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Western Civilization's Failure in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

In 5 pages this paper examines how Western civilization's failure is conveyed by Joseph Conrad by the characterization of Kurtz in...

A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch

is blunt when she explains to Martin why their marriage has failed: "Its partly my being so much older and being a sort of mother...

Concepts of Questing and Conforming in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

A conceptual analysis of these English novels focuses upon their representation of questing and conforming through such convention...

Historical Inhumanity in Night by Elie Wiesel and All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

In five pages this comparative novel analysis reveals how man has historically exhibited inhumanity toward his fellow man. Two so...

Effects of the Global Economy on the US Economy

growth of the global economy" (Levy 130). Levy (2005) reviews several theories of international trade, including "David Ricardos ...

Hawk by William Wallis

only three and doctors are only able to save one eye. He spends months in the hospital, which proves to be a grueling experience t...

A.E. Housman/An Athlete Dying Young

and comments that the young man was "smart" to "slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay" (lines 9-10). Housman the...

Town of Maycomb's Role in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County" (Lee 10). In this one gets the impression that it i...

Ecological Warning Signs

in check, but toxic algae thrives on "nitrogen, phosphorus, and iron," which enters the ocean by the ton each year from "partially...

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and Pecola

life of the white people in society. Morrison often uses excerpts, that gradually become very distorted and run together in lines,...

Trauma and its Lasting Life Effects

has trouble controlling his body and does not begin to feel some returning sense of normality until he reaches the Acura dealershi...

Love's Power in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

love but rather sees it as simply a different option he is being offered in terms of continuing to love her and be devoted to her....

Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables With a focus on Hepzibah

how deceiving appearances can actually be, and also illustrates how despite the rapid change from old-world values to modern sensi...

Images in Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea

to be a heroic character. From the many examples in Wide Sargasso Sea, one can argue that Antoinette is in fact the hero of the s...

Erich Maria Remarque's Representation of War in All Quiet on the Western Front

and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy" (Remarque 11). T...

Thomas Harris' Silence of the Lambs

make the lambs stop screaming, do you think theyd be all right too and you wouldnt wake up again in the dark and hear the lambs sc...

Margaret Craven's I Heard the Owl Call My Name

respect and seeks to learn from them, as he also provides spiritual guidance. Marks way of relating to the natives is starkly cont...

Janie in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

provide Janie with financial security. Many women, less independent than Janie, would suffer and endure. Janie leaves with another...

Structure of Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

he feels totally disconnected from the world - everything is "other." This disconnection from reality is integrally tied to the ea...

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and the Character of Jake

Hemingway offers the tone and internal dialogue of Jake that sets the stage for understanding his emotional rut: "This was Brett t...

'Lost Generation' and the American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

who does not exhibit the same or nearly the same amount of wealth and material possessions. The lost generation of America is ext...

Significance and Symbolism of the River in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

to be always luck for me; because as soon as that rise begins here comes cordwood floating down, and pieces of log rafts--sometime...

Analysis of a Pop Culture Inventory

seem to be indicative of a fad. While perhaps hip hop is now viewed as a fad, or short term influence, one can see that that wide ...

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson and the Character of Ishmael

man who may have once possessed dreams, but today is an angry and bitter individual. "He was a man of thirty-one with a hardened f...

Abused Child and Historical Abuses of the Irish in The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe

This is clearly seen in "Patrick McCabes novel The Butcher Boy, published in 1992" for it "is a complex working through of the eff...

Individual and the Effects of Culture, Environment, and Heritage

shocker. The Father is in actuality a nun who had been fleeing the sins of her past. She comes upon the body of the deceased Fathe...

Candide by Voltaire and the Roles Fulfilled by Martin and Dr. Pangloss

at the end because they simply enjoy being, instead of attempting to compete with others. Dr. Pangloss maintains, in great satiric...

The Hot Zone by Preston

like tornadoes and earthquakes but also include diseases that can kill. The Plague for example took out many lives during the Midd...

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...

A Description of Millennium Hall by Sarah Scott

"letter" as an example to the public of the how virtue can be implemented (Scott 2). Ellison is accompanied on his journey by a fo...