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Marie de France, Chretian de Troyes, and Courtly Love

the help of a lion that he rescues from a serpent (Braswell). As this illustrates, the story leaves plenty of room for Ywain to p...

Individualism in Knight of the Lion by Chretien de Troyes

the first prolonged first-person account is given by Calogrenant and tells of how he ventured into the "forest of Broceliane" (De ...

Film Noir in the Nineteen-Fifties and Nineteen-Nineties

police detective that suspects his department is turning a blind eye to organized crime after refusing to further investigate the ...

The Life and Works of Emma Lazarus

in American culture, despite her pro-immigration sentiments, which were directly opposed to the anti-immigration public feeling of...

Culture and Communication

significantly hampering their ability to work beyond the psychological hindrance toward, for example, promotions and raises. What...

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and the Description of Roles for Women

the means of doing so were very circumscribed; it usually meant they had to go into service. Women rarely worked at any sort of oc...

Jews and Persecution Reasons

this premise had become a common notion and it persisted for centuries, something that would create more areas of persecution ("Pe...

Was the Barons' Rebellion a 'Deliberate and Enlightened' Revolution?

Provisions of Oxford, the steps which Henry took to avoid conforming to them, and the factionalism which developed amongst the bar...

Architecture Hi Tech and Postmodernism

inherently good or inherently evil. Fragmentation and diversity are seen as positive and there is no conservative or fundamental p...

'Englishness' and the Occult in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

some contrasting views of Englishness and attitudes about colonialism in their respective uses of the occult/supernatural. One te...

Family Sociology Change

work force and the womens movement. When it comes to a family, society expects that the man and woman will play clearly defined, a...

Shifting Newtonian Paradigms

of a desire to explain this new, more confusing universe. One source writes that many times, small choices can lead to "overwhelmi...

Gunther/Death Be Not Proud

A 3 page book review of John Gunther's memoir of his son's illness and death. The title of this book is drawn from John Donne's Me...

Berceo's Poem about Mary, Miracles of Our Lady

The writer examines the 13th century poem Milagros de Nuestra Senora (Miracles of Our Lady). The writer describes it as a series o...

Immigrants Today and of the Second Wave and a Consideration of Their Financial Status

group were extremely poor. Ireland was a land of peasants with a high unemployment rate, and those who boarded the ships for Ameri...

The Reconquista and the Spanish Explorers

most of Spain was united; the exception was Navarre, "which remained separate until 1512" (Reconquista, 2006). Spain, like most c...

Economic Bubbles

that flows. The crashes can result in large levels of wealth being destroyed and the potential for the crash to cause a depression...

Movies/Then & Now

theater environment, that is most often accused of encouraging crime. Then, as now, the majority of the people ignored the naysaye...

Strengths and Weaknesses of the Structuralist Approach

In fact, this theorist would focus on problems related to the periphery7. The school did focus on structural unemployment and th...

Southern Slave Codes

first chapter, Goodell describes slavery as defined by the laws of various southern states; here we read things like this: "LOUISI...

The Growth of the Coca Cola Company

does in its own country. At present, Coca Cola is a company that has locations in two hundred countries ("Coca Cola," 2006). It ...

The Development of a Marketing Stratagem for McDonald's

and fries had all been there for more than two decades and Chicken nuggets were introduced in 1980 (McDonalds, 2010). In any mark...

The Shift from Latin to Vernacular Language Use

This resulted in a gradual shift, and reflected not only the lower level of influence of Rome, but also the declining influence of...

The History of Computer Ethics

information on using this paper properly August, 2010 The concept of computer ethics has been discussed as it relates to tradi...

Strategic Decision-Making at Virgin Blue

to the US (Virgin Blue, 2010) When assessing the companies strategy and the way that they undertake strategic planning there can...

Culture: A Definition

only refers to cultivation or tillage ("Culture"). Yet, the fifth definition of the noun is broken down into subsections and is th...

Changes in the UK

UK north/south divide with an old division becoming prominent once again, where economic hardship appears to be hitting the north ...

The Concept of Mercantilism

a significant shift in the way that the supporting military forces were utilized. Prior to the mercantilist period the dominant mi...

Cost Profit Volume Costing in the Modern Commercial Environment

are costs which are no incurred unless the units is made. The CPV will be based on assessing the contribution level of a product p...

Montessori Philosophy

will make sure everything is at their height, there is a distinct difference between the left and the right sides of the room, and...