Essays on Anthropology

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Social and Cultural Constraints in Midaq Alley

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The seventy-year-old Moll Flanders who narrates her own life story considers herself a reformed criminal. But to what degree should her perceived transgressions cause her to actually be understood as such? After all, Defoe’s novel makes it clear that a number of different factors ultimately...

Book Review Novel Society

648

Selfish Intentions and Ambiquities Ruins Morals

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Wake up, have a cup of coffee, and put on some makeup before walking out the door for the first time in twelve hours. The day ends with a phone call from a loved one as the makeup comes off and the sweatpants go on...

Comedy Literature Review Society

649

Social Class and The Modern Society

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The 1868 novel Little Women is not only a heartwarming and heartbreaking story set in the midst of the Civil War, but also a series of veiled narratives of the life of the author, Louisa May Alcott. The story coincides with many of the economic...

Book Review Social Class Society

650

The Role of Family Lineage in The Life of Characters in Light in August

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Joe Christmas is a walking contradiction in the Southern society in which he resides. Throughout Light in August, central character Joe Christmas experiences many factors that contribute to his inability to form substantial relationships with other characters. Joe’s childhood in the orphanage and living with...

Light In August Society

651

Solutions for Disputes and Disloyalty

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In the film Lantana, Ray Lawrence builds both internal and external conflict between characters using various film techniques; in turn, such conflict acts as a catalyst for many characters in reaching a turning point for change. Major conflict is caused between the relationships (Leon and...

Film Analysis Korean War Society

652

Importance of Finding Purpose I The Society

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King Solomon’s Mines, in its first pages, poses the question, “What is a gentleman?” (10). Men and masculinity are at the novel’s core. It is both for and about men, and consciously so: Haggard assures his readers that there is not a woman in the...

Literature Review Purpose Society

653

The Issues of Alcoholism and Its Effects in Society

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When most people think of addiction, they think of potheads and alcoholics. Although those are the most common types of addiction, there are also more bizarre things like sex addicts and gambling. In a sense, every person has a form of addiction. Weather to caffeine,...

Alcoholism Society

654

The Important Role of Society in Shaping People's Views on Weight Loss

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Weight lose in society has created an obsession for many people. In this essay I will show how society is ultimately to blame for this process of obsession and how it has created exercise mania that leaves some people desperate to create the “perfect” body....

Society Weight Loss

655

The City of Ladies: Analysis of The Logic of The Created World

3 pages / 1538 words

Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies is a book of philosophical and logical refutations and arguments. It is a direct response to several writings in which the male authors make claims against women’s purity. These books, according to de Pizan, slander...

Book Review Society Woman

656

Metaphoric Meaning of Journey in Fathers and Sons

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In the novel Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev explores the inevitability of man’s integration into society by implementing effectiv structural devices. The parallel trips of the central characters highlight their emotional and intellectual paths and culminate in their seemingly inevitable fusion with society. Similarly, Turgenev’s...

Book Review Metaphor Society

657

Women and Femininity in Euripides' The Bacchae

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Roughly halfway through Euripides’ The Bacchae, a messenger describes to Thebes’ bewildered king his encounter with the women who have left the city to practice their religious rites in the forest. His account cogently presents the basic opposition between nature and civilization that is inherent...

Literature Review Society

658

Thomas Hardy's Social Commentary in Tess of The D'urbervilles

3 pages / 1491 words

Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles provides social commentary on many issues prevalent in Victorian society. In particular, Hardy uses Tess’ submission to her parents, Alec d’Urberville, Angel Clare, and society as a whole to examine the sexual double standard prevalent in Victorian society. Tess...

Society Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy

659

Being a Human in Society: Golden Age of English Drama

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The period referred to as the Golden Age of English Drama was a revolutionary period when it came to the portrayal of human thought and behavior in society. Some would even argue that this period in Renaissance England was a major influence in the development...

Drama Literature Review Society

660

Conflict and Main Idea of "Suddenly Last Summer"

2 pages / 790 words

In “Suddenly Last Summer”, Tennessee Williams portrays the external and internal conflict through the emotional complex character, Catharine Holly. She must decide between telling the truth and lying, and between closure and family reputation/inheritance. It is hard to imagine that such a young girl is...

Literature Review Society

661

Symbols and Ideas in "The Yellow Arrow" and "Snowpiercer"

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In Victor Pelevin’s novel, The Yellow Arrow, there is an evident string of symbols and metaphors which represent the harsh conditions of the Russian people during the early 1990’s. One of the literally largest symbols in the novel was the train itself: The Yellow Arrow,...

Literature Review Novel Society

662

A Study of Marketing and Its Role as The Backbone of Any Business Activity

2 pages / 701 words

Marketing has been described by many businessmen and experts as the backbone of any business activity or idea. There is no any single company in the world which has thrived to its pinnacle performance levels without a comprehensive and strategic marketing plan. It is also...

Digital Era Marketing Management Society

663

The Dangers Caused by Terrorism on Society All Over The World

1 page / 533 words

The world is witnessing terrorist activity happening all over the world today. Because they are loyal to some political ideology or to certain religious beliefs, many organizations have chosen the path of violence and terror to achieve their ends. This vested circle does not have...

Society War on Terror

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The Relationship Between Character Symbolism and Chilean Society in Ariel Dorfman’s Death and The Maiden

3 pages / 1224 words

In the play, Death and the Maiden, Ariel Dorfman employs symbolism through the characters and their actions to reflect aspects of the corrupt Chilean society that Dorfman himself lived through. Act II, scene i illustrates the symbols quite well, with the troubled, unjust Paulina, the...

Literature Review Society Symbolism

665

Reading Between Lines of Citizen

4 pages / 1787 words

In Claudia Rankine’s Citizen, the blank white space occupies more area than all of the black text and pictures combined. As a relatively short American Lyric, one must assume that this half of the book – the parts where nothing is said – has great...

Literature Review Society