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"The Beak of the Finch" by Jonathan Weiner, 2006.
This paper reviews Jonathan Weiner's "The Beak of the Finch," which explores the opinion that humans are responsible for the increasing pace of evolution.
876 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 1 source, APA, AU$ 50.95
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The writer of this paper assesses Weiner's view of evolution and its importance to the well being of human society and human activities. Weiner emphasizes that evolution is happening everywhere, all the time and explains why man-made technology affects nearly all aspects of the environment. This paper also delves into the failure of the medical community to address and correct the issue of resistance to medicine, which could have disastrous effects.
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"Antibiotics are an excellent example of a lack of understanding in most of the society, creating an economic burden and a serious health risk. Resistance to bacteria is growing and growing and companies throw away millions on new drugs that will become tolerated, too. The lack of knowledge causes people to take antibiotics at the drop of a hat and build resistances when their bodies could fight their illness itself.
The failure of the medical community to address and correct the issue of resistance to medicine could have disastrous effects."
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Restoration Women, 1994.
A look at the views on social conventions in the poetry of Anne Finch and Jonathan Swift.
2,020 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 8 sources, AU$ 101.95
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This essay examines the roles of women as writers, during The Restoration, from the points of view of the women themselves, the men who supported them, and the men who opposed. Specifically, the writers in question are Anne Finch and Jonathon Swift.
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"Also in the same poem, Swift contends that women are incapable of forming and maintaining an argument and therefore should not be taken too seriously. He writes, "Her Arguments directly tend /Against the Side she would defend."(51-52)"
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Jonathan Swift, 2002.
An analysis of Jonathan Swift, spokesperson of the Irish Nation's life, including a discussion of two of his main works, "The Drapier's Letters" and "A Modest Proposal".
1,779 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 7 sources, MLA, AU$ 91.95
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This paper examines Jonathan Swift's life, providing a look at his confusing heritage, his early occupations, and a review of two of his main works, "The Drapier's Letters" and "A Modest Proposal". The paper explains that both these literary works can be dubbed satires, and this essay looks at how these satires helped the "common" person in time of political and economic strife, and took Jonathan Swift to the level of "hero" in Ireland even though he is of English descent. The paper also presents a brief look at the political and economic structure of the time.
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"Jonathan Swift, political and social satirist of the Eighteenth Century, unwittingly became the spokesperson of the Irish nation. Although Swift was born of English parents, he was born in Ireland and ultimately lived in Ireland for most of his life, despite spending some of his younger years in England. Swift was a humanitarian angered and horrified by the acts of injustice done to the people of Ireland. From political dependence on England, to severe poverty and starvation, the people of Ireland suffered to find a voice for justice, and Jonathan Swift suffered for a cause. The two found each other and resulted in one of the greatest literary relationships in the history of satire."
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Jonathan Swifts' "Gulliver's Travels", 2007.
Discuses the isles, especially Laputa, to which Gulliver adventured in Jonathan Swifts' "Gulliver's Travels".
1,210 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 66.95
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This paper analyzes Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" as the author's manifesto to the truth of human character. Specifically, the paper explains that the fantastical isles, to which Gulliver travels in Jonathan Swifts' "Gulliver's Travels", serve as the framework for satirizing civilized society. The paper points out that, thematically, the four voyages Gulliver experiences are consistent in their structure as mirrors for the English idea of enlightened civilization. Swift uses each society to highlight Gulliver's pride in his character and the flaws found in his own society. The paper relates that, whereas the Lilliputians and Brobdingnags may have been too simple for Gulliver's taste, the Laputians are too convoluted and steeped in muddled, music-based theologies and scientific reasoning. The true dystopia of Gulliver's Travels is the ridiculousness and pettiness of the Laputian government.
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"Through the Laputians' fumbling of practical practices such as geometry, in exchange for loftier, more obscure notions of problem-solving, Swift is proposing that this floating isle, a would-be utopia, is more in the tradition of Sir Thomas More's "Utopia", less so in replication of Plato's "Republic". Swift, by using excessive scientific jargon involving such devices as "lodestones", has presented a society that's excessive rationalism and reliance upon incomprehensible theories critiques England's own fervor over the Enlightenment."
