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The Oregon Trail by Parkman

Parkman is not when he begins his adventure. Parkman and his friend and relative Shaw are Eastern bourgeois; they are Harva...

How Buddhism Came to America

with the term Zen. This is because Zen had become quite popular in the United States early on. What happened was that there was a ...

Ministry Calling and Taking a Spiritual Journey

a place where she could just live with normal people, people with jobs, people with dreams, people who believed like she did. Desp...

2 Articles on Reading Reviewed

difficulty accepting and using rules of spelling, one of the problems that Liben and Liben (2004) describe as having occurred at t...

'The Odyssey' and the Underworld Journey of Odysseus

to go home. This particular point in the story is approximately halfway through such dangers and journeys and as such it is halfwa...

Spiritual Journey and Spiritual Growth

to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...

La Jetee Film by Chris Marker

how mans recollections "are motionless fragments marked by the surroundings" (La Jet?e); inasmuch as the storys underlying current...

Human Soul's Journey in 'The Waste Land' by T.S. Eliot

trees will give no shelter and the crickets, no relief" (Wasteland by TS Eliot). When looking at this particular reference one c...

J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer, and Journeys

is on his own journey for he too is aware of the murderer Injun Joe. As such their journeys, while different, essentially stem fro...

Philip Roth's The Counterlife, William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, and Journeys

that Nathan takes towards his death, traveling to various parts of the world in this journey. But, the opening chapter takes place...

Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and the Journey of the Narrator

to help us answer that question of his growth. The book is a perennial best seller, and most people can name the episodes that co...

Spiritual Journey and Growth

This paper consisting of five pages asserts that a spiritual journey and an individual's development and growth are the same thing...

Feminist Epic The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley

In five pages this paper examines this revolutionary price that traces the metaphorically hellish journey of the narrator. Seven ...

Writing the Future and the Accurate Jules Verne

In four pages this paper examines the accuracy of Jules Verne's technological predictions in such works as Paris in the Twenty Fir...

Heroism in 'Aeneid' by Virgil and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

In four pages the concept of the hero's journey as it manifest itself in these classical works of literature is examined. There i...

Comparative Analysis of 'The Odyssey' by Homer and 'The Aeneid' by Virgil

In two pages this paper contrasts and compares the depictions of women and the journeys undertaken by Aeneas and Odysseus in these...

Home Quest in Ulysses by James Joyce

feminist critics charge that this work frames women in houses that the men in the story avoid. "Throughout Ulysses women often rem...

Life Applied to Dante's 'Inferno'

In eight pages 'Inferno' is examined from the perspective of an alcoholic and the various levels the person must undergo on a jou...

The Motif of the Journey In Contemporary Literature

This 5 page paper analyzes the way in which the motif of the journey was used in three classic American novels: The Grapes of Wrat...

Benefits of Meditation

In three pages this research paper examines creative visualization, channeling, Shamanic Journeying, and T'ai Chi practices of med...

Mecca Pilgrimage of Malcolm X

In five pages this paper examines the Mecca pilgrimage of Malcolm X and the dramatic effects of this spiritual journey. Four sou...

Democracy and Uganda

so long as he has it in him to be of service to the state, is kept in political obscurity because of poverty" (Thucydides PG). Th...

A Fictional Account of a Faith-Based Journey

as many people as possible. In other words, they took literally the Biblical injunction to carry the Good News throughout all the ...

Raft Journey in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

raft and get on a steamboat and go way up the Ohio amongst the free states, and then be out of trouble" (Twain, 85). Huck can be f...

Voyager World Flight of Sally Yaeger and Dick Ruttan

In seven pages this research paper discusses the nonstop flight of Voyager around the world and the equipment necessary to complet...

Zen of On the Road by Jack Kerouac

In four pages this paper examines On the Road from a Buddhist perspective of a symbolic journey toward nirvana through knowledge. ...

Journey in The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty

In eight pages the journey motif in terms of self discovery quest is examined within the context of this novel by Eudora Welty tha...

Self Discovery in the Stories 'In Country' by Bobbie Ann Mason and 'Mules and Men' by Zora Neale Hurston

The self discovery journey and sense of place featured in these works are contrasted and compared in five pages. Two sources are ...

The Island Within by Richard Nelson

In five pages this paper examines the harmonious nature theme that is ever present in Richard Nelson's journey journal entitled Th...

Business World and 'A Hero's Journey'

In five pages this research paper applies Christopher Vogler's 'hero's journey' concepts to Fictions of Business by Robert Brawer....