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Thoughts on Music and Worship

This essay pertains to the debate in Christian churches over what sort of music should be played during services, traditional hymn...

Young Women, Heartbreak and the Blues

This essay offers analysis on Liz Phair's "F*ck and Run," Janis Ian's "At Seventeen," Joan Baez's "Diamonds and Rust" and Ruth Br...

Black Literature and Its Portrayals of Sexual Molestation, Domestic Violence

This research paper/essay pertains to the subject of sexual molestation and domestic violence in black literature. The writer disc...

Poems on Sexuality, Blog Posts and Responses

This paper offers two blog posts. One on "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and the other on "Sex without Love" by Sharon Olds....

The Effects of Violent Lyrics on Aggressive Thoughts and Feelings

topic are the musical genres of heavy metal and rap. The term heavy metal was initially featured in the lyrics of the Steppenwolf...

Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself and Explication

actually ever addressed. The author states, for example, towards the beginning of the article, how "No gesture of style so prono...

Parodying the Knight in Song of Roland and Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso

of knight. He was the kings representative in battle, and his role as the protector of freedom was assumed with honor and uncompro...

China's Song and Qing Dynasties and Gender Roles

overrun by the Mongols. The Song Dynasty was known for its great changes in the economic and social climates of the country becaus...

Death in Korn's Song 'Alone I Break' and Robert Frost's Poem 'After Apple Picking'

like a walk in the park. The poem describes how tired a person can feel while working hard, and laboring at ones love. Though a mu...

Analysis of This Old Man Folk Song

cohesion-one must sense a beginning, a middle and an end. In "This Old Man," the melody follows a simple line that makes it easy...

Ancient Poems and Love Songs of Egypt and China Compared on Love and Sex Attitudes

war songs, marriage songs and love songs among many more. Throughout the ages, the poems came to known as not merely an example of...

The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather

come through art and through living the life of an artist. In the beginning we do not necessarily see that Thea herself is sure...

William Wordsworth and William Blake's Childhood Themes

this particular poem the first four lines seem to offer us a great deal of foundation for understanding the symbolic nature of you...

Carl Jung's Archetypes and Eating Disorders

archetypes can only become conscious secondarily (1981). The archetype is merely an example of a perfect form or prototype (Lohff,...

Comparing T.S. Eliot and William Shakespeare

accompanied by his son, Ferdinand, the heir to his throne; Antonio, the Duke of Milan; Sebastian, the brother of Alonzo; and Gonza...

Exegesis of Psalm 137

as the historical circumstances, which inspired the psalm and whether or not the poem is a song or a prayer (Jackson). The student...

Analysis of 'Ode to a Nightingale' by John Keats

intoxicated on the sound of the bird, the "light-winged Dryad of the trees" (line 7). Nevertheless, it is clear that his mental s...

Poetry Structure and the Influences of Culture

futility and anarchy (of) contemporary history": this is not to say that such a structure need be formal and stylised, only that i...

Cultural Determinism in the Songs of Tupac Shakur

has upon his fans, one must first understand the meaning behind the words. Perhaps the best definition of this particular type of...

William Blake's Images and Words in Illuminated Songs of Innocence and Experience

of the power and impact of Blakes illustrations concerning his inner images and his poetry. As one author notes, "Those who know h...

Medieval Character Model Representation of The Song of Roland

But, we find that this is only a trick. It was such realities as these that often led the Crusades against other nations. Of cours...

Analyzing Twelve Poems

remains rigid. This poem presents us with a rhyme on every line, further adding to the structural content. We note the first fe...

Literature and Women of High Society

Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore, Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly; Twenty-eight years of womanly life and all ...

2 Poems by T.S. Eliot

time she was thirty years old. In Victorian England, it was normal for girls to marry young, and Mary Ann was unusual in that she ...

An Analysis of the Opening Chapter of Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon

This 5 page paper analyzes the first chapter of Song of Solomon, a novel by Toni Morrison. The writer suggests that in this openin...

Meaning of Grace Slick's Song White Rabbit

. . sure, Sgt. Pepper gave the Summer of Love its soundtrack, but White Rabbit melted the patchouli-scented essence of 1967 into t...

3 Perspectives on London

In five pages this paper examines three viewpoints of London as revealed in such literary works as Howard's End by E.M. Forster, S...

Music and the Negative Depiction of Women

has taken a negative turn and simply glorifies ignorance, violence and misogyny (1996). Many agree with his assessment. While ea...

Medieval Literature and Common Themes

is a serious offence. But Ganelon, the man who is held, has a friend who challenges his accuser to a match and the friend loses. T...

Unionized Environmental Productivity and Morale Improvements, Part II

In five pages this paper's second part examines work environments that are are unionized and the segmentations that exist that can...