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Human Qualities in Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

all the boys are acclaimed as heroes. Jim regrets having missed his chance to be a hero and resolves to be ready the next time. ...

Gender and Death in 4 Poems by Anne Sexton

In other words, to be a woman outside the accepted societal role for women is not to be a woman. As this indicates, any woman wh...

Tutorial on Clinicians and Child Abuse

children should be returned to the care of abusive parents. Before launching into the actual meat of the paper, the studen...

Anatomy of the Sacred

methods presented by Livingston, and where they may well fit, we provide a brief look at the approaches, beginning with literary c...

Role of Trust in Negotiations

helps ensure that agreements are reached more quickly and easily, as both parties are more able and willing to compromise and agre...

Business Case Study of Stefan Eisenfeld and Sexual Harassment

he believes were left there by Williams. In the meantime, Evans, another colleague, approached him sexually one night by sliding h...

Growing Up in Frances H. Burnett's The Secret Garden and L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

with the color of Oz, which is lush and green. In Oz, Dorothy has many adventures, but keeps working to find a way to get back ho...

Life in America and the Works of William Carlos Williams and Carl Sandburg

Chicago are? Who knows?" Yet, there are evocative images that conjure images of the people that live there -- workers with big sho...

Novel and Movie Versions of The French Lieutenant's Woman

novel and wholly unique to the film, it is arguably faithful to Fowles intentions in the way that the original novel is structured...

Movie Verses Novel in Depictions of Fellowship of the Ring

any film based on a novel, there is much that is left out. And, interestingly enough, if it were up to anyone but Peter Jackson, t...

Friendship, Victor Frankenstein, and Henry Clerval

book, the first reaction could be "mad scientist" or "ugly monster." Hollywood, if nothing else, has done a very good job of takin...

Joseph Conrad's 'Nostromo'

a narrative technique that makes skillful use of breaks in linear chronology. His character development is powerful and compelling...

Regional Role in The Awakening by Kate Chopin

population of the resort is almost entirely Creole, so Edna is immersed in a culture in which she feels like a stranger, one that ...

A Review of The Plague

the plague does exist, but never imagine it in their town, affecting their people: "everybody knows that pestilences have a way of...

Cesar Chavez and Bella Abzug

a force generated by a small group of people who are passionate in their beliefs. Through this groups passion and efforts, changes...

Principle Theme of Antigone by Sophocles

men...so that we must obey in these things" (Sophocles, 2002). Antigone makes it clear in her reply t hat she is fully aware that ...

'The Ghosts of Mrs. Ghandi' by Amitov Ghosh

a lifetime, one that influences everything that comes after, does take time to digest and assimilate. Furthermore, the feelings th...

Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr. and Charles Chaplin's Modern Times

rivals. In retrospect, many have said that Chaplin was the better director but some critics "consider Keatons work as less pretent...

Individuality According to Ernest Hemingway and Albert Camus

what dull or even dim-witted character," as from the start, he is passive and seemingly uncaring (Griem 95). It is clear that he c...

A Review of Coyote Blue

see him again he is Sam Hunter and he lives in Los Angeles, melding in with the population and the society. "Financially and socia...

Racism and On Being White, Female and Living in Bensonhurst by Marianna Torgovnick

- almost justifying it, to an extent (Mancuso, 2002). She attempts to explain the racism as going back to the machismo of Italian-...

Nella Larsen's 'Passing'

one is doing so in the early part of the twentieth century. Back during the time Larsen wrote her groundbreaking story Passing, t...

The Major Points of The Crucible by Arthur Miller

tension in the play, which is by changing historical detail to create greater dramatic tension. The historical Abigail Williams, w...

Outsiders Considered by Lee and Hardy

the beginning of the story that she does not fit in with the other milkmaids, as she works off by herself, not taking part in the ...

Munich Putsch Failure

groups that had formed at the time. The police had chosen to use their power to protect the rights of groups such as these rath...

Analysis of Both Versions of 'The Chimney Sweeper' in William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

of sophisticated readers to a gross injustice, which was the short, cruel life of a chimney sweeper. Unlike the modern myth -- a ...

On Liberty by J.S. Mill

by the first amendment is that one cannot yell "fire" in a crowded theater. Why? While people have freedom to say what they like, ...

An Inspector Calls

out by the appearance of the supposed inspector. This plot thickens as we note that each individual within the Birling family s...

'February Afternoon' by Edward Thomas

themes of love, this became the preferred style of World War I poets like Edward Thomas. One of his most poignant verses is "Febr...

Father and Son Bonding Through Sports

wolfed down all winter had turned into spring steel" (Sanders 34). While there is bonding between father and son, there is also a...