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Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1997.
Examines the life, career and major decisions of this Supreme Court justice (1902-1931), focusing on his legal, social and ethical philosophies.
3,375 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 31 sources, AU$ 129.95
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"HOLMES' THEORY OF LAW AND MORALITY
This research paper explores the philosophical thinking of
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (b. 1841, d. 1935), a Justice of the United States Supreme Court between 1902 and 1931, a distinguished jurist and prolific writer and speaker, concerning law and the relationship between law and morality and the way in which Holmes applied these concepts during his long career on the bench. Since his death, Holmes has been perceived in certain quarters by natural law theorists and others as having propagated a legal philosophy which is insufficiently moored in the moral underpinnings of Western and American civilization and as a somewhat unprincipled agnostic who took an unnecessarily harsh view of American society and the role and evolution of the law in mediating its conflicts."
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Holmes and Free Speech, 2008.
This paper explores how and why American Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes' approach to free speech changed.
3,340 words (approx. 13.4 pages), 9 sources, MLA, AU$ 103.95
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The paper analyzes how Oliver Wendell Holmes' approach to the 1st Amendment freedoms of speech and press divulges a shifting opinion.
The paper discusses the factors behind the dramatic transition in his beliefs and notes that a man who spends his life in a state of learning will undoubtedly form new opinions where once cemented convictions stood.
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"Close analysis of Oliver Wendell Holmes' approach to the 1st amendment freedoms of speech and press divulges a shifting opinion. The amendment, that Holmes is so famously associated with, reads as follows, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." As is typically the case with constitutional law, the "no law" mentioned above actually means "some law." Holmes himself defines the law as, "Prophecies of what the court will do in fact, and nothing more pretentious, are what I mean by the law (The Path of Law-OWH)." Written in 1897, this phrase serves as an excellent lens through which to view Holmes' evolving approach to free speech."
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"The Mind and Faith Of Justice Holmes" ( Max Lerner ), 1993.
Critical review of this 1943 work on 19th Century Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 6 sources, AU$ 42.95
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"Max Lerner, author of The Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes, was a journalist, lecturer, author and educator born in 1902 in Minsk, Russia, and brought to America by his parents in 1907. He won a scholarship and attended Yale, graduating in 1923. He studied English literature, economics, and social theory. In 1927, he attended the Robert Brookings Graduate School of Economics and Government in Washington, D.C., where he received his Ph.D. (Kiffer, 1942, 505). He worked first as assistant editor at the Encyclopedia of Social Sciences beginning in 1927 and became managing editor. He was a member of the social science faculty at Sarah Lawrence College from 1932-35 and a lecturer in government at Harvard from 1935-46. He edited the Nation magazine from 1936-38. He taught at a number of colleges and universities over the next four decades and also served for a ..."
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Nature in Literature, Drama and Poetry, 2002.
This paper explores how nature is portrayed in different literary works by such authors as Elizabeth Bishop, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jack London, Patrick Meyer, Henry David Thoreau and William Wordsworth.
2,100 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 8 sources, MLA, AU$ 70.95
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This paper compares and contrast how nature is portrayed in a variety of literary works. The works included in this paper are Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish," Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature," Oliver Wendell Holmes's "The Chambered Nautilus," and Patrick Meyer's "K2," Jack London's "To Build A Fire," Henry David Thoreau's "Walden, Or Life in the Woods" and William Wordsworth''s "The World is Too Much With Us." Some of the topics discussed include cruelty in nature, man's relationship with nature, the different elements of nature, the Romantic and Transcendentalist view of nature and the true communing of individual soul with nature. The paper concludes with the author tying all of these topics together by illustrating the similarities between human nature and nature itself.
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"Emerson is most concerned about how Emerson sees nature, and would like to see nature better as an American. Emerson does not consider that while observing nature everyone is not only changed internally by nature, whether by cold or by beauty, but also that the observer changes nature itself, even in as simple as something as walking through the perfect and untrodden snow. Just as animal life impacts and is impacted by nature; human beings exist a part of nature and are subject to natural forces. These forces include but are not limited to cold, illness, injury, death, birth, and seasonal extremes. The metaphor of the only observing eyeball denies such an impact."
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"The Chambered Nautilus", 2002.
A rhyme scheme and symbolic analysis of "The Chambered Nautilus" by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, AU$ 28.95
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This paper will discuss the poem "The Chambered Nautilus" by Oliver Wendell Holmes and seek to understand the symbolic uses and rhyme schemes for this poem. In this manner, we can delve into the poetic style that Holmes is using to voice his views on music and the sea.
