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There have actually been schools which have banned Huckleberry Finn from their libraries and their classrooms, based upon the refe...

Cleopatra is a very sensual woman who is aware of her own passion. This, however, does not detract from her ability to rule...

the contest because she bribed Paris by offering him Helen of Troy, the fairest of mortal women, which is the basis for the confli...

this political cruelty that is shown nearly crushing his characters in every novel has the danger of becoming common place, and th...

he mocks. It is after all a story of a lock of hair stolen while a young woman sleeps. What can be simpler? What can be less impo...

Quixote does hold some hope for the future. Cervantes was also disgruntled with the political systems as well. Just as Don Quixote...

in Twains book is that which involves dialect, a subject that gained a great deal of criticism when the book came out. From the ve...

shining armor since he has redesigned his house to look like a castle. However, he does not bring this kind and generous nature in...

Okonkwo relished in the traditions which consolidated his power within the village and reinforced his identity. The supreme test ...

of the government was quick and without "civil commotion." But while Machiavelli praises Agathocles on one hand, he also points ...

to use almost any means to achieve his ends that has the most direct appeal to many amoral leaders of today. Some psychologists fi...

well enough to write some thousand words at a stretch. She describes the view from her window quite lucidly, as well as the pretty...

particular values, and freedom from persecution by authorities for those views. One could say that the roots, as far as it can b...

given a task to perform and in doing so derives some sort of personal meaning from it. He may meet with a great series of misfortu...

these nonverbal cues that reveal more than the spoken dialogue. Alfred Hitchcocks reputation as the cinemas "Master of Suspense" ...

growing stronger and more defiant with every passing episode. "...Homer certainly recognizes the notion of intention, and in many...

stir" as it was the date of a double festival: that of the Festival of the Three Kings and that of the Feast of Fools (Hugo, I, I)...

In some scenes featuring very dark-skinned Bernie Mac, the only thing absolutely visible on the screen was the whites of the actor...

4 pages in length. Evil - a self-perpetuating entity of myriad literary tales - presents itself as a force that challenges the ve...

the wind like a plume" (Hurston , p. 2). She is walking down the street of her hometown under the disapproving eyes of the townspe...

some critics believe that "post-colonialism" implies, mistakenly, that "colonialism is over when in fact most of the nations invol...

by the reality of war. Their psyches have been reduced to the common denominator that is dictated by whatever has to be done in or...

its broadest definition is the study of demons from a Christian perspective (What is Christian demonology?, 2007). In this traditi...

so pervades The Great Gatsby that Fitzgeralds true achievement was to appropriate American legend."1 The book gives us both romanc...

between them by the feelings they evoke in us. Walters writes that tension is one of the most important barometers of audience res...

featured performer in the action. It visually depicts why Americans have answered the call to Go West since the pioneer days. In...

nothin" but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have t...

other people, and from the conventions that bind us together. We might also consider the way in which Thoreau considers his hous...

as a critical component in the embalming process from the Twenty-sixth Dynasty onward. Natural forces, animals, and other...

and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...