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Comparative Analysis of Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

wish my own child to die?" (Frankenstein: The Novel) Frankensteins scientific protagonist, Victor Frankenstein, had, by his own a...

A Personal Plan for Losing Weight

This is an experiment intended for a 170 pound female age forty two in order to realize weight loss that is realistic and involves...

A New University Policy to Ban Campus Alcohol Consumption

during a drinking binge while 21% reported having unplanned sex and 12% reported having been injured because of alcohol consumptio...

History of Minimum Wage, Supreme Court to Rule on ACA

in the current minimum wage of $7.25, which became effective on July 24, 2009 (WHD, 2011). This history is also characterized by t...

How Culture and History Influenced the Philosophical Perspectives of William James and Rene Descartes

In two pages this paper examines how the philosophies of these two theorists were influenced by history and their respective cultu...

lEnglish leaders/Elizabeth I and Cromwell

Queen Elizabeth I and Oliver Cromwell are two of the most significant leaders in English history. Relyng on two major biographies ...

Reviewing Closing of the American Mind Closing of the American Mind / Book Review

In The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom decries the lapse of teaching of traditional American values in American universi...

Definition of an American and Homelessness

91). The first threatening wave of homelessness swept America between the years 1820 and 1860, when more than five million immigr...

African American Women: Impact of Violence on their Health

This research paper is presented in two sections. The first section consists of an annotated bibliography and an outline of the pa...

Hispanics and The American Dream

This paper pertains to Hispanics Americans and the importance of these immigrants in achieving the American Dream. Three pages in ...

Economic Self Sufficiency and the Role of the African American Church

This author notes that, "The church fought against the social injustices that African Americans faced in America," which is clearl...

Romanticism, Modernism, and Victorian Literature

throughout the novel. This is adventure and romance and in essence offers up a very tense story that is filled with emotions, fear...

Greek Funerary Vase/Krater ca. 750-735 BC

base and down the pedestal. There are two main strips of illustrations divided by a geometric band. To either side of the vase are...

W.E.B. Du Bois/Double Consciousness

of measuring ones soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity" (Du Bois ch. 1, para. 3). In other words,...

Twentieth Century Immigration in America

Spanish-language rhetoric on the radio and in the cafes" (29). In addition to conveying the flavor of Latin-American life, Tobar ...

First Amendment & Tort Law, UK & US

law began with the injustices incurred by the public due to the Industrial Revolution (France, Woeller and Mandel, 2005). Until 19...

Risorgimento; Italy Between 1815 - 1832

in the period following 1815 it is important to consider these changes as the administrative, judicial, education, and military sy...

Du Bois & Washington on Education

times, Washington endeavored to alleviate the fears of the white majority by emphasizing that black people were not a threat to th...

Should Malcolm X Be Featured on a US Postage Stamp?

not have presided over mass murder, his rhetoric caused considerable damage to the Jewish people (Elder). As a member of the radi...

Gatsby & The American Dream

her well-loved eyes" (Fitzgerald 111). As this suggests, Gatsbys many possessions and signs of extreme wealth are not important ...

America's Sexism and Racism History

In an essay consisting of five pages the historical origins of sexism and racism in the Americas is traced through the Native Amer...

Late Medieval Literature and Art and Human Body Rediscovery

his right hand in blessing toward the Virgin, who raises both palms in what is obviously intended to be surprise. The overall ef...

Romantic and Victorian Literature Contrasted

In five pages this essay contrasts these very different literary styles with the Romantic period's 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' b...

Eighteenth Century Musical Influences

In four pages this essay examines the impact upon the Enlightenment upon the music of the eighteenth century and how it reflected ...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In eight pages this paper analyzes this classic American novel and its confrontation of post First World War truths about the Amer...

Defense of Socrates in Plato's Apology

(he disguised himself as a woman and attended rites which only women could witness). Socrates is being held responsible for the i...

Western Monasticism's Rise and Spread

In five pages this paper examines a period from the earliest days of Christianity to the Reformation period in a consideration of ...

Examining Three Plays by Arthur Miller

This 5 page paper discusses three plays by American playwright Arthur Miller. The three are Death of a Salesman, After the Fall an...

Comparative Analysis of the Poetry of William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman

For example, in verse six, Whitman is ". . . Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms/strong and content I tra...

Sculpture of Early Japan

figurines represented the earliest of the Japanese deities and were included within the religious observances. One sculpture, in ...