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Jonathan Larson, 2001.
A detailed look at the life of late musical composer Jonathan Larson.
2,885 words (approx. 11.5 pages), 10 sources, AU$ 136.95
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A paper on the late musical composer Jonathan Larson. The author examines Larson's early life as an up-and-coming music writer, his struggles with friends, family, finances and college life, his triumphant success of the play "Rent" and his sudden death.
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"These are the lyrics that appear in Seasons of Love, the song which opens the second act of Jonathan Larson?s Rent. The message to the listener is that it is not how many years you live, but how you shape the time you spend here on earth. These words which help define the controversy and characters of the rock opera, also help define Larson?s life goal to reinvent American musical theater and his personal goal to live life to the fullest."
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Jonathan Swift's "The Lady's Dressing Room", 2005.
An analysis of Jonathan Swift's poem about a woman in her dressing room that is being spied upon by her lover.
921 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 51.95
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This paper explains how Jonathan Swift's poem "The Lady's Dressing Room" describes an almost universal role of women: Their self-perception and their perception by others. The paper further points out that the poem is as relevant today as it was when it was written, almost three centuries ago.
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"The idealized image of women, promoted equally as strong in Swift's day as in ours, causes problems for both genders. Women become self-absorbed, and men develop unrealistic notions of what women should be like. Through clever wit, satire and sarcasm, Swift points out the problems with unrealistic expectations in his poem. For example, from the "Paste of Composition rare," to the "Ointments good for scabby Chops," the cosmetics of Swift's day largely resemble those in the modern world. Women are the primary consumers of these beauty products. Swift notes, through Strephon's shocked eyes, that women spend an inordinate amount of time using beauty products when beneath it all they are normal, sweaty, stinky human beings. Women have somehow been socialized to expect to be perfect. Moreover, cosmetics are one of the biggest most booming industries in the world today. The industry shows no sign of lagging, which is why Swift's poem appeals equally as well in his time as in ours, and could very well appeal to the future."
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Jonathan Swift, 2006.
A biography of the life and work of the Irish novelist Jonathan Swift.
3,158 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 6 sources, MLA, AU$ 145.95
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This paper looks at Jonathan Swift who played many roles within his lifetime as a politician and a patriot, as a satirist and as a clergyman. It looks at how his colorful life and satire could be seen his his various works such as "Gulliver's Travels", "A Modest Proposal" and "Genteel and Ingenious Conversation".
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"The work, 'Gulliver's Travels, was published in 1726, and was one of the first works of prose attempted by Jonathan, and although the work was labeled as a children's book, it is in reality a great satire on the times of the day, which most children have failed to understand down the ages. This book, in fact, shows Jonathan's desire to make people delve deeper into issues, and not lie back and take everything for granted, as people did in those days, and when any one reader was indeed able to read deeper into the book, it was possible for him to match all the situations within the book with real current events and affairs and several long-term problems that had been re-occurring in the society."
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Jonathan Swift's Satire, 2005.
An analysis of Jonathan Swift's treatment of satire in "Gulliver's Travels".
1,380 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 75.95
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This paper examines Jonathan Swift's satiric treatment of war in his novel, "Gulliver's Travels" and targets of his satire including political and religious institutions and aspects of human behavior, with numerous examples from the text
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" In Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift launches an elaborate satire on many aspects of human behavior as well as against the political and religious institutions of his day. His assaults against thinly veiled and therefore easily ..."
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William Wordsworth and Jonathan Swift, 2004.
This paper provides a comparison and contrast of how William Wordsworth and Jonathan Swift both promote changing the world in their writings.
678 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 37.95
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The paper compares and contrasts how William Wordsworth and Jonathan Swift promote changing the world in their respective writings. The paper discusses Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" and Swift's "Gulliver's Travels."
