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Nathaniel Hawthornes writing focused on a narrow range of psychological themes that reflected that heritage - "the consequences of...

pride, and vainer ties dissever, / And give herself to me forever" (Browning 1235). According to Professor Gerald McDaniel, the r...

would then include the contrast and comparison on how the characters dealt with racism and their subjectivity to it. Finally, the ...

him an hour just to move his head into the room. The protagonist exclaims, "Ha! Would a madman have been so wise as this?" which i...

their relationship to human development and a greater awareness evolved of the role and the importance of the individual rather th...

North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...

the post-Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced wor...

unknown to him. He grew up in a time where the country was changing. The Civil War had ended and he and his family possessed freed...

Although the purpose of the speech was to idealize those brave union men who had fought and died for the North in the Civil War, t...

A.E. Housman. They are both young men who die before they age, before they have perhaps achieved a powerful greatness it would see...

see the beauty in one who does not like reality, while Walkers story offers up, in many ways, a negative look at one who is not wi...

written form of expression as opposed to the oral traditions seen in many illiterate cultures. Interestingly enough, our oral hist...

conversation" (Clifford, 1997, p. 37). Similarly, the identity of the Moe family remained Hawaiian, despite the fact that they t...

This paper examines the pertinent literature and ongoing controversy surrounding Mary, mother of Jesus, as well as her role in the...

complex, contradictory, evasive, independent and liquid modernity . . . (that) . . . ushers in the Jazz Age" (Basu 93). The Jazz A...

freedom is conveyed in The Awakening. Edna yearned to be free but she lived in a society where she felt a prisoner. She could not ...

Swift, "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley, and "Heart of Darkness" by William Conrad. Gullivers Travels "Gullivers Travels" is a b...

first the expulsion from the tennis club, then from the fascist party, then academic anti-Semitism, then more and more direct insu...

walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...

Pontellier, though she had married a Creole, was not thoroughly at home in the society of Creoles...There were only Creoles that s...

family. He reveals that the stereotypical image of the money hungry Jew is in a sense a reality, that desperation can turn even th...

authors here Addison and Alexander Pope as well as Swift, Steele and influences from Voltaire. In the age of Johnson between abo...

years, the debate has been waged about the efficacy of bilingual education, bilingual enrichment, immersion programs, ESL (English...

level of infiltration that existed in relation to computers functions - such as email - and individual privacy. The government ha...

the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...

boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy(Roethke). This is...

guiding light for Gilgamesh. It is also important to note that Gilgamesh himself seeks immortality as this is important to the sto...

are proud. The main character, however, although she wants to own the house someday, is embarrassed by the house because she feels...

the end get her into trouble with a loan shark. Eventually much of her and Charles property is confiscated. Her illicit affa...

each. Before going on, it pays to define post colonialism. DeHay (2004) explains that the definition she likes to use for postc...