Erupted states, Corrupted hearts, Disrupted narratives: Sleep and Sleeplessness in Hamlet and Macbeth

Philosophy & literature   |   Literature   |   Presentation   |   09/24/2008   |   .doc   |   12 pages
Document abstract : «In so many plays, Shakespeare's night crawls with offending shadows. Though the witching hour sees graves' tenants off to their malicious machinations, humans take refuge in cozy beds. Sleep can thus protect mankind from wandering evils, but further...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. The crucial conclusion about sleep and its similarity in Macbeth and Hamlet.. Catalogues sleep's virtues and restorative benefits in Macbeth.. Summoning of ghosts, witches, and other such things in Shakespeare's world.. Inefficient...»

The reality of perceiving environment

Philosophy & literature   |   Literature   |   Presentation   |   09/24/2008   |   .doc   |   4 pages
Document abstract : «"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens presents the reader with exactly what its title expresses-thirteen distinct perspectives all involving a blackbird in some form. These perspectives each provide a kind of brief snapshot...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Stevens' illustration of a break in the role of the blackbird and the reality presented to the reader.. Section IV - the speaker relating the blackbird to his own relationship to the world. . presentation of a meta-commentary in...»

"Harlem" and "Harlem [1]" by Langston Hughes

Philosophy & literature   |   Literature   |   Presentation   |   09/25/2008   |   .doc   |   4 pages
Document abstract : «In two poems entitled "Harlem (A Dream Deferred)" and "Harlem [1]," Langston Hughes conveys his strong personal opinions and emotions about racial tension and racial issues in America during the first half of the twentieth century. Though each poem...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Brief historical perspective.. These opening two lines.. Harlem (A Dream Deferred) and its similarity to the theme of 'Harlem [1]'.. The second to last group of lines and why they stand out from the rest of the poem...»

Forming and performing the female identity in Daniel Deronda

Philosophy & literature   |   Literature   |   Presentation   |   09/25/2008   |   .doc   |   8 pages
Document abstract : «The Victorian era thrived on ideals; knowing their world is more than knowing the facts of British politics, of documented interactions, or popular amusements, it is striving to understand the light in which they saw themselves, the real or ideal...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. The works of George Eliot and their examination of the way English institutions required performances of nationality.. The most seductive trait of Femininity.. The fascination of Gwendolen's character.. Another aspect of Victorian...»

Perceptions of Kali's tongue

Philosophy & literature   |   Literature   |   Presentation   |   09/25/2008   |   .doc   |   7 pages
Document abstract : «Through the last century the western world has been faced with the relatively new concepts of feminine equality and power. Academia has been influenced by theorists such as Simone de Beauvoir, and more recently Judith Butler, who have created a...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Hindu concept of 'Lajya' and the western idea of shame.. Comparison between the observations of the students and the true legend.. The dominant figure in the image.. The experience of shame that the feminist interviewees are...»

Time, space and being in North Indian classical music

Philosophy & literature   |   Literature   |   Presentation   |   09/25/2008   |   .doc   |   8 pages
Document abstract : «Martin Clayton writes, "the highest aim of our music is to reveal the essence of the universe it reflects" (Clayton 10). To hear North Indian Classical Music is to engage one self in an experience of being in which music becomes an external...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. The basics.. The fluidity of Indian classical music.. The rhythm.. Rasa, Raga and the experience of Brahman Nada.. The Vedas.. Conclusion.....»

Is "Maurice" a hopelessly flawed text, or a thoughtful adaptation of the novel form to the subject matter and a strong intervention in debates of the time?

Philosophy & literature   |   Literature   |   Presentation   |   09/25/2008   |   .doc   |   9 pages
Document abstract : «E.M Forster dedicated his novel "Maurice" to a "happier year", affirming his intention of the novel's purpose as an insight into the future evolution of sexual desire and relationships, leading some to attach significance to the text as a...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Forster's self proclaimed significance of the novel as a symbol of the future.. The depiction of a homosexual future as a return from an idealistic past.. The problem of literary history in Forster's aspects of the novel.. Maurice's...»

Creating the New American Hospital

Business & market   |   Management   |   Book review   |   09/25/2008   |   .doc   |   5 pages
Document abstract : «Written in 1993, Creating the New American Hospital: A Time For Greatness by V. Clayton Sherman still has lessons for the twenty-first century hospital. Though issues such as the rise of managed care, cost constraints, litigation and malpractice,...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. The book.. The team and the organization.. Finances and profit.....»

