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Past and Present Popularity of Actress and Diplomat Shirley Temple

when she starred in 35 films...She was the only 12-year-old with a nine-year-old career. She was mature enough to perform with the...

1960s' Life and Mike Nichols' Film The Graduate

to comment on his future and to give him advice. The viewer comes to understand that Ben is expected to follow in his fathers foot...

Symbolism and Theme in 'A Worn Path' by Eudora Welty

of death, while the Mourning Dove reminds one of the mourners at ones funeral. This also sets the tone for the frame of mind that ...

Virginia Woolf's Literary Themes and Styles in Three Works

which you are now for the first time entering?"(Woolf). And, even in the modern era, most women still find this to be a certainty,...

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

There is no question that death plays a major role in this story, as evidenced not only by all the dying patients but also through...

'Montana 1948' and 'To Kill a Mockingbird'

that Scout understands is that she saw, and responded to, familiar faces in the crowd. We, however, are aware that it is this iden...

Cinematic Analysis of The Day the Earth Stood Still

across, and thus get the power of the film across. The predominant focus of the film is the story and the man who is an alien. It ...

E.M. Forster's A Passage to India

Aziz is a doctor who is living in India as the novel opens. His wife has died and he is raising his three children. Dr. Aziz makes...

Man's Search for Meaning by V. Frankl and Zinnemann's Man for All Seasons

easily see that living in the moment was the only thing that someone in that situation could hope to do, and to turn inward, losin...

Poetic Analysis of Robert Frost's 'The Road Not Taken'

a world of what might have been is not healthy. Therefore, he is suggesting that when one determines a course of action, that one ...

Presley in The Octopus by Frank Norris

manufactured goods which moved the process further. Thus, owning the railroad became a very large piece of the overall puzzle. But...

Literary Analysis of Amy Tan's 'Two Kinds'

reader watches as a mother tries desperately to give her daughter all the advantages that she never had, reliving, to some extent,...

An Analysis of Mansfield's 'Miss Brill'

This paper provides an analysis of this short story in terms of theme, symbolism, and character development. This four page paper ...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and Themes of Terror and Evil

nothing of pleasantry or peace. The windows seem as though they are "vacant," and "eye-like" and the narrator continues in this ...

Symbolism and Themes in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Stories

an intriguing plot concerning a ministers request to never remove the curious black veil he wears. When he dies, should the congre...

William Shakespeare's Macbeth and Julius Caesar

the person seeking power truly does see how things can be improved if people listen to them. For example, in the simple of situati...

'The Road Not Taken' and 'Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening' by Robert Frost

line assures us that we are in this world" (Ogilvie et al.). There is a very relaxed, yet very introspective, tone to the lines as...

Setting and Theme in The Man to Send Rain Clouds by Leslie Marmon Silko

right in their eyes for one who has died. They paint his face, sprinkle corn meal and pollen, and thus give him a very fitting wra...

Student Supplied Readings on Being Human

the singing of cell phones. Nature has somehow gotten away from those who live in this brick and mortar and cyber society. Many ...

Analysis of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

shining armor since he has redesigned his house to look like a castle. However, he does not bring this kind and generous nature in...

Hard Times by Charles Dickens and its Biblical Theme

this world are not well educated and that is seemingly due more to a lack of caring than to a lack of knowledge. Coketown is foc...

Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel

on her symptoms she has cancer. Soon, Hagar will be an angel. But, since she is such a tough old bird, difficult to those trying t...

Literary Overview of 'A Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens

the commoners, Darnay renounces his title to the Evremonde Estate and goes back to England to live. He proposes to Lucie and she a...

Maya Angelou's Poem 'Woman Work'

is left out: herself. "Shine on me, sunshine Rain on me, rain...

'Song of Myself,' 'When I Read the Book,' and 'One's Self I Sing' by Walt Whitman

With the plain-speaking simplicity that was his trademark, Whitman constructed this poem in such a rhythmic way that it could be s...

Community in Medicine River by Thomas King

place that Will checks out in regards to a loan is the Department of Indian Affairs. Whitney Oldcrow shakes his head and explains ...

Setting Importance and American Dream Theme in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

for the taking, he can carry on - he can endure the countless humiliations of having his territory dwindle to a small region in Ne...

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and Bernard Malamud's The Assistant

which Alpine realizes by the novels end, through Bobers example, can be the foundation of a meaningful life. Bober is unsuccessf...

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards

the audience immediately. Edwards then frames four implications from the verse that begin with the lead-in sentence just quoted an...

The Plague by Albert Camus and Human Meaning Struggles

been used, similar to George Orwells "1984" to describe the impact and the reaction of the Nazi invasion on France during World Wa...