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"Both Jonathan Swift and William Wordsworth are writers who hope to change the world through the ideas and themes expressed in their writings. So too, both authors believe that human beings need to look to a higher authority to bring out the best in human nature. Swift ,a pre-enlightenment writer, believed that humans and institutions are fallible but that the negative tendencies inherent in humans require institutions to undermine these negative impulses; sin, deception, cruelty, vanity etc."
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The Jane and Finch Community, 2008.
A report on the Jane and Finch area of Toronto, its economic status, nursing situation, and services to its peoples.
1,030 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 4 sources, APA, AU$ 58.95
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This paper describes the health services and social activities that are necessary for the Jane and Finch area of Toronto. The paper further describes the various social groups and different class levels that populate the area and the differant requirements that must be instituted to create a viable social group. Additionally, the social problems that constitute such a community of this social level are addressed in full.
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"The Project Y.O.U Advisory Committee will provide service to 20 youth ages 13 to 20 years in the Jane/ Finch neighborhood. The project will train youth as peer mentors in designing and delivering drug awareness workshops to middle school students and to train youth in job readiness. The project will also facilitate youth co-op partnership with local businesses for placement and a summer camp component to service children and youth ages 5 to 15 years old. The project outcome is to enhance youth self-esteem, leadership skills and community cohesion
Being a nurse in this community means having a large number of opportunities to make a difference and to serve different groups, but it also requires learning how to serve the needs of the different groups and how to communicate with people with different ethnic background and perhaps different first languages."
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Edward Taylor and Jonathan Edwards: A Theological Comparison, 2001.
This paper is a comparison of two pastors in Colonial America, Edward Taylor and Jonathan Edwards.
990 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 56.95
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This paper looks at two Colonial American pastors, Edward Taylor and Jonathan Edwards. The role these men played in the lives of the people is examined in detail since during these times, all theological knowledge was derived from their local pastor. A pastor was their only connection to God and one's learning how to get to heaven, therefore his correct interpretation of the Bible was crucial to their spirituality. Through their sermons, each of these men hoped to lead their congregations to salvation, but they had different methods of achieving this goal. Taylor used love, joy, praise and worship while Edwards used fear, revenge, hatred, dark imagery, and scorn.
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"Taylor?s ?Joy?? is a poem about the souls of ?saints? (people who were devout members of the church while living) traveling in the ?coach? of Jesus? arms toward heaven (3,5). Taylor uses this imagined scenario to demonstrate to his congregation the right way to live while on earth, and how one gets to heaven. The saints sing for joy as they travel, ?Enfir?de with holy Flame!(7). If something ?slips? (i.e. their faith or righteousness) they fix it in haste, and are made more superior in the eyes of God than before (13). Taylor is trying to convey to congregants that God notices the rectification of a sin. Taylor says that in all areas of life ?publick, and private, any And secret too,? that one is to praise God and act in accordance with His will (19,20). Taylor proclaims that on the way to heaven, the ?saints? see other souls who aren?t in Christ?s protective arms (25-28). He emphasizes that they can get to heaven as well if they mend their ways."
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'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift, 2001.
This paper discusses the modest proposal of Jonathan Swift and also discusses arguments, irony and satire in the 18th century.
980 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 8 sources, MLA, AU$ 55.95
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A discussion of satire and Jonathan Swift. This paper argues the modesty of 'A Modest Proposal?' It studies how irony works and the similarity to the arrogance of most colonizing races in this book and in the entire world. Finally it concludes that the proposal displays pretentious and idle pomp, through the use of witty ridicule, it is the iconoclast protest against the exploitation of the Irish by the English.
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"?A modest proposal?, first published in 1729, is claimed to be one of Jonathan Swifts most drastic satirical pieces , where he suggests that Irish children be fed to wealthy English aristocracy. Swift immediately creates sombre and depressing surroundings caused by begging women and thieving children. From the first paragraph we imagine poverty and famine, which can only be escaped when one emigrates or turns into a professional thief. Before Swift makes the actual proposal, he overemphasizes this state of poverty and the effects it will have on society."
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Jonathan Kozol's book, "Amazing Grace", 2004.
