Essays 151 - 180
his introduction to The Annotated Alice, Martin Gardner relates some of the complex meanings that have been attributed to Alice. F...
with the world of tradition, the world of civilization. Huddled within the womb-like interior of the Congo, he retreats ever furth...
In the epic, the threat is supernatural; in the film, the menace is recast as a vicious, cannibalistic tribe who dress in animal s...
1). Using this metaphor, he goes on to say that Science "alterest all things with thy peering eyes," which preys upon his poets h...
in humanity until he hears the voice of his wife. When he stumbles out of the woods the next morning, he is a changed man. He ha...
mind. For example, the "flowers" of Edo is a term that refers to the citys tendency to have many fires. Within this reality frame...
In six pages this essay compares and contrasts the styles of writing featured in Native Son, a novel by Richard Wright, and A Rais...
the issue of homosexual rights has been handled in the state as a whole and how she became interested in how "discussions of homos...
the reader encounters countless examples of the "blessed and the damned, as well as every gradation between" (Kearns 1). Pound him...
from a degree of torment, the sources of our greatest joys lying awkwardly close to those of our greatest pain" (De Botton 215). ...
was shot on location at Big Bear Lake and Yosemite Valley in California (Magills-1920). In an interview with film historian Kevin ...
age when a womans reputation was crucial to her welfare and future) on the slim chance that she can free herself from subservience...
long roof over the kitchen (Eleazar Arnold House). An outstanding interior feature is its huge fireplace, which has an oak mantel ...
glance in the co-workers car affirmed the assessment of sloppiness, as the floor boards in all passenger areas were engulfed at le...
(line 7). Brownings devotion to her future mate is equated with a sense of lost innocence, as well as religious fervor. "I love th...
selected one thing (one person, one book, she is not specific) and close her attention to all others. However, the "Soul" is not...
for nurses who come into intimate contact with clients from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. Ott, Al-Khadhuri and Al-Junaibi...
influence in the life of his father and a contributing factor in the suicide of his mother. Therefore, the reader comes to underst...
in the trenches, casually mentioning the attention of their personal servant. In both cases, this suggests the lingering presence ...
In ten pages this research essay compares and contrasts Philip Larkin's poem 'Church Going' and Robert Frost's poem 'The Wood pile...
(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...
and perverts every aspect of their lives. Unlike the Hubbards, Reginas husband, Horace Giddens, is a man of principle. He has jus...
finds that her conscience has problems with this assignment and she ultimately rebels. Paralleling Janes story is that of Akiko...
the option of acting differently. Furthermore, early Christians argued that God, who is completely good, cannot be held responsibl...
this once desirable state of affairs. Indeed, the twentieth century saw fights in terms of the legalization of drugs and alcohol, ...
(Woolf, 2002). Written for a largely female readership over a hundred years after Wollstonecraft, Woolf can afford to be more cri...
victory, not a French one" (Bell 221). Undoubtedly, Tolstoys anger was also influenced by the fact that he had recently been fight...
Truth went to bat for every woman when she spoke before a crowd of hostile white people at the 1851 Ohio Womens Rights Convention,...
In reaction, the nurse relates that Medea, "the hapless wife, thus scorned...lies fasting, yielding her body to her grief, wasting...
with masculinity. The fact that the scientific population is, even now, a population that is overwhelmingly male, is itself a cons...