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The concept of hubris, or, excessive pride, emcompassed a large swath of ancient Greek morality and law. However, there was an important difference between the moral and legal definition of the word.

Two reporters track down how the Iraq war began, with insider information about politician's secrets and informer backgrounds.

This paper explores the struggle between reason and irrational divine power as represented "The Bacchae."

Chutzpah is a Yiddish term difficult to translate, but, in essence encompasses nerve, gall, hubris, hypocrisy, all to the highest degree. Many public figures demonstrate this quality.

The call of the wild can be seductive. Poor preparation, poor judgment and hubris can be a dangerous combination that can lead to pure misery, injury or even death. Be wise and commit to the safety rules.

Some conservatives claim the Dixie Chicks "got what was coming to them." That's not how America's supposed to be thinking, and it's scary.

Iraq and Viet Nam compared as involving a failure of the terms of discourse, and contrasted with inevitable, historic events such as WW-I.

"In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture" (Benedict).

Anthony King wrote a fantastic article on this site about how technology can be used to monitor and control citizens. However, America's already living in George Orwell's 1984 - and it may be too late to change.

Former UN weapons inspector says unilateral attack for Iran already written

With our Country heading into an unprecedented era, the biggest issue at stake demands an even-handed look.

A look at one of the Bard's Tragedies.

Kobe Bryant is one of the most exciting athletes in the world, but, ultimately, he is not a great basketball player.

Steel yourself for the day when you decide to explain open and honestly what led you to make certain decisions, or what travails may have led you astray at a certain period in your life.

Debate in the comment section at Associated Content is looking more and more like your average face-off between mindless, vitriolic ideologues who haven't the capacity to form intelligent responses. If we don't end it now, Associated Content will die.

What most fail to see is the basic fact that success will abound tenfold with a little patience and inquisitiveness.

Thoughts from a transplanted New Yorker on how to commemorate this anniversary.

In an earlier paper I attempted to prove the Moll Flanders could be read as unintentionally ironic commentary by Daniel Defoe on the gender and commerce. With this paper I attempt to prove the exact opposite.

Researchers from the University of FLorida believe that crime drama and crime exposes influence how we see crime. What's your perception?

In his new book "Success Through Failure," civil engineer Henry Petroski demonstrates how mistakes and failures are essential to achieving improvements and success.

This paper considers the possibility of whether or not Daniel Defoe intended to write Moll Flanders as an ironic or realistic portrayal of economic disadvantage faced by women in the 18th century.

The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight aptly describes the problems which we are beginning to and will continue to experience due to overpopulation and irresponsible management of limited resources.

While built upon a foundation of racism, the Segregation-era South viewed the holocaust much in the same way the rest of the world did. It was a harbinger of what was to come.

The theme of these years True Fourth Of July can be summed up in one
word...IMPEACHMENT.

With so many unresolved global struggles likely to see to it that our collective heads remain submerged in sand, an ongoing tendency has been (it only makes sense) to blame each other for our mutual lapses. It does makes sense...but for the "mutual" part.

Idaho is famous for whitewater, especially it's Big Four. But those can be spendy and difficult to acquire a permit. For the adventurous, here's a seven-day planner that encompasses seven wild and beautiful whitewater floats.

An upbeat list of tips for college freshmen at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL with an NU-specific focus.

Thus, the question is not so much the semblance of the fictional world of White Noise to the reader's experience of reality, but the mimetic function of Jack Gladney's narrative.

Iago is keenly aware of the limitations and weaknesses of gendered existence.

"Shakespeare's Othello is a wonderful example of a text which has no used by date."
Discuss this statement through close reference to Shakespeare's original text and two different ways of considering Othello.

"Shakespeare's Othello is a wonderful example of a text which has no used by date."
Discuss this statement through close reference to Shakespeare's original text and two different ways of considering Othello.

Before he became more famous as the wise and powerful wizard in the Lord of the Rings films, Gandalf the Gray, British actor Ian McKellen played the title character in a strange version of Shakespeare's Richard III.

Bell Krater by the Pan Painter

Advice on staying comfortable and sane on long international flights

Has a conventional army ever defeated a guerilla-structured insurgency? Has America learned its lessons from the Viet Nam conflict? Can America succeed in the Iraq conflict?

This lesson is designed help students understand tragic flaws. Through this lesson the students will apply the definitions of tragic literary terms in order to better understand the literary genre of tragedy and how it applies to their lives.

A discussion of the origins of moral responsibility in the Classical World, specifically in the works of Euripides and Sophocles.

After failing to find available motel vacancies in three Gulf states in January, I realized it's becoming chaotic "out there" - and few folks seem to know what's going on outside their own regions. A constructive critique for the "Now Agers."

Losing liberties is a small price to pay for ensuring the nation's safety. That's the conclusion the Bush administration seems to have reached. President George W. Bush must have missed history class when Patrick Henry was the man of the hour.

Science fiction's a fluid genre that changes with the course of time. It's a literary voice that evolves with a generation, the genre borne out of wonderment, out of curiosity, to satisfy the age-old question of "What if?"

Although it a long topic of science fiction, the advent of robots is today a reality with growing implications every day. What can we learn and what do we need to from the cautionary tales about robots already available on film?

Kanye West's new album, Late Regisration, is changing the face of hip-hop. How did this backpack-toting producer acheive his lofty ambitions and answer his toughest critics?

The novel "Dream Jungle," by Jessica Hagedorn, is about the fraudulent discovery in 1971 of a Stone Age tribe in the Philippines. The novel reflects a turbulent period of Philippine history.

In the days after September 11th, America has been forced fed a meal of fear. With the United States recently ending its search for WMDs in Iraq, perhaps an old classic should be revisted to put things in perspective.

Our Founding Fathers believed in creating a nation unlike any other, a nation steeped in equality, individualism, idealism. But just how far has America gone to pervert the dream?

Jenna Jameson's "How to make love to a Porn Star" while indeed a fascinating book, is more of a narcissist's tale...

TV news focuses on a handful of events, sometimes-trivial stories, that will deliver Nielsen numbers. TV News is never happier then when it goes on Death Watch-Funeral Watch, as it did recently with Terri Schiavo, then again with Pope John Paul II.