Feral women: Female characters in Wuthering Heights, The Moonstone, and Hard Times

Philosophy & literature   |   Literature   |   Presentation   |   09/25/2008   |   .doc   |   10 pages
Document abstract : «Once upon a time, not so very long ago, women had no place within the pages of fiction. Indeed, men were usually the sole creators of literature; women, on the other hand, were silent (those few women who did choose to write were often forced to...»

Synopsis abstract : «The trapped heroines: Catherine and Louisa. . The exiles: Sissy and Rosanna.. The public servants: Nelly and Rachael.. The scapegoats: Isabella and Rachel.. Conclusion.....»

Garcia girls

Philosophy & literature   |   Literature   |   Presentation   |   09/25/2008   |   .doc   |   6 pages
Document abstract : «Throughout time, people from many different religious and cultural backgrounds have relied on language to communicate effectively with one another. Although there are thousands of various languages, the goal within each is usually the same: to...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. The Garcia girls forced integration into American culture.. Yolanda's belif and dependance on words.. The character of Sofia.. The cahracter of the eldest sister, Carla.. Sandra's returns to the Dominican Republ...»

Strategies to increase performance of Delmonte Garage: Literature review

Philosophy & literature   |   Literature   |   Presentation   |   09/25/2008   |   .doc   |   6 pages
Document abstract : «Globalization has brought about myriad changes on our planet-some frightening and tragic, others moving and magical. However, this paper will not be addressing those larger issues, important as they may be. Instead it will look at microcosm of those...»

Synopsis abstract : «Abstract.. Introduction.. Initial appraisal of source material.. Business and marketing strategies.. Human resource management and reward strategies.. Historical connections.. Conclusions and recommendations.....»

Masculine and Feminine ideology in the Knight's and Squire's tales

Philosophy & literature   |   Literature   |   Presentation   |   09/25/2008   |   .doc   |   5 pages
Document abstract : «Chaucer's inclusion of a father-son relationship-represented by the Knight and the Squire-demands an analysis of their inherent connection, their individual characterizations and the themes they represent in their Tales. Each must consciously or...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. The main source of conflict in 'The Knight's Tale'.. Admonishment of the superlative reverence of male friendships.. The successful female friendship and bond created between Canacee and the falcon.. The tales of the Squire and the...»

Searching for success : My i-search paper

Philosophy & literature   |   Literature   |   Research papers   |   09/25/2008   |   .doc   |   6 pages
Document abstract : «Being able to choose a research topic presented a special opportunity and also a harrowing realization that being interested in a wide array of topics, narrowing in on one would be a difficult task. I knew that I would have to spend many hours...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Searching.. Findings.. Conclusion.....»

Major themes in Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried"

Philosophy & literature   |   Literature   |   Presentation   |   09/25/2008   |   .doc   |   5 pages
Document abstract : «The effects of the Vietnam War left men with terrible everlasting images and countless troubles, according to Tim O'Brien's novel that portrays a war that was meaningless and strung out. O'Brien's book, "The Things They Carried" describes the...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Excessive amounts of stress hormones in brain tissue.. Summerfield's study on the veterans of Vietnam.. The use of trust in others as a main theme for O'Brien.. Effects on the men of war in O'Brien's novel.. The memories of the dead...»

Early existentialism in Julius Caesar

Philosophy & literature   |   Literature   |   Book review   |   09/26/2008   |   .doc   |   4 pages
Document abstract : «There is a saying among political scientists that the citizens of a nation deserve their leader. In other words a dictator or tyrant will never appear out of a vacuum, but as the result of countless historical events, and as an expression of the...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. The worldly turmoil all around.. The conflict with Brutus.. The miscalculation of Brutus.. His inner anguish following the murder.. The little optimism to be salvaged from the play.. How Shakespeare's play was ahead of its time....»

Archetypal criticism - Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Philosophy & literature   |   Literature   |   Presentation   |   09/26/2008   |   .doc   |   5 pages
Document abstract : «Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare is one the most acclaimed and widely read pieces of literature in the history of Western civilization. It is the story of a young prince named Hamlet who must battle his adversaries and his own...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Archetypal criticism as one avenue in a vast array of critical approaches towards literature.. The character of Hamlet.. The Lord of the Rings - Frodo.. A tragic hero - a common character in tragedies which originated from Greek...»

