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This paper reviews the book A Young People's History of the United States. Written by Howard Zinn, this book provides an interest...

Before the particular works are examined, however, it can be useful to attempt a brief examination of the concept of irony in lite...

This essay presents an analysis of Act V of King Lear and how it relates to the patterns established previously in the play. Three...

diet preference and sexual activity. Two classic works are extremely useful in allowing us to understand the role of societ...

concerned for his people; self-regarding but caring. This paper answers several questions about him and his actions in the play. D...

way out of his situation at all because no matter what he does to avoid the killing of his father and marrying his mother he has n...

were planning to abdicate in favor of one of the women, that would be different, but hes not-he is dividing the kingdom without na...

and instead gives the infant to another shepherd, who takes the boy to Polybus, king of Corinth, who raises it as his own (Sophocl...

In five pages this character analysis of Claudius focuses on ethical values with a contrast and comparison between Prince Hamlet a...

a man so much that she would do anything for him-- lie, cry, and eventually die. In many ways, Queen Jocasta submits fully...

In five pages this essay discusses the complexities involved with the citizen example served by Oedipus the King in Sophocles' pla...

Gawain is presented with similar atrocities and the same type of need for retribution, though his choice of actions and his determ...

The rebellion of against British rule by the American colonies is the focus of this paper consisting of eight pages in which the r...

matches, books and pens and become known as a man more powerful than the great Merlin (A Connecticut Yankee, 2002; Twain, 1979). T...

In six pages the history texts Five Days in London, May 1940 by John Lukacs, The Coming Anarchy by Robert D. Kaplan, Cafe Europa b...

neighbor. Reg, Ruth and Annie are siblings and Annie looks after their invalid mother in the family home in which they are all sta...

is believed to be around 1600. By the end of the seventeenth century, they had become accustomed to European guns, tools, cloth, ...

poverty and very dependant and aware of the dangers associated with honest work such as the dangers of lung disease and premature ...

perspective on the political realities of the era, reviewing the political climate and history of the South. He states that this h...

also mean they would have to pay higher taxes, but they were willing to do so (Ratification debate on the U.S. Constitution). The ...

there are certain things a person must do, certain things a man must feel and never turn away from. So many men were lost in their...

into the Constitution, thus making it impossible to legislate against virtually anything-"doctor-assisted suicide? Or drug use? Or...

who would stretch the definition to include all living beings, but then that would open the interpretation and debate to include a...

to tell its readers of the new lands and enterprises they had acquired and fought for (Bassett: Smith, 2002). The first historian...

sailers would pilfer to sell, give, or exchange with us, for money, sassafras, furs, or love...when they departed, there remained ...

seen within the context of the "new" Protestant message which emphasized the equality of all men before God. John Lilburne address...

were full of all the fire and brimstone of a religious fanatic. Whenever evil would cross his path, such as in the form of an omi...

a wondrous season. In this poem Keats also brings sounds into play in a very powerful manner that speaks to us of nature and of...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the 1650 text by William Bradford with the 1945 novel by John Steinbeck. Two sour...

Mathematician John von Neumann's biography by William Poundstone entitled Prisoner's Dilemma is examined in five pages and include...