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Humanity's Future, Science Fiction Visions

This essay pertains to the novel "Dawn" by Octavia Butler and the films "District 9" and "The Omega Man," and argues that each of ...

Virgil's Aeneid and the Cost of the Roman State

Carthage queen, to fall in love with Aeneas. The entire story of Dido and Aeneas brims with fire imagery that demonstrates both Di...

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...

Tan's First Novel

all sorts of unsettling events. This is a fictional account but it brings into play very real issues faced by todays population. ...

Community in "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner and "The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara

the community as an oddity, "a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town" (Faulkner 433). She ...

Comparing the Story of Joseph/Bible, Qur'an

the Bible and reading Josephs story in the Quran is rather like the difference between actually reading a novel and simply reading...

Genesis 1-2:3 Compared to Genesis 2:4-25

are differences, the two texts do not necessarily contradict each other. The account of creation in Chapter 1 is very detailed. ...

Character Analysis of Emily Grierson in "A Rose for Emily"

that a womans association with a man is what defined women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet, Emily was le...

An Analysis of The Merchant's Tale in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

This essay presents in in depth analysis of The Merchant's Tale. The author presents a synopsis of the story, the theme of sarcas...

Thomas Malory's 'Every Man' and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Pardoner's Tale'

In an essay consisting of six pages what can be gleaned from these author's respective societies and times based on the stories is...

Puritan Dilemma of John Winthrop

In six pages this essay discusses John Winthrop's story as presented by Edmund Morgan in a consideration of the Puritan dilemma an...

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

In five pages this essay analyzes the language, themes, story, and characters found within Marilynne Robinson's novel Housekeeping...

Rules of the Game by Amy Tan

In three pages this essay discusses the symbolism of the novel's title and considers how it relates to the human experience. The ...

Ninth Day, Sixth Story and the Reeve's Tale

as an "honest man" who kept a "little hut for the entertainment of travelers, serving them with meat and drink" but seldom offerin...

In Admiration of Job

substantiates this position by indicating that the origins of Job can be found in folk poetry, but also believes that the beauty o...

Ovid & Hesiod/Creation Myths

narratives opening reveals. Hesiod pictures the "Void or Chaos" as primordial environment, then comes Earth (Gaia) and then Ero...

Narrative of David and Goliath

his victories against large predators to his faith in God. Scholarship points out that many features of this narrative relate to...

"Hockey Night in Canada" by Diane Schoemperlen/An Analysis

that her mother "had never really had a friend of her own before" and it is clear that the friendship means a great deal to both w...

Sociologically Implications of a Comedy

their acknowledged leaders and the only character that is not played for laughs. There are also Gordon, a middle-aged, loyal custo...

Abraham Cahan/Yekl

of antecedents, tastes, habits, inclinations, and speaking all sorts of sub-dialects of the same jargon, thrown pell-mell into one...

Fisher’s Narrative Paradigm

The story then details the amount of cash assets that Hillary and former president Bill Clinton hold in joint accounts, which incl...

Leaving Home According to Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce

In five pages this essay considers the theme of leaving home as experienced by the protagonists in Ernest Hemingway's 'A Soldier's...

Cinema and Novel Expansion of Blade Runner

but an android is not designed to react emotionally and must formulate a false emphatic response. The difference in the time invol...

A Critical Review of A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch

This 5 page essay examines the reaction the author's story solicited from its readers. 7 sources are cited....

Choosing the Right Path in Conflict

The human element can bring two seemingly mutually exclusive tales and ideas together. This essay uses Maus, A Survivor's Tale by ...

The Fortunate Pilgrim by Mario Puzo

reviewer also points out, there is simplicity and beauty to this prose that is not evident in Puzos later work. In the...

Rome's Mythical Origins

In five pages this essay considers Rome's origins in an examination of Romulus and Remus's story and the Aeneas saga. Three sourc...

Creative Story on Falling

In six pages this essay considers the fall of a construction worker from a 2 story warehouse roof and how falling transformed the ...

Nicolas Poussin's Summer Painting Explication

In three pages this essay presents a review of the painting and explores the painter's utilization of color, story, dimension, and...

Examples of Ambient Advertising

In an essay consisting of five pages ambient advertising as it exists in the United States, England, and throughout Europe are exa...