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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, the Houyhnhnms and Rationalism

In 10 pages this paper examines the statement regarding rationalists author Jonathan Swift was making in his portrayal of the Houy...

Software Development Proposal Case Study

less risk of human error when calculating mathematical problems. With this information on hand it will be relatively easy for XYZ...

Perceptions of Ibn Battuta

In five pages this paper considers the Islamic scholar and the fourteenth century travels that molded his personal and cultural pe...

Perceptions and Travels of 14th Century Islamic Scholar Ibn Battuta

In eight pages Battuta's travels are outlined with a consideration of his people and cultural perceptions that his Muslim backgrou...

Behavior That is Rational vs. Irrational

Jason was only seeking his own gratification. He wanted to have it all. His intent was to gain both power and social standing by...

Book Four of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

alarming realization that he more appropriately mirrored a Yahoo as opposed to a Houyhnhnms serves ass the beginning of Gullivers ...

A Review of Breaking the Surface by Greg Louganis and Eric Marcus

A 5 page essay illustrating the theme of human diversity. This theme is contrasted to All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by ...

Playwright and Novelist James Michener

In five pages this paper examines the journeys physical and literary that James Michener traveled throughout the course of his lif...

Travels of Marco Polo

In 5 pages this paper argues that this travel book is actually an important history text. There is 1 source cited in the bibliogr...

Connection Between Global Travel and the History of Flight

quite different today. In fact, leisurely world travel in the present has also sprung from technological advances. No longer do th...

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift and the Impact of the Outsider

In five pages this paper examines how the outsider impacts Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. Three sources are cited in the b...

'Outsider' and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

It is irrational to think that one is any larger than he/she should be or has a right to be. It is also irrational to think that ...

All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou

through Angelous eyes. While Angelou speculates that it would take living in total despair, hopelessly oppressed to fully comprehe...

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and the Idyllic Houyhnhnm Society

In five pages Part IV of Gulliver's Travels is analyzed in a discussion of the social ideal represented by the Houyhnhnms. Two so...

Literary Geography of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

In six pages this paper analyzes the complex literary geography that comprises Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. Five sources ...

Literary Examples of Desire and Reason

In five pages this research paper examines how literature portrays the conflict between reason and desire in a consideration of Ut...

Leisure Pursuits, Cultural Practices, and Their Primary Motivation

In six pages this paper discusses how prestige is the motivating force for leisure pursuits and cultural practices with travel and...

Ibn Battuta

In six pages this paper examines a pilgrimage in terms of its social value and considers Ibn Battuta's travels to Mecca and the si...

All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes and Africa by Maya Angelou

In eight pages this paper examines what motivated these works by Maya Angelou. Twelve sources are cited in the bibliography....

Overview of Wind Shears and How They Travel

An overview of this topic is presented in seven pages. The bibliography cites nine sources....

Sage Path of Chuang Tzu and Mencius

him come, And guides the Eastern sages." Milton. One is not born a sage, but rather seeks knowledge or lives in a particular way ...

Distortions and Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

In five pages this paper examines how Swift employs distortions in this satirical work in terms of offering deeper insights into t...

Oveview of Global Distribution Systems

In five pages GDS is examined in terms of Internet distribution and international instruments of sales and marketing in a consider...

Vexing and the Writings of Jonathan Edwards and Jonathan Swift

a slender thread, with the flames of the divine wrath flashing about it, and ready every moment to singe it, and burn it asunder. ...

Global Travel and International Management

In five pages this report considers the pharmaceutical industry in an examination of world travel and international management wit...

Storytellers the Knight in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and Gulliver in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

In five pages these tellers of tales are compared. There are no other sources listed....

U.S. Colonies and Slavery

modern mind set, some of the facts may have been translated, or recorded incorrectly. The legend has been repeated endlessly tha...

Coming of Age, a Fictional Rendition

This paper is a fictional account of a young African-American coming of age and his travels throughout South Africa and the US. Th...

Metaphor in the Work of E. E. Cummings

This essay provides a reading of the classic Cummings' poem, "somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond." The aut...

Slavery Reflected in the Works of Henrik Ibsen, Frederick Douglass, and Jonathan Swift

In six pages this research paper discusses how slavery manifests itself in one form or another in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Trav...