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Critical Analysis of Maggie A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

(Grimstead 174). Maggie appears to simply lack the environment in which she might have blossomed into the ideal of American womanh...

Historical Significance of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper'

relationship between Gilmans story and the reality of late-nineteenth century life for American women. Shortly after the America...

Elie Wiesel's Character as a Hero Analyzed

personal codes (much like Hemingways did) which serve them in good stead when faced with insurmountable dangers. Along their journ...

A Comparison of the Dream of the Rood and Caedmon's Hymn

He demonstrated this to the abbess and many learned men, and was requested to abandon the secular life and join the monastery, whe...

Jesus and Socrates

For example, Bostick (1935) makes copious use of footnotes, drawing on the works of Plato and Xenophon, who were two of Socrates d...

Comparison in Politics

other on the real issues. Both promoted remaining in Iraq for the duration; both maintained that "something" has to be done about...

Self Actualization: Maslow, Rogers, Fromm and Kelly

shaping our self actualization but also emphasized that the environment and our interaction with it was constantly changing (Roger...

The Raven, 1963 Film and Poe's Poem

of its first publication in 1845, Edgar Allan Poes poem "The Raven" has been an element in American cultural influencing the publi...

Georgia Education Demographic Analysis

In this paper consisting of six pages Georgia demographic data based on 1990 census information is applied to the educational syst...

United Kingdom's Employment Relations Act of 1999

In nine pages the employer and employee pros and cons of this Act are evaluated with comparison's made to a similar U.S. piece of ...

Analysis of 'Desert Places' by Robert Frost

contemporaries, Frost sees no meaning in nature. It is simply emptiness. There is no God there, no Creator, just emptiness. In the...

Questions on Financing of U.S. Health Care

argue that advocates of merged organizations have not achieved the success they expected. In each case, the form that the hospital...

Ralph Ellison

mention the civil war in Spain and the Communist state in Russia as instances in which people grew "tired of seeing the rich have ...

Jing-Mei Woo’s Personality Traits in Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds”

When Jing-Mei fell short of achieving the lofty goal her mother set for her, her insecurity intensified. After seemingly endless ...

"We Be Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara, and "Shiloh" by Bobbie Ann Mason and the American Dream

The thematic representation of the American dream in two literary genres (1 poem and 2 short stories) is discussed in 9 pages. Th...

American Literature

little concern for the development, the past, of the relationships that play a very important part in the stories. One could well ...

Self Quests of the Protagonists in On the Road by Jack Kerouac and The Awakening by Kate Chopin

In six pages this paper considers the protagonists Dean Moriarty, Sal Paradise, and Edna Pontillier's self quests in On the Road a...

Effects of Hubris on Tragic Shakespearean Heroes Brutus, Hamlet, and Othello

my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor, that you may believe. Cen...

"Faust" and "Madame Bovary"

who is, for a good many people, the most entertaining character in the play. Mephistopheles manipulates Faust so that he "loves an...

Comparative Analysis of Prometheus Bound and Medea

the gods may not necessarily determine all aspects of humanity, that which has been labeled as free will may not be free after all...

The Characters Okonkwo and Oedipus Compared

the law. It would be an impossibility, no matter what the prediction, that this would happen. However, in the case of Oedipus, he ...

"The Life Of An Amorous Woman" - Dirty Profession, Pure Heart

out the way one may have originally intended; as such, a life perceived as less enlightened still encourages - and even requires -...

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...

Power of Language in Langston Hughes’ Poems ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’ and ‘Mother to Son’

human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my ...

Psychological and Sociological Analysis of William Shakespeare’s Othello

But outwardly, he projects himself as a man of total self-assurance (Macaulay 259). He states almost majestically, "My parts, my ...

John Ford/The Quiet Man

and he refuses to do so. Mary Kate abides by her brothers wishes, which confuses and frustrates Sean. The plot complications tha...

Salvation in Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilych

of the regimen of behavior that is required to obtain and maintain a position on the upper rungs of the social ladder. Ivan does n...

Death in Venice and Him with His Foot in His Mouth

that he dies of a broken heart. The relationship among art, passion and intellect is really the heart of the story. Mann has very...

Miss Emily as Illustrated by her House

one of the most frequently anthologized stories in English, and one of the most popular. Its blend of horror, mystery and irony ar...

Hills Like White Elephants and Everyday Use

are giving in to another, and also demonstrating how they are not necessarily self confident or overly concerned about themselves ...