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Case Study on Global Marketing, the Japanese Anime Astro Boy, and an International Youth Culture

throughout the world, more than 1.1 billion people from ages 15 to 24, have spent a large part of their lives surfing the Internet...

Why I Identify with the Disney Character Goofy

friendly and happy. The image of fun is helped with the movement of the character. Although presented as an animal, Goofy was actu...

Literacy Case Study

he reads words quickly regardless of whether or not he is reading them correctly, never stopping to self-correct. Furthermore, his...

Virginia Woolf’s Descriptions of Literary ‘Beacons’ Antigone and Desdemona Applied to Nora in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...

The Hardy Boys: The Secret of Skull Mountain

little hints to the truth of the mystery, as is the case with the Hardy Boys mysteries as well as most mystery stories. Each chapt...

Johnny Tremain

maturation of the American colonies as they journey toward war and independence. The thematic context demonstrates how it is exper...

The Witch of Black Bird Pond and The Silent Boy

who were also religious, like the Puritans, but also very different. This is the ultimate setting of the story. It is, however, al...

The Heart in The Story of an Hour

the end, of her heart and a possible "condition" and so the reader may well dismiss this fact in a first reading. But, at the same...

Moral Crises in “Huckleberry Finn” and “Silas Lapham”

We learn that he forced his partner, Mr. Rogers, out of the business just as it was becoming successful; Lapham and his wife run i...

A View of Lucy Honeychurch in E.M. Forster’s A Room with a View

how socially shocking they might be. Lucys mother always has the best intentions and willing to share openly her thoughts and fe...

Group Dynamics in “Queen Bee” and “Lord of the Flies”

the various groups and has friends in all of them. She "has influence over other girls but does not use it to make them feel bad" ...

Homer Hickam/October Sky

of this minister, and "his belief in Gods sense of humor and His fondness for neer-do-wells," inspired Sonny, as this fueled the ...

Gender Bias in Education: Girls’ Diminished Participation in Classroom Discussions

We begin with a brief literature review, then follow that with a discussion of the consensus, if there is one, of what the literat...

Portraying Character on Screen

of the play, which is the fact that Toms continues to love his sister, miss her and long for a different past, as he pursues a dif...

Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson in a Historical Context

held public education of the period in great disdain, which is expressed in a poem dubbed "Saturday Afternoon:" "From all the jail...

Gender Differences in Adolescents

This research paper pertains the differences and similarities that exist between the ways in which boys and girls experience adole...

Recovery from Child Abuse, Pelzer's Memoir

This research paper relates "The Lost Boy," a memoir by David Pelzer, with research that pertains to child abuse. Nine pages in le...

The Weeping Prophet

The Book of Jeremiah is the longest book in the Bible containing more words than any other book. The greatest majority of the Book...

Girls versus Boys and Depression

Two journal articles are reviewed in this essay. Each discusses when depression becomes more prevalent in girls than boys and the ...

Erikson Freud Breakfast Club

The Breakfast Club has become a cult movie because it shows the angst of being not only a teenager but a youngster who has been ab...

Issues in Asian American Literature

This paper offers ten brief essays, with each essay roughly one-page in length and pertaining to issues that addressed in Asian Am...

Film Review, Requiem for a Dream

This essay pertain to Darren Aronofsky's 2000 film "Requiem for a Dream, and describes how each of the characters' lives spiral in...

That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton

This book review pertain to That was Then, This is Now by S.E. Hinton, a young adult novel that pertains to two adoptive brothers,...

The Case of Tyrell Dueck

This essay pertains to the case of Tyrell Dueck, a Canadian boy whose parents refused traditional medical treatment on this behalf...

Nutrition Analysis of Two Teens

Pre-teens and teenagers need to consume more calories than usual because of their growth spurt. Most of them do but the foods they...

Elementary Students, Gender, and Science Achievement

This research paper describes research that pertains to the gender gap in science achievement that exists between boys and girls. ...

Marlowe's Dr. Faustus and Shakespeare's Macbeth

This essay is on "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare and "Doctor Faustus" by Christopher Marlowe. The writer asserts that the centra...

"Boy at the Window" by Richard Wilbur

This essay offers analysis of "Boy at the Window" by Richard Wilbur. The writer focuses on the compelling nature of the poem's ima...

Quammen and Berriault, Two Short Stores

This paper offer analysis of David Quammen's "Walking Out" and Gina Berriault's "The Stone Boy," describing their differences and ...

Zadie Smith's White Teeth, Role of Ancestry

This essay is on "White Teeth" by Zadie Smith. This novel relates the stories of a multiethnic cast of characters, focusing partic...