Essays 211 - 240
311, Cassander held 13-year-old Alexander IV, Alexander the Greats only surviving heir and his mother captive and he had them both...
In five pages this essay considers two artistic images of Alexander the Great a woodcut print from the 16th century, 'The Three Go...
advances that were made in transportation are considered the problem in terms of why consumption of goods form the colonies was so...
into began and ended with the Russian court. She did not ascend to power overnight; she had eighteen years to observe how the bus...
were possible under the enforced peace in the Empire under Alexander. Philosophy had in Alexander a supporter and it flourished. T...
PG). His father was Philip II, a strong leader in his own right, who had united Macedon, making it the first real nation in the mo...
hostile public world. Yet, she confesses to a friend that she keeps her business activities a secret from him because it would be ...
went to work on the street early in life, and fell in with a teenage gang from the Lower East Side. Taking advantage of Prohibitio...
Ambition and a self-made determination, and the freedom to achieve anything that one sets his or her mind to were the basic concep...
Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is compared and contrasted with F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby character. The Ame...
as the finest American novel ever written. It retains its power because it is a sort of dual effort: it praises the American Dream...
size," who attacks it nightly (Kennedy xiv). Beowulf, in particular is described in heroic terms: Of living strong men he was the...
own death and running away. Along the way, he meets Jim, a runaway slave who is traveling north in hopes of freeing his family. ...
"well aware of the way African American identity had become irreducible to a simple set of criteria" (Favor 28). In The Autobiogr...
and to happiness (Fitzgerald, 1995). The story that unfolds is actually quite sad. Jay is obsessed with recreating the p...
attended but did not graduate from Princeton University. While at Princeton however, Fitzgerald was first exposed to the exceeding...
is to truly examine our lives. It may seem that living a life of wealth would be easy and would negate the necessity of deeper ex...
This sense of optimistic euphoria was forever captured in F. Scott Fitzgeralds 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby. Its featured charact...
In five pages this paper provides a comparative analysis of these two famous American literary works in terms of the acquisition o...
her womanhood, she is one who lives at the mercy of her desires. Not aware -- or at least not caring -- about the havoc she wreak...
In six pages this report compares women's subservient status in each of these literary works. Eight sources are cited in the bibl...
ensuring that Winterbourne knows that she has plenty of male friends in New York, giving him "lively eyes and...light, slightly mo...
the face of it, to go against the utilitarian principle of the "greatest good of the greatest number", taking a more long-term vie...
this when Edward Nortons character slowly develops the alter ego played by Brad Pitt. Edward Nortons character wants nothing to do...
of a horror film, and the crucifixion of Jesus is without question one of the most horrific episodes in world history. There are ...
into detail about the beginnings of Christs teachings when people were beginning to see him as the son of God as it relates to all...
be funny, but it winds up just being painful, sad, and unpleasant to watch. Since Andies goal is to drive Ben away, she delibera...
of these men (Broken Sword, Sky, and Flying Snow). In essence, the central protagonist in the film takes it on himself to find an...
state. The fact that the beginning and the end of the story discuss this and use it as a foundation for the story offers the viewe...
to consider what defines "progress" and what is sacrificed in the name of progress. Kabor? has been criticized for his "heavy hand...