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Connection and Alienation in Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

In this paper that consists of five pages the writer discusses how the solitary Alice represents Carroll's misfit soul and his sea...

Cosmos, the Soul, and PreSocratic Philosophy

In five pages this paper examines the beliefs of the ancient world in a consideration of how the Mesopotamians conceptualized the ...

Booker T. Washington and Alexander Crummell Assessed by W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk

In five pages this paper discusses the views expressed by W.E.B. Du Bois on Booker T. Washington and Rev. Alexander Crummell in hi...

Virtue, the Soul, and the Philosophical Processes of Inquiry by Plato and Aristotle

VI of "Nicomachean Ethics", goodness under the concept presented by Plato suggests almost an unattainable element, and it was Aris...

Race Relations According to W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington

the post-Reconstruction era, it was Washingtons belief that the rural masses of African-Americans should apply themselves, not tow...

Jane Tompkins' Revolutionary Approach to Literary Criticism

In eighteen pages this paper supports Jane Tompkins' suggestions that literature instruction should address the students' minds an...

Soul Torn Between Mephistopheles and Gretchen in Faust by Goethe

Gretchens hand. The other couple is directed to pass by in the stage notes, and Mephistopheles and Martha take their place. Meph...

Plato and Hegel Comparisons and Contrasts

In six pages the arguments of city vs. state, the individual, and soul and spirit that are raised in Hegel's Introduction to the P...

Three Essays on Descartes

This research report is divided into three sections to explore ideas on this important philosopher. Various issues examined includ...

Poetic Views of William Wordsworth and Johann von Goethe

In eight pages this paper compares and contrasts the portrayal of artistic souls in The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe and 'Th...

Emily Dickinson's Views of Self and Society

the feeling that the poet is engaging the reader in a secret and private conversation. One has the feeling that, in the breaks pro...

Segregation Perils and Black Communities

their conditions they had to stand up to what wasnt right. In other words she saw that there was a combination of factors, and not...

True Knowledge Concept of Plato

have merit, they are essentially inapplicable to our contemporary concerns regarding knowledge. In other words, while knowledge m...

Incorrect Soul Division and Plato's 3 Fold Model

change and that personality stays the same. In order to comprehend why this is not the case, and understand the thesis which also ...

Film Review of Citizen Kane

home. On reaching the age of twenty-one, Kane assumes control of his fortune, but only one of his holdings has any interest for h...

Myth in Beloved by Toni Morrison

in her own tragedy. While Sethe is still enslaved, she is treated by Schoolteachers despicable nephews as if she were no more th...

Self Concept

thesis entitled The Practical Character of Reality: "...The order of the natural world itself necessarily includes our interaction...

Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

Whitman and Dickinson In both of these poems, the tone of the poem is conversational. Each poet has preserved within the rhythm o...

Analysis of 'Metamorphosis' by Franz Kafka

forced to take responsibility for their own lives, they grow tremendously and are obviously happier. The setting for the narrativ...

Female Protagonists in Chopin, Wharton, and Gilman

such endeavors she discovers that this is not the case. She tries to escape through passion, but finds that she is still a woman i...

'On the Immortality of the Soul' by David Hume

the immortality of the soul. The main points are as follows. First of all, Hume points out that the soul is said to be immaterial,...

Physical World View of Dante

Aristotle. The sky is of course something that perhaps is significant in esoteric matters. After all, the sky is quite provocativ...

Tom Shroder's Old Souls

researcher Dr. Ian Stevenson to investigate the validity of past lives, or reincarnation, as it appears in very young children. Th...

Noble Enchaining the Soul as a Philosophical Proposition

human being from conception to death is encapsulated in a pod. In Platos Cave the only thing that they can see is...

Soul and the Monster of Frankenstein

bitter. His ability to learn and apply abstract concepts shows that he has reasoning skills, but also the capability to feel emoti...

Monster's Creation in the Writings of Joseph Conrad and Mary Shelley

so moved by the portrayal of Adam that he begins to identify with Adam. Like Adam at the beginning of creation, he, too, is lonely...

Is There a Distinction Between the Soul and the Body?

a body" (Aristotle), Plato illustrates his inability to see beyond mankinds mortal connection, opting instead to focus upon a deci...

Booker T. Washington Critiqued by W.E.B. Du Bois

he was seeking to just gain a small piece of ground for the African American, trying to play the white mans game so that the Afric...

Families in the Movies Soul Food and My Family

one gets to that point, there is something that changes or something that does not fit well. For example, we could get a good look...

Knowledge of God According to Teresa of Avila and John Calvin

natural instinct, an awareness of divinity," that "God himself has implanted in all men a certain understanding of his divine maje...