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  • Compare Hamlet and Faustus

    Compare Hamlet and Faustus

    The choices we make in life are said to reflect the type of person we are. The struggle between what is right, wrong and what must be done embraces every human throughout the course of our existence. In every piece of literature a writer illustrates his characters persona by the choices he has to make throughout the story. There has been no better example of a protagonist inner struggle than that of Hamlet or Doctor

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    Essay Length: 1,289 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Compare and Contrast Tale of Two Cities and the French Revolution

    Compare and Contrast Tale of Two Cities and the French Revolution

    Compare and Contrast Tale of Two Cities and the French Revolution In the novel, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, there are many references made by Dickens to the French Revolution. At times some of these references can be considered questionable. The references that I have researched include the storming of the Bastille, the guillotine and the aristocracy. The Bastille was a fortress and state prison in Paris until its demolition which started

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    Essay Length: 560 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Comparative Essay: The Church and The Caliphate

    Comparative Essay: The Church and The Caliphate

    Every day, all over the world, billions of people strive to embody the legacies of two of histories most influential men; Jesus Christ and the Prophet Muhammad. The death of these prominent religious leaders was devastating to their respective groups of followers, leaving them in the dark and in dire need of leadership, resulting in the formation of two very similar yet profoundly different institutions known as the Church and the Caliphate, respectively. Without divine

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    Essay Length: 2,167 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Mike
  • Comparing the Rights of Women from Essays Through the Eras

    Comparing the Rights of Women from Essays Through the Eras

    Society has long since recognized the concept of men being superior to women, both in the aspects of physical strength and the ability to earn living for their family. It was a natural concept that based and formed the modern society: strong versus weak, superior versus inferior, non-marginalized versus marginalized. In earlier time, this concept materialized itself in the battle of the sexes, or what we knew as men versus women. Naturally, the existence of

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    Essay Length: 1,021 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Steve
  • A Different View of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere

    A Different View of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere

    A Different View of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have been the subjects of countless works of literature for hundreds of years. In many of these tales King Arthur is accompanied by his lovely wife, Guinevere. Not all of the Arthurian romances depict King Arthur and Queen Guinevere in the positive light that most people have become accustomed to. Thomas Chestre’s Sir Launfal is one

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    Essay Length: 1,403 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Mikki
  • World Views

    World Views

    World Views William Ruckelshaus once said “Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.” It is comforting to believe that our earth will be able to provide us with the luxurious life humans have lived for hundreds of years. When the race of man was small, one was able to pollute profusely. Once this area was no longer livable, they would move and continue to pollute a new area. At a

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    Essay Length: 611 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Yan
  • Comparing and Contrasting Marlow/willard and Kurtz

    Comparing and Contrasting Marlow/willard and Kurtz

    Comparing and Contrasting Marlow/Willard and Kurtz Inherent inside every human soul is a savage evil side that remains repressed by society. History is loaded with examples of atrocities that have occurred when one culture comes into contact with another. Whenever fundamentally different cultures meet, there is often a fear of contamination and loss of self that leads one to discover more about one’s true self, often causing perceived madness. Heart of Darkness, a novel written

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    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: David
  • Although the Accidental Tourist Is Apparently a Comedy It Is at Heart a Quite Serious Debate over Competing Views of Life It's Self.

    Although the Accidental Tourist Is Apparently a Comedy It Is at Heart a Quite Serious Debate over Competing Views of Life It's Self.

