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Quest Essays and Term Papers
Hitler's Weltanschauung (World View)Hitler's Weltanschauung (World View)
In the early quarter of the twentieth century, a young man was beginning to fill his mind with ideas of a unification of all Germanic countries. That young man was Adolf Hitler, and what he learned in his youth would surface again as he struggled to become the ...
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Opinions On Oedipus The KingThe play Oedipus the King, by Sophocles, begins at a point where Oedipus has been king of Thebes for many years. As a baby, Oedipus was cast out by his own parents, the king and queen of Thebes, Laius and Jocasta, because Laius was informed by an oracle concerning his first born son that “doom ...
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The Awakening: Edna's Path Through LifeThere are many important paths that we must follow on our journey
through life. We follow the path without questioning its intent. The path
informs us when we should learn to talk, to walk, to marry, and to have
children. We are told that we should never stray from it, because if we do,
society ...
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Night ShiftEnvision a dead-silent murky room with nothing to eye at aside from papers. Plentiful papers scattered about the room. With every tick of the clock, your eyelids descend further down; your palm is fiery like lava oozing down a recently erupted volcano, yet your fingertips are as frigid as the ...
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Things Fall Apart Things FallThings Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe's first novel, tells the story of an Ibo village of the late 1800's. It also tells about one of its great men, Okonkwo, who has achieved much in his life. He is a champion wrestler, a husband to three wives, a title-holder among his people, and a member of the ...
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Native American GenocideThe dominant image of Indians in the media used to be of savages, of John Wayne leading the U.S. Cavalry against the Indians. Today the stereotype has shifted to noble savage, which portrays Indians as part of a once-great but now-dying culture; a culture that could talk to the trees and the ...
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Biblical Allusions And Imagery In Steinbeck's The Grapes Of WrathJohn Steinbeck always makes it a point to know about his subjects
first hand. His stories always have some factual basis behind them.
Otherwise, he does not believe that they will be of any value beyond
artistic impression. Therefore, most of his novels take place in
California, the site of his ...
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Labor IssuesLabor Unions: Aging Dinosaur or Sleeping Giant? The Labor Movement and Unionism Background and Brief History Higher wages! Shorter workdays! Better working conditions! These famous words echoed throughout the United States beginning in “1790 with the skilled craftsmen” (Dessler, 1997, p. 544). For ...
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American DreamA Lifetime of Change- s The quest for truth and Justice, for social and economic equality. A place where everyone had a fair change at making it big. America! America! The land of the FREE and the home of the brave, set your sail and travel to the New World of wonder and where your wildest dreams ...
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Ibsens RolesThe movement from nineteenth-century Romanticism to twentieth-century Realism in art and literature sought to accurately reflect real life instead of idealizing it. Playwrights all over Europe and America rebelled against the established standards of a "well-made play". They shocked, as well as ...
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Lost Heritage In Alice Walker's "Everyday Use"By contrasting the family characters in "Everyday Use," Walker illustrates
the mistake by some of placing the significance of heritage solely in material
objects. Walker presents Mama and Maggie, the younger daughter, as an example
that heritage in both knowledge and form passes from one ...
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Hamlet Analyzed In Terms Of ArAristotle’s Poetics is considered the guide to a
well written tragedy; his methods have been used for
centuries. In Aristotle’s opinion, plot is the most
important aspect of the tragedy, all other parts such as
character, diction, and thought stem from the plot.
Aristotle defines a tragedy as ...
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Herman Melville: An Anti- Transcendentalist Or NotMelville, Herman (1819-91), American novelist, a major literary figure whose exploration of psychological and metaphysical themes foreshadowed 20th-century literary concerns but whose works remained in obscurity until the 1920s, when his genius was finally recognized.
Melville was born August ...
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Plato And AristotleI. PLATO
3) Explain the so-called ‘Divided Line’. What do the different levels mean? How does this apply to ethics? How does this apply to Knowledge, perception, and/or awareness? Explain in depth and detail.
Plato’s ‘Divided Line’ is a model indicating not only levels of knowledge, but ...
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Socratic MethodThe Socratic Philosophy is basically a quest for the virtuous life; the main pillar of the Socratic thought is a virtuous life. Although, to his death, he did not offer any definition of a virtuous life--his life itself is the answer.
The consists of the question and answer mode of inquiry. It ...
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PornographySuppose one accepts MacKinnon and Dworkin's suggested statutory
definition of . How does one who generally accepts MacKinnon
and Dworkin's views on the pervasively harmful effect of , and
who accepts a need for legal redress of the harms perpetrated by
, deal with pornographic material?
The ...
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Indigenous Religions ComparedOften people turn to a particular religion in response to the most confusing question of where we came from and who put us here. Some form of religion can be found in every culture throughout the world. Because the question of our origin is a universal uncertainty, its no wonder that throughout ...
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Hamlet - Was Prince Hamlet Wacko?In Shakespeare\'s \"Hamlet\", the main character offers a puzzling and ambiguous persona. Throughout the play, Hamlet often contradicts himself. He seems to balance the virtues of \"playing a role\", with being true to himself. Further proof of these conflicting personas are demonstrated by his ...
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The Scarlet Letter: Hester Prynne And AdulteryIn seventeenth century New England, it was not exactly beneficial to be referred to as an "individualist." The Puritans of the colonies emphasized a collective existence and identity, preaching uniform obedience as one body, soul, and spirit. They believed in pre-destination, and accepted that ...
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Genghis Khan Destined To Be AGenghis Khan: Destined to be a Hero
Arriving in this world with a blood clot in the palm of his hand , Genghis Khan was destined to be a hero. In 1167, Genghis Khan was born to Yisugei, Chieftain of the Kiyat-Borjigid, and his wife Ho’elun. He was named Temujin (which means blacksmith) after a ...
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