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A Book Review of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's All the President's Men

under surveillance. The government does all they can to frustrate the story, sending them erroneous leads which go nowhere. In fac...

Life and Writings of Raymond Carver

making a comeback"(Carver 2003). This was the turning point for Carver. Many of his works are shaped by a sense of...

Life and Writings of Plato

his writings (Levinson x). Socrates would continue to dominate Platos personal and professional lives for years to come, and woul...

Socrates' Thoughts and Influence

Socrates frequently alluded was the basis for his debates with Gorgias, contending that the degree of abstraction pursued by thoug...

Literature and Dual African American Worlds

Me" Hurston writes, "I remember the very day I became colored...But I am not tragically colored. Someone is always at my elbow rem...

Life and Works of George Orwell

Blair family was not very wealthy - Orwell later described them ironically as lower-upper-middle class" and "They owned no propert...

4 Poems in Billy Collins' Nine Horses

said that, however, this is not a book to simply be shunted off to the used bookstore. For all its problems, Nine Horses is still ...

Hermann Hesse's Life and Writings

In five pages this paper draws comparisons between the life and writings of Hermann Hesse with Demian and Steppenwolf among the wo...

Nationalism and War's Horrors in All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

survival were still slim. Background information on Baumer and his comrades is filled in through flashbacks. In this fashion, th...

Post-WWII Canada/2 books

baby-boomers from their beginning, at wars end, to the end of the sixties" (Owram xii). His then states that his discussion also i...

The California Gold Rush & the coming of the Civil War

Berkeley and Davis. He also taught at the San Francisco State College and the University of Hawaii. Richards is the author of seve...

Literature of the Renaissance and the Works of Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon, and John Milton

social context, with various issues raised and moral judgments questioned by the readers and listeners (Aughterson 274). In Engla...

St. Paul's Letter To The Galatians

letter. There was a group of Jewish Christians, called Judaizers, who believed that certain practices from the Old Testament churc...

Thy Kingdom Come By Randall Balmer

He also reminds people that Jesus never said anything about abortion or homosexuality and said very little on family values and ye...

Glittenberg, Transcultural Nursing in Guatemala

to protect their anonymity; however, the actions and attitudes that Glittenberg describes reflects the cultural orientation of the...

Sexual Fidelity

psychological health and issues of survival are best accomplished within social structures. The concept of sexual fidelity explo...

The Environment in Literature: Ecocriticism, Ecofeminism and the Concept of Dwelling

That is, non-ecocritics appear to be uncomfortable with criticism that acknowledges the fact that it is possible the natural world...

Thank You Letter to Lissa Weinstein

was especially moved by your frustration, and the way you felt that all your education and training was useless to you in this sit...

An Analysis of Neil Frude's The Intimate Machine

This paper addresses the history of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from both the perspectives of science-fiction and reality. The au...

Art According to Philosophers Descartes, Barthes, and Foucault

know as the scientific method, which is still used today for ascertaining reliable facts about the natural world. To accomplish hi...

Life of a Georgia Innocent by Harry Crews

is not an observer, he is a participant. In "Life of a Georgia Innocent" he provides an insiders look of what it was like to live...

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...

Style of 'The Metamorphosis' by Franz Kafka

but not from his condition. Rather, his melancholy is because of the "raindrops beating on the window gutter" (Kafka, 2002). Rathe...

Comparing Margaret Atwood Novels Alias Grace and The Handmaid's Tale

that there is always a tidy or satisfactory resolution to the womens dilemmas. In fact, in the case of the intentionally ambiguou...

Political Ideals and 'Politics and the English Language' by George Orwell

concomitant of transitional periods" (Orwell). Orwell looks behind the rhetoric to the true meaning of this sentence and offers ...

Views of Wollstonecraft and Austen

treatment of women. Her novel, Sense and Sensibility considers the social position of the early nineteenth-century woman, and thr...

Sky So Close by Betool Khedairi

from the beginning of the novel, the narrators mother expresses her basic disapproval of her daughter. This is why she wants the g...

Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel and Death

death into her fictional drama. "The Stone Angel" is particularly interesting in regard to the contemporary way that we vie...

The Eventual Decline of Latin as a Spoken Language

hardly "empty"; in the classical sense it is extremely structured. "Inventio," which can be translated as "invention" or discover...

Saint Teresa of Avila By Herself

she suffered a paralyzing illness - her illnesses were depicted not as physical in nature but as her souls struggles against tempt...