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Sherlock Holmes, 2006.
An analysis of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, Holmes' antagonists, and his method of solving crimes.
3,443 words (approx. 13.8 pages), 6 sources, APA, AU$ 105.95
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This paper discusses and analyzes the famous fictional detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, and the belief, held by many critics, that the character of Holmes was based on an actual acquaintance of Doyle. Through an examination of some of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mysteries, the method Holmes used to solve crimes, the antagonists in the stories and the character of Sherlock Holmes, the paper explains just why many critics believe that Doyle based the character of Sherlock Holmes on one of his true life doctor friends.
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"Sherlock Holmes, while not the first popular fictional detective (that honor surely goes to Poe's Arsene Lupin) was surely the character that has outlasted the Victorian times in which his adventures were first written by Arthur Conan Doyle. What makes the character still so viable, including the popular movies of the 1930s and 1940s with Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, and the popular British television series featuring the late Jeremy Brett as Holmes; is that this is not "find the murderer" as in the stories of Dashiell Hammett and Ellery Queen and Agatha Christie (among others), but a series of deductive reasonings, focusing on facts the police overlooked or disregarded. In Holmes stories, including "The Blanched Soldier", and "The Sign of the Four", Holmes is quoted as saying "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." Unlike many modern mysteries there is neither a "red herring" nor what Alfred Hitchcock referred to as a "Maguffin"- a somewhat obvious but, in the end, misleading clue. There is seldom a twist or quirk in the Holmes stories. And, there is seldom even violence or confrontation between Holmes and "the guys who done it"."
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Holmes and Dupin, Poe and Doyle, 2006.
A comparison of Edgar Allen Poe's character C. Auguste Dupin with Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, with an analysis of why the latter is so much more famous than the former.
3,145 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 11 sources, MLA, AU$ 98.95
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The paper identifies Poe as the inventor of the genre of detective fiction, with his character C. Auguste Dupin, who was introduced in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". The paper compares Dupin's character with that of Sherlock Holmes, as Holmes is described by creator Doyle in "The Hound of the Baskervilles", and notes many similarities between the two fictional detectives. It then analyzes the claim that Sherlock Holmes was based on the real life doctor Joseph Bell, with whom Doyle was well acquainted. After returning to a comparison of Dupin and Holmes, the paper reviews the first person narrator of the Holmes stories, Dr. John Watson, and concludes that Doyle did not base his detective on Poe's work. The paper also reviews other early detective novels, going back to the Greek Herodotus and returning to 19th century Europe and America, before resuming its comparison of Poe and Doyle and finding the former to be a better writer. The paper quotes various Holmes stories, and discusses adaptations of those stories to stage and screen, noting Holmes' incredible popularity and lamenting the lack of same for Dupin. In conclusion, the paper finds Holmes to be Dupin's spiritual successor, if not actually drawn on him, and finds the similarities to be, in Holmes' words, "Elementary!"
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"In fashioning the detective story, Poe eschewed the very ideal of most writers that truth is not necessarily the object of literature. Truth was very much the object in the short stories of C. Auguste Dupin. So why do critics say that Poe "invented" the detective story? Surely, there were detectives working prior to 1841, and surely, some of the stories before Poe had been about crime and criminals. The reasons given include the creation of classic rules of detective fiction that has survived through Doyle and Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, the two men who write under the name Ellery Queen, to Dashiell Hammett and even Mickey Spillane."
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Seaman Holmes, 2005.
A discussion on the moral reasoning of Seaman Holmes.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, AU$ 38.95
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The paper discusses the story of Seaman Holmes. The writer proposes that his story is tragic because, while it relates mostly to the lives that were lost at sea, it also is a case in which one individual was condemned as responsible for death, and this will be knowledge that he will keep with him for life. The writer argues that, while some during the time of the trial attempted to state that Holmes acted out of a desire for his own life to continue, it is evident from the story that Holmes acted with moral and amoral reasoning, always attempting to consider what was best for all aboard the boats. The paper further explains that, through moral reasoning, Holmes made the decision, with the sinking of the ship, which people's lives had to be saved. Holmes, placing the welfare of the passengers above his own, began to aid people to safety.
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"Oliver Twist", 2005.
An analysis of the use of imagery in "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens.
