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Louis Riel

national-liberation leader."1 The author then notes a very intriguing point in that while none of these descriptions are entirely ...

Comparing Annie Oakley and Oddysseus

Odysseus,/raider of cities gouged out your eye" (Homer 227). As Polyphemus is the son of Poseidon, Odysseus makes a powerful god h...

The Shape of Heroism

Using examples from literature and from world events, this essay identifies some of the heroes everyone knows and those nobody kno...

Much Ado About Nothing: The 'Comedy' of Scapegoats

This paper examines how scapegoats propel the comedy of William Shakespeare's play in the characterizations of Don John, Claudio, ...

Gabriel and Dubliners and Mr. Rochester - Byronic Heroes or Not?

notes that Byron "emphasizes specially the spirit of revolt against society ... But his villain-heroes ... are selfish and unscrup...

Self-Realization and the Hero’s Quest in ‘Beowulf,’ ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,’ and ‘Everyman’

the heros quest is self-realization, with the glory being more internal than external, the awakening of inner strength and self-kn...

Heroes

as his hero. Achilles Achilles is the greatest of the Greek heroes fighting against the Trojans. As the poem begins, the war ha...

Willy Loman, Not a Tragic Hero

of Willys character shows him to be a highly flawed man, who makes innumerable mistakes and brings about his own tragic demise by ...

Heroism in the Ancient World: Gilgamesh and Achilles

This essay pertains to the characters of Gilgamesh and Achilles and how they each warrior-heroes representing their culture. The w...

Hero's Cycle and Lord of the Flies

This essay presents the argument that in William Golding's Lord of the Flies, the character of Simon is congruent with Joseph Camp...

“A Hero’s Journey”

interest in mythology to his exposure to remnants of that earlier history, his exposure to Buffalo Bills Wild West Show and to the...

King Lear, Beowulf, the Concepts of Kingship and Hero's Downfall

In five pages these literary characters are contrasted and compared in terms of their deaths with the concept of kingship and what...

Hero's Personality of Odysseus

In five pages Homer's protagonist Odysseus featured in 'The Odyssey' is examined in terms of his heroic personality attributes. F...

Anything We Love Can Be Saved A Writer's Activism by Alice Walker

In six pages Walker takes inspiration from Winnie Mandela and Zora Neale Hurston in presenting her own personal interpretation of ...

Florida's 2000 Senate Contest

In ten pages this paper examines the 2000 U.S. Senate race in Florida between Republican candidate Bill McCollum and Democratic ca...

Defining a 'Frontier' American

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the definitions of the frontier and what an 'American' means according to Frederic...

Legendary Golfer Byron Nelson

In ten pages golf is examined in terms of the accomplishments and contributions of one of its most legendary players Byron Nelson ...

Evil, God, and David Hume

of the foundational ideas of philosophy. According to him, the problem of evil posed a philosophical threat to the design argumen...

Case Study of TRW Nelson

dependably when customers are happy and continuing to buy. Similarly, control of receivables indicates that there will be only a ...

Up Country by Nelson DeMille

may give information to the cause of the death and while Brenner has no idea why the military is so interested in the answer, he i...

Essays on Gender

their roles, their tasks. Now, while not all work spaces are divided in this manner, the case in reality is that men and women are...

A Review of The Institutionalization of the U.S. House of Representatives

and static in their nature. That characteristic has, in fact, increased over the two century history of the organization. Polsby...

How Buildings Mean by Nelson Goodman

are works of art, and this is not a matter of the difference between good and bad art: in fact, he asserts specifically that most ...

"O Brother Where Art Thou?"

The film follows the three hapless goofballs as they come across the sirens (three gorgeous women washing clothes in a river); alm...

Sizer’s Will

the third signature is of no consequence to the law. While the two witnesses did not remember signing the will, each of the witnes...

Accounting and White Collar Employment in 'Down and Out in White Collar America' by Nelson Schwartz

This has been especially true in accounting. Twenty years ago, the profession of accounting mainly focused on spreadsheets and the...

Analysis of Jack Nelson Pallmeyer's The School of Assassins

In five pages this paper analyzes the text that recommends closing the 'School of the Americas' that contributes to Latin American...

New Voices in the Field by Gary N. Hartzell, Richard C. Williams, and Kathleen T. Nelson

In five pages this paper presents an overview of this assistant principal leadership text....

Business Communication—A Technology Based Approach by William P. Galle Jr. and Beverly H. Nelson

the general public. Each group requires a unique format that best suits the communicator, as well as the channel of communication...

Beowulf & Odysseus/Ancient Heroes

peers by acclamation rather than divine right. The thane is spoke of as a "giver of treasure in gladness" (Beowulf 46). In other w...