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Original Position and Difference Principle of John Rawls

principles are finally agreed to" (145). He argues that people who possess a "sense of justice" would have a desire to live accor...

God and Nature According to Baruch Spinoza

In seven pages this paper examines the perspectives of this seventeenth century philosopher in terms of man's natural existence an...

Paul Laurence Dunbar and Phillis Wheatley comparing the Work of the Two Authors

Although Paul Laurence Dunbar was born nearly a century after Wheatley's death, the two authors share common traits other than the...

Innovation and Structure in 'Astrophel and Stella' by Sir Philip Sidney

In eight pages this paper examines the sonnet structure and poetic devices Sidney employed in this 16th century poem. There are 7...

The 'Essay on Man' by Alexander Pope

In fifteen pages this narrative poem is analyzed in terms of its depiction of the eighteenth century man with each of the four sec...

Changing Views on Caring for the Mentally Ill

The treatment of the mentally ill has changed drastically since the asylums of the 19th century. This paper examines the historic...

Changing Perspectives on Welfare and the US Federal Government

funded job. That was the theory. In practice, the bills drafters (of whom Clinton was one) knew Congress would not be able to...

Gender Relationships Across Cultural Lines

Few things have changed as much as gender roles and expectations in the 20th century. This paper examines ideas on gender among va...

Christian Apocalypse in the Third Millennium?

In seven pages this essay discusses worldviews and apocalyptic beliefs as the next century approaches with the Branch Davidians an...

Religion and Its Influence on Man

In four pages this paper evaluates whether or not man is positively influenced by man in a consideration of the negative influence...

Debate of Creationism v. Evolution

In ten pages this research paper examines the ongoing debate and includes such topics as Darwin's theories and the reaction of the...

Scholarship and Christianity

In four pages George Marsden's inquiry into religion and scholarship as covered in the 'Exercise a Christian Intellect' by Tinder ...

Overview of the Blackfeet

In ten pages this paper presents a post 18th century history of the Blackfeet and tribal rituals including the Shaking Tent Ceremo...

US Lutheran Church and its History

Church (Royce 05B). The history of the conventional Lutheran Church date back to the sixteenth century when Protestant reformer M...

Women and Paul the Apostle

In five pages this research paper examines 1 Corinthians 14, lines 24 and 35 in a consideration of whether or not early Christian ...

An Analysis of the 1991 Film Thousand Pieces of Gold

In this four page research paper the writer explores topic of Asian prejudice as it existed in America in the nineteenth century. ...

The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah O. Jewett

In five pages this paper discusses why contemporary criticism of this 19th century novel often falls short. Six sources are cited...

Philosophical Perspectives on Passion and Human Happiness

In fourteen pages this paper examines how passion and human happiness were perceived from various philosophers spanning the sixtee...

Development and Literary Construction in Chopin's Novel, The Awakening

This paper addresses Kate Chopin's Nineteenth-Century novel, The Awakening. The author contends that the literary techniques util...

Comparative Literary Analysis of William Faulkner's Modernism and Toni Morrison's Postmodernism

(without excluding the importance of the past), where everything is not spelled out neatly for the reader. The reader must interp...

'The Decameron' by Giovanni Boccaccio

In three pages this essay discusses how these tales reflected the changing society of the 14th century as a result of the Black De...

Heroism in Antigone by Sophocles

In five pages this paper argues that for readers of the 20th century Creon and Antigone appear more like victims than heroes in th...

Cousin Bazilio by Jose Maria Eca de Queiros

In eight pages the late nineteenth century society of Portugal is the focus of this thematic consideration of Cousin Bazilio. Fou...

The City and the Mountains by Jose Maria Eca de Queiros

In eight pages this research paper discusses various interpretations regarding how the society of Portugal during the 19th century...

The City and the Mountains by Jose Maria Eca de Queiros II

In six pages this paper discusses the themes in an overview of this text that features the nineteenth century society of Portugal....

Europe and the Black Death

This paper consists of six pages and examines the Black Plague or Black Death that had a catastrophic impact upon 14th century Eur...

Mathematician Girolamo Cardano

In eight pages sixteenth century mathematician Girolamo Cardano and his Ars magna work are examined in a sentence outline with Car...

Colonial Powers and Gender Differences

outwards. When we look at this time we can see that there was already a change, the loss of colonial power was...

Literacy and Religion

their function was only to labour. As Wood (2002) points out, historians tend to measure levels of literacy by the percentage of a...

Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and Love

emotional release. This may be seen as giving the different types of love a balance. This book was published in 1913, a...