    At times The Accidental Tourist presents its self as a gentle comedy. This is shown by the characters humour: the ineffectual Macon and the Brash Muriel, Edward the Neurotic dog, the eccentric Leary’s and Julian the playboy courting Rose the old fashioned romantic. There is the amusement value of situations like Macon’s method of washing clothes, the impenetrable ‘vaccination’, and the disastrous thanks giving turkey. Anne Tyler sees the joke in the human behaviour, and

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    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: regina
  • Compare and Contrast Essay on "heroes"

    Compare and Contrast Essay on "heroes"

    Compare and Contrast Essay Heros In many movies, a lot of people think the main character, which is usually the good person, is the hero in that movie. You can hear people saying, Ў§Oh, his is my hero.ЎЁ But what is the actual meaning of hero? A good person? A person who is brave? Or a person who pursues honour through his action? Or is it something else? Well, Ў§The Heroic OutlookЎЁ and Walt DisneyЎ¦s

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Jack
  • Compare and Contrast - Organized Lifestyle Vs Disorganized

    Compare and Contrast - Organized Lifestyle Vs Disorganized

    A neat and organized lifestyle tends to be beneficial in comparison to a sloppy, disorganized one. The benefits of neatness and organization encompass both your professional and personal life everyday. Many people are fooled by the illusion that sloppiness leads to an easier, somewhat stress-free lifestyle. I assure you these people are mistaking. Sloppiness and disorganization actually cause stress and problems. A person with a cluttered desk will have a much harder time trying to

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Comparing King Arthur’s Court

    Comparing King Arthur’s Court

    King Arthur’s court is the primary setting in a variety of tales in literature. This particular setting is portrayed in various different ways. For example, King Arthur’s court in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight depicts the king and his court is all pleasant ways. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, every one of the characters in Camelot is happy and full of joy. On the other hand, in Marie de France’s Lanval, King

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    Essay Length: 776 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Persuasion Point of View

    Persuasion Point of View

    Thomas Paine and Mark Twain are two men who both wrote essays on two very different wars. Thomas Paine was the author of “These are the Times that Try Men’s Souls” which discusses the Revolutionary War between America and the Great Britain and Mark Twain wrote the essay “The War Prayer” which was based on the Philippine- American War. After carefully analyzing both essays, I found that Thomas Paine makes the strongest argument overall compared

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    Essay Length: 1,063 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: July
  • Comparing the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution

    Comparing the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution

    Intro in American Government Comparing the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution Hello my name is and I have come today to tell you about the similarities and the differences of the Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution. Just a little background information about myself, I am a Government major at California Polytechnic University of Pomona . I was asked here today to discuss the matters stated previously. Some of you may be

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Top
  • Plato and Aristotle

    Plato and Aristotle

    To compare the political theories of two great philosophers of politics is to first examine each theory in depth. Plato is regarded by many experts as the first writer of political philosophy, and Aristotle is recognized as the first political scientist. These two men were great thinkers. They each had ideas of how to improve existing societies during their individual lifetimes. It is necessary to look at several areas of each theory to seek the

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Jon
  • Present and Discuss the Views Submitted by Socrates and Thrasymachius in the First Book of Plato’s Republic

    Present and Discuss the Views Submitted by Socrates and Thrasymachius in the First Book of Plato’s Republic

    In the first book of the Republic Socrates and Thrasymachus argue about the nature of justice. Thrasymachus claims that justice is the advantage of the stronger. He also claims that Socrates' arguments against that position stem from a naive set of beliefs about the real intentions of rulers, and an uncritical approach to the way words acquire their meaning. Present the arguments on both sides. Who do you think is right? Justify your position. In

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Mike
  • A Child’s View

    A Child’s View

    A CHILD’S VIEW In Thomas Wolfe’s The Child by Tiger (reprinted in Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson, Perrine’s Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, 9th ed. [Boston: Wadsworth, 2006] Page 625). The story as told through the eyes of a child will show many different ways to view Dick Prosser, the main character, as a man. The child Spangler shows how the children feel about Prosser, how he resembles a cat and how he turns

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Comparing Two Poems

    Comparing Two Poems

    For this assignment I have decided to work on two poems. The first one being ‘There is a garden in her face by Thomas Campion and the second ‘She walks in beauty’ by George Gordon and Lord Byron. I will be deconstructing both poems and commenting on them with reference to the techniques used by the author when writing them. The first poem by Campion has a Sesta Rima form, meaning a six line stanza

