Essays 1921 - 1950
future in general. He sees a completely digital future. While it does appear that the future is here already, with subway token ca...
of the public social sphere, keeping themselves completely within the domestic sphere. The "good" or "true" woman was passive, dep...
that even in a clear cut area, once the building is up or the subdivision in place, grass, trees and other green leafies are added...
said, "the nation becomes not only too small to solve the big problems, but also too large to solve the small ones" (31). Accordin...
was around $30,000 (Adler 13). With company-paid health insurance, Mollie had raised her family, bought a house, a car, and been a...
Additionally, Dickinson makes creative use of punctuation to create dramatic pauses between lines, as well as within them. The ...
talking about something makes us uncomfortable thats a good reason to continue the conservation" (Rothenberg 1). Rather then defl...
Around, around, in airy rings, / They wheel with oarage of their wings" (Agamemnon, 2002). The image of the birds, circling over ...
official. The letter has been stolen, and the police feel that they know who stole it -- a man who is referred to as "Minister D" ...
money, not religion. Organ, a simplistic, but good man, has allowed Tartuffe to come into his home and take dominance over his fam...
themes of love, this became the preferred style of World War I poets like Edward Thomas. One of his most poignant verses is "Febr...
Gregors father who would rather his son did not exist. And, there is Gregors mother who is of a similar opinion as the father. The...
contrasted against the life of her sister, Nora, who is not as down-to-earth as Clara and considered the prettier of the two. Nor...
about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...
that interpretation is tantamount to both translating and understanding the Nicene Creed, noting that "the meaning of words change...
poem is that while he had read Homer before encountering the Chapman translation, when he read Chapmans Homer, he felt the same th...
at odds with the reality that one human being can never know for certain the inner most thoughts and desires of another (Vanita, 1...
This 5 page essay explores George Orwell's futuristic book 1984 and contrasts it with Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. 4 sources ...
In five pages this paper examines how gender conditions controlled the protagonist Emily in Faulkner's short story with reference ...
enemies, and what to the encroachments of those he loved.... At length he was asked to retreat from that final area where he locat...
is an eternity to teenagers. It was his intention to tell the story of a generation coming of age in one night" (Hyams et al PG)....
were not performed. However, almost as soon as he has made this ruling - that Polyneices body should lay unburied - Creon is faced...
This 5 page essay briefly reviews the text, discussing three strengths as well as three weaknesses. There are 2 additional source...
is of utmost importance to the Italian heritage. Each generation represents years of respect, admiration and power that are ultim...
evolving to take its place (Terchek 583). Mill pictured as this new culture as giving rise to the "higher types" of culture and o...
love and regards them as intrusions between his will and his daughters future. He says that Lysander has Turnd her obedience, whic...
negative" (p. 10). They explain that an "institution" can be as simple as the social custom of shaking hands as a...
This essay of 5 pages examines how machismo or excessive masculinity destroyed Pascual. There are 8 additional sources cited in t...
her mother, and the present king, Aegistheus. The play opens with Orestes and his tutor returning to the city. The god Zeus appr...
funds have been consumed by legal fees. Esther also learns that Tom Jarndyce, the former owner of Bleak House, after coping with t...