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Essays 181 - 210

'Thanatopsis' by William Cullen Bryant

In six pages this once influential poem is examined in terms of its celebration of nature's solace triumphing over death fears tha...

Celebrations of the Chinese New Year

flowers such as chrysanthemums, cherry blossoms and narcissus to bloom on New Years Day. Decorations are done in red, for good luc...

Educational Profession and the Influence of Madeline Hunter

In 5 pages Dr. Madeline Hunter's life and educational contributions are examined in a celebration of her accomplishments. There a...

Life Celebration of Hamlet

In six pages this paper argues that Shakespeare's play was not about the misery of life but rather was a celebration of it in the ...

Mawlid and Should Birthday of the Muslim Prophet Be Celebrated?

In eight pages this research paper discusses whether or not the holiday known as the mawlid or Prophet's birthday should be a reli...

Guqin Music and the Chinese Zither Instrument

a large number of other ethnic groups with distinct cultures. The westward expansion of the Chinese empire during the Tang dynast...

Contemporary Literature and Chicano Culture

In seven pages the celebration of Chicano heritage found in texts by Hinojosa, Galarza, Anaya, and Rivera is examined. There are ...

The Rio Carnival

The writer describes the annual Carnival celebration in Rio De Janeiro, including some of the traditions and rituals that occur du...

Catholic Italian Culture

of all immigrants. Borrowing from their special talent with food, Italians grace the country with their wonderful cuisine and jov...

Ben Jonson's 'A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces' Explicated

narrator restores the sight of the Greek love god Cupid, and he subsequently flees (Donaldson 154): "And (withal) I did untie / Ev...

Celebrating the New Year in China

The first point to be made here would be that the Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) is one of the major traditional national holi...

Gelsey Kirkland, Ballet Dance Artist

seductive powers of the imagination at an early age. In her candid autobiography, Dancing on My Grave, she recalled, "In crossing...

Working Against the Odds The Story of Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler

originated within themselves. In present-day language, some would have been considered "nerds," because they did not necessarily e...

Reviewing 'Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey' by William Wordsworth

This dissolution, first adverse, becomes a positive driving force which allows us to sway from crime, avarice and over-anxious car...

A Celebration of Los Angeles

to come to terms with the exoneration of the policemen who beat Rodney Smith during the riots of the early 1990s, but in a complet...

Beowulf's Epic Poetry

In five pages this paper examines such events as the Dane's nation rise, attack of Heorot, hero's arrival in Heorot, Heorot feast,...

Christmas and A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by o...

The Art of Alice Neel

and the paintbrush she holds. Small touches of red in her face and in the shadows of her neck and legs, punch up the contrast of ...

Feminism in Lysistrata by Aristophanes

clothes and wigs and necklaces, imported gowns and fancy lingerie!" (Aristophanes query=1). That women have been forced to prove ...

Justifying Authority

The ways in which authority has been justified in literature is examined in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Tale,' William ...

Paul Heelas' The New Age Movement The Celebration of the Self and the Secularization of Modernity

The New Age religious movement is the focus of this review of Paul Heelas' The New Age Movement The Celebration of the Self and t...

Society of Israel During King David's Rule

In five pages families, celebrations, food, clothing, and house construction are among the topics discussed in this consideration ...

Modern Americans' and Native Americans' Rites of Passage

In seven pages this paper compares the contemporary American teenager with Tukuna, Okrika, and Okiek Native American counterparts ...

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...

The History of California Native Americans Prior to 1900

of peoples in the area, as settlements were logically more concentrated around water. Members of all groups were particularly dev...

Myself and Artwork in terms of Surrealism, Dream, and Reality

and present/past, the connection between reality and dream. While it is true that Dogen may be viewed as a Zen Master, one might ...

Employee Motivation at Disney

1923, seeking to sell an animated film he created in Kansas to a California distributor. A distributor agreed, and Walt and his b...

Media Conglomerates; Operations of Asserts at Disney and News Corporation

also seen that Murdoch has been so committed to growing the empire that he even obtained US citizenship to aid growth in the US. ...

AOL Time Warner Financial Analysis

a new dos based on line service provided by Quantum. Another agreement with Apple looked to give them a first mover advantages wit...

Fantasy Space of Michel Foucault, Walt Disney and MGM Studios

at least the observance of it. At MGM Studios and Walt Disney World, human submission to discipline and punishment is complete, th...