Essays Tagged: "permanence"

Derrick Bell's "Space Traders"

n the U.S. is due to the black race. Secondly, "the space trade" comprehends Bell's concept of "the permanence of racism" in the Unites States. Bell believes that "the space trade" is somewhat familia ... somewhat familiar to the first African slave trade, and that these two events occur because of "the permanence of racism" in our society and the structures that allow this repetition to exist. In this ...

(6 pages) 96 0 4.5 Mar/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

Shakespeare 18

world of time and to validate his point, he embodies the eternity of his lady\'s beauty through the permanence of poetry.In lines 1 to 9 of the sonnet, Shakespeare states his initial question \"Shall ...

(2 pages) 85 0 3.9 Mar/2002

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

Explanatory Style and Depression

y you explain events. Three different qualities can determine if you are optimistic or pessimistic. Permanence is the belief that bad events are long lasting for pessimistic, but optimists resist this ...

(2 pages) 79 0 3.4 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Origin of Marriage

e marriage relationship.In the New Testament, all three Synoptic Gospels record Jesus affirming the permanence of marriage. In both Mark and Matthew, Jesus makes reference to Gen. 2:24 which speaks of ...

(5 pages) 237 1 3.9 Apr/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Darkness Illuminated in Hawthorne's Scarlett letter

wthorne uses light as a tool of God that illuminates the darkness of human iniquity and exposes its permanence. He studies the psychological theme of the impossibility of eradicating sin from the huma ...

(3 pages) 54 0 3.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Baby Boomers Are Jealous. Generation x

individuals pathologically ambivalent about the future, and brimming with unsatisfied longings for permanence, for love, and for material possessions.' (Lauren, p.64) This less-than-flattering descri ...

(4 pages) 134 0 3.9 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Charles Darwin and Natural Selection.

lace struck upon it, because he had "never come across a single [naturalist] who seemed to doubt to permanence of species" (Ridley, pp. 70). What follows are the key points of Darwin's Theory of Natur ... lace struck upon it, because he had "never come across a single [naturalist] who seemed to doubt to permanence of species" (Ridley, pp. 70). What follows are the key points of Darwin's Theory of Natur ...

(8 pages) 211 3 4.7 May/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geology & Geosciences

Commentaire composé : Marivaux « Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard » Acte II scène 11

i que les auteurs anciens peuvent susciter auprès d'un public mondain et féminin : la permanence des lois de la nature interdit, selon eux, de considérer les Modernes comme inf&ea ...

(15 pages) 15 0 0.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

"The House On Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros Compared to "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

When her family finally settled in a small red house in Chicago, Cisneros had a home and a sense of permanence that she had previously never known. But it was not the house she had dreamed of nor been ...

(10 pages) 80 0 4.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Heraclitus

al stuff which is, in its own nature, unchanging. Heraclitus reversed this: change is what is real. Permanence is only apparent.3. Heraclitus had a very strong influence on Plato. Plato interpreted He ... f change in general, and the river fragments in particular, suggest that he thought that change and permanence could co-exist, that is, that an object could persist in spite of continually undergoing ...

(9 pages) 52 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

Dwelling: Making Peace with Space and Place

To say dwell somewhere implies permanence. But at root "dwell" means to pause or delay. J. B. Jackson said that dwell is a speak of ...

(4 pages) 19 0 0.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The meiji Restoration and how education helped the permanance of the new regime

he reforms that were a significant contributor in achieving the new regime's goals and ensuring its permanence is in education.When the Emperor Meiji first came to the throne, his Government made it c ... ion that was not only smooth and swift, but also gained the government popularity which ensured the permanence of the new regime.Initially western texts were direct translations, therefore exposing th ...

(3 pages) 40 0 3.0 Aug/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

The cuban crisis and foreign policy

p with the USA and Latin America and forged new ties with the USSR were significant in ensuring the permanence of the new regime because of the effects that they had on Cuba's economy, nationalism, mi ...

(2 pages) 36 1 3.0 Aug/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Summarize the formation of friction ridge skin and how it relates to the permanence of fingerprints?

1.Summarize the formation of friction ridge skin and how it relates to the permanence of fingerprints.The skin over most of our bodies is fairly smooth. 'Friction Ridges', how ...

(4 pages) 68 0 3.7 Jan/2005

Subjects: Science Essays

Essay on the themes of ozymandias by P.B.Shelly, and how they are demonstrated to the reader.

t matter, diction, figures of speech, sound devices and structure used by shelly convey the idea of permanence and impermanence.To consider the issue of the power of time and nature the poet has the n ... ave in the way he did ("heart that fed")The poet further uses his subject matter to deal with the impermanence of all things in the face of time and nature when he extends his description of Ozymandia ...

(4 pages) 33 0 0.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Realism and Liberalism Discuss and compare or contrast Realism and Liberalism.

and coexist, yet are opposite in theory. Realism is conservative and pessimistic. Realists plan for permanence of the current international state of affairs. Liberalism is progressive and optimistic. ...

(3 pages) 150 0 5.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

An Analysis of "Sailing to Byzantium."

zed eternity to Yeats; it was an ancient city that represented a place of artistic and intellectual permanence. Yeats believed that ""in early Byzantium, maybe never before or since in recorded histor ... er constant world of art.The immediate issue brought forth in the first stanza of the poem is the impermanence of the natural state of the world, and the fact that everything living must one day meet ...

(6 pages) 102 0 5.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Problems Facing United States after the defeat of the Confederates.

e sources wanted the full restoration of the United States, but faced the problem of socio-economic permanence in the South. However, they differed on many aspects. Lincoln set forth a plan know as th ...

(2 pages) 18 0 0.0 Jan/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Transience and permanence in "The Odes" by John Keats (1795 - 1821).

'Ode on a Grecian Urn', based on a sonnet written by Wordsworth in 1811.The theme of transience and permanence, which struck Keats in Wordsworth's poetry, forms the leading theme in the Odes. The ode, ... on the urn - but all its celebratory and amorous activities will never carry on to any conclusion. Permanence exacts its price, the painted scene will outlast outlandish passion, the sorrowful heart ...

(4 pages) 32 0 0.0 Jan/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Emily Dickinson: "Because I could not stop for Death"

ores the tension between life and death. The poem highlights the conflict between life's desire for permanence and the irrepressible and untimely nature of death. While Dickinson's poem presents etern ...

(5 pages) 38 1 5.0 Sep/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry