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Resistance and Stereotypes in the Poems of Grace Nichols

In five pages Grace Nichol's poetry is examined in terms of the images of resistance and stereotypes they employ with a discussion...

Explication of 2 poems by Martin Espada

mention that the catch, which is that his throat will be so sore that he will want ice cream. The lies are then contrasted against...

Gabriela Mistral

kind. It is, or can be, a far more positive thought than the thought which is fear. When reading the poems, however,...

"The ABC of Aerobics" by Peter Meinke

This essay presents a character sketch of the narrator in "The ABC of Aerobics," a poem by Peter Meinke. Three pages in length, th...

"Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen

This essay pertains to a Wilfred Owen's WWI poem that offers stark and vivid repudiation of the Latin phrase that it is sweet to ...

"Locked Ward, Newtown, Connecticut by Rachel Loden

This essay is an explication of "Locked Ward: Newtown, Connecticut" by Rachel Loden. The writer bases this discussion on the assum...

Meaning of 'Daddy' by Sylvia Plath

gangrenous toe that her father had to have amputated and which, later, led directly to his death (127). The image of the "Frisco s...

Christianity in Beowulf

has received a considerable amount of attention. Eighteenth century critics argued in favor of viewing the poem as fundamentally p...

Epic 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and the Use of Symbolism

of balance. The Knight carries the potential for both peace and war. They are intimately bound to one another, it should be said, ...

Researching the Poem ‘Ars Poetica’ by Archibald MacLeish on the Internet

scanned text files, featured a scanned version Frank St. Vincents important exposition of the poem that was first published in Exp...

Emily Dickinson and the Poems of Fascicle Twenty-Eight

to discern the "inexhaustible richness of consciousness itself" (Wacker 16). In other words, the poetry in fascicle 28 presents ...

Analysis of 2 Poems Written by Women

read into the poem a bit more and might surmise that this boy is rather insecure and needs his girl to be seen by others in a posi...

Birds in Literature

In three pages this paper examines the symbolic meaning of birds in Walt Whitman's poem 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking' and ...

Synthetic Treatment of Dichotomy in Isabella Southern's Sonnets

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "Of Pruning and Production" by Isabella Southern. The poem's themes are gradually s...

The Raven, 1963 Film and Poe's Poem

of its first publication in 1845, Edgar Allan Poes poem "The Raven" has been an element in American cultural influencing the publi...

"Sonnet XXX" - A Mechanical Analysis

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Spenser's "Sonnet XXX". A mechanical analysis of the poem's devices is carried out,...

Compare and Contrast: The Two World Wars

suppress anti-Habsburg activities, organizations, and propaganda and that Habsburg officials be permitted to join in the Serbian i...

Causes and Results of the First and Second World Wars

In the socio and political environment that resulted after World War I ended, there was probably even less chance of global...

The Entry of the United States into World War II

support for joining the war. Although it seemed as if the U.S. might become involved, the Americans were quite happy with Europe f...

The U.S. Civil War: Causes and Implications

deal of power because their populations were growing so much. At the same time, Southern States were losing power and they began t...

War on Drugs, An Overview

This paper pertains to the War on Drugs and argues that, while this is a real war, it is not one that US authorities can win. Thre...

Second World War Crimes and Japan

things. Resulting in 200,000 deaths, "The Nanjing Massacre is one of the best documented of Japanese atrocities because independen...

Dante’s Inferno & Humanism

must take a stand against evil and live according to ideals rather than simply from a myopic focus on personal needs. In Canto 2...

First Century of American Foreign Policy

tyranny, with scarcely anyone considering independence (Burns, 1969). It escalated into the birth of a nation, but the primary thr...

Modern Nursing Evolution in the United States

for caring for the wounded (Holder, 2003). For the first time in American history, women were asked to leave their homes and act...

1941 through 1951 America's Changing Decade A Decade of Change

and done, there were good feelings in the United States. The fifties would soon erupt with its newfound innocence and vigor. Kore...

Covert Operations vs. the Traditional Military

Roosevelt; the Joint Chiefs were afraid that this man would convince FDR to give covert action precedence, which of course would t...

Blacks in Uniform in the American Civil War

mistresses to look after them."4 As noted, some blacks did believe this and fought for the South, an unsettling idea at best; but ...

'The Wall' by Jean Paul Sartre and Existential Writing

matters since, as is shown by the plight of the hapless and rabbity Juan, the authorities are prepared to execute people for littl...