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Thirty Years in a Red House Memoir by Zhu Xiao Di

that is, the "bourgeois," were not always a despised class in China. In 1949, when the Communist took over the government, they na...

Areopagitica by John Milton

fashion, as they order books burned and prohibited that they "fancied not" (1025). Then, Martin the Fifth instituted the a bull wh...

Foundations of Christianity by Stephen Reynolds

stating that "Myth and symbol dramatized the accessibility of...life-enhancing power" in a manner that many people "found psycholo...

Sophocles' Antigone and Oedipus and Fortune Reversals

he has heard the dreadful prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother, Oedipus meets Laius on the road, becomes enr...

Is Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman a Tragedy?

In six pages this essay evaluates Miller's play based upon Aristotle's tragic components to conclude that Death of a Salesman is i...

A Narrative Analysis of the American Beauty Film

Fitts (Chris Cooper) and his wife Barbara (Allison Janney). Fitts is even more emotional remote from his teenage son than Lester i...

Comparison of Chinua Achebe and Laura Esquivel

a failure, his life becomes dominated by fear that "he should be found to resemble his father" (Achebe 13). Repeatedly, Achebe sho...

Black Literature and Violence

eras and toward different genders. The slave narratives of Douglass and Jacobs Douglass Narrative is the best known first-hand a...

Plato's Concept of Good Related to Buddhism's Concept of Enlightenment

the affirmative to that and other questions. Later on Socrates will ask: "And, in your opinion, do those who think that they will ...

British Company Diageo PLC

(Hoovers, 2003; Diageo, Brands, 2003). The company also owns different wines including the Beaulieu Vineyard and is involved in a ...

Snowmobiles and How They Evolved

numerous refinements. The Four Wheel Drive Auto Company took over Eliasons snowmobile production and brought out four designs that...

Learning Lessons in Billy Budd and Antigone

left to be consumed by animals. Creon takes this action because he feels it is imperative to the safety of the state that the peop...

Divorce's Impact on Children

the authors cited believe that divorce, in and of itself, causes major emotional breakdowns. Psychologist Gary Neuman, for ...

Political Culture and Music of Haiti

shores of the US. It was 1974 and the US government was still allowing Haitians to freely enter the country as immigrants at that ...

Ancient Times to Middle Ages and Religious Development

epic is a rendition of the ancient flood narrative that predates that of the biblical Noah. The Babylonian flood narrative pictu...

An Analysis of The Long Discourses Of The Buddha: A Translation Of The Digha Nikaya

& of themselves... the mind in & of itself... mental qualities in & of themselves -- ardent, alert, & mindful -- putting aside gre...

Dealing with the Effects of Child Abuse, Overcoming Obstacles, and Friendship in Barbara Kingsolver's 'The Bean Trees'

life choices. Deciding to leave was easy; figuring out where she was heading proved a more difficult choice, one that would ultim...

'The Bridegroom' by Ha Jin

concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...

Comparing Lysistrata by Aristophanes and Tartuffe by Moliere the Uses of Humor

terms to refer to exaggeration and understatement within the realm of comedy. As far as I can determine, both Moliere and Aristoph...

Moralist and Modernizers by Steven Mintz

medical societies of the power to license doctors. Family patriarchs also saw their legal rights diminished. In reaction to this...

Double Consciousness Theory of W.E.B. Du Bois

anothers eyes, as it creates a sense of "twoness" (Perkins and Rice, 2000). In other words, African Americans saw themselves both ...

Sam in Fugard's Master Harold...and the Boys

son, Hally, who is young and in desperate need of both attention and guidance. In this regard, Sam plays the role of a surrogate ...

Time Poetically Portrayed by Andrew Marvell and John Keats

his argument thus far, which is -- of course -- that human beings are not immortal. It is no his fault that "Times winged chariot"...

Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' and Its Literary Deconstruction

son and shoots her repeatedly. Mama is the important character in the story, though the Misfit certainly plays a strong secondary...

S. Foss's Inviting Transformation, Presentational Speaking for a Changing World and Public Speaking

those principles and put them into action and practice presentational speaking. Nevertheless, the first part of my task is accompl...

National Identity of France and the First World War

that rather than being simple distractions, the cartoons offered a means of expression for soldiers to both define and understand ...

Comparative Analysis of Poems by Gary Snyder and Robert Creeley

The reply that "John" gives begin the next stanza, which is "drive, he sd, for/ christs sake, look / out where yr going" (lines 10...

Demeter and the Great Mother Archetype

was mandated that she should be returned to Hades for three months of the year. While Persephone is in the underworld, the natural...

Writer's Perspective on Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary

to obscure her perception as to the character of the man she marries, Emma is essentially trapped in this marriage. During Flauber...

Banana Yoshimoto's Fiction

In four pages this essay examines two books by Japanese writer Banana Yoshimoto in a consideration of how her works capture young ...