840 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 31.95
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This paper examines how in the novel "Oliver Twist", Oliver lives a predominantly sad life of loss and despair and how Dickens uses imagery and setting to create a tone of hopelessness.
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"Dickens uses imagery to support a tone of hopelessness. Dickens employs the phrase "despised by all, pitied by none" (28) to suggest the hardships that Oliver was born into, and the hardships that would carry on for a great portion of his life. His father died before Oliver was born, and his mother died while giving birth to him. He was born into the poverty of a horrifying orphanage where he would spend the first nine years of his life. He was lucky enough to survive the harsh conditions of the orphanage where the overseers would keep the money from the government and starve the children. Oliver had learned, in a non-respectable way, "that self-preservation is the first law of nature" (53). He became dependent on thievery as a way of survival. "
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"Oliver Twist", 2005.
An analysis of Charles Dickens's "Oliver Twist".
842 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 31.95
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This paper reviews the classic novel of "Oliver Twist" written by Charles Dickens. The paper presents a tone of hopelessness that shows how Oliver handled many hardships. The paper elaborates on Dickens's use of imagery and setting to convey the harsh day-to-day life that Oliver had to endure.
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"For the next eight to ten months, Oliver was the victim of a systematic course of treachery and deception" (28). This passage from Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist resembles the horrible environment that Oliver was born into. Nobody cared for Oliver; the workers at the orphanage probably did not even know his name. Oliver lives a predominantly sad life of loss and despair. Dickens uses imagery and setting to create a tone of hopelessness."
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Film: Oliver Stone's "JFK" (1991), 2007.
An analysis of the facts presented in the film "JFK", by filmmaker Oliver Stone, regarding the autopsy of President John F. Kennedy after his assassination.
1,005 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 38.95
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This paper explains that, in the political docudrama "JFK", Oliver Stone asserts that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone, that the F.B.I. had a vested interest in hiding important information from the public and that the C.I.A. had an active role in the assassination in hopes of fueling the military industrial complex of the United States. The paper further explains that, in the film, Stone attempts to make viewers conscience of the possible tampering of evidence and lack of investigation into the murder of the president. The author stresses that Oliver Stone does not want his viewers to accept all of the events portrayed in the film. Rather, Stone directed this film to act as a "counter-myth" in reaction to the "myth" he believes the Warren Commission Report fed the public. The paper stresses that Stone's accusation that the Archives somehow lost the brain, which it did not, affects the viewer's understanding of what actually happened.
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"Perhaps the most shocking claim that Oliver Stone makes in his film in relation to the autopsy is that John F. Kennedy's brain has been lost by the National Archives. This particular claim arose in 1972 when pathologist Cyril Wecht was allowed to examine the Kennedy autopsy records at the National Archives. Wecht tried to open the footlocker where the stainless steel container and microscopic tissue slides were held, only to notice that they were gone. Wecht then blames the Archives for losing an important piece of physical evidence due to negligence and carelessness."
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'Oliver Twist', 2006.
A review of death as a theme in Charles Dickens' 'Oliver Twist'.
1,117 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 8 sources, MLA, AU$ 41.95
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This paper reviews and discusses the idea of death in the classic, 'Oliver Twist', by Charles Dickens. According to the paper, 'Oliver Twist' contains dominant themes of social evils, exploitation of the poor and various characters' deaths, near-deaths or circumstances having to do with death.
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"Oliver is (again figuratively) 'scared to death', at that key moment in the novel that that turns out also to define his fate (the extra gruel request scene) when he is selected by the other boys at the workhouse for that most terrifying, unpleasant task. Then, moments after he asks, Oliver becomes equally scared that his still not-quite-to-be-believed question has now caused (so-to-speak) 'all hell to break loose' inside the workhouse, among the comfortably well-off, incredulous, poorhouse administrators. These well-fed individuals in fact cannot fathom, at all, how any boy so "lucky" as to be boarded and fed at their workhouse could possibly be so ungrateful as to request more than his daily starvation-level ration of gruel. "
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Oliver Cromwell, 2007.
An analysis of Oliver Cromwell's vision of the English Republic.
2,172 words (approx. 8.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, AU$ 72.95
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This paper critically explores and analyzes the origins, defining features, and practical implications of Oliver Cromwell's vision of the English Republic. The thesis is argued that Cromwell's vision was defined not so much by ideology, belief or philosophy as by a conviction that compromise and moderation were central to the government of England during the particularly divisive seventeenth century. The paper contends that, only through an understanding of Oliver Cromwell's vision of moderation as key to the resolution of civil strife, can we be begin to understand his achievement in navigating the ship of state during this highly disruptive period.
