Articles, Assignments and College Term papers in Philosophy, literature and Linguistics

Medieval Renewal: The Pre-Raphaelites' Quest for the Holy Grail and Arthurian Legends

Document abstract : «The Holy Grail is usually considered to be the cup from which Christ drank at the Last Supper and the one used by Joseph of Arimathea to catch his blood as he hung on the cross. This significance was introduced into the Arthurian legends. In earlier...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. The Holy Grail as a symbol of chivalric heroism and a metaphor for human quest.. Sir Edward Burne jones: The High History of the Holy Graal.. Dante Gabriel Rosserri, Sir Launcelot's Vision of the Sanc Grael.. Sir Edward Burne jones:...»

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Saqiyuk - Stories from the lives of three Inuit Women by Nancy Wachowich

Document abstract : «Saqiyuq is a collection of stories from the lives of three Inuit women: Apphia, Rhoda and Sandra. It consists of biographies and accounts from these three generations. This book enables the reader to see the great evolution of the Inuit lifestyle...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Discerning the author's view about the western influence on the Inuit culture.. The change in the situation at the end of Apphia's life.. New values and norms.. Inuit people: The development of the s...»

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How can MacIntyre claim that some traditions, but not others, can escape the problem of incommensurability in their moral reasoning?

Document abstract : «From the moment we abandoned Aristotle's teleology, MacIntyre believes, there has been no proper moral philosophy, but only philosophers "working with bits and pieces of philosophies which are detached from their original pre-Enlightenment...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Determining how MacIntyre can claim that some theories can escape the problem of incommensurability.. MacIntyre's strong commitment to contextualism.. Criticisms of MacIntyre's work.. MacIntyre's rejection of modernity and its...»

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How is the traditional notion of subject challenged in "Boating for Beginners?" (Jeanette Winterson)?

Document abstract : «Boating for Beginners is the second novel published by Jeanette Winterson in 1985. It deals with the growing up of Gloria Munde, who seeks her way in the world. The resemblance between Gloria Munde and Jeanette Winterson is striking and some...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Boating for Beginners as a challenge of the traditional notion of subject: The character of Gloria.. Intellectual and physical descriptions of Gloria.. The use of point of view.. Gloria's development.. How has Gloria's self been...»

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Judaism and Rechtsstaat

Document abstract : «The modern political philosophy, influenced by the Enlightenment and the ideal of individual liberty developed by Locke, considers that the political sphere must be independent from the religious sphere. In Israel, this separation between the State...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. The Zionist compromise and its consequences.. The practical necessity of compromise on religious demands in order to preserve unity.. The ascendancy of the religion over the political sphere.. 'Theocratic temptation' and respect of...»

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"The Madonna of Excelsior" by Zakes Mda: The Garden Party

Document abstract : «"The Garden Party" is the second chapter of Zakes Mda's fourth novel The Madonna of Excelsior which was published in 2001. The author was born in Hershel in 1948 and grew up in Lesotho where his family emigrated for political reasons. He left South...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Visual and musical details in 'The Garden Party'.. The painting of the Garden Party.. The feeling of movement.. The garden party represented as a play.. Time and focalization.. The unusual use of time in the chapter.. Focalization by...»

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Holocaust in American life by Peter Novick 1999

Document abstract : «Peter Novick is a professor of History in the University of Chicago. After "The Noble Dream : The "objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession" in 1988, in which he criticizes the idea of an ideal objective and neutral historical...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Analysis and explanation of the theories of Novick's book.. The purposes and the method.. Summary of the reasons of this evolution.. Conclusion of the book : Back to the theory of collective memory.. Commentaries.. Few weaknesses of...»

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"Go tell it on the mountain" of James Baldwin

Document abstract : «Go Tell It on the Mountain was published in 1953; it is James Baldwin's first novel and a real success. It took him ten years to complete this work, he was a very polyvalent writer and he published novels: Another Country (1962), short stories:...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. The image of 'doubles'.. Elisha as Gabriel's double and Richard Wright as David Baldwin's.. The fact that Gabriel doesn't love john like a father loves his own child.. This idea of contradiction....»

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Symbolism of geography in Thomas More's "Utopia"

Document abstract : «Thomas More was born in 1478 at a time when England was in transition between Feudalism and the early Renaissance. More was a lawyer, a historian, a philosopher and became Henry VIII's chancellor in 1529. When Thomas More refused to convert himself...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Utopia as a highly symbolic island.. A crescent-shaped island.. The characteristics of its geographical situation.. The historical background of the birth of utopias.. Amaurot as the typical town of the utopia.. A city built according...»

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Place, race and identity in Langston Hughes' "A Toast to Harlem"

Document abstract : «"A Toast to Harlem" is an extract from a volume of selections entitled The Best Of Simple which was published in 1961. The author, Langston Hughes, was born in Joplin, Missouri in 1902 and died in 1967. He is known as one of the most important...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Harlem in terms of place in the early twentieth century.. Harlem as a 'Reservation'.. Harlem as a refuge for the African Diaspora.. The issue of race within Harlem.. Colour and race.. Simple as the embodiment of the typical...»

