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Gore Vidal: “Creation”

Herodotus (Vidal). Herodotus was an actual historical figure, known as both the "father of history" and the "father of lies." Here...

Analysis of Greek Funerary Statue

intended for this statue (Woodford, 1986). The initial response of this writer/tutor to the statue was that I was taken with the...

DEATH, DYING AND AMERICAN CULTURE: 1900-2010

all that terrific. What is wrong with this picture? Why would an elderly man put himself through such discomfort, simply to...

Paul Kennedy's Preparing for the Twenty First Century

general. Kennedy does an admirable job of demonstrating how the population explosion that the world is currently experiencing is i...

Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House as a Reflection of 19th Century Social Issues

In four pages this paper examines how the playwright represents social issues in this 19th century dramatic play....

Early US Penitentiaries and 3 Concepts

In three pages this paper examines 3 concepts on 18th century penitentiaries with Pennsylvania and the Quaker influence the primar...

Magdelena and Balthasar by Steven Ozmet and Religious Controversies

Redeemer" (Ozment 14). As a result, Magdalena and Balthasar not only put their faith in good health in the various medical remedi...

Differences in Gender in the Peasant Residences of Central Europe and Southeast Asia

tended to marry much earlier in Europe than in Asia. Both peasant groups seemed to have grown grain crops: rice in Asia and whea...

Commedia del'Arte and Cycle Plays

Noah, for example, might exhort the men on the audience to establish control over their wives whilst Noahs wife would...

Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries' English Feasting History

at the high table (The Table & Table Manners, 2005). This particular table was actually much higher than, or rather raised above, ...

Miles' Death in Henry James' The Turn of the Screw

alternates between believing him an angel and, conversely, possessed. Thus, Krieg, in his criticism, suggests: The governesss per...

Warfare Turning Point, The Tet Offensive

the action was the straw that broke the Camels back. In fact, not only was it a turning point for the Vietnam conflict, but if one...

Early 20th Century's Neoclassical Music and its Anti Romantic Elements

codified and structured. Neoclassical forms were, in turn, a reaction against the idealism characterised by the Romantic ...

19th and 20th Centuries' Changes in Scientific Research Funding

the aim of advancing in terms of methodology when uncovering longitude at sea (1991). This situation had been for the most part re...

Seventeenth Century Influence on the Eighteenth Century

speeches in his position of Secretary of the Paris Academy of Sciences, in which he did a great deal to enhance both the cultural ...

Nineteenth through Twenty First Centuries' Global Power Shifts

Germany and Italy were not major players in the global empire race of the 19th century as they had just become unified until the 1...

The Narrator's Role in The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

is almost always away on business, and the only permanent residents, in addition to the governess and the children is the stern an...

A Review of Genetic Turning Points The Ethics of Human Genetic Intervention

embryo warrant more respect and care than mere tissue. The embryo is potentially associated with a human person in the future" (Pe...

Uncanniness in The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

interpretations. It is, first and foremost, a Gothic novel, which sets the tone for the supernatural aspect of this uncanny work....

20th Century Glimpses in the 19th Century Poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

In five pages these poets' visions of the next century are examined in a consideration of their respective works. Five sources ar...

Turning Point of Watergate for Richard M. Nixon

In eleven pages this paper discusses the catalyst or turning point the Watergate scandal represented for President Richard M. Nixo...

David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize Winning Play Turned Movie Glengarry Glen Ross

In five pages this paper discusses the 1992 film adaptation of David Mamet's play in terms of plot and performance....

Civil War Turning Point of the Battle Of Gettysburg

is influences upon the Civil War were such that had he not been a primary participant in the battle, history would have recorded t...

Sixteenth Through Seventeenth Centuries' Scientific Concepts

upon life are not likely to be duplicated in the near future. Indeed, the praise for such progression during these two periods ca...

Similarities and Differences Between the 17th Century Scientific Revolution and 18th Century Enlightenment

matter, "organic and inorganic alike," could be defined in terms of extension and motion (Burns, 1969, p. 567). Therefore, Descart...

Polingaysi Qoyawayma's No Turning Back A Hopi Indian Woman's Struggle to Live in Two Worlds

represent one of the most fascinating cultures of the earth yet she makes a circuitous trail coming to this realization. Her life...

Paris During the Eighteenth Century and London During the Nineteenth Century

(Burns, 1969, p. 566). This worldview came to full flower in the eighteenth century with the philosophical movement known as the E...

Role of the Governess in The Turn of the Screw by Henry Jam

problematical: did the ghost have an existence as a participant before the events of the narrative took place, but was not percept...

Vietnam War and the Critical Turning Point Represented by the Tet Offensive

to Americans via the nightly news, they were shocked, outraged and disheartened. They demanded that our troops return home and th...

The Twenty-First Century and the First Century Compared

the Apostles in the Bible helps us realize that nearly a generation passed before the events of Jesus life were recorded into the ...