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The Legend and Impact of Babe Ruth

From the time Ruth made it to baseball, the story became purely an American tale . . . some John Steinbeck, a bit of William Faulk...

Author's Arguments Presented in Former California Governor Pete Wilson's Securing Our Nation's Borders

argument by discussing statistical facts: 1. There are a million illegal immigrants in Los Angeles alone (1). 2. Only one-third o...

Life of Medieval Author Geoffrey Chaucer

In 5 pages this paper examines the 14th century life, career, and writings of Geoffrey Chaucer that culminated in The Canterbury T...

Nick Carraway and Fitzgerald's Novel, The Great Gatsby

few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove" (Fitzgerald 61). He soon finds that...

Robert E. Lee and Ulysses Grant

In twelve pages the lives and experiences of these great American generals are contrasted and compared. Six sources are cited in ...

Comparison of Hard Times by Charles Dickens and Unto the Last by John Ruskin

In six pages the ways in which the political economy of Great Britain is attacked in these works are compared along with the socia...

Housing Management and Its Functions

This research paper discusses the functions performed by a housing manager, as the writer offers a job description that encompasse...

An Analysis of Fitzgerald's Novel, The Great Gatsby

This paper analyzes F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby. The author argues that the work qualifies as an excell...

Biography of Alexander of Macedon by Peter Green

In ten pages this paper examines Green's portrayal of Alexander the Great as a real man instead of a mythical figure, with a reali...

Life and Writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Bernice Bobs her Hair," "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," "The Debutante," "Absolution," and "Winter Dreams." (http://www.sc.edu/...

Emily Dickinson's Poem, After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes

This paper provides a reading of the Dickinson poem, 'After Great Pain a Formal Feeling Comes. The author contends that Dickinson...

Ohliger, MacKeracher, and Lindeman

The three entitled authors wrote a great deal about adult learning. This essay discusses their ideas in specific works. There are ...

Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

and achieve the goal of freedom. After Legree learns that Tom encouraged two of his slaves, Cassy and Emmeline to escape, he vows ...

Biography of Mattie Moss Clark

church choirs was intense throughout the network of COGIC congregations. Additionally, Clark served as the president of the Nation...

Diane Ravitch, Her Views on American Public Schools

countrys leading educators and has been a vocal advocate for both testing and accountability initiatives in the public schools. A ...

American Literature and Major Common Themes

shaped by trying to achieve the American dream, but by experiencing what occurs when others achieve and pass on the values of weal...

Aristotle’s Thinking

and civilization. This paper considers his works, his worldview, his influence on his most famous student, Alexander, and how he b...

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 ...

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...

Alexander the Great

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

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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 ...

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...

Southwark; Profile and Youth Unemployment

and 7.7% other white) (Southwark Alliance, 2006). Second to the white population the next most popular group are black groups, mak...

The Forest Biome

The tundra is made up of the artic, found near the poles and the alpine found near mountain topes, there are four types of desert,...