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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift and the Theme of Pride

1931). The Lilliputians are also petty and small-minded, easily susceptible to corruption and think nothing of going to war over ...

Goddess Niobe Myth

Amongst other places, the legend of Niobe appears in the Iliad by Homer ("Niobe in Myth," 2001). In the epic, Niobe is depicted a...

Evil and Pride in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Alexander Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock'

of Belindas bedroom, and how Ariel, her guardian sylph, awakens her. Pope describes the other sylphs that also guard Belinda and t...

Overview of 'A House for Mr. Biswas' by V.S. Naipaul

his dealings with those who are not Indian, or his dealings with his children, and in his treatment of his wife. His pride is wo...

Ethics and Social Studies

or world. This self serving attitude is what Gutierrez suggests the classroom teacher strive to stem. He sees the soaring crime ...

Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses, The Joy Luck Club, and Their Primary Themes

In six pages this paper discusses the themes of Chines culture, pride, and relationships between mother and daughter in a comparat...

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

In 5 pages this paper presents a character analysis of Hanna and Michael in The Reader in a consideration of Michael's detachment ...

Pride: The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway

to give up, even though he demonstrates clear weaknesses. Santiagos pride pushes him so far that he risks his life, stupid...

Song of Roland and Roland's Delay in Blowing His Horn

In two pages this paper discusses the pride and military strategic reasons why Roland delayed blowing his horn for assistance in S...

Maori Story in Two Worlds First Meetings Between Maori and Europeans by Anne Salmond

In six pages this historical overview of the Maori people examines its pride, trials, and tribulations as portrayed in this text b...

The Nation-State Risk of 15 Flags Over Euroland

In a paper consisting of 7 pages the argument presented is that national pride and diversity among members of the European Union s...

Character Analysis of Creon from Antigone

decreed a heros burial for Eteocles, but that no one, on pain of death, can offer funeral rites for Polynices and that his body sh...

Changing Perceptions of the Deaf and ASL

There has also been a move toward cultural diversity, which has paved the way for the classroom additions of bilingual and ASL tra...

Nature in Narratives of Americanness Between 1840 and 1860

beginning of this countrys history. Emerson is also noted for his preference for the simpler things in life and for his love of n...

Mary Shelley: “Transformation”

opens the story by saying that he has heard that when people go through some sort of strange or supernatural experience, they usua...

Violence and Pride: Ellison and Morrison

a sense of innocence. "I had begun to worry about my speech again. How would it go? Would they recognize my ability? What would th...

Jing-Mei Woo’s Personality Traits in Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds”

When Jing-Mei fell short of achieving the lofty goal her mother set for her, her insecurity intensified. After seemingly endless ...

National Naval Medical Center Mission and Values

"We serve as a resource for homeland defense and humanitarian assistance * "We care for the President and the Nations leaders" (Vi...

Poe's "Cask of Amontillado," Was Montresor Sorry?

a diametrically opposed stance to this view, as it seems much more likely, particularly when one considers Poes careful and meticu...

Pride in 'The Reeve's Tale' in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales

any apes head was his skull" (Chaucer 80-81). But yet, he was still a man who presented himself as powerful. And, we soon find out...

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...

Why Serve in the US Army?

Being an American is a privilege that relatively few in the world share. Being an American comes with many niceties. Not the lea...

Perspectives on The Scarlet Letter

scholarship addressing the character of Pearl have seen her as the "sin-child, the unholy result" of an adulterous love and a symb...

Considerations in Adult Learning

This 3 page paper compares commonalities between today's adult learner and those delineated by the character Jesse Hallman in the ...

Oedipus' problem of Pride

This 5 page paper gives an overview of how Oedipus was a victim of fate in Oedipus the King. This paper includes how Oedipus was a...

Heroes, War, and Rebellion in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

In seven pages these two works are contrasted and compared regarded the differing perspectives on heroes, rebellion, and war each ...

Revelation and Mystery in William Shakespeare's Othello and Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice

"extracts" on scholarly subjects, is encouraged to be outgoing; the fretful Kitty is encouraged to stop coughing, because people f...

Social Status Significance in Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

In fourteen pages this report contrasts the significance of social status is reflected in the plots, characterizations, and outcom...

Different Narrative Voices in Henry James' The Turn of the Screw and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

This paper contrasts and compares how the author's narrative voices are used in each of these novels in 7 pages. Two sources are ...