Is she fact or fiction? : Blurring boundaries in Angela Carter's 'Nights at the Circus'

Philosophy & literature   |   Literature   |   Presentation   |   10/07/2008   |   .doc   |   7 pages
Document abstract : «In Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter succeeds in creating a heroine so untraditional, so much larger than life in both physique and personality, that the topic of who Fevvers is and what she represents is discussed even more by critics than it is...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Fevvers's wings, her large size and lack of refinement.. Carter uses Fevvers and other characters on the margins of society to draw readers into their identities.. Explosive actions orchestrated by Fevvers.. An illusion of wings and a...»

The (Wo)Man of our dreams: Gender-bending in Takarazuka

Philosophy & literature   |   Literature   |   Presentation   |   10/07/2008   |   .doc   |   8 pages
Document abstract : «An extraordinarily attractive actor, with large, dark eyes fringed by long lashes and chiseled features, suddenly appears on an audience walkway ("silver bridge"), much to the delight of adoring fans (Brau 88). With arms extended widely, the actor...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. the magical world of Takarazuka.. The myth of a purely innocent, asexual performance.. The original intention behind the Takarazuka Revue.. Critics Karen Nakamura and Hisaka Matsuo's agreement with Kobayashi's assessment of...»

The Peanut-Crunching Crowd and the Rubber crotch: How Sylvia Plath's legacy has suffered by the hands of sexism, over-eager feminists, schadenfreude, and gender politics?

Philosophy & literature   |   Literature   |   Presentation   |   10/10/2008   |   .doc   |   8 pages
Document abstract : «O'Rourke goes on to say that although poems like "Daddy" or "Lady Lazarus" seem "crudely self-involved," the majority of Plath's poetry is abstract, symbolic, and in general quite distant from the confessional poets with whom she is grouped. ...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Plath's poetry - abstract, symbolic and distant from the confessional poets.. The sexist dismissal of Sylvia Plath's work.. Domesticity and family as political minefields for a female poet.. The role of Plath's husband in bulding her...»

The origins of human aggression and Just War Theory

Philosophy & literature   |   Humanities/philosophy   |   Presentation   |   10/10/2008   |   .doc   |   6 pages
Document abstract : «Just war theory may not be able to prevent war directly, but it does make political leaders more accountable for their actions. Knowing that critics will determine whether or not a war is just based on just cause, right intention, legitimate...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Critics of just war theory.. Just war theory and the accountability of political leaders for their actions.. The first mandate of jus ad bellum (Latin for Justice to war).. The Vietnam War and the 'Domino Theory'.. The current war on...»

The eccentrics of Margery Kempe, an aspired Saint

Philosophy & literature   |   Literature   |   Presentation   |   10/10/2008   |   .doc   |   4 pages
Document abstract : «Margery Kempe, the daughter of John Burnham, a popular mayor of Bishop's Lynn, England, was born in 1373. Although she could not read or write, Kempe dictated a biography of herself to be written, that begins with her marriage at the age of "twenty...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. The begining of Margery Kempe's biography.. The spiritual life of Margery Kempe.. Margery - considered eccentric by her contemporaries. . The distance that Margery has to ‘travel' in comparison to the life of a true medieval...»

The traveling musician as the other in two of Eudora Welty's short stories

Philosophy & literature   |   Literature   |   Presentation   |   10/14/2008   |   .doc   |   5 pages
Document abstract : «Eudora Welty was a writer who sought to identify her native Mississippi in terms of her concept of place. By focusing so often on place, Welty often used the concept of outsiders to emphasize the nature of the place in which the outsiders have come...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Eudora Welty was a writer.. Understanding Welty's use of the musician as outsider.. The most popular entertainments in post-war through Depression era.. The tent-repertory or simply 'tent show'.. Popularity of 'tent show'.. The...»

Hemingway's art of anxiety: The visual-to-verbal relationship in "The Sun Also Rises"

Philosophy & literature   |   Literature   |   Presentation   |   10/16/2008   |   .doc   |   5 pages
Document abstract : «Hemingway's style depends upon vividness and exactness of visual detail to create the atmosphere of modernism which permeates his works both large and small. Though this richness is due to influence from other writers of the modernist period (as...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Dependance in Hemingway's style.. Understanding why Cezanne is important in The Sun Also Rises.. Hemingway's use of Cezanne's landscape.. Cezanne's rendition of still life. . Hemingway's use of artistic techniques.. Use of both...»

