The double personality in Edgar Allan Poe's tales: William Wilson and The Cask of Amontillado - publié le 20/07/2006
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
It is common knowledge that the stories of Edgar Allan Poe often reflect some of his own personal problems. His works, ?William Wilson' and ?The Cask of Amontillado' are usually classified under the label "tales of the double (or evil) personality". They reflect one of the strangest...
The double personality in Edgar Allan Poe's tales: William Wilson and The Cask of Amontillado
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
Edgar Allan Poe's stories often reflect some of his own personal problems. William Wilson and The Cask of Amontillado are usually classified with the label “tales of the double (or evil) personality”. They reflect one of the strangest aspects of Poe's life. He actually had a blurred...
Translation report: Recipe language
Dissertation - 17 pages - Linguistics & languages
It is true that England is not reputed for its cuisine. Perhaps it is significant that there is no real equivalent for the expression bon appétit in English (waiters only say “enjoy your meal”). However, there are different specialties in England such as the famous English breakfast...
Lyrical ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge or the birth of a new literary movement during the Industrial Revolution
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
Industrialism, expansion, profit, production and individualism were the feelings which took place during the period of the Industrial Revolution in England. People in Great Britain were led by the streams of progress, but the modernizations in technology had some important consequences on people:...
Was Arendt's pessimism about modern liberal society justified?
Dissertation - 9 pages - Philosophy
Hannah Arendt was born in 1906 in Germany, being the only child of middle-class Jewish parents of Russian descent. As a university student, she was one of the most brilliant and studied with the finest scholars of the time. Arendt in 1933 left Germany for France, and was even interned there for a...
A study of two literary texts: Virginia woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and Michael Cunningham's The hour (1999)
Dissertation - 88 pages - Linguistics & languages
Exploring a text and discovering different layers of its meaning is a valuable experience that sharpens literary sensitiveness. The more we read, the more we know how to read. The semantic richness locked in a graphical word from which it cannot be separated can always be renewed, and literature...
Harry Potter - Translation and analysis
Dissertation - 13 pages - Linguistics & languages
Everybody has heard about Harry Potter, the famous book by J.K. Rowling and the famous wizard. It is, as everybody knows, a very popular novel everywhere in the world. It is particularly popular in the country where it was written. Not only children, but also many grown-ups actually love it. We...
What exactly is the difference between act-utilitarianism and rule-utilitarianism? Can rule-utilitarianism succeed where act-utilitarianism fails?
Essay - 6 pages - Philosophy
According to the meaning we give to ‘actions', we get two different theories under Utilitarianism. And there is a great debate between those two schools of utilitarianism about how exactly the individual utilitarian should make their moral decisions. The choice for the individual is between...
What exactly is the difference between act-utilitarianism and rule-utilitarianism? Can rule-utilitarianism succeed where act-utilitarianism fails? - published: 13/04/2006
Essay - 6 pages - Philosophy
According to the meaning we give to ?actions', we get two different theories under Utilitarianism. And there is a great debate between those two schools of utilitarianism about how exactly the individual utilitarian should make his moral decisions. The choice for the individual is between...
The quality of life in London: A tale of two cities
Essay - 8 pages - Philosophy
London appears among the most popular cities in the world. It is a city on the move, where you can find everything you need. It is one of the places where fashion is created, where you can meet people of all origins and where the word “Party” gets its real meaning. In there, one can...
Structure and texture in the "Good Soldier" by Ford Madox Ford
Dissertation - 11 pages - Literature
The Good Soldier is a novel written in 1914 by Ford Madox Ford and published in March 1915. This novel is considered as the best book of pre-war period. It is also considered as a modernist work, and in fact, many modernist innovations, as well as impressionist ones, are present throughout the...
Ways of Rendering Student Slang in Salinger Novel "The Catcher in the Rye"
Dissertation - 48 pages - Literature
Slang, as the most mentioned representative word form of the informal vocabulary, occupies a prominent role in contemporary society. It has become the second language of any democratic country. Everybody uses it even if one pretends that he has never used it. It is a veritable issue and it will...
Sports impact in the 21st century Society
Dissertation - 44 pages - Philosophy
La rédaction de ce mémoire de fin d?études rédigé en Anglais aura pour but de montrer à ses lecteurs ; l?impact du sport dans notre société, la société du 21eme siècle. Ce rapport sera décomposé en deux parties. Ainsi, ma première définira comment et dans quelle mesure le phénomène du sport...
Oscar Wilde and Aestheticism
Essay - 9 pages - Literature
The 19th Century in Europe, specially in England, is marked by the appearances of new artistic movements. Aestheticism is most important because it embodies a real change in the mentality and in art, and is considered as self sufficient. Immanuel Kant is one of the pioneers of it, and certainly...
Oscar Wilde and Aestheticism - published: 03/01/2006
Thesis - 9 pages - Philosophy
The 19th Century in Europe, and especially in England, is marked by the appearances of new artistic movements. Aestheticism is one the most important because it embodies a real change in the mentality and in art, considered as self sufficient. Immanuel Kant is one of the pioneers of it, and...
