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Canada's Great Depression

it changed the way that Canadians looked at money. It also changed life as it was known. During the depression of the thirties, ...

American Tragedy in the Novels of John Steinbeck

In five pages this paper discusses how the American tragedy concept is thematically manifested in the writings of John Steinbeck. ...

Clyde Character in An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

In five pages this report presents a character analysis of Clyde as featured in Theodore Dreiser's novel An American Tragedy. The...

American Tragedy of School Violence

In five pages this paper discusses the U.S. growing problem of school violence, which is an unfortunate byproduct of American soci...

Mortimer J. Adler's The Six Great Ideas The Six Great Ideas” By Mortimer J. Adler

The Six Great Ideas by Mortimer J. Adler is summarized and critiqued in two and a half pages....

Global Migration

In eight pages this paper discusses the US voluntary 'Great Migration' and Kosovo's forced migration....

Alexander the Great

and is often considered the most important individual in the history of the Western world aside from Christ (A History of Greece, ...

The Great Sphinx of Giza

statue when it was erected, or even through the ages prior to its real discovery (Wikipedia, 2007). It was given the name of "Sphi...

Ralph Ellison/The Dream at the end of "Battle Royal"

the leading black American of his era, gave at a primarily white audience in Atlanta in 1895. This speech became known as the "Atl...

The Great Depression

hit" (Rothbard xiv). The money possessed by cities, by schools, and by higher educational institutions dwindled and bankruptcy was...

A Review of The Tragedy of American Diplomacy

an "open door" policy for revolutions. Now, it should be understood that Williams was not a communist, nor a revolutionary in the ...

Riot and Remembrance by Hirsch

Depression looming on the horizon. Hirsch tells the reader that when the Depression did come to the region Greenwood was devasta...

American Religion and The Great Awakening of the Eighteenth Century

which occurred in the 1730s and 1740s. It was during those few decades in which we emerged as a religiously based and religiously ...

Tragedy That is Not Tragic in 'Night Mother'

forty and has epilepsy. However, the source of Jessies psychic pain is not her condition, but rather the fact that she has never ...

The Comedy of Romeo and Juliet

plays make it clear that Shakespeare is being funny. However, one of the many examples of Shakespeares masterful skills is demonst...

Not So Tragic Death of a Salesman

("Introduction"). An example of this might be the concept of the senseless murder. Some suggest that this is an oxymoron. After al...

Analyzing Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

a manner that Cleopatra bears his children. At one point Antonys wife dies and for the audience this would offer the option of ...

Differing Views of Tragedy by Assorted Philosophers

of the tragedy is that it is connected with the heros activities and it emphasizes human vulnerability (2005). To Aristotle, trage...

Underlying Issues Behind the Ford Explorer and Firestone Tire Deaths

This paper addresses the recent tragedy caused by the defective Firestone tires on Ford Explorers that blew out causing over one h...

Ismene as the Foil in Sophocles’ Tragedy Antigone

Antigone is a rebel who is willing to defy King Creon in order to accord her brother Polynices with the proper burial his twin Ete...

Is “Death of a Salesman” an Aristotelian Tragedy?

achieved little even though they are in their 30s when the play opens. Linda, Willys wife, desperately tries to hold the family ...

The Theme of Tragedy in Oedipus the King and Death of a Salesman

This 5 page paper discusses the tragedies faced in the plays Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex) by Sophocles and Death of a Salesman b...

The Element of Tragedy as Presented in Literature

in his society. Sometimes he is one who has been displaced from it, sometimes one who seeks to attain it for the first time, but ...

Willy Loman's Tragedy in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In five pages Miller's contention that 'tragedy is the conscience of a man's total compulsion to evaluate himself justly' is analy...

The Uncommon Man's Tragedy and Aristotle

nations, and they did not attract the attention of the gods. In the past few centuries, on the other hand, we have ample examples...

Tragedy of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In four pages this paper examines Aristotle's definition of tragedy and its criteria in a consideration of Hamlet and how the play...

Aristotelian Tragedy of Oedipus Rex

of tragic flow Aristotle also stipulates that the plot of a tragedy should follow a logical tragic flow. Aristotle writes that "a...

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Discussed

lovers and Shakespeare is more sympathetic to their plight, considering the rebelliousness to being relevant to the lovers need to...

Tragedy as Defined in Death Of A Salesman and Aristotle

play, I think, and maybe that is what does it. We are faced with the spectacle of all that love being lost on someone who can t r...

Miller's Death of a Salesman

tumbles into despair. All the while, he treats his wife and sons quite negatively. This is not an uncommon scenario. A man has tro...