King Henry VIII, The Two Noble Kinsmen and Doubling

The overall story of "The Two Noble Kinsmen" follows fairly well its primary source that is Chaucers "The Knights Tale" from his c...

Social Evolution During the Nineteenth Century

their perception of his genius. (Gould 26) Where gender behavior is concerned, a complicated and controversial issue of de...

Bard's Personality as Reflected in His Plays

were specifically constructed to entertain royalty, it was the impassioned actions of his characters that leave little doubt that ...

'Hemingway Hero' in A Farewell to Arms

and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring" (Hemingway 13). There is little said about Fre...