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Death in a Promised Land

At the same time, in the early 20s, "opportunities for young black men in Tulsa...were severely circumscribed, regardless of educa...

Reaction Paper: Better Brainstorming

to less ideas (Landis; Jerris; Braswell, 2008). And lastly there is the notion of checklists wherein the authors note that "audito...

Aspects Of Spanking Children

punishment. Opponents, however, say that any type of hands-on striking of any force serves to send the child the wrong message ab...

Protagonists’ Voyages in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby, and The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

own death and running away. Along the way, he meets Jim, a runaway slave who is traveling north in hopes of freeing his family. ...

Point of View: Momaday and Robinson

physical eye. This eye is not really something that is symbolic in relationship to standing as a cultural icon or something else, ...

Human Behavior: Conditioned Responses

Utilizing rats and pigeons, Skinner (1965) set out to prove the whole of human behavior is based upon the fundamental concept of o...

George O’Kelly and Jay Gatsby

he comes back to try and win Jonquil again, and by then he is a success; in addition, he has made his fortune in civil engineering...

Life and the Search for Meaning

full potential in relationship to this peace and joy within themselves Powell, 1995; 3). In Mans Search for Meaning by Vikt...

Scott R. Sanders, The Common Life

ties to his community. Examination of Sanders points show that individualism is not the problem. Sanders begins his essay by des...

Mistakes in Trials Worldwide in the Last 200 Years

seven years in areas closed to slavery; Illinois was a free state and the Missouri Compromise of 1820 had closed the Wisconsin Ter...

Support for the Death Penalty

topic has led noted criminologists to conclude that "...executions have no discernible effect on homicide rates" (Goertzel). There...

The Great Gatsby: Gatsby and Daisy

example, Gatsby is showing her through his house and he shows her his silk shirts: "Theyre such beautiful shirts, she sobbed, her ...

Gatsby & the American Dream

is when Gatsby holds out his arms toward a small green light in the distance, which the reader learns later is the green light on ...

Symbolism in Great Gatsby & Animal Dreams

retinas are one yard high" (Fitzgerald 15). The student researching this topic will note that there are divergences from the stu...

How We Determine Meaning

they are dominant and which they run largely to suit themselves. By making marriage and motherhood the ultimate goal of a woman, t...

Civil Rights in the Nineteenth Century

to move to the back, and when he refused, would go to court. The court essentially ruled against Plessy, rendering segregation val...

Jay Gatsby: A Great Man?

poverty to a position of wealth. While many people who wanted this particular American Dream of wealth and material possessions ...

Determining Meaning

a woman, men have systematically made it impossible for women to advance into meaningful, well-paying positions in the workforce, ...

The Human Cost of Katrina

and trash everywhere (Ainsworth). To her right is her grandson, dressed in blue short and a white t-shirt; he appears to be about ...

Love and Power: The Great Gatsby and The Tempest

example, how he constantly throws huge parties that are very elaborate and clearly of wealth. Yet he never really attends them. He...

Analysis of a Modern Classic: "The Great Gatsby"

about the characters thoughts and motivations. So we are going to read the story and see what happened through Nicks eyes, which m...

Fitzgerald and Hemingway

alcoholism. That essential plot is one filled with a powerful sense of seeking ones identity and a sense of loneliness. In...

Storytelling in Two Native American Novels

Jimmy thinks back to his childhood. At any rate, it is a startling introduction to life as Jimmy and other Indians live it. It al...

Dante’s Inferno & Humanism

must take a stand against evil and live according to ideals rather than simply from a myopic focus on personal needs. In Canto 2...

The Tragedy of Loss in "Paradise Lost"

and why Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden; but Book I is concerned to a great extent with setting the scene. The ...

The Enron and Martha Stewart Cases Compared

those codified into law ...and creating societal pressures for reform" (p. 167). Indeed, the world is changing and more attention...

Islamic Law, Aboriginal Customary Law and Queensland Law; a Comparison of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Systems

there are also some commonalities in the way that the law has been developed and the way it is implemented. In each case the evo...

Parenting in the First Person

that parents have to know if they are to shape their childrens behaviors effectively, and that its possible to learn those skills ...

John Locke and Capital Punishment

be little doubt that the crime rate is higher now, simply by virtue of the fact that the population is larger. Locke would probabl...

Sentencing Models

The individual is paying his dues, so to speak. There has been much criticism waged against retributive justice. Why? It seems tha...