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Human Isolation in The Country Doctor and Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

by some mysterious external power, capable of turning a man into a giant insect, is virtually ignored by the characters: their foc...

Addressing Family Concerns

opportunity to concentrate on the task of child rearing. However, as Scwartz and Scott (2003) indicate, this stereotypical ninetee...

Humanities Makes Life Worth Living Through the Study of Literature, Art, and Music

their own various ways of struggling for coherence, for a compelling faith, for social vision, for an ethical position, for a sens...

'Inferno' by Dante Alighieri and Gender

involving gender or related themes like romance and marriage. Yet, sex and love are highlights in the Inferno. Dante also writes o...

State of Doing or State of Being and Depression

with environmental factors (Field, 2002). This could indicate an interaction of being and doing, or indicate a predisposition to...

Candide by Voltaire and Women

(Voltaire Chapter 8). She began living the life of a prisoner of war for the most part. One author notes she was "ill-used by othe...

Vietnam War and the Themes of Change and Endurance

Kevin Sims "Four Hours in My Lai." A Rumor of War In Caputos work he states, in the beginning, "In a general sense, it is simply...

Conflict Between Contemporary Human Resource Management Policies and the Bureaucratic Model

certain of this opinion with his ideas of flatter organisations and the clover leaf structure he foresaw as meeting the needs of t...

Underage Drinking Opinions

a fact of life, and one can choose to drink or not. If American youngsters were taught to handle alcohol from an early age in the...

Enlightenment Representation in Candide by Voltaire

and war, which he portrays as contrary to all reason. In the eighteenth century, war was presented to the ordinary citizens as an ...

Article on Socialization and Clothing

became students again (Costello, 2004). Costello also noticed that white men seemed to be able to handle the transition from "dre...

UCLA Essays on Candidacy

that limited my choices of college and my ADD diagnosis, which further made college learning a challenge, I proudly accepted my de...

Trade and Exchange as Stimulus for Change in England

we can argue there were some major influences and drives that shaped the industrial revolution and the development of the cotton g...

Analysis of Six Museum Works of Art

accounts, it is possible for art historians to state that some of the copies of the statue are inaccurate. Grout notes that those ...

Future Demands on National Security

It also presents a valuable model for the most effective aspects of integration at all levels of a combined operation. Background...

1800 Great Britain and Imprisonment

In five pages this paper examines how capitalism influenced the system of punishment in Great Britain at the beginning of the nine...

Family in Anna Karenina

The sociocultural values represented by the family unit are the focus of this analysis of Anna Karenina....

Merce Rodoreda's 'Time of the Doves'

This is a paper consisting of 5 pages and discusses such elements as protagonist Natalia's evolution, mother and daughter relation...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper and Liberation

really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression-a slight hysterical tendency--what is one to do? My brother i...

'Instructive Examples' of Literature

In eight pages this research paper discusses the writings of Clifford Geertz and Erich Auerbach in terms of how they represent the...

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and Themes of Destiny and Choice

In six pages 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and 'The Knight's Tale' are discussed in order to examine how the themes of destiny and cho...

Reviewing Advertising Since 1950 in the United States

In five pages this paper discusses advertising in America and how it reflects and represents women, the family, society, and the t...

19th Century Race and Gender in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

In five pages this essay examines 19th century race and gender as it is represented within this slave narrative. Two sources are ...

Religious Stance of Voltaire

This paper discusses the opposition to organized religion Voltaire took during the 18th century which is represented in his writin...

On Germany by Madame Germaine de Stael

writer/tutor reviews Staels text in chronological order, the student researching this topic may wish to contrast and compare the ...

English Aristocratic Class in The Reason Why The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade by Cecil Woodham Smith

than the military ineptitude without. In fact, the author makes clear that had it not been for aristocratic pride and arrogance, ...

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as me...

Drug Use and Vulnerability

and a culture that seemingly perpetuates drug use through its music, television content, and other lifestyle elements are extremel...

C.S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and the Elements of Fairy Tale

of some moral message in the end. Through danger the characters are made stronger, and they are developed more powerfully, truly p...

UK Youth Crime Representations and Public Perceptions

see a violent scene on televisions or a film does not shock us or surprise us, we see it as normal, and for many, especially where...