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Vernacular rhetoric and community communication in ancient Rome

The art of using grandiloquent language, though insincere it maybe, as a means of effective communication and persuasion has been coined as "rhetoric" in the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

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Habermas' two-tiered public sphere and democratic welfare state reform

Habermas' idea of democratizing the welfare state unrealistic? If so, does this make it any less valuable for us to think about?

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Women's literacy and male authority in Jane Austen's Persuasion

Feminist criticism is equally concerned with female authorship and with female readership and in the case of Jane Austen, both issues must be addressed.

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Arguments against capital punishment in modern society

The debate surrounding the usage of capital punishment in the modern era has raged for generations. While there have always been arguments for the positive aspects of capital punishment, today's world is less optimistic about the death penalty -- and with good reason.

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The history and medical perception of homosexuality from 1050 to 1900

By sodomy, he meant masturbation and anal intercourse between men, a sin he condemned as the most perverse of sexual sins in his long letter to the Pope, entitled "the Book of Gomorrah." He emphasized that God designed sex exclusively for procreation and that the enjoyment of the sexual act outside…

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Webster's portrayal of elite women in The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil

Webster's 'Sense of an Elite Woman's Place in the World' in the Duchess of Malfi and the White Devil Reflecting on the subject of Webster's 'sense of an elite woman's place in the world', the first point of pertinence is that no discussion on specific issues in The Duchess of Malfi and The White…

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E-books and their impact on writers in the digital age

There were five sources used to complete this paper. The technological explosion over the last few decades has taken the world to heights it never knew were possible.

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Themes of death in Edgar Allan Poe's poetry

Edgar Allan Poe namely, The Raven, Annabel Lee and the Spirit of the Dead. This paper compares the themes and tones of the three poems. This paper also lays emphasis on some events that took place in the poet's life and eventually drove him into writing such poetry.

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Zero tolerance policies and the causes of school violence

One has only to turn on the television, log onto the Internet, or glance at a newspaper to see that violence is everywhere in our society. The nightly news is dominated by one act of depravity after another: murders, rapes, and violent assaults, among others.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and the abolitionist movement

In her own words, Harriet Beecher Stowe was compelled to pen Uncle Tom's Cabin "....because as a woman, as a mother, I was oppressed and broken-hearted with the sorrows and injustice I saw, because as a Christian I felt the dishonor to Christianity -because as a lover of my country, I trembled at…

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