The parallel tragedies of Lily Bart and Tess Durbeyfield: An examination of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth

Philosophy & literature   |   Literature   |   Book review   |   10/16/2008   |   .doc   |   5 pages
Document abstract : «Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles are powerful examples of the American and British realist novel. Both depict the harsh Victorian society in which women were held to unattainable standards of...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Lily Bart and Tess Durbeyfield - very different characters.. 19th century England and America - very few rights for women.. Lily Bart's death and its relation to events occurring with Bertha Dorset.. Bertha's use of Lily to her...»

Analysis of "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe

Philosophy & literature   |   Literature   |   Presentation   |   10/24/2008   |   .doc   |   5 pages
Document abstract : «In the popular short story The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allen Poe reveals the horrid theme that each person has a vicious wicked side or a dark side that can provoke the person into committing unthinkable sins for no apparent reason. Poe was an...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. John Greenleaf Whittier's first publication of the short story The Tell Tale Heart.. The tuberculosis that lived daily in the house with Poe.. The story.. Span of the story.. The use of first person in the story.. Male characteristics...»

Edgar Allan Poe: The man inside his work

Philosophy & literature   |   Literature   |   Presentation   |   10/24/2008   |   .doc   |   5 pages
Document abstract : «The life of Edgar Allan Poe can easily be found throughout all of his stories and poems. It would be unfair to say that Poe only wrote autobiographical fiction, but his work does parallel his life. His life was a perfect match for great fiction. ...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. The life of Edgar Allan Poe in his stries.. His life after the death of Virginia.. His training at West Point reflecting in Black Cat.. Red Death. . Poe's about death.. Annabelle Lee - the most disturbing poem that Poe wrote.. The...»

'The oval portrait' and 'The birthmark': An insight to an era

Philosophy & literature   |   Literature   |   Presentation   |   10/31/2008   |   .doc   |   6 pages
Document abstract : «Documents, records locked away in vaults, and history books are all excellent way to learn about the past. These are all ways that facts can be found, but that is only part of what can be discovered about past. Literature gives an insight into the...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. The popularity of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne.. Georgiana in The Birthmark.. The artist in The Oval Portrait.. The artist and Aylmer.. Beauty as a curse in The Oval Portrait and The Birthmark.. The occupation of both the...»

The Bergsonian martial artist : Bruce Lee's philosophies on the martial arts

Philosophy & literature   |   Humanities/philosophy   |   Presentation   |   11/04/2008   |   .doc   |   6 pages
Document abstract : «Bruce Lee, international film star, martial arts master, and founder of Jeet Kune Do, received his undergraduate training in Philosophy at the University of Washington in Seattle during the early 1960's. He studied Eastern and Western Philosophy, as...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Bruce Lee's studies into philisophy.. His similarity, in modes of thinking, to Henri Bergson.. Shaolin Temple's growth in China and later in Japan.. Bruce Lee and Henri Bergson attempts to bring both areas to a new starting...»

Elsie Venner: A destiny of obscurity

Philosophy & literature   |   Literature   |   Presentation   |   11/05/2008   |   .doc   |   5 pages
Document abstract : «In it's own words, the novel Elsie Venner, written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, has been called "A Romance of Destiny" (Title), "a medicated novel" (Preface 1), and a "test [of] the doctrine of 'original sin' and human responsibility" (Preface 1). I...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. The novel Elsie Venner.. Oliver Wendell Holmes - celebrated physician and professor.. The begining of the novel - brief description of the Brahmin Caste of New England.. Mr. Bernard Langdon.. His intrigue with the girl, who never...»

The repression of memory in witchcraft study

Philosophy & literature   |   Literature   |   Presentation   |   11/06/2008   |   .doc   |   7 pages
Document abstract : «The readings for this week focused around the different approaches to the historical study of witchcraft and witchcraft trials: rationalism versus romanticism. Rationalism focuses more on historical and archeological studies in its attempt to...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. M.J Kephart's article 'Rationalists vs. Romantics among Scholars of Witchcraft'.. The beginnings of anthropology's influence over historical witch-hunt.. Kephart's succeess - application of the functionalist principles to accusations...»

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