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Louisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin on Equality

had children to raise on my own and my financial situation was not dire, but I had to earn a living and I turned to writing. Alc...

Pop Art: Art and Popular Culture

includes paintings," which contrasts sharply with the fact that considerable critical "attention has been given to popular music a...

Dead Poet's Society and the Motif of Carpe Diem

to his students. He gives them no time to "adjust," but leaps right in with both feet on the first day by having the class read Ro...

World Religions : Buddhism

painful as are disease and old age. It is painful not to have what we would like to have (Lorentz, 2007). In other words, life is ...

Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison and the Use of Linguistics

under the chinaberry tree until its over: "... while inside she knew the cold river was creeping up and up to extinguish that eye ...

Logotherapy, Viktor Frankl and Man’s Search for Meaning

concentration camps that has become a classic, and a testament to the human spirit. But it also shows what survival entails; its n...

The Needs of Strangers by Michael Ignatieff

needs of all human beings and must be translated into the politics and philosophies of modern life. He emphasizes the need that hu...

'Angel of the Battlefield' Clara Barton

in the 19th and early 20th century, the fact is even more remarkable. "Well and Strong and Young" Updike writes that in 1854 Bar...

Essays on Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, Video, and TV

at a blackboard writing words. As soon as he completes the "d" in the last word the tape is over. The running time for the tape is...

More Work for Mother by Ruth Cowan

these attitudes, through an analysis of the shifting relationships between gendered activities, as well as technical and social ch...

Henri de Toulouse Lautrec

normal size, resulting in a body that was normal from the hips up and rested on short little legs that kept his overall height at ...

Legacy and Impact of Earl G. Graves

In five pages the Black Enterprise Magazine founder Earl G. Graves is celebrated in terms of his life, legacy, and profound busine...

History of Humanism

many years, but started to become less open during the dark ages. It was at this time that the Christian church took control. The ...

Nineteenth Century Authors James, Davis, and Twain

Smiley, knowing full-well that this would set the old gentleman off on a rant about Jim Smiley and the celebrated jumping frog. Th...

Father of the Risorgimento Count Camillo Cavour

Roman Empire, which had occurred long before the time of the resurgence (The Risorgimento, 2004). From that point forth, Italy ha...

Musical Theater Legend Chita Rivera

her stunning performance in Call Me Madam, many other notable roles followed. She continued to earn an outstanding reputation in ...

Women's Studies and The Importance of Having Their Voices Heard

their study that men and women process information differently. Furthermore, this research team asserts that there are asymmetrica...

'Pride is the Crown of the Virtues' as Perceived by Aristotle

on which the man can stand (and is therefore the crown of the virtues) because Aristotle believed that a man who demonstrated prid...

Public Schools' Founder Horace Mann

empowered to appoint a secretary to carry out its mission and Mann accepted this position (Eakin, 2000). Although Massachusetts ...

David Hackett Fischer's Paul Revere's Ride

battles of Lexington and Concord: the famous midnight ride is therefore presented in the wider context of the American struggle ag...

Media Technology Pioneer Lee de Forest

In five pages this paper celebrates the virtually unknown film and radio contributions of inventor Lee de Forest. Six sources are...

John F. Kennedy's 'Profiles of Courage'

leadership of his own party. The others profiled by Kennedy are John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, Sam Houston...

Courage is Named Maya Angelou

speaks of breaking free, not only from oppression and prejudice, but also from those things that bind and keep one from achieving ...

Truck Drivers Defended

Driving An article in a nearly ten-year old issue of The Economist (12/26/92) makes a valuable point that most people still dont ...

Necessity of Innovation

In sixty pages this paper celebrates innovation and why it is needed in order to encourage creativity and instrumental in surmount...

Life and Paintings of Mexican Artist Frida Kahlo

that had been the result of a bus accident in 1925 at the age of 18. Boldly Timid -- Strongly Fragile In each of her works, espec...

Cultural Differences in Workplace

This paper responds to several questions about a scenario, such as how nonverbal cues can lead to misunderstanding and conflict, h...

Representing American Achievements in Art

unknown territory to most of the country. The reason that I selected Cole to be included in this discussion was first the drama...

'The Company of Wolves' by Angela Carter

The feminist rewriting of fairytales as reflected in this short story by Angela Carter is considered in a paper consisting of five...

Marcus Garvey and Father Divine

In five pages Marcus Garvey, Father Divine, and their significant successes are celebrated. Two sources are cited in the bibliogr...