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James Joyce's 'The Dead'

Gabriel learns that the song brought to Grettas mind a recollection of a young man from her home county. Pressing her further, he ...

James Joyce's Dubliners and Dublin's Importance

story of a young girl who lives in Dublin with her father and her brother. But living there has become like living in a prison, a...

Issues and Compromises During the American Civil War

of slave states and free states. A compromise was worked out regarding the admission of Missouri to the Union. The Missouri comp...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and 'Seeing Into the Life of Things'

issues regarding his position as an adult, presenting us with a serious and introspective perspective: "To them I may have owed a...

Three American Short Stories

Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...

Death as a Representation of Failing Marriages

This 9 page paper gives an explanation of how the timeless ideal of marriage is not real and how The Dead and The Story of an Hour...

Financial Analysis of the Dubai Development Company

asset turnover is calculated by taking the sales and dividing them by the fixed assets, as this firm has no fixed assets this is n...

The Medic in World War II, An Interview

young lady? (I nod, encouragingly, I hope.) Well, say the fella had an arm or a leg that was , well, missing. Id slap on a tourniq...

An Analysis of James Alan McPherson's The Story of a Scar

Dr. Wayland, was late "and there were no recent newsmagazines in the waiting room" (392), he decided to make what he considered to...

The 1995 Short Story Winner

This paper discusses and analyses a short story. An alternative ending is written for the story. The writer discusses the main the...

James Joyce's 'A Mother' and Refuting the Interpretation of Martin F. Kearney

character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...

Henry Louis Gates Jr's 13 Ways of Looking at a Black Man

In five pages this paper discusses these 'narratives of ascent' in the collection by Henry Louis Gates Jr....

Analysis of Dubliners by James Joyce

In thirteen pages this paper examines the short stories' complication of Dubliners by James Joyce in an overview of plot, characte...

Leader's Political Role in King Henry V by William Shakespeare

In his political discourse, The Prince, Nicolo Machiavelli believed that political prowess that leads inherently to victory is ine...

Selected Short Stories and Their Representation of Gender Conflict

In five pages the short stories 'The Catbird Seat' and 'The Unicorn in the Garden' by James Thurber and 'Hihlls Like White Elephan...

The Story of Sonny’s Blues

problem is, he and Sonny have never really understood one another; or rather, his brother has never truly understood Sonny. For So...

Short Fiction Characterization

humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 'Paul Revere's Ride,' Its Inaccuracies, and the Real Paul Revere

slumber to acts of resistance. However, Fischer demonstrates that Revere did make his famous ride and that the ride was signific...

The Thematic Element in Art

song of Liling is that which provides us with the foundation of the story. Now, of course, the music and the song actually serv...

Daisy Miller by Henry James and Realism

women (James). It is clear that if Daisys flirting is not as innocent as it seems, then this would make her unacceptable to Winter...

Influences on Henry James' Portrait of a Lady

grown up in Europe and America he was a man with a wealth of information which he could write about in relationship to people and ...

Psychological Realism and Henry James

reflection. The concept of psychological realism is based on the belief that man reacts in certain ways that are a direct extensi...

The Transformational American Literature Between the Years 1865 to 1914

shows how the Huck was socialized by his culture to look on slavery as an economic and moral necessity, not as an evil. In so doin...

Literary Portrayals of Lost Innocence

to a degree and ultimately comes to recognize that there is indeed a certain undercurrent of evil in the world. In doing so he de...

Narrative Unreliability in Atwood and James

This paragraph helps the student begin to assess how trust is established in Atwoods text. Atwoods "Alias Grace" is something of a...

Is America Still America the Beautiful

This paper considers the words to the patriotic song America the Beautiful then compares Katherine Bates ideas enunciated in the s...

Henry Levin’s Rebuttal Article, “Déjà Vu All Over Again?”

the public education wheel, which has been rolling along quite nicely for centuries, easily able to adapt to the changing times an...

Characters Who Are Trapped

tells her that if she does marry this man, Morris, she will never receive any money from him, her father. Up till this point Cath...

Literature and Women of High Society

Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore, Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly; Twenty-eight years of womanly life and all ...

Plantation Society in the Antebellum South

retained a spirit of independent belief and worship. 3) How does the work pattern resemble that of the religious arrangements? Ag...