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Great Depression and What it Was Like to Be a Teenager

We also had to write a lot of compositions. There was a lot of attention to grammar, spelling and composition, but sometimes it s...

Latino Author's St. Mary's Church Memories

both Rosa and Marianna attended. Father Ramirez and Sister Stevens spent long hours in that basement classroom teaching us abou...

'To An Athlete Dying Young' by A.E. Housman

has died. Beginning in the third stanza, the poet discusses the death and again addresses the deceased directly. He says the youn...

6 Latin American and Spanish Authors' Styles of Writing

of a historical document based on the observations of Columbus. ALONSO DE ERCILLA Y ZUNIGA Born in Spain in 1533, Ercilla became...

Hitler and the Holocaust

and so there had been a religious bias after the advent of Christianity. Social animosity would grow as these two religious groups...

Livy's History of Rome/Heroes & Villains

king also ordered killed. They were subsequently left to die of exposure and were discovered by a she-wolf. Discovered by the king...

John Keats Deserves His Place in the Literary Canon

he was struck by the "ways in which evil and beauty, love and pain, aspiration and finitude, are not so much balanced as interwove...

W.B. Yeats/An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...

Pa Chin's "Family" - Author's Message

both grand and far-reaching; that this conundrum proves damaging to the familys whole infrastructure speaks to the underlying mess...

Alexander the Great

years he had already established his position in Greece and Macedonia and began to earnestly pursue his fathers plans of crusading...

Great Entrepreneurs: Eli Whitney, Henry Ford, Oprah Winfrey, and Sir Richard Branson

one of the more notable entrepreneurs whose work spanned the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Whitney is most rem...

Winston Churchill

then leaving this party to belong to the Liberal Party, "which, he believed, better represented his economic views on free trade. ...

Gatsby & the American Dream

is when Gatsby holds out his arms toward a small green light in the distance, which the reader learns later is the green light on ...

Human Behavior According to Freud and Nietzsche

is something that is not synonymous with love. At the same time, the sexual system is more than just something that involves a man...

1956 Film Adaptation/Moby Dick

the injustice that fate as inflicted upon him, as he has pursued the whale for years, coming close numerous times, but never actu...

Author's Complexities Revealed in the Works of Ernest Hemingway

This paper examines how Ernest Hemingway's complexities are thematically reflected in his literary works in 10 pages. There are 9...

Great Barrier Reef's Blue Ring Octopus

the creature is already on the attack. It is not...

Life and Works of Author James Dickey

In seven pages this paper discusses Dickey's life, poetic writing style, and his most famous novel Deliverance. Nine sources are ...

Who Was Philip II of Macedon?

by Diodorus Siculus. (Diodorus of Sicily) 16. 92. 5 The father of Alexander wanted to enter war once more, however he wished the a...

Contrast of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and Robert Darnton

In six pages Ulrich's 'A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812' and Darnton's 'The Great Cat M...

The Written Word and Creating a Response to a Problem

6 pages and 2 sources. This paper considers how the written word can be used to communicate very specific things, including the r...

Author Ian Fleming's Tragic Life Story

In five pages this paper examines the tragic life story of military officer and James Bond series author Ian Fleming. Five source...

Black Civil Rights Advocacy and Differences in Black Authors' Styles

In six pages the differences that exist between the styles of African American authors and civil rights activists Cornel West, Fre...

Louis Armstrong, An American Musical Genius

This paper examines the career of Satchmo, Louis Armstrong. The author argues that Armstrong is one of the great American Jazz le...

Great Apes by Will Self

only a story about humans and apes, but pointing out other animals as well which really pulls the reader into a position where the...

New York Life During the Thirties

In five pages this paper presents a fictitious life story of a Brooklyn, New York woman who lived during the Great Depression and ...

Walt Disney as a Role Model

His mainstay -- the inimitable Mickey Mouse -- evolved around the time of the Great Depression, when hopes of prosperity had peris...

Jay Gatsby, Monroe Stahr, Amory Blaine, and F. Scott Fitzgerald

This paper consists of five pages and examines how Gatsby in The Great Gatsby, Stahr in The Love of the Last Tycoon, and Blaine in...

Life, Works and Style of Author Flannery O'Connor

to be left to her own pursuits, which involved studies in painting, art and writing-both poetry and prose-while at Peabody" (Anony...

75 Year Old New York Woman Interviewed

In ten pages this paper presents an interview with a New York woman that spans her life from the early 1920s to 1979 and includes ...