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Essays 481 - 510

"Gawain and the Greek Knight"/"Wife of Bath's Tale"

face" (lines 444-445)("Sir Gawain" 229). The head then warns Gawain not to forget their agreement, which is that Gawain will submi...

Fayum Portraits

as to whether or not they actually resembled the deceased to any greater degree. Analyses of the paintings shows that they are oft...

A Satirical Reflection on French Society: Candide

This essay describes the manner in which Voltaire lampooned eighteenth century society in his satirical novel "Candide." Five page...

Japan, National Goals/1868-1890 & 1890-1912

63). Through incremental decrees, the Meiji government moved toward creating a highly centralized, bureaucratic government. Duri...

Nineteenth Century Victorian England's Fallen Women

In eleven pages this paper discusses how women were marginalized in England's nineteenth century Victorian society. Four sources ...

'True Story of Ah Q' by Lu Xun

In twelve pages this paper discusses Lu Xun's texts and the issues resulting in the early twentieth century Chinese society collap...

A Three Part Historical Paper

In this paper consisting of five pages and three part the first portion discusses Europe at the conclusion of the nineteenth centu...

Preventing Twentieth Century Mistakes From Repeating

This paper examines the major mistakes and follies of Twentieth-Century society and discusses how they can be prevented from occur...

Jane Eyre as a reflection of changing society

This paper looks at the perspective of English society in the nineteenth century which is presented in Charlotte Bronte's novel. I...

The Issue of Adultery

wants to hear about it. In addition, cliches such as "The grass is always greener on the other side" abound, and did not become ...

The City and the Mountains by Jose Maria Eca de Queiros II

In six pages this paper discusses the themes in an overview of this text that features the nineteenth century society of Portugal....

'The Decameron' by Giovanni Boccaccio

In three pages this essay discusses how these tales reflected the changing society of the 14th century as a result of the Black De...

Cousin Bazilio by Jose Maria Eca de Queiros

In eight pages the late nineteenth century society of Portugal is the focus of this thematic consideration of Cousin Bazilio. Fou...

Seventeenth Century Comedy

Moliere and Restoration theatre are two of the main examples of comedy in the 17th century. This paper examines what purpose comed...

A Review of The Princess of Cleves

An 8 page essay reviewing the novel by Marie de La Fayette. This so called women's novel provides interesing insight into French h...

21st Century Corrections Changes and the Criminal Justice System

confronting corrections in the 21st century are prison overcrowding, limited funds, and protecting society from criminals by impri...

Canadian Policy and Racism

the effect was similar in that the vast majority of immigrants arriving in Canada prior to the 1960s were from the British Isle o...

Twentieth Century Women's Changing Roles

This paper considers 20th century women's changing social roles with employment and family position among the topics discussed in ...

Role of Women in Society: The Rover and The Importance of Being Earnest

to the plays because they were written during the time of the British Commonwealth, a time when the very nation has lost its Empir...

IRA Actions in Great Britain and Terrorism

are made define an abstract concept, there will always be some groups who are able to find exceptions to the definition because of...

20th Century Educational Inequality

excel in society. Our schools are not meeting these goals. Part of the reason is an almost myopic concentration on equality in f...

Was late 18th/early 19th American society Egalitarian or Hierarchical?

7 oclock on that the evening of March 5, there were around 700 people, armed with clubs and an assortment of weapons, who were "pr...

Analysis of Greek Funerary Statue

intended for this statue (Woodford, 1986). The initial response of this writer/tutor to the statue was that I was taken with the...

Commedia del'Arte and Cycle Plays

Noah, for example, might exhort the men on the audience to establish control over their wives whilst Noahs wife would...

'Absalom and Achitophel' by John Dryden and Honesty

17th century way of saying "God told him to do it." But one of Davids progeny stood out, this being the brave...

Gore Vidal: “Creation”

Herodotus (Vidal). Herodotus was an actual historical figure, known as both the "father of history" and the "father of lies." Here...

Maya Angelou/Phenomenal Woman

half=way through the stanza, Angelou prefaces giving her reaction with the line "I say," which is followed by her lyrical descript...

Differences in Gender in the Peasant Residences of Central Europe and Southeast Asia

tended to marry much earlier in Europe than in Asia. Both peasant groups seemed to have grown grain crops: rice in Asia and whea...

Magdelena and Balthasar by Steven Ozmet and Religious Controversies

Redeemer" (Ozment 14). As a result, Magdalena and Balthasar not only put their faith in good health in the various medical remedi...

Early US Penitentiaries and 3 Concepts

In three pages this paper examines 3 concepts on 18th century penitentiaries with Pennsylvania and the Quaker influence the primar...