Review and critique of the fifth chapter of Jonathan Kozol's book, "Amazing Grace".
1,901 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 96.95
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This paper offers a positive review of Jonathan Kozol's book on poverty-ridden ghetto neighborhoods. The paper talks about the accuracy of Kozol's description of those neighborhoods, and the author of the paper compares his own experiences growing up in a ghetto with the experiences described by Kozol.
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"Gender is a key issue when analyzing the sociological issues that Kozol describes in his book. He begins Chapter Five by outlining the problem with poor women, who find that better health care services and other facilities are available in prison than on the outside. Many of them AIDS victims and drug abusers, these mothers have endured every tragedy imaginable from rape to battering. Women are therefore the worst victims of the class and race conflicts that beset their neighborhoods. As they are entrusted with raising children, the cycle of despair continues endlessly. Far from acting as victims, many women demonstrate remarkable strength and act as bastions of hope for their children. Many of the people Kozol interviews for his study are women, as the author tries to focus on the impact of poverty and race specifically on young people. When he delves into the myth of the ?breakdown of the family? on page 180, it becomes clear that family problems are but a symptom of the bigger picture and cannot be blamed for society?s ills or looked at in isolation from other problems. When hospitals and schools are in the conditions they are in the Bronx and other poor neighborhoods, how can the family unit be truly to blame? Besides, many white and wealthy families experience divorce."
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Jonathan Swift: An English Satirist., 2002.
A bio of author Jonathan Swift.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 5 sources, AU$ 84.95
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A brief biographical sketch of Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal. Gives details of his political leanings, his relationships with women, his satires, and what his critics have said.
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Jonathan Lethem's "Motherless Brooklyn", 2005.
This paper reviews Jonathan Lethem's 1999 novel "Motherless Brooklyn" and the concept of dirt.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 2 sources, AU$ 113.95
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This paper outlines Rosemarie Garland Thomson concept of 'dirt' and applies it to r Jonathan Lethem's novel "Motherless Brooklyn". The author points out that Douglas' concept is that society dreads things that fall outside its normative schema and disabled people are one of these 'things'. The paper relates that, applying Douglas' concept to the novel, it is evident that some of aspects of her work are more applicable than others.
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"The conjunction of Mary Douglas' theory of 'dirt' visa-vis society's treatment of the abnormal and aberrant with Jonathan Lethem's fine novel, Motherless Brooklyn, offers an uncommon opportunity for insight and understanding into the uneasy place occupied by disabled men, women and children in a society preoccupied with physical comeliness and 'beauty'. This paper, quite simply, explores the existence of Douglas' theory of 'dirt' - specifically the five strategies she believes societies employ in dealing with those who are anomalous - in Lethem's novel and suggest which characters, if any, incorporate the disabled into the larger mainstream world; this paper also explores what the existence of various strategies in the text suggests about the representation of disability in a society uneasy with such difference."
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Atticus Finch, 2005.
An analysis of the character of Atticus Finch from Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird".
749 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 0 sources, MLA, AU$ 42.95
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This paper examines how Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" depicts life in a small, southern town and the struggles one man and his family encounter trying to preserve justice. That man is Atticus Finch, a middle-aged lawyer and the father of Jem and Scout who is appointed to defend Tom Robinson, a young black man accused of raping a white girl. It shows how Atticus is a man of very admirable characterwho is even-tempered, wise, and courageous.
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"Atticus is an even-tempered man and remains calm under any circumstances, despite provocation. Concisely, he keeps his cool like no other. At one such time, Atticus tells Jem that Mrs. Dubose was a lady. Jem replies, "After all those things she said about you, a lady?" "She was," answers Atticus. (112) Mrs. Dubose, an elderly neighbor of the Finch's continually talks down about Atticus, and once even goes as far as to say that he is no better than the (Negro)'s and trash he works for. (117) In spite of this, Atticus always remains a gentleman to her and never mentions a word about it. Shortly after the trial, Mr. Bob Ewell stops Atticus on the post office corner and spits in his face, and tells him he will get him if it takes the rest of his life."
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