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the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...

is established that she has not yet reached her fourteenth birthday. Yet, she is also shown to be a practical, level-headed girl. ...

In fact, Wilde seems to be making important commentary on Victorian society itself, contending that something may reveal a perfect...

first of all, wherever friendship or community flourishes, justice doesnt - and when this fades, justice becomes more important. S...

of striving to attain immortality, just as Jesus himself did. Over and over again in our lives we are tested, and each choice we ...

Persian art. The Smithsonian Institute (2004) tells us that, "This exhibition features twenty-six of the finest illustrated manusc...

civilization these men were often more comfortable with the open plans and the cattle than they were with people who lived in a to...

the perspective of Japanese culture, particularly in regards to "proper" conduct for women. From the beginning of the tale, Osen...

of confines. The overall metaphor of this movie is the symbol of the rose. At one point a neighbor asks how the roses are grown s...

living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...

But there are even deeper meanings as well. Given the era in which this story takes place, there are plenty of political overtone...

Jefferson made his views on slavery (for the general populace) known. In his notes for the Virginia Constitution, Jefferson also n...

tragic reality. It comes as no surprise to note that one of the most powerfully, if not the most powerfully, tragic individual ...

seems to possess a great deal of truth. According to Machiavelli, the conventional wisdom is that a prince "should try not to ins...

Beth E. Jorgensen defines magical realism as the "use of the literary devices of hyperbole, oxymoron, personification, flashback a...

we have, as noted, a technique of combining papyrus strips, along with a gummy substance, which enables the mummy case to be flexi...

Lysias topic is love, which in the ancient Greek world referred to the love of a man for another man. Homosexuality was practiced...

A.E. Housman. They are both young men who die before they age, before they have perhaps achieved a powerful greatness it would see...

in the emails were exactly the same. Additionally, the emails were coming from software developers in the office, five emails in a...

we love ourselves, we fill ourselves with love that we then are able to give away (Is Self-Love Justifiable? 2004). If we do not...

tell the difference, but Batailles argument deserves contemplation. In trying to reach human limits in eroticism, one can go too f...

old signs of questionable care still apply, however. Unexplained injury or falls, the occurrence of pressure sores, and evidence ...

reliance on Gods righteousness, he became determined to seek revenge upon the landowners family. However, before he could do so af...

she must attend an ambassadors party and again pass as part of Englands elite. These hurdles seem small in comparison to the hurdl...

song of Liling is that which provides us with the foundation of the story. Now, of course, the music and the song actually serv...

shipwreck (Anonymous, 2002; Junaidul, 2000). Wordsworth worked out his grief over this event in several poems, most notably the "E...

is Elektra King, unlike many of Bonds female enemies she is a rich young woman who has not become part of communist assassination ...

the recurring theme throughout Empire of the Sun, a theme so forceful and perceptive that the reader goes away with a distinctly d...

sell / it (lines 6-7). And, indeed, love sells well -- everything from cars to toothpaste -- filling whole magazines -- "you can /...

does not temper "love with wrath" (Stumb, 19999). Julian is quoted as having said, that she could see "no sort of anger in God, ho...