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Art, Class, and Race in the Works of Jean Michel Basquiat, James VanDerZee, and Romare Bearden

some of the essence of urban life, jazz music, and Black pride. Basquiats work demonstrates both the vibrancy and despair of moder...

Hollywood Elite and Titanic Film by Director James Cameron

something that is worth exploring. Values, such as marriage, are highly regarded. However, for the upper class, values include m...

Religion and Philosophical Concepts

Indeed, it seems that within the context of philosophy, there is a wrestling with religious thought, because it is from the rejec...

Religion and Concepts of Emile Durkheim

it divides the world into the two domains of sacred and profane" (2001). One can see that this is exhibited in many religions toda...

Communication as Culture by James Carey

in all industrial cultures-and dominates contemporary dictionary entries under the term. It is defined by terms such as imparting,...

Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin Biographical Literary Analysis

converted storeroom that features the angry sermons of the troubled preacher Gabriel Grimes, Johns father. According to critic Br...

Religion and its Meaning

that such an individual needs more church. Of course, the person who only is inclined to go to church on holidays may possess any ...

Kate Chopin and James Joyce

controlling people, usually against their will and in such a way that escape is impossible without tragedy. We see this, for ...

Film as Religion by John Lyden

What is generally missed, according to Lyden, is that regardless of cinematic content, audiences receive all the messages of a fil...

Joseph Pine and James Gilmore's 'The Experience Economy'

Information is becoming a big component of the economic market as well. While at one time the consumer was dependent on informati...

Religion in Japan

Because of this syncretism, this merging of major religious philosophies and beliefs, understanding Japanese religion can sometime...

Thomas S. Spradley and James P. Spradley's Deaf Like Me

They discovered that their daughter was deaf and they immediately began trying to get her to communicate in an oral world. Afte...

Morality and Religion According to Immanuel Kant

what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...

Review of Flyboys by James Bradley

- one that describes some pretty gruesome behavior on the part of the enemy, as well as a cover-up of two governments (United Stat...

James McBride's The Color of Water

he confesses. What the reader comes to learn is that Ruth McBride was born Ruth Shilsky and that she and her family immigrated fro...

James Joyce's Portrayal of Alienation in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

through the trauma he suffers when he is forbidden to play with Eileen Vance because she is a Protestant. Stephens mother, who is ...

Zadie Smith's White Teeth and Religion

and ones heritage is not what it once was. This character is Samad. He is an intelligent and educated man but a man who has had to...

Religion According to Martin Heidegger

between knowing a subject and that object of thought and he presents this as an artificial distinction in that the object that one...

Thomas and James Spradley's Deaf Like Me

how this is often the fault of the parents and society that insist they should be able to live in such a hearing world. The follow...

Interpretation of 'Araby' by James Joyce

the city contrasts with his depiction of the boys at play, trying gamely to be frolicsome and experience the joy of childhood agai...

Exploration, Mysticism, and Religion

In eleven pages this research paper charts the course of religion as it evolved from exploration and mysticism. Seven sources are...

Religion and Approach to Dramatic Arts

of Peter Pitzele, "Scripture Window." For example, the group of fifth graders could be given the story of the Good Samaritan where...

Happiness, Compassion and Religion

study showed that the emotions of "loving-kindness and compassion" could be encouraged and learned as sixteen "age-matched contro...

Issues In Religion And Social Inequality

who pray to her (Burdick, 2001). Most are women but they are from all races, not just Black (Burdick, 2001). Women look to Anastac...

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and Religion

the book was fundamentally Catholic and religious, but then would also claim that "There is no allegory -- moral, political, or co...

Argument: Blaise Pascal’s Statement about Religion and Evil is Wrong

..., 2008). Blair sharply differentiated religious faith and extremism, noting that in the past decade, we have seen numerous "ac...

Freedom of Religion, A First Amendment Right

travel to Massachusetts for the sole purpose of disrupting Puritan church services and heckling their ministered (Woods 2). This a...

Role of Religion in 2 Irish Plays

the Virgin Mary are frequently called upon in the characters speech to protect them and deliver their society from the hatred that...

World History, Religions, Psychology

readers would be going backward and forward in terms of years. however, it is the concept and theme of civilizations that is prima...

Ancient Religions, Gothic Cathedrals and Romantic Heroes

Egyptians, whose fantastic death cult gave us some of the greatest monuments on earth. The Egyptians believed in an afterlife that...