The Xenogenesis trilogy is a one-volume novel entitled, "Lilith's Brood," in 2000 written by Octavia Butler (1989). It is composed of "Dawn," published in 1987; "Adulthood Rites," published in 1988; and "Imago," published in 1989. The trilogy is about an ...

Juveniles and the death penalty Executions of juveniles began in 1642 with the execution of Thomas Graunger, from Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts, his age was not stated in the reference. (Minimum Death Penalty Ages) Three hundred and fifty years later, Twenty-Three states have legalized the execu...

Narcissism is not Liberation In her book Where the Girls Are: Growing up Female with the Mass Media, Susan Douglas tackles the subject of female representation in the media. Advertisers have successfully turned many women into narcissists by dictating the characteristics that supposedly make up ...

Many classic accounts regarding "man against nature" adventures liken these adventures to conquest. A mountain, for example, is a force to be mastered or conquered. Reaching the summit is akin to a victory over the mountain. People who forge trails into the wilderness refer to "taming" ...

The Last of the half Grant Kohler John Bunyan was not the first to write a significant work on the metaphorical journey of life. The story of a man traveling through familiar alien territory while meeting strange people and places has transcended all ages of literature. HomerÆs Odyssey tel...

Ben Franklin: Early Life In his many careers as a printer, moralist, essayist, civic leader, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, and philosopher, for later generations of Americans he became both a spokesman and a model for the national character. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts on ...

Introduction and Background Information The 2001 feature film Ghost World is one of only a few comic book-to-film adaptations that centers on a female protagonist, and it contains one of the first comic-to-film protagonists, male or female, to be a non-action character-in other words, the prot...

When this novel was written, as a reflection of the society of the 1940's, both the domestic and international issues that were being confronted by all countries were put under the Orwellian microscope. Orwell tapped into the contemporary readers' fears of technology and retribution and ...

Carl Jung, a Swiss-German psychoanalyst, developed several theories of the unconscious and was instrumental in bringing psychology to the 20th century. He was born Carl Gustav Jung on July 26, 1875, his family was well educated and included clergymen and eccentrics. Freud and Jung together and alone...

The social and cultural conditions in the city of Athens between 440 and 370 B.C.E., a time when philosophers and military leaders such as Aristotle, Socrates and Pericles were at the height of their powers, can be compared to the current situation in the United States in three important ways. First...

The Age of Spiritual Machines presents a history of computers, looking at how past trends in computing have led to today's personal machines. Author Ray Kurzweil then goes beyond history to look towards the future. Most audiences are familiar with the notion that computers will one day thi...

When most people think of reading, they think of either reading for entertainment, or for academic gain. However, in Saint Augustine's Confessions, he urges us, through his example and explanation, to view reading as a path to understanding truthâ€"almost as a spiritual pra...

The 1972 passage of Roe v. Wade has made abortion the greatest moral flashpoint in the United States today. For abortion supporters, the issue is often framed as a question of women's rights and privacy. This argument, however, ignores the reality that abortion - particularly late- ter...

The 1972 passage of Roe v. Wade has made abortion the greatest moral flashpoint in the United States today. For abortion supporters, the issue is often framed as a question of women's rights and privacy. This argument, however, ignores the reality that abortion - particularly late- ter...

The 1972 passage of Roe v. Wade has made abortion the greatest moral flashpoint in the United States today. For abortion supporters, the issue is often framed as a question of women's rights and privacy. This argument, however, ignores the reality that abortion - particularly late- ter...

What the Allegory Implies for People Living in a World of Senses The Allegory of the Cave implies that if we rely on our perceptions to know the truth about existence then we will know very little about it. The sense are unreliable and their perceptions imperfect because perceptions are only how...

TO BE EVIL OR NOT TO BE...IS THAT THE QUESTION? "The man who walks with god always knows in what direction he is going" (qtd. in Punch Lines, Hutson). This quote has a direct irony in correlation to Nathaniel Hawthorne's tale of "Young Goodman Brown". Hawthorne's ...

Gilgamesh: Out of the Dark and into the Light Without light, we wouldn't know dark. Without cold, we couldn't know hot. These "systematic dualisms of associated polarities" (Honderich 734), or binary oppositions, are used to illustrate meaning in the story of Gilgamesh. The st...

Evolution. Is it just a scientific theory or fact, or perhaps a source of philosophical thought which one adopts as an evolutionist or chooses when one has a particular worldview? Evolution actually has philosophical ramifications, ones I want to examine in this essay. Evolution means several things...

Burch, Chairman of Federal Communications Commission of US believes "that in case of advertising directed to children, the standards of what is false and deceptive must be judged in light of the crucial fact that the audience is so unsophisticated, so young and trusting. It is, I submit, intole...

From cucumbers and carrots to white rice and wheat, we humans have altered the genes of almost every food we eat. For almost 10,000 years we've been engineering plants by keeping the seeds from the best crops and planting those the next season. Following this practice year after year has resulted ...

The first reports of a fabulous stone palace in Southern Africa did not leave Africa until 1552. It was described by João de Barros in his book Da Asia as "a square fortress, masonry within and without, built of stones of marvelous size, and there appears to be no mortar joining them." Portugues...

It's that time of year again; the applications reviewed, the e-mails opened, the anger spewed, it's beta time! One can just feel the energy flowing about the community, it's similar to that of 17th century witch trial. Whose on the chopping block this time around? It isn't the 'n00bs,' or the 'flame...

In the book The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie the reader is introduced to an interesting relationship that develops between the two main characters of the book, Miss Brodie and Sandy. For the most part the story is told from the perspective of when Sandy and the other girls are still in school, but occa...

These Colors Don't Run, But They Do Burn The famous phrase, "...give me liberty, or give me death," was articulated by the revolutionary thinker Patrick Henry and has since become a mantra for the people of the United States of America. However, many may never think about the myriad...