Essays Tagged: "travels"

Was Paul a male chauvinist? Cite particular passages in his letters to support your view. New Testament.

assages in his letters to support your view.In many of the letters that Paul transcribed during his travels, he espoused views that feminists of our time might construe as being chauvinistic. In tryin ... world was expanding and society was being influenced by different cultures intermingling during the travels. Paul's teaching about the church and religion were alarming enough to the great majority of ...

(3 pages) 51 0 3.7 Jul/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

Of Mice and Men

in the 1930s, is a story of friendship of migrant workers George Milton and Lennie Smalls. The pair travels from ranch to ranch, dreaming of someday making enough money so they can buy their own plot ...

(5 pages) 140 2 3.8 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > John Steinbeck

Fetal Development

th the process of fertilization. It starts when the female ovulates producing an egg. This egg then travels into the fallopian tube where it waits to be fertilized. Once sperm enter the body they must ...

(10 pages) 143 0 4.8 Mar/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

Review of Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travel"

this is an analytical essay on Gulliver's Travels, concerning Swift's attacks on British prideIn Jonathan Swift's, 'Gulliver's Travels,' The m ...

(2 pages) 106 0 4.7 Feb/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Intellectual Decisions

Cocaine is taken mainly in two ways: inhalation, and injection(Encarta '96). When inhaled, cocaine travels up through the nasal passage to the capillaries that line the olfactory nerves. This provide ...

(4 pages) 43 0 4.8 Oct/1996

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

The Outer and Inner Worlds of H.G. Wells and R.L. Stevenson

ly of his predictions of what could happen in the future, according to his time. The Time Traveller travels forward to the year 802,701AD, but still in England is his, evolved, back garden. When he ar ...

(4 pages) 44 0 3.3 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Robert Frost's "Road Not Taken"

Which Road to Take?Everyone travels in one point in their life, forcing them to make choices and decisions that affect their liv ...

(4 pages) 602 3 4.1 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

INDIVIDUALITY. A review/commentary of "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift

g task. After studying the heavens, Jonathan Swift offers his conclusions in the work of Gulliver's Travels. One of these is the unfeasibility of grouping according to a communal ideal. Communal star ... communalism as the direction in which future society should proceed.In Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, we see a communal order with many of these characteristics. In Swift's land of the Houyhnhn ...

(7 pages) 185 1 3.7 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Turgenev Russian Literature "Fathers and Sons" Essay deals with the revolutionary ideas of the period and how they translate into everyday life.

Turgenev's revolutionary views were not born in the heart of mother Russia. In his travels through Europe he had a chance to study the most prominent philosophers of that time, absorb ...

(8 pages) 114 0 3.9 May/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

Man Vs. Machine

itical missions, in hostile environments, or more often to pilot and control spaceships in galactic travels. At the same time, however, intelligent robots have also been depicted as dangerous machines ...

(3 pages) 170 3 3.1 May/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

"A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess

es and 'Your Humble Narrator,' as Alex refers to himself, is caught by the police. From there, Alex travels to State Jail 84F to serve 14 years, but receives an offer from 'the Government' which entai ...

(4 pages) 91 0 4.3 May/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Term "Paper on Gulliver's Travels" Jonathan Swift's

Many of the critics who have critiqued Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels have used the word extraneous more then once. Swift was viewed as an insane person who was a ... an insane person who was a failure in life. But this is far from the truth. Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels, a book that has been assigned to students for years, and it is written from experience. Swi ... beliefs, government, or people with views differing from his own. In one of these books, Gulliver's Travels, Swift criticizes the corruption of the English government, society, science, religion, and ...

(5 pages) 210 0 4.7 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Dredging the Hudson River for PCBs - The history of the Hudson, Pros and Cons of Dredging,

e Atlantic, salt water is pushed upriver" (hhr.highlands.com). During the dry season the salt water travels only as far as Newburgh, but during the rainy season it travels as far down river as Tappan ...

(7 pages) 61 0 3.9 May/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

How Should We Treat The Homeless

hey can become a pro-ductive member of society.Lars Eighner, a homeless man, wrote a book entitled 'Travels with Lizbeth:Three Years on the Road and on the Streets' in which he describes in one chapte ...

(2 pages) 137 0 3.9 Mar/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Compare the satire in Gulliver's Travels & Candide

Compare the satire in Gulliver's Travels & CandideSatire means irony. People use satire to expose folly or vice. Interestingly, i ... ple use satire to expose folly or vice. Interestingly, in Voltaire's Candide and Swift's Gulliver's Travels, they both use satire to express their profound observations. They have some similarities; s ... resents a story of his innocent, naïve hero Candide's adventure life. By describing how Candid travels around the world and encounters different circumstances, Voltaire uses his critical tone to ...

(4 pages) 161 0 3.9 Aug/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Acid Rain Legislation

stand the details of what exactly acid rain is. Acid rain is a result of mankind's carelessness. It travels a long one of the most efficient biogeochemical cycles on earth, the Hydrologic Cycle. This ...

(3 pages) 51 0 3.7 Nov/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

"FOREIGN TRAVEL" - This essay tells the great use of foreign travel.

ation was a long and expensive journey by sea. Since the introduction of international airlines the travels became easier but more expensive. Although it is, there is a vast difference from the past u ...

(1 pages) 99 1 3.3 Nov/2002

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays > Travel Descriptions

SEMINAR - Swift and The Historical Content in 'Gulliver's Travels'.

SEMINAR - Swift and The Historical Content in 'Gulliver's Travels'.As the text is complex and has two and half centuries of fierce criticism with regards to S ... anageable section.In this seminar I will be discussing one aspect of Swift and the text 'Gulliver's Travels', that of the historical content and its focus and its indirect relation to the question 'To ... n the text in the context of the time it was written, he argues that in the politics of 'Gulliver's Travels' Swift is talking about History in its widest most general context, that of European History ...

(6 pages) 81 0 4.0 Feb/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

the secret society of masonry

illed craftsmen were in high demand all over the country forcing the church to allow and fund there travels to various regions to put there skills into use. The exact time frame that the masonry world ...

(2 pages) 75 0 3.5 Feb/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays

My poetry explication of Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" Provides summary, form, elements, and meaning for each stanza.

t specified if male or female, but instead, a persona who is reflecting back on his or her own life travels. "Travels", used as a figurative term, depicts this person's life experiences; where they s ...

(3 pages) 534 3 4.4 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry