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Reality and Illusion Thematically Intertwined in 'Barbie Doll,' Edward Albee's 'The Sandbox,' and Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use'

said" (Walker). This very funny little snippet shows clearly what her mother thinks of Dee for making up what she thinks is an Af...

Writing Sample in the Style of Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

could well relate to Salingers Holden who finds no hope in the people he meets, no sense of redemption in the adult society. If ...

Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and Order

of Law, the Squire, the Merchant and only then the Wife of Bath. After the Summoners Tale, the "b" group again diverges and offers...

'Ammalat Bek' Character Development

alter his lifes course. Defining this particular concept calls for ones close interpretation of what the protagonists role truly ...

Bessie Head's The Collector of Treasures, Life, and Judgments

essence, sex was available to anyone and there had previously been no such thing as the selling of sex. But, this also enticed the...

Illness and Death in Franz Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis' and Leo Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich'

into death. Both characters are, for the most part, dismissed gradually by their family. They are ignored, and their loved...

Money: “The Gilded Six-Bits” by Zora Neale Hurston

context to some extent, while also understanding the social and political oppression the African American people experienced at th...

Analyzing Mrs. Kearney in Dubliners by James Joyce

1984). They are "depicted as powerless, passive, and silent or, if they do act, as monstrous; Mrs. Mooney, after all, has the sens...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

one part of the dying process involves anger. However, in this case, Ivan is seemingly too extreme for his behavior to be explaine...

Looking Beyond the Jockocracy by Bob Barcelona

He is. In fact, the biography that appears at the end of the article explains that he is an Assistant Professor. He does hold a do...

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

In five pages this story is examined in a discussion of the importance of identity in American society and its problems with racis...

Once and Forever by Kenji Miyazawa

In five pages these stories as translated by John Bester are analyzed in an overview the concentrates primarily upon 'Kenju's Wood...

'A Father' by Bharati Mukherjee and Irony

In five pages this paper examines the importance of irony to Mukherjee's story with other thematic components considered as well. ...

Gender Issues in 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and 'Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

Ushers ultimate fall. "[The house had] an atmosphere which had no affinity with the air of heaven, but which had reeked up from t...

A Man for the People by Chinua Achebe

In a paper consisting of five pages Achebe's political critique is examined within the context of the novel's story that is eerily...

Concept of Courtly Love and 'The Knight's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

In fourteen pages this story contained within The Canterbury Tales is examined in terms of its portrayal of courtly love and chiva...

Commonality of Family Dysfunction in 'Go Tell It On the Mountain' by James Baldwin

In 5 pages the common themes of family dysfunction and religion's 'being saved' are examined within the context of this story by J...

The Tenth Man by Graham Greene

In five pages this report considers this story in terms of how it reflects Greene's ironicy writing style. Six sources are cited ...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper and Insanity

In six pages this paper examines the theme of insanity as portrayed in Gilman's story. Ten other sources are cited in the bibliog...

Myth and its Function

actions of what are called archetypes. An archetype will be the role the character plays within the story. Examples of archetyp...

'Miss Brill' by Katherine Mansfield

At the end of the play, she quickly and quietly becomes one of the "watched." She goes from thinking most of the others are old, ...

Thomas Hardy's 'Jude the Obscure'

A summary of this novel highlights this 5 page paper which also includes how Hardy's life is incorporated into the story through t...

An Introduction to Sixteenth Century Anabaptism

This five paper paper reviews the book The Anabaptist Story An Introduction to Sixteenth Century Anabaptism by William R. Estep. T...

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and its Timelessness

In ten pages this paper examines the timelessness of this William Shakespeare tragedy as it is represented in Franco Zeffirelli an...

Kate Chopin's "The Storm"

his arms. She was a revelation in that dim, mysterious chamber; as white as the couch she lay upon. Her firm, elastic flesh that w...

The New York Times and The Chicago Tribune

In fourteen pages this paper examines how global information is featured in these famous newspaper which consider January 12, 2000...

Saving Sourdi” by May-Lee Chai

a world now in America, a woman is basically in the hands of the world of men. They have little or no control over their destinies...

Rauchway/Murdering McKinley

that Roosevelt succeeded in causing the majority of Americans and many historians to forget about McKinley in the wake of Roosevel...

Richard Wunderli's Peasant Fires The Drummer of Niklashausen

In five pages this paper discusses Hans Behem's peasant story as it is presented in this fifteenth and sixteenth century German hi...

Motivation Behind Cult Membership

Recent stories of mass suicides of cult members has led to an interest in the people who join cults and their rationale. Tis paper...