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Bret Harte and the Literary Uses of Local Color

o his." (Harte NA). We find the following lines to be incredibly colorful, illustrating that Harte clearly made use of the color a...

The Cider House Rules by John Irving Literary Review

this argument with great compassion. While Homer develops a sincere admiration for Dr. Larch, he disagrees with abortion because ...

Alexander Hamilton, American by Richard Brookhiser

review, said that he felt like a candle "beside the sun at noonday" when comparing his career to that of Hamilton (11). It is fr...

1989's Spanish American War

noted how relations between U.S. and Spain had seriously deteriorated, and that with increasing unrest of the Spanish-Cuban War no...

'America's Tribes' Critique

the Bay of Pigs incident reveals his position on issues and his actions in reality to be far more closely aligned with the Republi...

Society's Influence on Fitzgerald and Williams

and a truly brazen attitude - were in vogue, as was drinking. Although Prohibition was in force to try to prevent people from imbi...

Gender, Social Construct, and Metaphysics in the Writings of Virginia Woolf

be possible to establish what is absolute truth, and that the only way in which she can proceed with her exploration into women an...

Gene Therapy and Shaywitz and Ausiello's Back To The Future

the care of humanity. "As stewards of God, "made in Gods image and likeness... we are not simulating a divine role ... we are car...

Christ, Religion and the Works of Oscar Wilde

the beginning. And, we can also gather information regarding his relationship with Christ and/or religion. With such parents, and ...

Literary Techniques in Dickinson's 'A Narrow Fellow in the Grass'

This paper examines Dickinson's 'A Narrow Fellow in the Grass,' and examines the author's use of visual, auditory, visceral, and p...

Anatomy of an Illness by Norman Cousins

This paper discusses the author's ankylosing spondylitis and how he managed his own course of treatment in 6 pages. There is 1 so...

Kurt Lohbeck's Holy War, Unholy Victory Eyewitness To The CIA's Secret War In Afghanistan

In seven pages this paper reviews Lohbeck's text in an emphasis upon the roles of Islam and the CIA in the author's Afghan reality...

Class in America by Paul Fussell

In nine pages this essay considers the author's primary points made in this 1983 text and disputes his position regarding the cult...

Analyzing Bleak House by Charles Dickens

society." With his literary weapon, Dickens took direct aim, launching a vitriolic attack on the legal, political and socioeconom...

Article Review on Management Learning

In five pages this paper critiques the article Responding to New Roles A Qualitative Study of Managers as Instructors' in terms o...

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

that tended to see women in a strictly stereotypical fashion. The following examination of Charlotte Brontes life and her mast...

Allegories in The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

to friends to see what their feelings were about what he had written. He explains that some told him it was wonderful while other...

Professions and Disciplines by Daniel Rossides

deals with knowledge about how knowledge itself develops. From this starting point, Rossides goes on to discuss a brief history of...

Kristin Shrader Frechette's Technology and Values

In five pages this paper discusses the author's message and how whether or not the human cost of technology should influence its v...

An 'Othello' Sociological Analysis

In this instance, racism is a problem, and it is today. Yet, in looking back through history, one sees that racism was much more p...

Tools and 'King Leopold's Ghost' by Adam Hochschild

and far-reaching. Defined as a breakthrough for human rights, the significance of his account speaks to the notion of struggle am...

In Praise of Wolves by R.D. Lawrence Reviewed

not to present any sort of challenge to the animals as he remained "crouching", "speaking softly" and "kept his gaze away" not wan...

William Gibson's Johnny Mnemonic

be one of the social issues that Ross recognizes, but the ways in which corporations function in modern society are inherent to th...

Mockingbird Symbolism in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

seem to represent the mocking bird are the threats of hatred, prejudice and ignorance. Innocent people such as Tom Robinson and Bo...

Arnold Isaacs' Vietnam Shadows

Isaacs states that shadows haunt those who did fight in Vietnam because the stories that no one wanted to hear about their war con...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...