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When discussing the literature text of The Awakening by Kate Chopin, one must first take into account what makes this such a great piece of feminist literature. The answer is simple, the protagonist, Edna. For the entire story, Edna is finding herself, which is shown through many symbols....

The Dirty Girls Social Club
The Dirty Girls Social Club is a book that depicts America in a way that only another person of Hispanic background can understand. I completely agree with many things that this book depicted over the course of me reading this novel. I had to choose the three most prevalent things that I could....

The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail
When putting on a play it is a good idea to have technical support. In The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, not a lot of attention is drawn to the set. Since the focus of the audience jumps from one area of action to another it calls for a very simple and stylized set. First off, two cots would....

The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship
The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship demonstrates what the ancient relationship of faith and intellectual scholarship mean for the academy today. George Marsden argues forcefully that mainstream American higher education needs to be more open to explicit expressions of faith and to accept wh....

The Tragic Life of Working Students
The average college student has to work in todays world just to stay on top of the high cost of living. With the economy slowly sinking, the value of the dollar has dropped making it harder for students to keep extra money around for emergencies or to have fun with. We all know college stud....

The Wand - tool of the dentist
One of the most feared professions in the medical field is the dentist. Most Americans would rather live with a cavity rather than schedule an appointment to see the local dentist. The fear typically spawns from the instruments commonly used; according to a recent nation survey, over 50% of pati....

To Kill a Mockingbird
Thesis: Continuance of a magnificent book titled To Kill a Mockingbird being taught in high. Every teenage young adult who is in high school has been learning the many things in history today. They have learned things of war to that of present day. Why should some true facts of history be banned....

tupac shakur
"Only God can judge me/ Nobody else/ Nobody else/ All you other mutha *censored*as/ get out of my business," said by Tupac Shakur at the beginning of his song, "Only God Can Judge Me." Tupac was a gangster rap artist who practiced what he preached. Because of his profanity and lyrics, people say ....

vc funding
In the next few years, venture capital funds will find themselves squeezed from four directions. They're already stuck with a seller's market, because of the huge amounts they raised at the end of the Bubble and still haven't invested. This by itself is not the end of the world. In fact, it's just a....

Violence in Sports
With the increase in society taking a stance against violence by many people, sports has become an areawhere some feel that the violent acts such as the hitting and fighting that occurs should be eliminated.You can not change something that has been around for so long because it would change the asp....

volpone
Ben Jonson : Volpone (1606) In his earlier plays, Jonson had made characters speak bitterly, expressing direct and dangerous attacks on the social manners of the higher classes. In Volpone that never happens. The Prologue boasts that it was written in five weeks (Jonson was usually a slow writer....

Voltaire: A History That Never Moved
Voltaire: A history that never moved By Binoy KampmarkWhy should history move? Consider it a frozen tableau, an unchanging picture. There are only emotions rather than causation. Even if there is historical causation, Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) (1694-1778) wrote in his works Histor....

What do you think about abortion?
What do you think about abortion? Most people try not to think about it. They wish to avoid the overwhelming horrible reality. Abortion is an intentional violent act that kills an unborn baby. Without any anesthesia, the baby is dismembered, torn apart, and vacuumed out of the mother. In the case of....

Why I believe in God
The existence of God is a subject that has occupied schools of philosophy and theology for thousands of years. Most of the time, these debates have revolved around all kinds of assumptions and definitions. I believe in God because of personal evidences. This is what the Bible calls a "still....

Why Read?
“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.... You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.” Angela Carter (1940–1992), British author. Why read? Why should I read the book before it co....

Why should I be offered A Presidential Scholarship?
Why should I be offered A Presidential Scholarship? The Jurdsons International Student Presidential Scholarship was established for the purpose of encouraging underrepresented and talented new undergraduate/graduate international students. Ever since Ive know myself Ive always had a keen....

Why Should Law be Obeyed?
The are many reasons to why laws should be obeyed. Ever since the beginning of civilizations, there had always been a ruler. This ruler, weather an absolute ruler or a formed government would create laws a restrictions which it would want its people or citizens to follow and obey. Some kings in....

Why Shouldn't the U.S. intervene in Kosova?
My response to Patrick Buchanan's article from the NY Post. After reading an article in the October 3rd edition of the New York Post by Patrick J. Buchanan entitled "Why is Kosovo Our War?", I was very frustrated when he asked "Why does Serbia not have a right to send its army to prevent the crad....

Wide Sargasso Sea
In reflecting Jean Ryhs' Wide Sargasso Sea, I chose to focus mainly on Part One of the story. I approached the reading from a psychological perspective, along with a feminist analyzation. As the story begins in the mid 1840's, it was a time when slaves were newly freed and slave owners awaited com....

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