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The Tragedy of Dido

The Tragedy of Dido's Furor Dido, the Phoenician Queen in Virgil's The Aeneid, is a tragic character who is a victim of the will of the gods. Enchanted by the god Amor, Dido becomes hopelessly enamored with...

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Your Inbred Pug

The Ethics of Creating the Purebred American Pug The American Pug has a very specific ideal appearance. Pugs which successfully exhibit this appearance are the result of intensive inbreeding and selection...

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Evolution of a Rabbit's Diet

The Evolution of a Rabbit's Diet There are many different classifications of diet compositions for animals. Diets that are composed of plant material are grouped as herbivorous, diets that are composed of...

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Shylock in The Merchant of Venice

An Inhumane and Irrational Shylock Shylock, in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, embodies emotion unfettered by moral or intellectual constraints. Shylocks' speech at the beginning of act four, scene one...

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The Belgian Blue Cattle Debate

The Quest for Ethical Genetic Experimentation Belgian Blue cattle originated in Belgium as the product of crossbreeding between local red-pied and black-pied cattle and cattle imported from England in the...

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Yusef Kommunyakaa's "Facing It"

Yusef Kommunyakaa's Emotional Response Surrounding the Vietnam Memorial Yusef Komunyakaa emphasizes his ethnicity at the very beginning of his poem "Facing It" in the first lines: "My black face fades,/hiding...

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Aristotle vs. Plato on the Dangers of Poetry

Poetry's Emotional Effect: Detrimental as Plato Claims or Beneficial as Aristotle Concludes? Speaking well about Homer; it's a divine power that moves you, as a "Magnetic" stone moves iron rings. (That's...

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Sydney's 49th Sonnet

A Narrator's Human Flaw of Love and His Ultimate Submission to its Power Philip Sidney's 49th sonnet, describing the journey of the narrator upon horseback, is one which follows the form of the Italian sonnet...

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"AIDS" in poetry by Mary Sarton

Overcoming AIDS Many people take love for granted, assured that it will overcome any hardship or obstacle in their lives. However, the author has learned that the contraction of a fatal and contagious disease...

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Internets Impact on Society

What is Internet's Effect on Civil Society? New technology has historically had unpredictable and unprecedented impacts upon society. With the invention of the telephone in 1876, its uses were thought to be...

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