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Anita Shreve's The Weight of Water

review of The Weight of Water, "There is so much factual information about the Shoals here -- geographical, historical, nautical, ...

Analyzing Suicide A Study in Sociology by Emile Durkheim

seem that Emile was destined to the same profession, he changed his fate and moved to Paris to study at the College dEpinal to obt...

An Old-Fashioned Story Reviewed

home for everyone, as everyone has a mother. Even people who do not know who their mothers are perhaps have a gut feeling about he...

Contemporary Machiavellianism

and "advisors" were, in many ways, far more powerful than the aristocrat holding office. Machiavelli himself was such a creature ...

Colonialism and the Literature of Africa

In seven pages two literary works are compared and contrasted in order to paint a detailed postcolonial Africa. The works are Ste...

U.S. Minority Literature

In a paper that contains five pages four stories written by women that are representative of the so called minority literature gen...

Literature from the Heian Period

anthologies until the appearance of renga" (Miyake, 2002). In addition, though looking at Heian literature we find that "Althou...

Fairytales and Their Importance

is true even of the fairy stories that originated with Han Christian Andersen, such as the Ugly Duckling (Zipes, 1985). Th...

Singular Theme of Michel Saint Jean de Crevecoeur, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin?

his background/ mindset was initially staunchly European. Consequently, besides being writers who lived during the 18th century, w...

Humorist Mark Twain

well-familiar, spoken in a regional dialect they could easily understand. According to Twain, "Humor must not professedly teach, ...

Biographical Profile of J.R.R. Tolkien

a place that subsequently would become a part of the city suburb of Hall Green (Lyster, 2001). While growing up, this boy who woul...

'Instructive Examples' of Literature

In eight pages this research paper discusses the writings of Clifford Geertz and Erich Auerbach in terms of how they represent the...

Book Review of Curriculum and Aims by Decker F. Walker and Jonas F. Soltis

This well written and thought provoking book that is supported by factual data and statistics is reviewed in five pages. Two sour...

Horses and Lightning

In five pages this creative writing sample examines how a woman decides to overcome her fear of horses in order to participate in ...

Pencil's Life Cycle

In ten pages a pencil's history is sketched in terms of its ancient origins and how it has evolved into the writing instruments of...

Charlemagne, Different Biographical Perspectives

Charlemagne has been interpreted differently by different writers over the centuries. Those differences in interpretation are app...

A Review of Communicate with Confidence by Dianna Booher

An 8 analsysis of the book Communicate with Confidence: Say it Right the First Time and Every Time. Written by Dianna Booher this...

Nineteenth Century Life and the Market Revolution

In five pages a letter written from a mid nineteenth century perspective of an adult answers questions regarding American life whe...

Jack Kerouac

A 6 page overview of the life of this famous writer. Kerouac's early life experiences were a tremendous impact on his later writi...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Minister's Black Veil' and The Scarlet Letter Compared

In a paper consisting of four pages these writings are compared in terms of symbolism and the meanings of these powerful symbols i...

A Review of the Themes in Borderlands

Written in Spanish this essay is a 4 page analysis of the 1987 novel by Gloria Anzaldua. The borders confronting Mexican immigran...

How Harmony and Beauty appears in Taoism and works by Wordsworth

How do the subjects of harmony and beauty enter Taoism and the works of Wordsworth? The writer notes that Wordsworth was not a Tao...

Animal Farm by George Orwell

In five pages this paper summarizes and provides an analysis for this novel written by George Orwell. One source is cited in the ...

Lasting Influence of Fairy Tales

In five pages the lasting influence of fairy tales upon attitudes are examined within the context of Writing and Reading Across th...

A Historical Overview of the Alphabet

This paper addresses the history of the modern alphabet and discusses the importance of writing as an invention that helped mankin...

Comparative Analysis of the Film and Novel Versions of Beloved

In five pages this report contrasts and compares the 1987 novel Beloved written by Toni Morrison with the 1998 movie adaptation. ...

Analyzing Three Tales by William Faulkner

In eight pages characters from 'Barn Burning,' 'A Rose for Emily,' and 'Percy Grimm' are contrasted and compared and a discussion ...

Political Correctness and Prejudice in the Works of Mark Twain

In five pages this paper examines whether or not Mark Twain prejudicially portrayed Indians, Jews, blacks, and women in his writin...

Justice in Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince and Plato's The Republic

he considered to be the most significant reason society is its own opposing force. According to Hobbes, subjects of the omnipoten...

Civil Rights and the NAACP During the 1960s

This paper is written in the form of a fictitious letter from a NAACP attorney during the 1960s. The attorney represents an Afric...