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Spanish Explorers in the New World

The first exploration that is often noted is that of Christopher Columbus which was supported by Queen Isabella I.6 "In 1492 the ...

The World is Flat (Book Review)

insights from Friedman (2005) and the recognition that things are definitely changing, one is inclined to explore the new dynamic ...

The English Patient/Theme of Nationalism

blank slate for the imaginings of those around him, particularly Hana. Myth "crosses international boundaries and offers apparentl...

Critical Response to Brave New World

Aldous Huxley has no right to betray the future as he did in that book" (Watt 16). Critic Wyndman Lewis agreed with Wells, and ref...

Brave New World as a Blueprint for America’s Future

Social stability, in Huxleys nightmare vision, depends on making "[S]tandard men and women; in uniform batches" (Huxley). It turns...

Gearing Up for War: Europe 1939

see. But the reporter was in Germany at the end of WWI and found the social and economic conditions there to be deplorable. The co...

Outside Looking In

he realizes are poor quality. The boys awakening to reality is a shock. He suddenly understands that he has built up an entire f...

Technology and the Works of H.G. Wells and Stanley Kubrick

In seven pages this paper discusses the impact of technology upon humankind as considered in H.G. Wells' novels The War of the Wor...

The 20s and 30s and Literature

out at this particular time were truly offering up new visions, realistic visions, and modern visions of life. In looking at some...

The Dystopian World of P.D. James

cousin, who has taken the title of the "Warden of England" (James). The title is apt, because England (and one must presume other ...

Paint and Art

one author that Hubert is "Credited with inventing oil painting" and "was so idolizes for his discovery that his right arm was pre...

"The World Is Flat" Critical Review

level of business is both grand and far-reaching; that these same information systems - which single-handedly support the daily op...

The Fantasy of Romance in Three Novels

of the characters faces so that we can see, for instance, how Mr. Darcy reacts to Elizabeths snub or the reaction of the Bennett w...

Jewish Culture & Asher Lev

of four, Ashers mother encouraged him to make "pretty pictures," but Ashers father, even a this young age, saw the conflict betwee...

Arthur Hailey and his "Hotel"

know what hes doing in the room, Milne thinks fast, pretends to be drunk, and insists that its his room: "This s 614?" he slurs; t...

John Okada/No-No Boy

in an internment camp and two years in prison. It charts his efforts at reintegration into American society. From this perspective...

The Lover by Marguerite Duras

This essay pertains to Marguerite Duras's "The Lover," a novel that is highly autobiographical in nature. The writer discusses the...

HURRICANE KATRINA AND THE FACTORY SHIP

better protected, with individuals warned that flood waters were coming and they should evacuate. Its likely that a wealthier 9th ...

"Dangerous Liaisons" and Moral Justice

a duel with Danceny which has been orchestrated by his nemesis Merteuil, and she in turn has her reputation and physical beauty de...

John Grisham’s Bleachers

youth, that skill, that sport, could life hold meaning. At one point in the book the character states, "youre famous at eighteen, ...

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

his boyhood days. He meets Lolita and instantly desires her, doing anything he can to be near her, even agreeing to marry Lolit...

A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca

over other sleeping drunks as he tottered to the bars of the cell (Baca 2001). He father tried to take his hand, but his mother "y...

Silko: “Ceremony”

it, because he cannot really define who and what he is. Like many Native Americans, his world has clashed headlong into the world ...

The Past is the Future by Joy Obasan

that they were of Japanese ancestry. Less well-known is the fact that Canada did exactly the same thing. Obasan is the tale of t...

A Comparison of The Man Who Would Be King and The Heart of Darkness

weapons of mere humans" (BritMovie). They deem him a god and believe that he is "the incarnation of Alexander the Great, and Danie...

Goodman: “Kaaterskill Falls”

is, its probably Elizabeth, a young mother of six who, more than most, seems to have one foot in the strict Kirshner sect and the ...

Cyberpunk Lit: “Neuromancer”

movement, and the technical developments of the 1980s" (Neuromancer, William Gibson). The word "neuromancer" is a compound: "neuro...

Gore Vidal: “Creation”

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

Analysis: “In the Name of the Rose”

but throughout the novel in its structure and in the references Eco brings in. The reader thus becomes aware that the novel is wor...

An Analysis of The Lovely Bones

is the protagonist in the story for it is her story we are essentially watching, although we are watching it often through the liv...