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Social Failure in Tennessee Williams’ “Glass Menagerie”

In many ways the social failure of America as a whole at this time in history is symbolized by the personal failure experienced...

Jay Gatsby and the American Dream

move comfortably in the social circle of people like the Buchanans. Fitzgerald shows us all the trappings of wealth: the gorgeous...

Bringing Christianity to China

constantly threatened by invasion from the east (Mungello, 2005). In other words, China was at a high point in its history and Eur...

Dreams and Authority in “The Great Gatsby”

no success at all; that belongs to the people who employ the hard workers. But the dream persists, and Gatsby seems to achieve it,...

Gatsby and Heathcliff

far more refined individual, even if he still slung to some of his impoverished perspectives. For example, he shows his need to sh...

Great Expectations: Realist and Non-Realist

one hand. (McAllister 158). Such an illustration is incredibly focused in realist tradition, as Pip struggles to develop himself...

Nature in Narratives of Americanness Between 1840 and 1860

beginning of this countrys history. Emerson is also noted for his preference for the simpler things in life and for his love of n...

The Great Boston Fire of 1872

up, in order to stop the fire from spreading further, more importantly to keep the fire from getting into the residential areas (M...

Scott Cook/Colonial Encounters

in his conclusions, the "patterns of subjugation, resistance, readjustment and accommodation" that are evident in this period of h...

Racism and Class: 1890 to 1929

dealing with in regard to racism and discrimination actually can be traced all the way back to the original colonization of this c...

The Positive and Negative Effects of Using Cloning to Treat Genetic Disease

Switching around an embryos mitochondria might appear innocent enough but we must realize that mitochondrial genes act well outsid...

Baroque, Classical and Romantic/Comparing 3 Works

sense of awe and wonder at the complex beauty of the music. The classical music of Beethoven blends the varied textures of the o...

Questions and Answers on Early Nineteenth Century English History (1800-1840)

resulted in a huge public outcry against the King. Reformers and radicals alike encouraged dialogue regarding gender oppression a...

Study Proposal/Will Placing an NP in EDs Help Overcrowding?

concerns the how NP practice has been implemented in countries other than the US. The majority of research articles available in v...

Kurt Lewin: Understanding How To Lead Change

throughout the entire process of change if that process was going to be effective. The notion of change at any level is notorious...

Book Report on William Manchester’s The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972 (Vol. 1)

with seemingly no end in sight. With businesses continuing to fail at record levels and unemployment rates at an all-time high, i...

The Great Gatsby and American Greed

intelligence and talent to work in ways that are less than reputable in order to pursue an illusion of beauty. Making his fortune ...

Great Apes by Will Self

only a story about humans and apes, but pointing out other animals as well which really pulls the reader into a position where the...

Leadership and Mahatma Gandhi

human tendencies that fall alongside the more admirable qualities. These qualities, in fact, can be credited with the less praise...

Van Gogh/Irises

to the left. Directly below these flowers, the iris bed begins and builds in height so that the flowers on the right are the talle...

Jay Gatsby and the Cult of Celebrity

same time he undercuts Gatsby by telling readers that he made his money illegally; he was a bootlegger (he sold illegal whiskey du...

Body Image

images, ultimately made to understand that they, as an individual, are not as pretty or as thin or as attractive as they should be...

How “Oedipus Rex” Fulfills Aristotle’s Concepts of Tragedy

the "tragic flaw." In Oedipuss case, his tragic flaw is his pride. That flaw has to cause him great suffering, but from that suffe...

Families and Children in the Great Depression

the fields. It describes the tent cities, the illness and death, the hardships and most of all the despair of this particular era ...

Five American Thinkers and How They Employed the Declaration of Independence into Their Writings

thinkers in American history, including Andrew Jackson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, and Martin Luth...

The First Drawing Of Self-Discipline Comes Through Work

of personal growth. Karate is a combination of physical and mental control; a student who only practices the movements without al...

FROM HERE TO ECONOMY - AN ANALYSIS

the guts to call Adam Smith, the so-called father of economics "not the brightest light in the galaxy?" Or who would consider John...

GOVERNMENTS AND ECONOMIC CRISES

the U.S. (and the rest of the world) out of it. None of this is exactly true, but if you try to pinpoint the exact cause of the Gr...

Collins: “Good to Great”

Collinss book Built to Last was a hit around his office, but ultimately useless (Collins, 2001). When Collins asked why Meehan fel...

The 2008-2009 Economic Crisis vs. The Great Depression

of laissez faire, which Soros quite appropriately described as Market Fundamentalism" (Petrov). But the free market mechanism has ...