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Poe's "Cask of Amontillado," Was Montresor Sorry?

a diametrically opposed stance to this view, as it seems much more likely, particularly when one considers Poes careful and meticu...

"The Scarlet Letter" and the Subversion of Puritanism

the entire monologue with a sense of poetics, inviting one to study the words more deeply in search of a hidden meaning. This idea...

Confessions Book I

African parents. His mother was Catholic and his father converted to Christianity in his later years. As a boy, Augustine studied ...

The Basics of Hypothesis Testing

level the null hypothesis is rejected, so the hypothesis can be said as proven that they level of significance. There are a numb...

Aurelius and Augustine

parables, or a book of varied quotes. As an example, in the Sixth Book he notes, "Do not ever conceive anything impossible to ma...

Religion and Issues of Privacy

lawsuit, the disclosure must be public, that is, disclosure to a limited number of people or to those who have a legitimate need t...

Did Plato Influence St. Augustine

truly understand Gods word: "I ask Thee, my God: pardon my sins, and as Thou didst grant to Thy servant to speak those words, gran...

The Importance of Statistical Significance in Research

The term statistical significance is used widely in the reporting of research results where a statistical analysis has been undert...

Confessions of Nat Turner, An Analysis

This paper focuses on "The Confessions of Nat Turner" and discusses the layer quality of the narrative. The writer also compares t...

Plato's "Crito" and "Apology"/Augustine's Confessions

This essay focuses on Plato's use of dialogue in his "Apology" and "Crito," and Augustine's use of the monologue in his "Confessio...

Literature of the Medieval Period

seems to be known about the education of Mark. The author of this gospel is believed to have been John Mark, the cousin of Barnaba...

Lee Boyd Malvo's Trial in the Beltway Sniper Case

not a stereotypical serial or spree killer--a middle aged white guy with an agenda--nor was it a criminal type. As it turned out, ...

Emma Bovary and the Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau

they were little else; they could but occasion a good trimming, and this I was already prepared for." In Madame Bovary, money is t...

Analysis of 3 Legal Issues

adverse to removing them from the law abiding citizen, who often needs a gun to protect himself from the very criminal element of ...

Augustine of Hippo and Evil

"middle of the road" in this extreme religious philosophy. When Augustine was indulging in his sinful or evil behavior, he mainta...

St. Augustine of Hippo's Confessions

a certain inclination towards laziness. In discussing his childhood, Augustines theories toward education come out. He adamantly r...

Lust According to Saint Augustine

Augustine, himself, mentions his own difficulties in struggling to overcome his own lustful desires in Book III of Confessions. Du...

Lives and Learning by Plato and Augustine

text in which he is painstakingly honest, demonstrates that his spiritual path was not easy. It is clear from the beginning that t...

Truth in the Works of Saint Augustine of Hippo and Jonathan Swift

on to reflect that the skins of women at home appear beautiful because we cannot see these small defects under normal circumstance...

Hildegard of Bingen and Guibert of Nogent

In six pages Hildegard and Guibert are considered in a discussion of the texts Hildegard of Bingen A Visionary Life and A Monk's ...

Great Britain Policing and Techniques of Interrogation

In ten pages this paper discusses policing as it pertains to Great Britain in a consideration of law, confession, types of interro...

A Review of First Confession

judgmental individual. As it turns out, he learns that his fears are unfounded with regard to both his confession and the priest,...

Views of St. Augustine and Jean Jacques Rousseau on Nature and Human Nature Compared

Human nature and nature are contrasted and compared in the Confessions of St. Augustine and the Second Discourse of Rousseau in a ...

3 Short Stories and the Conflict Between Parents and Children

In seven pages this paper discusses parent and child conflicts and how they are portrayed in 'The Sky is Gray' by Ernest Gaines, '...

Confessions by Saint Augustine

In five pages St. Augustine's Confessions is examined in an overview that includes the theologian's views about the natural, physi...

Jean Jacques Rousseau's Confessions, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Elements of Autobiography

In a paper consisting of five pages Barbara Johnson's theory that autobiography involves a child's narrative as symbolically killi...

Shakespearean Conflict in Macbeth and Othello

thus been more cautious in allowing his jealousy to lead to rash and devastating consequences. Macbeth is one of Shakespeares d...

Questions of Identity in The Confessions of Nat Turner

This 5 page paper explores three key features of the character Nat Turner in William Styron's book, The Confessions of Nat Turner,...

Story of the Boston Strangler

In twelve pages this paper examines the alleged Boston Strangler Albert DeSalvo's tale that includes his victims, confession, his ...

Confession or Accusation in All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

In five pages this paper argues that the novel is representative of both accusation and confession regarding its First World War p...