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: July
  • A Comparative Study of the Work of the Devil

    A Comparative Study of the Work of the Devil

    It is true that the study of the devil or evil in general as a part of the world has intrigued man for centuries. This is mostly because it is something people don't have concrete proof of and is also considered taboo in our society. Yet, studies and/or story telling on the devil and his evil forces seems to have been apart of all societies since the beginning of time. Such as, Christpher Marlowe's play,

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Confucius and Management

    Confucius and Management

    Confucius ________________________________________ The Life of Confucius Of all eastern philosophers, Confucius, born in 550 B.C., is considered the greatest. His teachings are foundational to Asian cultures. His writings, The Five Classics, the collection of ancient Chinese literature, and The Four Books, a collection of Confucius' and his disciple's teachings, was for centuries the standard curriculum for Chinese education. Confucius' teachings and biography were written many years after his death and were edited by his disciples.

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: July
  • Oedipus Rex and Aristotle

    Oedipus Rex and Aristotle

    The Six Elements of a Tragedy in “Oedipus Rex” Aristotle’s “The Poetics” describes the process of a tragedy. It is not the guide per se of writing a tragedy but is the idea’s Aristotle collected while studying tragedies. A tragedy, according to Aristotle, consists of six major points. The first and most important is the plot, which is what all the other points are based on. Such points are: character, language, thought, melody, and spectacle

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Artur
  • The Great Gatsby Compared to the Wasteland

    The Great Gatsby Compared to the Wasteland

    Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby and Elliot’s The Wasteland are two stories that similarly express the modernist post-war disillusionment. Both stories comment pessimistically on the direction that our world is moving in from the post-war modernist perspective. Both men looked past the roaring twenties, and realized that this time period was actually a moral wasteland. The final paragraphs of The Great Gatsby sum up their mutual lack of faith in American culture to improve. Fitzgerald uses a

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Mike
  • Marketing B2c Site Compared to a B2b Site

    Marketing B2c Site Compared to a B2b Site

    Marketing B2C site compared to a B2B site LaShawn Williams EBUS/400 E-Business Deborah Lafky May 26, 2008 Marketing B2C site compared to a B2B site Introduction When a company uses marketing, the company is attempting to promote his or her products or services with the intent of being able to maximize ones profit and gain the confidence of the consumer. Within today’s society marketing having the right product or service can be difficult with being

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Compare and Contrast the Part That the City or State (polis) Plays in Antigone and Oedipus the King.

    Compare and Contrast the Part That the City or State (polis) Plays in Antigone and Oedipus the King.

    In both Antigone and Oedipus the King the city plays an important part with the majority of the action in both plays taking place in public in front of a chorus of Theban citizens. Personal conflict/crises take place in public, and when personal events take place off stage, they are relied to the chorus (and the audience) through messengers. The city also helps to move the plot of the plays along, as well providing dramatic

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: regina
  • Juvenile and Adult Courts: A Comparative Analysis

    Juvenile and Adult Courts: A Comparative Analysis

    Juvenile and Adult Courts: A Comparative Analysis Although the current juvenile justice system in many states now closely resembles the adult criminal justice system, they remain two separate systems of justice, founded on different philosophies. Generally speaking, while the adult criminal justice system emphasizes the punishment of criminals, the juvenile justice system is based on the rehabilitation of juvenile offenders. In the early twentieth century, the Progressives began to perceive children in a new manner.

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Comparing Buddhism and Taoism

    Comparing Buddhism and Taoism

    The belief in some higher presence, other than our own, has existed since man can recollect. Religion was established from this belief, and it can survive and flourish because of this belief. In Chinese history, Taoism and Buddhism are two great philosophical and religious traditions along with Confucianism. Taoism, originated in China around the sixth century B.C.E. and Buddhism, came to China from India around the second century of the Common Era, Together have shaped

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Mikki

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