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Andrew Marvell and John Donne's Neo Platonism

to be a tumultuous coupling that would inspire some of the greatest and most controversial works of Western prose. I. Neo-Platoni...

Gainsborough's Eighteenth Century English Portraits

Sarah Siddons was a well known personality of the age, perhaps the most famous actress. This presence of character is represented ...

Film as Nightmare '28 Days Later'

course, 28 days later, when a bicycle courier named Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakens from a coma and finds himself in an abandoned hos...

Quantitative Survey 'Corporate support in the aftermath of a natural disaster: effects on employee strains' Review

briefest of abstracts is included with the article. The abstract gives only a small bit of information and makes no comment on th...

Sgt. Alvin C. York's Life

As he grew older he was also well known it seems for being something of a delinquent at times. While being very good with a firear...

Art and the Body

It is a painting that "attests to the artists pure virtuosity of paint handling. One can trace his rhythmic movements in the long ...

The Evolution of Federal Native-American Policy

the tribes in Illinois had already signed treated which essentially given their land to the state. In light of this he pushed and ...

The Life of Charlemagne by Einhard

read or write were the clergy. Shrewdly, Charlemagne realized what power the clergy held over the nobles by the sheer fact that th...

Knowing Receipt and Knowledge

would be expected of a reasonable and honest man (Matthews, 2001). This is a step beyond type ii, but is also a failure on the par...

Reality v. Myth of Jackson Pollock

a periodical that contained art and artistic literature. This is perhaps what truly inspired Jackson to enter into the world of ar...

Church and State in the Petrine Supremacy

of power and influence as change came to the western civilization(s). Within each region discussed by Spielvogel we see differe...

Rome's Engineering and Law Contributions to the West

force in this particular body of the state. The army did not only serve as our armies do today, but also as simple police forces t...

Philosophy Defined by Philosphers

explain why this is so. Descartes also questioned the ability of a dreamer to know whether or not he is dreaming. Many people do a...

Biography of D.H. Lawrence

"was a former schoolteacher, greatly superior in education to her husband. Lawrences childhood was dominated by poverty and fricti...

Life's Big Questions

that further illustrated many of his theories concerning men and their mothers, which is not a far cry from theories of Jung, sinc...

Abstract Expressionism and Elaine de Kooning

go to composition or content. Just as some artists today are embraced while others struggle, this has always been the case. Not al...

British Fashion Photographer David Bailey

prospect of becoming a photographer became less remote, perhaps even attainable" (Kodak, 2003). Bailey then finished with his n...

Western Civilization and Hebrew Cultural and Religious Contributions

as deeply related to their existence. AS Spielvogel indicates, "According to the Jewish conception, there is but one God....God...

The Jewish 'Father' Abraham

Michalowski explains, "Each person also had an additional, personal god" (Szulc, 2001, p. 90). A close interaction with this pers...

Disputes and Western Civilization History

the author indicates were very gracious to those they conquered and allowed them the right to still possess their traditions and t...

American West and Frontier Perceptions

of reference, then one will never know, in any given case, what really happened" (Tompkins, Indians, 60; Cochran 69). In this case...

Literature, Poetry, and Self Reliance

many ways Emersons views of self-reliance can be seen in the following excerpt from the work: "There is a time in every mans educa...

Islamic Women's Lives

Women had been treated as possessions of their husbands; Islamic law made the education of girls a sacred duty and gave women the ...

Two Paintings from the Wadsworth Antheneum Museum of Art

rich with character. Apparently Courbet was from a very wealthy family and yet this picture presents him very much as a common man...

Depiction of Women in 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

hands of male heads of families and households. Women are disenfranchised" (Kosenko 27). It is the men who are essentially in cha...

Cultural Violence and 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

against Mrs. Hutchinson, and they only wanted to get through quickly so they could go home for lunch" (The Lottery: Shirley Jackso...

Aristotle and the Idea of the "Good Life"

it mean for a person to be functioning well-or in this case, to be functioning to his highest capability? Its more than acquiring...

Williams, Melville, and Jackson

offers a very powerful image of the lives these people live trapped in a tiny apartment and in their individual lives. Melville...

Cultural Influences Exerted by the Life and Art of Robert Frost

other poets of the time by rejecting modernism. As this poem demonstrates, Frost frequently drew his imagery from nature. While m...

Aurora P. Jackson and Richard Scheines' Single Mothers

have added this element unnecessarily if they are simply looking at employment and the efficacy of the mothers. It would perhaps h...