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William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Gender Controls

In five pages this paper examines how gender conditions controlled the protagonist Emily in Faulkner's short story with reference ...

Goodall's First Observations, Mowat's Observing Wolves and Themes of Communication

In five pages communication skills as each of these essays reflect are examined in terms of the animal species featured in each. ...

Bernard Malamud's Contemporary Fable The Magic Barrel

In a combination essay and research paper consisting of five pages the writer considers how the relationship tensions between the ...

Marital Disintegration in William Shakespeare's Macbeth

In five pages this essay examines what tensions led to the disintegration of the Macbeth marriage within the context of William Sh...

Male Characters in Emma by Jane Austen

In eight pages this essay assesses the maturation or lack thereof of male characters Elton, Churchill, and Knightley in Emma by Ja...

A Comparison of A Man For All Seasons and Antigone

enemies, and what to the encroachments of those he loved.... At length he was asked to retreat from that final area where he locat...

Juvenile Deliquency as Revealed in Rebel Without A Cause

is an eternity to teenagers. It was his intention to tell the story of a generation coming of age in one night" (Hyams et al PG)....

Governance Views in William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Sophocles' Antigone

were not performed. However, almost as soon as he has made this ruling - that Polyneices body should lay unburied - Creon is faced...

Karl Marx's 'The Communist Manifesto'

This 5 page essay briefly reviews the text, discussing three strengths as well as three weaknesses. There are 2 additional source...

Orsi's Madonna

is of utmost importance to the Italian heritage. Each generation represents years of respect, admiration and power that are ultim...

Chapter Overview of On Liberty by J.S. Mill

evolving to take its place (Terchek 583). Mill pictured as this new culture as giving rise to the "higher types" of culture and o...

Fathers in William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummer Night's Dream

love and regards them as intrusions between his will and his daughters future. He says that Lysander has Turnd her obedience, whic...

The Good Society by Robert Bellah, et al

negative" (p. 10). They explain that an "institution" can be as simple as the social custom of shaking hands as a...

A Discussion of Babette's Feast

This 5 page essay illuminates the message and presentation in Babette's Feast. Based on the book by Isaak Dineson this film prese...

Racism in William Shakespeare's Othello

that is perverted by the subterfuge and overt evil of Iago. Examining the character of Iago is enlightening to anyone who has ever...

Strong Women in the Works of Henrik Ibsen and Sophocles

for bearing her brother in accordance with the dictates of tradition and Greek religious practice. Citing feminist histori...

Jose Cela's 'The Family of Pascual Duarte'

This essay of 5 pages examines how machismo or excessive masculinity destroyed Pascual. There are 8 additional sources cited in t...

Establishing a Genre Movie in 'Singin' In The Rain'

This 9 page essay considers how the theatrical presence in the film is developed stylistically through textural characteristics of...

Language and the Power It Wields Demonstrated in Literature

In five pages this paper examines how the power of language is considered in Margaret Atwood's essay 'An End to Audience' and how ...

A Small Good Thing

This 8 page essay reviews to Raymond Carver's style in this work in relationship to his style in other works. 4 sources are cited...

Comparative Leadership Analysis of Richard and Bolingbroke in Richard II by William Shakespeare

plot progresses, Richard allows things to develop till there is virtual defiance of his royal will. This intolerable situation o...

Religious Beliefs in Issues of Child Development

and the pursing of a relationship with Christ, it is also beneficial to integrate interviews with children at varied stages in dev...

The American Dream in Advertising

includes urban culture, and a variety of lifestyles, money still is important in a culture that demands the consumer to "buy now" ...

Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe

In five pages this essay provides a synopsis of Achebe's 1987 novel and the primary themes are analyzed. There are no other sourc...

Social Change According to Herbert Spencer and J.G.W. von Herder

In five pages this essay examines social change in an analysis that compares and contrasts the perspectives of J.G.W. von Herder a...

A Character Analysis for The Man of Mode

A 5 essay analyzing the differences between specific characters in this novel by Sir George Etherege. Characters discussed include...

Freedom According to Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass

In five pages this essay compares Susan B. Anthony's speech while being indicted for voting illegally with Frederick Douglass's Ro...

'Self Reliance' by Ralph Waldo Emerson

In five pages this essay is analyzed within the context of the Persius quote used by Emerson, 'Do not search outside yourself.' T...

Perspectives on the Movie American Beauty

In five pages this essay contrasts and compares the perspectives of critics and the film's writers with regard to 1999's American ...

Homer's Heroes Patroclus and Achilles

In this essay consisting of five pages the argument is presented that the friendship between these heroes in Homer's 'The Iliad' s...