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How does "Boating for Beginners" (Jeanette Winterson) use intertextuality to comment the world?

Document abstract : «Boating for Beginners is a novel by Jeanette Winterson which belongs to post-modern literature and can be defined as a re-writing of the Bible. In her text, she uses a literary device called intertextuality in order to make comments on what she...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Boating for Beginners as a parody of different literary genres.. Parody and rewriting as subversive elements.. Boating for Beginners: A 'comic book'.. A mixture of literary genres.. Boating for Beginners as a 'Satire Parody' of our...»

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Barbara Blaugdone's An Account Of The Travels Sufferings & persecutions

Document abstract : «Barbara Blaugdone was born in England in 1609. Her journal entitled An Account OF THE TRAVELS; Sufferings & Persecutions was published in 1691. It is an autobiographical work where she relates her personal and perilous adventures, as a testimony of...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Women and Quakerism in the 17th century.. Quakerism: A break with the traditional image of women in religion.. Barbara Blaugdone and the Inner Light.. The Blasphemy Act of 1650.. Barbara's devotion to Quakerism.. Barbara Blaugdone's...»

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A comparative account of the French and the English versions of one Beckett's text

Document abstract : «Translation is usually studied from another language to ours, in order to consider changes that have to be made. With Samuel Beckett, it is interesting to analyze the process of translation from French, which is not his mother tongue, to English. In...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Beckett's use of the traditional process of translation.. Cultural contexts have to be adapted to be understood by an English audience.. The process of translation and inevitable losses that Beckett tries to compensate for with...»

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Are forgiveness and a search for the truth a better solution to heal the minds and bodies of the victims of wars than externally imposed tribunals?

Document abstract : «Even after a settlement is reached and a peace agreement is signed, this is by no means the end of the conflict. For a conflict to really end, healing the minds and the bodies of the victims of wars are necessary. Indeed it is the necessary first...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. The most commonly used words used in conjunction with the process of reconciliation.. Externally imposed tribunal.. The example of Northern Ireland.. Healing the minds and bodies of the victims of wars and for...»

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Commentary on an extract from O. Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray" chapter 2

Document abstract : «This passage takes place in the middle of chapter II, in which Lord Henry has just been introduced for the first time to Dorian by his friend Basil. During this scene of first encounter Lord Henry made an impressive philosophic speech about one's...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. The relationships between the three characters.. The influence of Lord Henry on Dorian.. The ambiguity of the relationship between Basil and Dorian.. The rivalry between Lord Henry and Basil.. The pact with the portrait and the issue...»

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Sir Francis Bacon's New Atlantis - The beginning

Document abstract : «The beginning of the New Atlantis is, in the first place, an account of a long voyage across the Pacific, undertaken by a crew of 51 sailors. At the same time, it serves as a brief introduction to two different peoples - the sailors on the one hand...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. The first sentence of the New Atlantis.. Leaving the narration to a man with an eye for detail.. Bacon's choice of audience.. An early and accepted emblem of the church.. The beginning of the story and the transformation of the...»

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Moral and Overman - Study based on: Twilight of the Idols, or How to Philosophize with a Hammer By Friedrich Nietzsche

Document abstract : «"There are more idols than realities in the world. [] This time it is not contemporary idols but eternal idols that are being touched here with the hammer as if with a turning fork". This "revaluation of all values", an expression that Nietzsche...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Use of the term overman.. Reference to democracy as the incarnation of the Christian virtues.. Nietzsche's criticism of Christian morals and all morals that tend to enslave man.. What Nietzsche values so much.. Constraining people to...»

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Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck

Document abstract : «The scene takes place in a clearing, close to the Salinas river, "a few miles South of Soledad", at dusk. Two men come (the two main characters), one following the other. The first one is George and the second one Lennie. They are ranch workers who...»

Synopsis abstract : «Summary.. Chapter 1: The scene in a clearing, close to the Salinas river.. Chapter 2: The next morning.. Chapter 3: Slim and George.. Chapter 4: The scene in Crooks.. Chapter 5: The afternoon.. Chapter 6: The last scene.. Context of the...»

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Wuthering Heights - The Ending (An Attempt at a Commentary)

Document abstract : «The passage, being at the very end of the novel, follows directly Heathcliff's death and stages the final events of Wuthering Heights. Prior to it, Nelly Dean gives her brief account of Heathcliff's death and funeral. Then, we are presented with her...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. The nature and direction of our interpretation.. The ending of Wuthering Heights: A direction which slightly deviates from the Gothic proper. . Expansion into the Fantastic through the experience of the small boy.. Lockwood's...»

