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Stephen Crane's Open Boat and Naturalism

white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its ...

Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and Strong Women

least compared with the number of male creatures--the women that did exist were indeed powerful. In fact, one could argue that ha...

Religious and Political Status Quo of the Reformation in William Manchester's A World Lit Only by Fire

Now, for the most part we see that the people believed that the powers of the Church were directly issued by God. They believed wh...

Big Trouble A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America by J. Anthony Lukas

pans out over the expansive Western landscape, geographical, social and political. Lukas makes it clear that during this time per...

The Goal by Eli Goldratt

the process of trying to increase productivity at his factory in order to safe his own job and the jobs of his co-workers. In a hi...

Writing Style and Protagonist of The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

from the text. However, the traumatic experiences that torture him do come out, but, they do so slowly, in bits and pieces. Somet...

Review of Anne Twinam's Public Lives, Private Lives

inter-relationships of family, sexuality, and social mobility, are discussed an illuminated as well as the history of Bourbon rule...

Times Reflected in the Writings of John Keats, Moliere, and Niccolo Machiavelli

and was able to study their political tactics, particularly those of the ecclesiastic and soldier Cesare Borgia, who was at that t...

Purchasing for Manufacturing by Harry B. Hough

purchasing function provides the reader with the some of the different methods used to organize this department and the reasoning ...

Analyzing Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt

because he is not at all athletic. In fact, he is rather pudgy and homely himself. He claims to like parties and social gatherin...

Chapter Thirteen of Brendan Prairie by Dan O'Brien

In five pages this essay provides a chapter summary and also analyzes the author's employment of action, setting, and characteriza...

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift and Shock, Satire, and Irony

In five pages this paper examines the author's masterful uses of irony, satire, and shock in his criticism of British greed and Ir...

The Tradition of Heroes in Literature

This paper discusses the elements necessary to creating a heroic character in literature. The author examines heroic protagonists...

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Compared

of epic romance between two people from vastly different worlds. When prospective tenant Mr. Lockwood arrives at the Thrushcross ...

Uncanniness in The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

interpretations. It is, first and foremost, a Gothic novel, which sets the tone for the supernatural aspect of this uncanny work....

'Sonnet 75' from Amoretti by Edmund Spencer

original, so much so, that he invented his own rhyming scheme, hence this sonnet is typical of the "Spencerian" form. It is one of...

Poetry and Time

can one accept that time runs out and that everyone will die someday? After all, time is of the essence. How does one love, be hap...

Article Overview of 'Bully, Bully: Do gossip and rumors count as punishable behavior?' by John Leo

reference to a particular study, the reader gets a sense of where the article will go. That is, Leo does not agree with the report...

'The Starry Night' by Anne Sexton

The author's use of imagery in the poem is the focus of this paper consisting of five pages. There are no other sources listed....

A Critical Review of A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch

This 5 page essay examines the reaction the author's story solicited from its readers. 7 sources are cited....

Singular Theme of Michel Saint Jean de Crevecoeur, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin?

his background/ mindset was initially staunchly European. Consequently, besides being writers who lived during the 18th century, w...

The Overspent American by Schor

that in America, an annual vacation that might cost thousands of dollars is thought to be a necessity. The automobile-a depreciati...

Edward Stanley Miller's War Plan Orange The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897-1945

This text is critiqued in five pages with the author's categorizations a main focus. There are no other sources listed....

The Use of Figurative Language in Plath, Keats, and Layton

her own, and ultimately committed suicide in 1963, one year after completing "Lady Lazarus;" Keats was noted for his romantic natu...

Cinema and Novel Expansion of Blade Runner

but an android is not designed to react emotionally and must formulate a false emphatic response. The difference in the time invol...

Emilio Zamora, Cynthia Orozco and Rodolfo Rocha's Mexican Americans in Texas History

their respective fields of historical inquiry. The fact that each essay was written by academic experts is no coincidence. The a...

The Trial of Socrates by I.F. Stone

after a lifetime devoted to the pursuit of truth and virtue, Socrates, at age 70, was put on trial in Athens and charged with dish...

Racial Issues and Slavery in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

(Dukes 24). Some have said that the meeting, and the book, had influenced Lincoln in his making his Gettysburg address (24). Indee...

Dr. Claud Anderson on Discrimination Considered

to live in substandard housing. Dr. Anderson observes that discrimination is perpetuated because Whites have controlling ownershi...

Analyzing Animal Farm by George Orwell

exploit animals, all humans united against them: the true struggle is between animals and humans" (406). In Animal Farm, George O...