Essays Tagged: "appease"

'Crick Crack Monkey' by Merle. CaribbeanExcepts highly influenced by the British ideals: Merle Hodge's 'My Aunt Gold Teeth' by V. S. Naipaul, and 'If I could Write This in Fire, I Would Write This in

, and culture has coped with the influx of British ideals and in coping, the people have changed to appease the islands' highly influential British population. Three excepts highly influenced by the B ...

(6 pages) 51 0 3.3 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

"Mother to the tribe" by Marge Piercy

ones morals or ethics. For many would agree utilitarianism is the best route to take when trying to appease most individuals; however what can be the consequences of such 'happiness'? Marge Piercy att ...

(9 pages) 95 1 5.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The Code of Hammurabi and how people lived their lives according to it

le believed in order to insure a better life for themselves andtheir families a man must please and appease the gods. Hummurabi took this into strongconsideration.2The Code of Hammurabi was implements ...

(3 pages) 131 0 4.6 Nov/1996

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

The Great Gatsby. The question is what specific instances lead to or are linked to Gatsby's eventual death. Includes direct quotations from the novel.

eorge Wilson caused the eventual death of Jay Gatsby.Jay Gatsby had spent his entire life trying to appease Daisy, however, she who drove the car that killed Myrtle Wilson. George Wilson's rage was st ...

(3 pages) 97 0 3.3 Aug/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Catherine's Idol in the novel Wuthering Heights

ing able to instill faith in someone or bring the relief of pain or suffering. Finally, an idol can appease someone in time of great stress and bring happiness to one's life because it may very well b ...

(6 pages) 76 1 3.9 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Accounts for the fall of the Weimar Government using extensive historiography.

ms of the treaty were not harsh enough to stamp out all resistance in Germany nor lenient enough to appease the German people and avoid unrest. The rumour that the German army had been stabbed in the ...

(6 pages) 89 2 5.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Abraham Lincoln's views on slavery from the years of 1861-1865

ough his personal beliefs may have led him in one direction, they needed to be filtered in order to appease both the North and the South. Despite Lincoln's profound hatred for slavery and all that cam ... , I do because I believe it helps save the Union." Lincoln's words were carefully chosen, picked to appease both the North and the South. The speech was formulated to avert disaffection by the public ...

(4 pages) 137 1 4.3 May/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents

Tennessee Williams' Play "A Street Car Named Desire" an Essay about how Blanches society is the epitome of her eventual demise.

nd, Allan Grey. Allen, A closet homosexual married Blanch in what could be derived as an attempt to appease society?s expectations of a man in this era. However it seems that the burden of this secret ...

(4 pages) 75 0 0.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Gateway Drugs-analogy paper that shows how small drugs can lead to use of heavier drugs

na--are a problem with today's youth almost everywhere. Most often, young people try these drugs to appease friends who are pressuring them to do it, but then become addicted themselves. Since tobacco ...

(2 pages) 48 0 3.4 Jan/2004

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

Does a Violent Media create a Violent Society? An examination of the effects of the media on the society.

t debate, with no real solution. There are many things society as a whole and individuals can do to appease or inflame the issue, however each argument has a counter argument and a counter argument wi ...

(2 pages) 107 1 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

The Laurier Era

rfeit his seat in parliament. Prime Minister Wilfred Laurier, who was also Quebecois, had a duty to appease the overwhelming desire of the English-speaking majority, and therefore was forced to go aga ...

(4 pages) 49 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

The Portrayal of Genius in Bernard Rose's 1994 Film Immortal Beloved

he socially popular icon of genius without exploring the profile of the true genius in an effort to appease the societal demand for something that the public can recognize, understand, and conceivably ...

(8 pages) 56 0 4.3 Apr/2004

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

Comparing and Contrasting the accounts of the great flood in Gilgamesh and the Bible

were probably a people that were very afraid of their gods and goddesses and did all they could to appease them and not incur their seemingly random punishments.The justification of the flood as give ...

(2 pages) 69 1 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Keeping Marijuana Illegal

pletely illegal, including for medical use would be a mistake as well. Marijuana is a useful way to appease those suffering chronic sicknesses which to this day are incurable, or hard to cure. ...

(3 pages) 111 2 3.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Casinos: Profit vs Progress

ive American gaming.The 1988 Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, was a bad idea from the start. Hoping to appease a poor and politically embarrassing minority and their liberal allies, congress in 1988 set ...

(4 pages) 103 0 4.3 May/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Essay: What are the important foods the ancient romans had?

leeks." A different part of the garden would "be given over to...plants that add savour to food and appease hunger: garlic, onions, cress, chicory" (Dupont 99-100). Broad beans and cabbage were also g ...

(2 pages) 38 0 2.5 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Mary J - A Short Poem about Marijuana

must persecute me,Mindlessly following thier passive decree.So you may choose, if you wish, not to appease,For I do with my body as I damn well please.It's not that I care not for your opinion,But th ...

(1 pages) 55 3 3.1 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

City of the Sun vs New Atlantis

ans don't need to aspire to fewer desires because the advances of science would make it possible to appease bodily desires by providing material things and that would satisfy human greed. The Solomon' ...

(5 pages) 23 0 0.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

Classical Humanism and Renaissance art

e officials to govern them in local affairs. The magistrates of the cities regulated sales, and, to appease troublesome masses, kept food prices too low for peasant happiness.Humanism and the Renaissa ...

(4 pages) 97 0 4.8 Jul/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Obliteration of the Peculiar Institution: an in depth investigation into whether the people or the government ultimately destroyed slavery

o only so far as the interests of the dominant groups permitted."2 At the time government tended to appease the South. Therefore, at countless key points during the destruction of slavery, it was pres ...

(13 pages) 76 1 3.7 Jan/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History