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Antony and Cleopatra: Shakespeare's criticism of the XVIIth century's anti-feminism

Document abstract : «like in his other Roman plays like Julius Caesar, Shakespeare used in Antony and Cleopatra the description of the Roman society to describe his own society. But in this play the main point of analysis was not politics but the place of women in the...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Cleopatra: The puritan stereotype of femininity as subversion.. The puritan anti-theatrical and antifeminist critics.. The patriarchal gender distinction.. Cleopatra as a subversive woman.. An unstable and lying woman.. Shakespeare's...»

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Choderlos de Laclos's : Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Document abstract : «Choderlos de Laclos's novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses has been the object of four main cinematic adaptations, all very different from one another or from the source text itself. These films are Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (1959) by Roger Vadim,...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Les Liaisons Dangereuses.. An epistolary novel.. The problem of voyeurism.. A cinematic adaptation.. Creation, innovations and originality.. The adaptations of an epistolary novel.. How letters are used or replaced in the more modern...»

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The War (Marguerite Duras)

Document abstract : «Marguerite Duras was born near Saigon in Indochina in 1914. Her parents went to the French colony as teachers. She left Indonesia in 1932 to study political science and law in Paris. His childhood in Indonesia had a great impact on Duras and brought...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. The dilemma of a society that had to deal with the deportation of a part of its population.. The return of the survivors: A problem in the society.. The dangers of being a resistant. . The most serious problem of this civil war in...»

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"The innocent anthropologist" Notes from a mud hut - a book of Nigel Barley By Penguin Travel Library (1983), Penguin Books

Document abstract : «A respectable anthropologist, British Museum's curator, Nigel Barley is yet distinguishable by two aspects from his eminent colleagues. First he chose for his thesis to study "Old English material in published and manuscript form" (11), involving...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. The matter of fieldwork on anthropology.. A methodological choice.. The decision despite everything.. The balance.. The difficulties on fieldwork.. Material constraints and physical deficiency.. Social cultural obstacles.. The...»

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Discuss the portrayal of city life in a group of works

Document abstract : «In this essay, we will look at how artists portray city life, how they make the most common things in our lives becoming special and how they transform reality into art. Indeed, everyday, ordinary life often becomes special under their brushes. Some...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Landscapes and countryside paintings before 1850.. Portrayal of streets showing the modernization of cities.. Parties scenes as very common topic.. the topic of art and its omnipresence.. The places and the activities...»

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Action is character, FS Fitzgerald

Document abstract : «In real life, what we do is supposed to reflect our personality. What we are - to the others - is first and foremost what we do and what we look like : we are judged by the others through the prism of our physical appearance and of our own behavior....»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Action is definitely character.. But what is action for a character?. Conclusion.. Bibliography.....»

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The Fantasy in 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson

Document abstract : «The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, written by Robert Louis Stevenson, was an immediate success and had been revisited a number of times since its first publication in 1886. It can be considered as the Gothic tale par excellence. The Gothic...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. The fantastic and gothic features.. The duality of human nature.. A criticism of the Victorian society.. Conclusion.. Works cited.....»

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John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath": Chapter 3

Document abstract : «The chapter under study is an extract from John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Situated at the beginning of the novel, chapter 3 offers a very detailed description of a land turtle trying to reach the other side of the highway. Its journey is...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. A resilient ecological system.. An apparent fixity.. A hidden activity.. The turtle as the representative of determination.. A highly metaphorical passage.. Heaven and Hell revisited.. The burning highway and the Red Sea.. The law of...»

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Democracy for the few (chap. 15), Michael Parenti

Document abstract : «Michael Parenti is a professor of political science at several American universities. He has a PhD in political science from Yale University. He is known for being a progressive activist and a provocative thinker. As such, he wrote numerous books...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Government by secrecy and deception.. Bureaucratic action and inaction.. Little administrators and big businessmen.. Public authority in private hands.. Government 'Meddling'.. Conclusion.....»

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The emotional and psychological reader's response in "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "The Blue Hotel"

Document abstract : «"The Yellow Wall-paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and "The Blue Hotel" by Stephen Crane are two short stories which, beyond the colour references in the title, try to develop certain psychological responses within the reader. I will attempt to...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Readers responses to a text: Influenced by the narration. . Changing moods of the protagonists. . The theme of madness. . The descent into madness of the two protagonists.. Conclusion.. Works cited.....»

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The role of NGO's during wartime: humanitarian vs pacifist ideals

Document abstract : «Since the beginning of modern humanitarian action during wartime (with the birth of the ICRC), the question of the NGOs' role on the battlefields has been the subject of an important controversy, opposing humanitarian to pacifist ideals. Indeed,...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. The original debate on the humanizing of war by humanitarian action.. Humanitarian ideals: A fight to humanize war.. Criticisms from pacifists by humanizing wars.. Humanitarian action is necessary.. NGO's acceptance that action can...»

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