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Introduction
A House Divided
The Divisive Seventeenth Century
Squaring the Circle: Resolving Cromwell's Contradictory Vision
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" Critics argue that it was Cromwell's youth growing up within an England in which the commercial classes and local squires were growing in power that contributed to his vision of an English Republic: "To all this new idea of government by squires and merchants Cromwell was born; in all this he grew up; all this was native to him when he appeared, almost thirty, in the first of the new rebellious Parliaments" (Belloc 13). Indeed, Cromwell's behaviour during the Long Parliament gives us critical insights into how at this early stage in his political career - long before he rose to near absolute power - Oliver Cromwell perceived the English Republic."
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Sherlock Holmes - the Man and his Enemies, 2002.
An insight into the character of fictitious detective Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle with an emphasis on his interaction with his adversaries.
3,365 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 7 sources, AU$ 103.95
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This paper looks at the hero detectives Sherlock Holmes and considers if there is a possibility he suffered from an obsessive disorder problem. It also discusses the Holmes' stories and certain aspects of his adversaries. Also examined is the story "The Hound of the Baskervilles" with a discussion on the setting of the actual scene within the novel and how the literature and atmosphere of the time along with the views and ideals of those reading the novel are affected by the atmosphere and descriptions of the authors' words. Also discussed are the "Stories of the Sussex Vampyre" and the "Final Problem".
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"Sherlock Holmes is known through out the world as the model private detective, or as he is described a consulting detective since the first pages of a Study in Scarlet were published in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887. Arthur Conan Doyle the creator of Britian's Master Sleuth wrote sixty original stories on Holmes' adventures, of these sixty, fifty six were short stories and four were full
To many Sherlock Holmes is the key man in any adventure story as he battles the menaces of evil using his superpowers that are purely based on his own observances and deductions, Holmes' methods can be learned by any person with a mind to open his eyes and use all of his senses rather than just what he thinks he sees."
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Charles Dicken's "Oliver Twist", 2003.
An analysis of how Charles Dickens presents the theme of good and evil in "Oliver Twist".
2,221 words (approx. 8.9 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 75.95
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This paper reviews Charles Dicken's "Oliver Twist" with a focus on chapter 20, taking into account his use of environment, personality, social class and faith. It looks at how Dickens presents a heavily cliched novel in which good and evil are divided completely, but also in which good (Oliver) defeats evil (Fagin and Sykes, who both die). It demonstrates how this is the basic tenet of Christianity - that good will always overcome evil - no matter what the odds are and how, Dickens is showing that Christianity is the way to overcome evil.
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"The last two of these foreshadowed events relate to Chapter 20, and the deliverance of Oliver to Sikes, and the subsequent break-in. Housebreaking was very serious in Victorian times, and burglars were usually executed for their crimes. Therefore, Oliver's introduction to housebreaking was a pivotal moment for him - it was the place in the novel where he finally met a good person - his saviour from Fagin and Sikes - in direst hour of need."
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Oliver North, 2005.
This paper discusses Oliver North, specifically his involvement in the Iran-Contra Crisis of the 1980s.
1,365 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, AU$ 49.95
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This paper explains that Oliver North, notorious participant in the Iran-Contra Crisis of the 1980s, represents a low time in American history and a shows how even the strongest and most secure governments can fall to scandal, mistrust and misuse of their power and influence. The author points out that North's years as a Marine in the 1970s helped form his conservative outlook and dedication to duty that served him so well in his governmental career. The paper relates that, even through the Iran-Contra affairs were scandalous, North did not seem to see his part in them as wrong, called the contras "freedom fighters" and thought funding them was a "neat idea".
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"Oliver North was born on October 7, 1943 in San Antonio, Texas. He was raised in Philmont, New York, and after he graduated from high school he attended the State University of New York at Brockport, and then the U.S. Naval Academy, where he graduated in 1968. After he graduated from the Naval Academy, he served as a U.S. Marine for twenty-two years. During this time he fought in the Vietnam War, and was awarded the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for valor, and two Purple Hearts for wounds in combat. He rose to the rank of Lieutenant Cornel during his time with the Marines. He actually only spent a short time in Vietnam during his career. Later, he was an instructor in basic training at Quantico Marine Base from 1969 to 1973. Then in the late 1970s he was posted at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I.."
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