Essays 301 - 330
but throughout the novel in its structure and in the references Eco brings in. The reader thus becomes aware that the novel is wor...
movement, and the technical developments of the 1980s" (Neuromancer, William Gibson). The word "neuromancer" is a compound: "neuro...
Herodotus (Vidal). Herodotus was an actual historical figure, known as both the "father of history" and the "father of lies." Here...
it, because he cannot really define who and what he is. Like many Native Americans, his world has clashed headlong into the world ...
or around the bend. In Two Cities, Dickens uses a great deal of foreshadowing, and it starts with the very first line. "It was th...
there. He has grown up in a society that talks about the World State and so he is curious. He is a reader of Shakespeare and a man...
readers. However, if my own ignorance in sea affairs shall have led me to commit some mistakes, I alone am answerable for them" (S...
and Barnes are the same person. What is clear is that Hemingways experiences make Barnes seem very real. So does Hemingways famou...
1852.5 Stowes portrayal of the cruelty of slavery generated "horror in the North and outrage in the South," as Southerners perceiv...
into the pen during the day. After the best of the gang were sold off, the balance was taken to the Exchange coffee-house auction ...
p. 15). Financial backing is one of the most critical components of such an objective. The U.S. Agency for International Develop...
in words, never in deeds. In actuality, Carnegie was totally ruthless in his business practices, coldly treating the workers as if...
through Nicks eyes Nick provides the voice by which the other characters are heard. As such, he serves as a "translator of the dr...
childhood, as well as everything he hopes to achieve is best illustrated in an incident that occurs between Sammy and Al Manheim o...
her mothers home country of Sweden. Ben had the "America fever" and stole the money in order to obtain passage to the US (Johnson ...
147). Marlows initial reaction is in keeping with the African environment and the darkness that has touched his life, as it did Ku...
Sonya Marmeladov, a young woman who has prostituted herself in order to support her parents. While Sonya suffers physically becaus...
are pervaded with a sense of innocence violated" (pp. 6). In fact, in a pre-release review presented in The New Republic, Lane com...
extended outline of the 1960s and piquing our interest. ONeill clearly illustrates the decade as one of change, and one of desi...
elements that make it worth noticing. It is time to let the Vietnam War become a part of history and start looking at Vietnam for ...
1960s had their beginnings in the 1950s; the Civil Rights struggle, for instance, goes back to the early 1950s and such events as ...
happy at the camp, the family suffers when the men cannot find work. Ma Joad insists that they move on when money and food are alm...
This 5 page paper gives an overview of how the future may be influenced by technology. This paper includes a reflection of the nov...
In 2003, police officers in Parma, Ohio used many illegal and immoral methods to collect overtime pay that was not deserved. In 20...
This essay focuses on the character of Lucy Lurie in J. M. Coetzee's novel Disgrace. Three pages in length, only the novel is cite...
Consider: "So gradually Doctor Aziz came to have a picture of Naseem in his mind, a badly fitting collage of her severally inspect...
A 12 page research paper on Mark Twain's classic novel Huck Finn. This paper includes a 9 page essay, an annotated bibliography an...
eyes," but finds this awkward as he "self-consciously" sees a Gethenian "first as a man, then as a woman, forcing him into those c...
the subcontinent ("Midnights Children"). Because the history of India is so rich and varied, the novel is multi-layered and comple...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at Guest's "Ordinary People". Kubler-Ross's model of grief is used to analyze the novel...