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Feminist Analytical Comparison of Sophocles' Antigone and Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

father who controlled every aspect of her life. When she married bank employee Torvald Helmer, she was merely exchanging a father...

Character Comparison and Contrast of Laura in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie and Sophocles' Antigone

number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...

Gender Portrayals in Homer's 'The Iliad' and Sophocles' Antigone

of Helen of Troy in marriage if she wins. This starts the war. In this we see that the war is being fought over a woman, Helen, c...

Sophocles' Antigone

declares to Creon that the laws of heaven are "unwritten and unchanging, not of today or yesterday is their authority; they are et...

Comparative Analysis of Sophocles' Antigone and Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun

this retaliation against his brother whom Polyneices felt had stolen the throne from him. Both brothers are killed in battle, one ...

'Letter from Birmingham Jail' by Martin Luther King Jr. and Social Justice

the United States. Its ugly record of brutality is widely known. Negroes have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts...

Logical Vietnam Argument Perspectives

precede reason, and the waste of war, the works of peace. We wish that this were not so. But we must deal with the world as it i...

Speeches by Martin Luther King Jr.

or hurt is as bad as joining with the abusers. A great deal of the damage thats done in society is done by those who only stand a...

King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild and Imperialism

Western European nations and the US condone imperialism, in the first place; however, the people, at the time, who supported King ...

Oppressed Peoples and the Sympathetic Words of Martin Luther King Jr. and Jonathan Swift

"good" people of the country should think seriously about using infants at the age of 1 as sources of food and material. The entir...

The Vernacular Tradition and African-American Literature

admiring the speech, the student could say something like the following. Martin Luther Kings "I Have a Dream" speech is one of th...

Jefferson, Lincoln, and King

of the United States today. It speaks of the soul of the people and their dreams and desires and the foundations of their beliefs,...

Russell Bourne/Red King's Rebellion

starving settlers by sharing their corn (Bourne 1). Whenever it is appropriate, Bourne uses the words of both combatants and conte...

Willie Talos in All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren

smooth and convincing as he states the following: "If they had politicians back in those days, they said, Gimme, just like all of ...

Freud And Gender Identity

psychosexual connection male and female children have with their gender corresponding parent; building upon what Freud deemed as n...

Thoreau and King

government is as likely as the army to be "abused and perverted before the people can act through it" (Thoreau, 1849). He cites th...

Opinion of Stephen King

a little love" (Stephen King, 2006). King is clearly up to the task. One of the most important aspects of Kings work, and which h...

Literary Critique: Letter from the Birmingham Jail

to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town" (King). One of the most poignant parts of the speech is Dr. Kings examina...

King’s Premise of Non-Violence: Applications to the Women’s Movement

By the 1960s blacks and women alike, of course, had freedom in a technical sense but they each had a long...

Soyinka: "Death and the King's Horseman"

deeply offends the District Officer and his wife, Britons named Simon and Jane Parkinson (Scott, 2006). Things are further compl...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Spiritual Disciplines

And then, in 1960 he became co-pastor with his father of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, a position he retained until his murder (Bro...

Universe, Justice, and Martin Luther King Jr.

any sense of justice. But, the universe, in terms of the cosmic and God does have a concern for justice. As such the future, if th...

Fighting Racism with Martin Luther King Jr. and Toni Bambara

is similar to arguing that a man who leaves his home with money in his possession incites robbery. As this suggests, King successf...

Ideology of Dr. Martin Luther King's Nonviolence and Global Terrorism Applications

its grips on the world? How do black American civil rights leaders feel about that form of violence? How do they feel about the ...

Ethics and Morality According to Martin Luther King Jr. and William Blake

him from within and turns him into a murderer. Blakes Songs of Experience have been described as an "unforgettable condemnation of...

Analyzing The Stand by Stephen King

Despite the obvious panic, a visibly ailing President of the United States attempts to reassure a shaken nation by vehemently deny...

The Shining Film and Perspective

place in the hotel. Before truly examining the narrative content in the film we look at the elements concerning the protagonist....

Analyzing King Henry's Statement to Prince Hal in III.iii 93-96 of Henry IV, Part One by William Shakespeare

Hal was more interested in the gossip at the local taverns than he was in matters of state. Henry IVs cousin, Richard, who became...

Toy Safety and the Fast Food Industry

customers, a position that most of the industry shares. McDonalds and Burger King have led the industry in ensuring the saf...

Film and Novel Versions of The Green Mile

of just a few prisoners, including John Coffey. Edgecombes reflections, though, address some major themes, including his own effo...