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The need for security has existed since the introduction of the first computer. The paradigm has shifted in recent years, though, from terminal server mainframe systems, to client/server systems, to…

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett is America’s greatest detective novel that has been widely studied for its highly influential conception of the American private eye through its main protagonist…

In any theological belief, science has always been equated as fundamentally taking root on faith which includes a world view as its prerequisite. Understanding this world view requires a kind…

The word ‘Darshan’ has come from Sanskrit. In Indian context it means philosophy. It also means to have a look, to view or to become ‘enlightened’. When one has a…

Light and darkness play vital roles in both James Joyce’s “Araby” and James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”. However, if the light and darkness in “Araby” is religious in nature, with nuances…

God condemns for life, whose texture of the skin is black, seems to be the approach and the subject matter of this book. Ghetto is not an inspiring word, and…

Medieval literature covered the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and until the beginning of the Renaissance period. During this time, written literary works and “every single book…

Is the conflict between the Sudanese government and the inhabitants of Darfur an example of ethnic cleansing and modern genocide? If modern-day genocide is taking place in Africa, in the…

The article talks about something that most people have forgotten to do most of their lives: to be themselves. The world is very fast-paced and everyone can get caught up…

I. Introduction Taoism is a Chinese philosophy and a religion that developed from it. Taoism ranks with Buddhism and Confucianism as one of China’s great systems of ethical and religious…

Medieval and early modern figures appealed less universally than the ancients, though each of the great ones had their followings. Dante’s Divine Comedy rises highest in the canon from this…

Dante’s Inferno opens with Dante being lost in the woods. Confused, afraid, and alone, he stumbles through the forest, where he encounters the spirit of Virgil, who was sent by…

Comparing the lives and work influences of Dante (1265-1321) and Virgil (70 BC- 19 BC) is no easy task. Apart from the obvious fact that these two great Italian writers…

With concision and swiftness, Dante introduces us to the world of his Christian epic. That it is to be an allegory is apparent from the first stanza, with its mention…

George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda is an extremely complex and tortuous novel, structured by many plots and subplots. Because of its complexity and the unwonted interlocking of events and situations, the…

Cooking is essential for the daily living of people. Cooking begets eating, which is a requisite in order humans to live. People need all the calories they can get from…

In today’s media-oriented era drug abuse problem in adolescent is very rampant. This problem often begins in adolescence, with 80% of high school students reporting some use of alcohol and…

The education system in America is a mess, and someone needs to fix it. Students find school uninteresting and hate it. They would rather join gangs or sell drugs than…

Criminal profiling is defined by Kocsis and Palermo “as a technique whereby the probable characteristics of a criminal offender or offenders are predicted based on the behavior exhibited in the…

“Danger on the Peaks” by Gary Snyder poses eternal rhetorical question: Who wouldn’t take the chance to climb a snow peak and get the long view? In such a way…