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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...

'A Clean, Well Lighted Place' by Ernest Hemingway

In five pages this essay considers the narrative action and the main theme's implications within the context of the short story. ...

'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 ...

Poverty Perspectives of House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

tragic death of her sister Rosa, who was Estebans fiance. Clara does not love Esteban , but her psychic ability leads her to belie...

A Consideration of The Rape of the Lock

since the Middle Ages as the models for literature at its grandest" (McDaniel 1-15pope.htm). It is a general consensus that Popes ...

A Review of Alive by Piers Paul Read

they are high in the Andes, where no food is to be had. We could, in reality, have a story that would read like "Lord of the Flies...

Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, and Love Relationships

and feels that he usurped his place in the family. Therefore, when Hindley torments Heathcliff when he gets the opportunity. Cathy...

The Rainbow Sign by Hanif Kureishi

speeches that he felt spurred the creation of the neo-Nazi attitudes in youth. For instance, in 1967, Duncan Sandys said, "The bre...

Human Condition as Described by Andrew Marvell and William Blake

In other words, if aging and death were not part of the human condition, that is, if there was time, her "coyness" (i.e. her modes...

'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...

Culture and Women in Slavenka Drakulic's Makeup and Other Crucial Questions and Maxine Hong Kingston's No Name Woman

In six pages this essay compares and contrasts these literary works in terms of their representation of women and culture. There ...

The Symbolism of the Sea in Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening'

person aside from being mothers and wives. In the following paper we examine the symbolic nature of the sea in Chopins book, illus...

Gendered Nations

higher in capitalist nations than in socialist nations but they did not know how to get there (H?gskola, 2001). As these countr...

Loss of Sovereignty in Education

I tried reading in a very soft voice" (631). In this we note that he is young boy who feels incredibly distanced from reading. He ...

Primo Levi's 'Survival in Auschwitz'

Germans had inspected the camp with care and had publicly and loudly upbraided the Italian commissar for the defective organizatio...

How the Amish Perceive Life

this framework. The Amish and the Mennonites are the antithesis of Macbeths nihilism, as these Anabaptist congregations reject th...

'The Importance of Being Earnest' vs. 'While You Were Sleeping'

even a bit further back to Madge Evans and Florence Rice. Most of their films seemed to derive from Colliers Magazine stories that...

Tennessee Williams' Cat On a Hot Tin Roof Play and Film Versions

severity of the Bricks grief at Skippers death causes his relatives to speculate, but this is dispelled in the crucial scene that...

An Analysis of Neil Frude's The Intimate Machine

This paper addresses the history of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from both the perspectives of science-fiction and reality. The au...

Jingling Bracelets by Maximilliam Schlaks

it for free. "Let me show you the souk, at least. Ill be your interpreter" he said. "How much?" "Free", he said. "My pleasure...

Differences in Silence in Poetry of the East and West

was the spirit of Zen, as he drew his imagery from the "taproots" of the earth, the presence of a moment (Hassain, 1995). The "su...

Stephen Jay Gould Panda's Thumb

socially constructed food choices-and the availability of manufacturing plants, the creation of new food products and marketing-th...

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Shipman's Tale'

more, this is obvious. We see the complications arise at a particular party: "This noble marchaunt heeld a worthy hous,/ For which...

Free Will versus Fate in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

heroine in that, even as a child, she rejected the concept of defect within herself. Victorians saw feminine defect, i.e. traditio...

A Newspaper Article Style Review of 'Of Human Bondage'

This is a 10 page essay that is written using the unusual style of ten separate newspaper articles. There is 1 source cited in th...

The Theme of Poverty in The Man of Feeling and The London Merchant

of feeling" (Anonymous Man of Feeling, 2001; 0192840320.html). The main character of the story is a man of feeling. He is a man...

Fear Levels in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

of my being" (Frankenstein). As with any newborn, his sensory impressions of the world are at first indistinct. He began to attemp...

'Maggie A Girl From the Street' and 'Native Son'

This 8 page essay compares and contrasts Maggie in Stephen Crane's novel with Richard Wright's protagonist of Bigger. There are a...

Character Ethics and the Film 'L.A. Confidential'

cost, even when it calls for doing things against his or the departments ethical code. His golden boy status within the police fo...