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Inquiry Based Learning and Elementary School Science

inquiries, the scientific information covered in any particular lesson plan will undoubtedly be remembered long after memorized fa...

Magical Realism in the Novels of Isabel Allende

Beth E. Jorgensen defines magical realism as the "use of the literary devices of hyperbole, oxymoron, personification, flashback a...

Review of Hidemi Suganami's 'Narratives of War Origins and Endings A Note On The End Of the Cold War in Millennium'

Hidemi Suganamis "Narratives of War Origins and Endings: A Note On The End Of the Cold War in Millennium" explores the causative f...

A Place at the Table by Bruce Bowers

the authors personal bias. There was much about this book that challenged my personal beliefs and outlooks. For instance...

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner and Italics

cohesive literary glue that holds it all together. One of the ingredients of that glue is the use of language. His particular use ...

Comparing and Contrasting Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs

only reinforces the theme of madness. The book is one of dense layers. On the purely shallow context, this book is about a mans ...

Dracula by Bram Stoker and the Themes of Sexuality and Perversity

antagonist, Count Dracula that encompasses both sexuality and perversity. In the oft-analyzed Chapter III, the unconscious Harker...

Multiculturalism and Education

society. She comes up with a list of 26 items, some of which are valid, a few of which are a stretch (McIntosh) The point that she...

Cinema and Novel Expansion of Blade Runner

but an android is not designed to react emotionally and must formulate a false emphatic response. The difference in the time invol...

The Use of Figurative Language in Plath, Keats, and Layton

her own, and ultimately committed suicide in 1963, one year after completing "Lady Lazarus;" Keats was noted for his romantic natu...

Emilio Zamora, Cynthia Orozco and Rodolfo Rocha's Mexican Americans in Texas History

their respective fields of historical inquiry. The fact that each essay was written by academic experts is no coincidence. The a...

The Tradition of Heroes in Literature

This paper discusses the elements necessary to creating a heroic character in literature. The author examines heroic protagonists...

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Compared

of epic romance between two people from vastly different worlds. When prospective tenant Mr. Lockwood arrives at the Thrushcross ...

Allan Blook and Rousseau in Comparison

better educated, then by extension so too would the world be a better place to be. Rousseaus philosophies were controvers...

Edward Stanley Miller's War Plan Orange The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897-1945

This text is critiqued in five pages with the author's categorizations a main focus. There are no other sources listed....

Singular Theme of Michel Saint Jean de Crevecoeur, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin?

his background/ mindset was initially staunchly European. Consequently, besides being writers who lived during the 18th century, w...

The Overspent American by Schor

that in America, an annual vacation that might cost thousands of dollars is thought to be a necessity. The automobile-a depreciati...

A Critical Review of A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch

This 5 page essay examines the reaction the author's story solicited from its readers. 7 sources are cited....

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Slavery

In five pages this paper discusses the author's perspectives on slavery as reflected in this great American novel. Five sources a...

Wendy Hunter's Eroding Military Influence in Brazil Politicians Against Soldiers

This text is discussed with the focus being on the author's proposed 'rational choice theory' in eight pages. There are no other ...

Reinventing Free Labor by Gunther Peck

In five pages this paper examines the author's arguments regarding the history of immigration and labor in America. Thre sources ...

Lenin's Tomb by Remnick

In five pages this text review criticizes the author's credibility and biased depiction of Communism and the Soviet Union's collap...

Architecture in Theory and Design in the First Machine Age by Reyner Banham

In five pages this paper examines the author's criticisms of Constructivism, New Objectivity, and Purism. There are no other sour...

Bobby Sayyid's A Fundamental Fear

This paper consisting of five pages discusses how Sayyid regards fundamentalism as useless in the first chapeter of his text and p...

Is Amy Tan's Life Like 'The Red Candle?'

Iin a paper consisting of six pages this essay discusses the short story in terms of how it reflects the author's own life. There...

An Examination of Hermann Hesse

In six pages the author's artistic metamorphosis is explored through such works as Demian and Narcissus and Goldmund, The Glass Be...

La Religieuse by Denis Diderot

She pressed me in one place and then another. In a soft and low voice, she asked me to increase my efforts, and I did so." Again ...

Imagery in Ulysses by James Joyce

Conmees thoughts. There are no quotation marks, and only rarely does Joyce direct the reader with a phrase such as "he thought," r...

Asceticism According to Matthew Arnold and Friedrich Nietzsche

In five pages this paper compares and contrasts Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold and On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich ...

Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders and Identity

realize from that gain in herself. Moll is cautious, and definitely "aware of the market." As each time she is forced to re-evalu...