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friends for over 25 years. The nature of their friendship, like any such relationship, cannot really be understood by anyone on th...
In five pages this paper discusses the family life of Puritan moderate minister Ralph Josselin as chronicled in his diaries....
In three pages the ways in which literature reflects the development of an American identity are examined in the works of such aut...
being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...
In fifteen pages this paper examines the intention of philosophy from a historical perspective that includes consideration of phil...
In three pages Homer's Penelope is compared with William Shakespeare's Desdemona in terms of Desdemona's simplicity and naivete in...
with methodical, journeyman style. As he told a radio interviewer in 1992: "My job is to be a hard-working man who sits at a moder...
In five pages this paper assesses whether or not self reliance can be regarded as a characteristic that is gender linked. Three s...
printed word. He said that, "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." This may not speak well to the concept of cur...
the authors speak of the present era what is most striking is the marked division between white and black perspectives. To the w...
swayed by the setting to which he is born. In fact, it seems that Emma and Huck learn those lessons too. The self-reliance they ea...
of men, she was sexually attracted to women and made no attempt to hide her lesbianism, much to the shock of her Victorian contemp...
Malcolm X who had such ideas, and his concept had nothing to do with changing class problems, but with race. The notion that soci...
from a state of freedom to a willingness to submit to the states authority? This is the underlying question in the majority of hi...
virtue of an extensive library and the contributions of fellow students. Not only is the type of school all-important to ones aca...
The writer looks at the concept and problems associated with energy security. The influences including but not limited potential d...
This paper argues that a feeling of entitlement has emerged because of so much emphathy on the part of the rich. While resources ...
itself (Howell, 2010). Nevertheless, one who wishes to cultivate an authentic self can do so by following the path of philosophica...
Self-esteem and self-concept have always been controversial in the fields of psychology and sociology but the self became an accep...
Marcel, Heidegger, Aristotle and Kant(Thompson 1981). Ricoeur believes that in order to get to the bottom line, which is to know o...
In ten pages this essay considers how Emerson represents transcendentalist principles in a comparison and contrast of his two spee...
The revolutionary philosophy of Rene Descartes as it is presented within Meditations on First Philosophy is explained in an essay ...
In five pages this report compares Hume and Berkeley in terms of their philosophies' differences and similarities particularly as ...
In nine pages this paper examines teaching philosophies in this overview that explores the relationship between philosophy and edu...
and that at each stage--as people invent new ways to communicate and manage information-we become in fact a different species. The...
In two pages this paper examines philosophy's role and human activity purpose as well as Socrates' defense as represented in Apolo...
In five pages this 1878 novel by Henry James is examined in terms of how social conventions are thematically portrayed....
In his political discourse, The Prince, Nicolo Machiavelli believed that political prowess that leads inherently to victory is ine...
In five pages this paper discusses these 'narratives of ascent' in the collection by Henry Louis Gates Jr....
pictured offering ironic commentaries on sculpture and art, with his conversation peppered with "allusions to Samuel Johnson, Sain...