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Storm Paintings by Watteau and Delacroix

workers who are hurrying to finish their work and/or reach their destinations before the storm arrives are on the left-hand side o...

National Politics and Colonial New England Merchants

Declaration of Independence? The Declarations most famous statement is this: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all m...

Athletes, Congress, and Steroid Use

Shadows" hit the stands. Written by two San Francisco Chronicle reporters publicly implicated several big name baseball players i...

Colonial To 1877 Slavery Effects

traditional culture and faith as a means by which to survive. Clearly, black men and American culture have long existed as a syne...

Comparing Jacobs and Wilson

of slavery, as she was not free by any definition of this term and she was treated as property, in a manner that is equivalent to ...

"Physician as Strategic Manager," A Case Study

This research paper offers an overview of primary care practice drawing on a description that was published in 1994. The writer dr...

Langston Hughes, Three Poems

This essay considers three of Langston Hughes's poems, "Harlem," "I, Too," and "Ballad of the Landlord" and argues that they are r...

Post-Reconstruction, African American Leaders

This essay begins by describing the stance of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Marcus Garvey on the...

Societal Criticism, Browning and Swift

This essay pertains to Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," published in 1729, and Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess, Ferra...

Defending Immigration, the Immorality of Racism

This essay presents an argument based on the idea that fear of immigration, which is promoted by conservatives, is unraveling the ...

Does Quebec Reject Multiculturalism and Promote Pluralism?

This paper explores Quebec's history all of the way back to the fur trade era. Is what is occurring in Quebec actually something ...

Crucifixion of St. Peter, Ecstasy of St. Teresa

This essay discusses the baroque era and how Caravaggio's Crucifixion of St. Peter and Bernini's Ecstasy of St. Teresa reflect th...

Alexie's "How to Write the Great American Indian Novel" - A Post-Colonial Criticism

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Alexie's "How to Write the Great American Indian Novel". The harmful American charact...

Television Families and Society

While discipline may fade, and the old image of the family matriarch and patriarch has vanished, a new sense of honesty and commun...

Slave Narrative Comparison

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at slave narratives. Differing experiences are highlighted with respect to different e...

Nineteenth Century Patriarchy and Kate Chopin

This essay is on nineteenth century writer Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour." The position presented is that this n...

Significance of Free Blacks During the Antebellum Period

This research paper describes the role and significance of free blacks in the north and south during the antebellum era. Four page...

"A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell

This essay pertains to Susan Glaspell's " A Jury of Her Peers." The writer argues that Glaspell provides a scathing social critiqu...

"A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen

This essay asserts that Ibsen's play "A Doll's House" presents a convincing argument that a woman could be herself, that is, an au...

Medievalism Presented as Fantasy, Game of Thrones

This research paper/essay analyzes "Games of Thrones," the HBO series, in regards to its depiction of medievalism. The writer argu...

History of New York Gangs

This research paper presents a brief overview of the history of New York gangs, beginning in the early nineteenth century, discuss...

God in a Technical Age, Arnold and Hopkins

In the media today, it is possible to frequently see pundits and politicians bemoaning the state of society in regards to morality...

Post-Colonial Theories in Literature

the material hegemony of the colonizer, the colonized is forced into a position where in order to survive in the new culture force...

Comedic Style of Charlie Chaplin

rests in the audience realization that nothing "is what is seems" and the element of surprise as the man grows to "monstrous propo...

Phyllis and Lola, Double Indemnity

by Billy Wilder) is regarded as a classic example of film noir. The screenplay was adapted from a novel by James M. Cain by Raymon...

Ivan the Terrible, Directed by Sergei Eisenstein

his cheek, he has a look that mixes fear and trepidation with determination. With this, Eisenstein introduces the idea that the Ts...

Two Periods in American History

importance of political structures that could inherently support a self-governed people and this included efforts to reject the pr...

A Perfect Candidate/Film Review

directed by David Van Taylor and R.J. Cutler) is a documentary that follows the 1994 senate race between incumbent Senator Charles...

The Study of Learning

models that could be related to different aspects of human behavior. Pavlov believed that studying conditioning, which is a learn...