Essay Undergraduate 1,996 words

Expository Sermon Outline: The Rich Man and Lazarus

A complete homiletical outline for an expository sermon on Luke 16:19-23, covering characters, circumstances, cries, and conclusions from the parable.

Religion

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Essay Undergraduate 2,420 words

Alberti vs. Perrault: Columns in Renaissance Architecture

Compares how Alberti's S. Maria Novella and Perrault's East Façade of the Louvre use columns to create contrasting architectural meanings.

Arts

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Essay Undergraduate 2,177 words

Light Against Division: Symbolism in The Outsiders

Comparative analysis of symbolism in S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders (1967): how natural symbols like sunsets and gold outperform social symbols in articulating

Literature

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Yiddish songs and Jewish-American immigration and assimilation

Yiddish music has helped tell the story of European-Jewish immigrants to the U.S., and Yiddish songs about immigration and assimilation at every stage of the process help to better illuminate the experiences of these Yiddish-speaking immigrants.

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1,802 words

Color-blind racism and gender-blind sexism in American society

"Our Mother's Grief: Racial-Ethnic Women and the Maintenance of Families" by Bonnie Thorton Dill I believe, it is largely true that the United States has made great strides in overcoming racial and ethnic prejudices, especially in the form of institutional discrimination, in the decades following…

~10 min read

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1,661 words

Gender representation in Milton's Paradise Lost and divorce pamphlets

Milton was a self-selecting but by no means easily manageable subject for feminist critics: his most important work was, after all, based upon a representation of the original man and woman. Milton is operating within a '"masculinist" patristic' framework, cultural and religious.

~9 min read

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1,098 words

Uncle Tom's Cabin as a purpose novel with universal themes

Uncle Tom's Cabin is a literary and socially relevant classic. The articles and books that offer praise for Stowe's novel are numerous and opinions vary widely.

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1,563 words

The death penalty does not deter crime effectively

Why are some states still putting criminals to death when the available, credible research clearly shows that capital punishment does not deter crime?

~8 min read

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1,522 words

Reconsidering Christian doctrine: virgin birth, salvation, and biblical authority

I find that view to be very arrogant, because it presumes knowledge of God's intentions that no human can ever really have. This view of Christianity has led me to seriously consider three different issues, within the context of Christianity.

~8 min read

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Marx and Weber on materialism, capitalism, and social consciousness

At the core of Marxist principle is the idea that individual experience is formed upon one's response to institutional and social parameters. Marx understands individuals as being largely molded by the environs which surround them.

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