The distinction between internalism and externalism about moral motivation. Does Smith's argument against externalism work?
Essay - 5 pages - Philosophy
Moral motivation and the way it functions have raised many theories, still debated today. There are two main theories under discussion; internalism and externalism about ethical motivation, both of them being central in the explanation of the mechanism that lies between moral judgements of an...
Moral and Overman - Study based on: Twilight of the Idols, or How to Philosophize with a Hammer By Friedrich Nietzsche
Essay - 8 pages - Philosophy
“There are more idols than realities in the world. […] This time it is not contemporary idols but eternal idols that are being touched here with the hammer as if with a turning fork”. This “revaluation of all values”, an expression that Nietzsche would use numerous times...
Soviet Literature: A clearly defined and a Poor quality Literature? Literary policies and their consequences on Soviet Literature, and perceptions of this one
Essay - 16 pages - Literature
The Soviet Communist ideology which has ruled everything in the Soviet Union for decades was based on Marx's ideas, concepts as Dialectical Materialism. In this theory the world was in perpetual process of change, this through a dialectical movement which was made of conflict between the...
The log cabin: from the pioneers' hardship of life to the fulfilment of the American dream. A brief sketch of the history of the American people through one symbol: the log cabin.
Essay - 4 pages - Philosophy
It may be the Appalachian icon which is a log cabin on a hillside with wood-smoke rising from a stone chimney. This is part of American culture associated with President Abraham Lincoln and the frontiersman Davy Crockett. Many questions arise with regard to the log cabin such as what is so...
Commentary on an extract from O. Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray" chapter 2
Essay - 8 pages - Literature
This passage takes place in the middle of chapter II, in which Lord Henry has just been introduced for the first time to Dorian by his friend Basil. During this scene of first encounter Lord Henry made an impressive philosophic speech about one's self and soul, moral influence, virtues and sins,...
The Da Vinci Code : a successful but controversial politico-religious thriller
Essay - 6 pages - Literature
The Da Vinci Code is a very successful politico-religious thriller. The novel was published in the United States in March 2003 and in France a year later. This novel has also been translated in more than 40 languages, which is a proof of the worldwide success of this thriller. The author, Dan...
The French influence on the English vocabulary
Essay - 11 pages - Linguistics & languages
This quotation of the contemporary glossary by Robert of Gloucester brilliantly sums up the linguistic situation of the English society in the centuries after the Norman Conquest. While French became the language of power and prestige and left its mark on the English language, English remained...
Democratic equality. Are Rawls's principles of economic justice too egalitarian or not egalitarian enough?
Essay - 5 pages - Philosophy
The question is, therefore, whether Rawls's egalitarianism is not enough egalitarian or too egalitarian. After having exposed the main points of Rawls's view of economic justice, the analysis of its major criticisms, both from the left and the right sides, is necessary to bring out the...
Democratic equality. Are Rawls's principles of economic justice too egalitarian or not egalitarian enough? - published: 24/02/2005
Thesis - 5 pages - Philosophy
The question is, therefore, whether Rawls's egalitarianism is not enough egalitarian or too egalitarian. After having exposed the main points of Rawls's view of economic justice, the analysis of its major criticisms, both from the left and the right sides, is necessary to bring out the...
The Waco Tragedy: to what extent a better approach of FBI could have changed the catastrophic ending?
Essay - 4 pages - Philosophy
It is very difficult to give an opinion about the Waco tragedy: all news reports are subject to a dual interpretation, and each party defends its version with strong arguments. As an outsider, it's impossible to verify which report is false and which one is true. That's the reason why my...
What is civil disobedience ? Can it be justified against the arguments for a prima facie duty to obey the law in a democracy?
Essay - 5 pages - Philosophy
But neither does everyone openly advocate disobedience (Smith) Disobedience, that is defined by convention as an illegal non-violent action undertaken on grounds of moral principles (Singer), seems to be only justified when there is no independent moral reason to obey or when the weight of...
Are protestants better capitalists ?
Essay - 6 pages - Philosophy
First, we will see that if protestant theology has undoubtedly influenced the early expansion of capitalism in America, it is probably no longer the main factor explaining the important commitment of Protestants to modern capitalism. As an illustration of this fact, we will show that even among...
Death penalty in Texas
Essay - 12 pages - Philosophy
Gary Graham, Delma Banks, Odell Barnes, Napoleon Beazley, Darlie Lynn Routier... these are the names of people who have been executed by the state of Texas. I was surprised to realize that on the total number of cases that we were presented, Texas was often the "killing state? at stake. It became...
The image of the Pig in "Butcher Boy" by Patrick McCabe
Essay - 6 pages - Literature
What are the meanings of the image of the pig and what different ideas does it enable to support and to highlight ? Besides, how does the main character react to this image and what impact does it have on him ? After reminding the classical meanings expressed by the image of the pig, I will study...
The Black Muslims as antagonists of the American Society
Essay - 11 pages - Philosophy
To build an impression on the cultural and religious background of the Black Muslim movement, which is also called "The Nation of Islam", we will analyze the relationship of the United States' with Islam and at the history of the Afro-Americans in the USA. The conflict between the United...
