Essays Tagged: "outlooks"

Black Boy autobiography by Richard Wright,

, an autobiography by Richard Wright, is an account of a young African-American boy's thoughts and outlooks on life in the South while growing up. The novel is 288 pages, and was published by Harper ...

(4 pages) 91 0 3.4 Sep/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

LEGALIZE IT?

killings, sex crimes and insanity. How can two such highlyrespected experts have such night and day outlooks on the same thing? While Anslingerpresided as America's leading anti-drug official his McCa ...

(3 pages) 156 5 4.5 Oct/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

"Ethics Affect Actions".Examines the views of two philosophers (Kant and Mill) on how ethics affect appropriate action. Great for a philosophy class and you can add your own views and opinions

and John Stuart Mill are two philosophers who focus on the topic of ethics, yet with two different outlooks. Kant is considered a non-consequentialist, which means he feels the intentions, motives, a ...

(4 pages) 709 4 4.7 Aug/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

Feminine Perspectives Presented in Shakespeare's Play "Much Ado about Nothing"

ant-garde usage of the expression come in the form of two cousins with very different yet analogous outlooks on life. Hero and Beatrice, each carry themselves in distinctive fashions, and handle situa ...

(5 pages) 45 0 3.5 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Themes in "Lord of the Flies" : Good vs. Evil --Are people generally good or generally evil?

There are various outlooks of a man in the novel ?Lord of the Flies.? Piggy and Ralph viewed man as being essentially ... d savage. As time away from civilization grew the close they reached destruction and chaos.The main outlooks of man represented in the novel were shown through Piggy, Ralph, Jack and Simon. Jack used ...

(4 pages) 80 0 3.3 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

This essay compares the writing styles of Edgar Allen Poe and Washington Irving in relation to the atmospheres in which they grew up.

r. Their extremely different backgrounds and life styles growing up is a reason for their different outlooks on life, therefore leading to different ways of expressing their selves.Washington Irving w ...

(2 pages) 45 0 5.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

The events and terms during the Progressive Era in the United States beggining with Teddy Roosevelt entering office.

During the Progressive Era, the United States goals and outlooks changed dramatically. The economy was going from domestic to worldwide. America's interest ...

(2 pages) 55 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government

Can Technologies determine modern social customs and ethics?

ethics included. While admitting the unstoppable force of technology in transforming or determining outlooks of science, business, researches, archaeology, entomology and endless others, I insist that ...

(2 pages) 122 0 5.0 May/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence

A comparison between an open-mind and a closed-one.

th a brick wall. You're not going to get very far. Closed-minded people generally do not want their outlooks changed on subjects that they hold as truth. Some examples of closed-minded people are, as ...

(3 pages) 138 0 5.0 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Comparative Essays

The Concilation and The National Picture.

e text is showing what happened before the actual event of moving them, and their initial views and outlooks on the situation. The text helps to visually express the scene of what happened when Robins ... ns of their times, indicating existing attitudes and perspectives, beliefs and political and social outlooks.Q5 HOW AND WHY I HAVE APPROPRIATED THE TEXTI have appropriated these texts to create a thir ...

(9 pages) 52 0 4.5 Oct/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History

The Conflict between Truth and Ideals in "Heart of Darkness"

d his ideals.Throughout the story, we are introduced to a bevy of characters representing different outlooks. However, the personal conflict Marlow faces gives the story its depth and crisis. Marlow a ...

(5 pages) 61 1 3.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The theme of gender separation in the poem Home Burial by Robert Frost.

ing to her son?s gravesite through a window behind her. This opening scene epitomizes each of their outlooks on mourning for their son. The mother looks to the grave because her level of mourning is j ...

(5 pages) 73 1 4.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Inequality- The Natural State of Human Beings Think Essay using quotes, explaining them, and responding to them; dealing with controversial issues.

e way of living these people had grown accustomed to. Humans are greedy, and the majority of people outlooks on life that only benefit themselves. A comment like this could be made in this time period ...

(3 pages) 94 3 4.4 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Setting in Edith Wharton's short story Ethan Frome

whatdirect the actions of the novel. In the story, the setting reflects the attitudes anddifferent outlooks of the characters, helping to shape and direct the tale's plot. Thisdepiction of setting ca ...

(4 pages) 57 0 4.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Hannah Foster's seduction novel, The Coquette and Mary Wollstonecraft's feminist novel, A Vindication of the Rights of Women, both described and compared. (6 pages)

mpany are encouraged. Throughout the book, Eliza is constantly being judged by her confidants whose outlooks on society focus more on the new enlightment. Eliza's friends, Lucy and Mrs. Richman, feel ...

(5 pages) 89 0 5.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Compare and/or contrast Hemingway's veiw of man and the world with Hawthorne's veiw of man and the world.

e life differs. There are aspects in their work, aside from death, that illustrate their comparable outlooks on life. However, two of their most notable characters, Santiago and Hester Prynne, are por ...

(3 pages) 32 0 3.4 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The three central protagonists in Enduring Love could be said to represent science, art and religion. In the light of this statement, how far does this count for the conflict between the characters?

in the novel, and the strongest force in existence which has the capability of bridging those whose outlooks are diametrically opposite, for example, art, science and religion (Clarissa, Parry and Jed ... er this as well as what the characters' differences are, and if they spring from their own opposing outlooks.Paradoxically, the characteristics of art, science and religion that cause them to be diame ...

(7 pages) 58 1 4.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Islam/Christianity Views of Trade and Merchants

ty Views of Trade and MerchantsChristianity and Islam both comprise very detailed and comprehensive outlooks relating to merchants and trade. In order for a religion to thrive, its views must sustain ... t be as broadly spread as it is today.Christianity and Islam today both share very comparable views/outlooks on trade. While Islam may have developed an effective policy from its early beginnings, Chr ...

(2 pages) 28 0 1.7 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

How does the mass media reinforce sterotypes?

hough direct images.It cannot be doubted that the media profoundly influence people's attitudes and outlooks. They convey a whole variety of information which individuals would not otherwise acquire. ...

(6 pages) 436 0 4.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Successful Satire within Volatire's "Candide"

ghtenment was a period of time in European history when English and French philosophers created new outlooks on life. Leibniz was one of these philosophers and he introduced the idea of optimism. Opti ...

(2 pages) 74 0 3.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature