Essays Tagged: "different perspective"

Refutation to a Bias suggestion about Gods non-existance

on'Some people suggest that the Bible, being a collection of texts written long ago by persons much different from ourselves, does not have much (or any) significance for modern people.'The suggestion ... same nationality with the authors of the Bible, we do share common beliefs and faiths. Taken from a different perspective, non-Christians do not share the same beliefs, obviously, or they would not ma ...

(2 pages) 50 0 3.9 Mar/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Backpacking

Backpacking: A Different Way of CampingWhat is camping? To most people, it is perceived as a time to pack up the ca ... t stories that can only be heard while camping. However, to the avid backpacker, camping takes on a different perspective. While experiencing the great outdoors is very similar to car camping, backpac ... cts. Preparation for backpacking and car camping and the locales where one can set up camp are very different. In either case, experiencing the great outdoors and its natural beauty cannot be surpasse ...

(3 pages) 41 0 4.3 Jan/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

The Shawhsank Redemption

The Shawshank RedemptionThe Shawshank Redemption is a very unique movie which involves many different personalities and underlying themes. The personalities of the inmates are very interesting ... ey are combined they create a very fascinating plot which looks at prison life in a interesting and different perspective than one normally thinks. The main characters are Andy Dufrense (Tim Robbins) ...

(6 pages) 249 0 4.3 Jan/1996

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

Emily Dickenson and the Theme of Death

used death as the theme for many of her poems. Dickenson's poems offer a creative and refreshingly different perspective on death and its effects on others. In Dickenson's poems, death is often perso ... others. In Dickenson's poems, death is often personified, and is also assigned to personalities far different from the traditional 'horror movie' roles. Dickenson also combines imaginative diction wit ...

(2 pages) 122 0 4.2 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

T.S. Eliot's "Journey of the Magi" is a very visually stimulating poem. In this essay it is diagrammed and broke apart line by line to show the imagery and the tone of the whole overall poem.

i"T.S. Eliot's poem "Journey of the Magi" interprets the wisemens' trip to go see baby Jesus from a different perspective than most of us are used to hearing. The biblical version that is most popular ... born are all just a few of my thoughts. Even after they return home, they know that something feels different. The Magi's kingdoms were no longer at ease. The speaker makes me think that the whole wor ...

(2 pages) 110 1 3.5 May/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Analysis of "The Right to Bear Arms" by Jim Williams

know what to focus on. I did find this article, though, and it really interested me because of the different perspective it took on the issue. The article starts off with a quote from the Bible, so t ... respect because he is a reverend, a man of God, so this is why people would believe him. He states different cases from the 19th century which support Christianity and then more recent cases that hav ...

(4 pages) 76 0 3.8 Oct/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Socrates-not perfect- I got a A- at UC Berkeley on it Essay on how Socrates arguments are contradictory and can be proven faulty. This essay proves a few of Socrates arguments faulty.

y member. Many times an individual tends to ask for more than one person's advice in order to get a different perspective concerning the same matter. Which advice is best? Whose advice out of the many ...

(5 pages) 203 0 4.6 Nov/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

Individualism and how it is evident in Ralph Waldo Emerson's story "Self Reliance".

he sense of individualism, then you are then committing suicide. As society will look at you with a different perspective than at other people; it will always single you out in a crowd due to this. He ... of the greatest people in the record part of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were all on a different level of thinking from the people in their time. Therefore, they were misunderstood at tha ...

(3 pages) 138 0 3.8 Dec/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

An Analysis of a few poems by Dorothy Parker on the topic of men.

f the time. However I still like reading her poems because of the way they made me think, she has a different perspective on topics than I do. That is why I chose to read her poems for my literature e ... at there are happy homes of two-way streets of love. Parker writes ABABAB in this poem, similar but different from the first poem. She seems to always put her rimes at the end of the line making the s ...

(3 pages) 57 0 5.0 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

FINAL PROJECT: A FILM ON HOMELESS WOMEN. how to create a film about homeless women. Ideas for the film. Cultural Anthropology class.

highest purpose on doing this film is to help these women in various ways. We also want to offer a different perspective on the people who are often referred to as "vagrant," "beggar" and "bum." if t ... ng to be part of our project and help us in the whole course of doing the film.Our approach is very different than the films we have seen in class because we are going to use the women in an active wa ...

(12 pages) 165 2 4.6 Feb/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology

Democracy

rl Marx along with Frederick Engle who is the author of Manifesto of the Communist Party, each have different perspective views in democracy.Durkheim states that "crime is normal because it is complet ... these changes to occur, we as the people have to put forth effort and let ours voice be heard. In a different way, he also view that democracy as a word that are closely associated with freedom. Peopl ...

(3 pages) 82 0 3.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Discuss how F. Mernissi interprets the reasons for the "descending of the veil" in Medina during the Prophet's life.

The selected readings in "The Veil and the Male Elite" shed a different perspective on reasons of the descending of the veil. Mernissi's accurate knowledge in the ... apted in to the idea of "hejab"Mernissi points out that the "hejab" used in year 5 of "hijra" had a different symbolic and materialistic meaning than it does now in the 20th centaury. When the city of ...

(3 pages) 37 0 3.2 Mar/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History

The argument of independence between China and Taiwan.

and they should recognize that Taiwan is an independent country. By explaining the situation from a different perspective, China gains a better understanding of Taiwan's situation, and realized that T ... o Taiwan. However the fact is that the two cannot be compared directly because their situations are different. Hong Kong was leased to the British for ninety-nine years after the Chinese had lost the ...

(9 pages) 208 4 3.5 May/2003

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

"The great gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

of fulfillment. On the other hand, Henry David Thoreau achieves his goal by dreaming in an entirely different perspective and making a decision on how to live. The final result which comes after their ... n on how to live. The final result which comes after their decease shows the effectiveness of their different dreams and ways in fulfilling them in a particular land of America. The American dream Tho ...

(5 pages) 51 0 4.0 May/2003

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

Dead poets society.

smatic teacher who earned his students love, respect and attention through his strong teachings and different perspective on life. Mr. Keating teaches his students to "seize the day" and to "make thei ...

(2 pages) 47 0 5.0 Jul/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Marketing.

iations between consumer goods, services, industrial and business-to-business marketing? Is there a different perspective that should, in the new millennium, be the focus of textbooks and marketing co ... d? The marketers of services were the first to "speak out", arguing that the nature of marketing is different owing to the basic characteristics of services: · intangibility; · direct or ...

(9 pages) 739 1 4.8 Oct/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

Dante's Inferno.

iptions have been given of hell; however, Dante's portrayal of this pit of anguish puts hell into a different perspective for myself. The separating of levels or degrees, the personification of the si ... and ultimately killing of Jesus Christ. I thought that Dante should have put some of the levels in different order; however, most of the punishments seemed to fit the crime.Dante put some sins in a h ...

(2 pages) 86 0 1.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

In 100 Year.

In 100 Years... The world will be a better place in 100 years. The people will have an entirely different perspective on the way to live. Everything will have advanced and made living easier. Crim ... ogy improves, and life expectancy grows will be better. In 100 years, people will have an entirely different perspective on how life should be lived. We live in a growing society, both mentally and p ...

(2 pages) 150 8 4.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

The American Dream.

mples of the "American Dream" of superiority playing a part in AmericanHistory. Each American has a different idea of this superiority, butnonetheless strive to achieve it, whatever it may be in.The C ... wanted to better the country to have it achieve the"American Dream". Unfortunately, each side had a different perspective onhow to approach it. Slavery was a major issue, the North against, theSouth p ...

(6 pages) 128 0 5.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

A paper about a mystery on the Orient Express train. Titled "The Great Train Mystery"

Turkey in Ankara made me feel separated from all European life, and I wanted to visit Turkey from a different perspective. I decided to travel to Istanbul, and stay with my friend Monsieur Chanteau at ... of my parents worked with international affairs for the Swiss government, so I was exposed to many different cultures. Ten years ago, I traveled with my parents to Ankara, and that started my love af ...

(13 pages) 54 0 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing