Philoctetes, "the wild man", cut off from civilisation on Lemnos proves, paradoxically, to be, arguably, the most civilised: he is the recipient of the theophany, who alone sees the god and to whom the god's words are addressed. ... Philocetetes says as they are trying to drive him onto the ship, "are you going to herd me like a wild animal?... Heaney creates his own version: "oh ahhhhhhh8" and even refers to himself as being like an animal, "I know I look like a wild animal, don't let me scare you9". ... Here we see that Philoctetes suffers both ...

• Word Count: 2877
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The artistic community was called into action, producing whole schools of painting, which glorified the development of the nation. ... The so-called Hudson River School appeared in the mid 1820s. ... The Hunter's Return represents wild woods surrounding a glade where a family seems to be living in symbiotically with the prevailing forces of nature. ... Cole was famous for the spiritual or moral symbols he was used to put in his work. ... America was still a new country, and many considered it as a Garden of Eden, plentiful and wild. ...

• Word Count: 3252
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Modern, or revisionist Western are films made after 1964 (Dollars Trilogy (1964-66), The Wild Bunch (1969), Unforgiven (1992)), and Classical would be those Westerns made in American prior to 1964 (Stagecoach (1939), The Searchers (1956), Shane (1953)). ... This is an important difference between modern and classic Westerns; even the bad guys seem to be cleaner, and more honorable than some of the so called good guys we see in these films. ... Somehow I do not see a member of the Wild Bunch working for six weeks for $20. ... We are supposed to feel some sort of pity for the gang in, The Wi...

• Word Count: 2622
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the mid-eighteenth century a young economist by the name of Adam Smith advanced ideas on the nature of governments and people that dealt with the moral consciousness inherent within people. In Mary Lowe - Evans work, "Frankenstein: Mary Shelley's Wedding Guest," published in 1993, Lowe states, "Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments, which when published in 1759 argued that moral behavior is motivated by sympathy for others" (76). ... It has been speculated that Shelly herself did not believe that moral behavior is motivated by sympathy for others and that it is through her...

• Word Count: 3377
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

But though this be a state of liberty, yet it is not a state of licence; though man in that state have an uncontrollable liberty to dispose of his person or possessions, yet he has not liberty to destroy himself, or so much as any creature in his possession, but where some nobler use than its bare preservation calls for it. ... For these two are the only reasons why one man may lawfully do harm to another, which is that we call punishment. ...

• Word Count: 7672
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In many parts of the world there is prominent public controversy over the moral, ethical, and legal issues of abortion. ... The World Health Organization recommends this procedure, also called sharp curettage, only when MVA is unavailable. ... IDX is sometimes called "partial-birth abortion," which has been federally banned in the United States. ...

• Word Count: 3930
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The post-war welfare state was a social construction that resulted from the complex, contested and fragile set of arrangements called "settlements" - the political, economic, social and organisational settlements. ... In the 1980s fifty pieces of legislation aimed at curtailing powers and responsibilities of local authorities were passed (Wilding, 1992, quoted in Lewis, 1998). ...

• Word Count: 3818
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is mentioned in Irish History that St. Patrick banished all the snakes from Ireland. This seems an impressive feat and we seem to be able to confirm it as fact as Ireland is indeed a country without snakes. However, the more realistic, and more mundane reason why there are no snakes in Ireland is because the country is an island surrounded by the sea. It was separated from the land mass of Europe around 6700 BC before snakes and other varieties of plant life were common in the country. ...

• Word Count: 10019
• Approx Pages: 40
• Grade Level: Undergraduate