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Odysseus Compared with Genesis' Jacob

son of Odysseus, wearing a disguise and instills in him the courage to challenge the suitors of his mother. Additionally Athena pe...

Literary Analysis of Existentialism

The first task at hand in our study is the provision of a historical explanation of existentialism. A concise explanation is prov...

Fritz Lang's Films

the audience. In many modern examples, the most creative thing that can be said about a particular movie maker is his or her abili...

An Examination of Pocahontas

met John Smith in 1608 and between that time and the time she married another gentleman in 1614, she was kidnapped and raped by th...

Becoming a Man in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

journey from the court to the Green Castle, illustrating how the travels are obviously a metaphor for the journey from childhood t...

World Music of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

common between music of the world. The student can, for example, quote musicologist Bruno Nettl and his works, that basically stat...

Two Fathers in Cry, the Beloved Country

of a paltry 14 pounds 6, and with dogged determination, he searches for his family. Once he arrives, the naive Kumalo is immediate...

Maternal Focus of Eugene O'Neill

In ten pages the materal focus that is found in many of O'Neill's plays is examined in a consideration of Moon for the Misbegotten...

Gender, Individuation, and Jungian Theory in Surfacing and Demian

A 7 page analysis of the works by Margaret Atwood and Herman Hesse. The focus is two fold. The journey to individuation is anal...

Tragic Hero's Journey in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and William Shakespeare's King Lear

In five pages this paper examines how the tragic hero's journey is thematically portrayed in these plays. Three sources are cited...

Francis Ford Coppola's Film Apocalypse Now Analyzed

In eleven pages this paper analyzes the 1979 film in terms of the way Coppola's Vietnam manifesto also represents the subconscious...

Journeys and Their Philosophical Meaning in 'Inferno' by Dante Alighieri and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

student who is writing about this topic should consider the ways in which the each author develops the philosophical journey of ea...

The Journey in Apocalypse and Heart of Darkness

bring his Kurtz back to civilization, Willard is instructed from the start to find and kill his Col. Kurtz. This difference is st...

Journey of King Lear by William Shakespeare

provide an excuse for allotting the largest share of his kingdom to Cordelia, his favorite. Lear states that the test is so that "...

Journey from Childhood to Adulthood in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

due to the fact that he is young and inexperienced (Anonymous Sir Gawain and the Green Knight gawain.html). . In the following pap...

The Slavery Journey of Africans in America

In this paper consisting of five pages a book review of Charles Johnson and Patricia Smith's Africans in America America's Journe...

Otherworld and Heroes in 'The Odyssey' and 'Epic of Gilgamesh'

in order to acquire knowledge, and to demonstrate bravery or quick-wittedness while they are dealing with unfamiliar situations or...

Anne Lamott: Traveling Mercies

and reinforcement. In her case, this led to fairly early experimentation with sex and drugs. Lamott doesnt sensationalize her exp...

Illegal Immigration as Seen Through the Eyes of Ted Author Conover

of the total U.S. population (Larsen, 2003). While many of these immigrants unquestionably play a positive role in U.S. society a...

St. Paul's Trip to Rome

have been because Paul had already been in prison for two years and Festus knew Paul was innocent of the charges levied against hi...

A Tall Tale by a Member of the 1960s' Counterrevolution

might inspire Ginsberg to write a sequel to "Howl" and dedicate it to me, but he never did. In 1961, when I was 15, I got a handw...

Erotic Journeys and the film Maid in America

portrayed in the film live in a climate of risk with "no health insurance, no drivers license, no pension and no recourse" to just...

Tolstoy's Ivan Ilyich and Redemption

This essay pertains to the psychological journey that Tolstoy's protagonist undergoes and how he ultimately comes to the epiphany ...

Symbolism of the Journey, in Three Works

This essay focuses on the symbolic meaning of the journey as it pertains to "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty and "I Used to Live Her...

Frost, Welty, and Rhys: A Journey Towards Death

the context of death, and it is because of the placement of a familiar symbol in this all too familiar context that readers have b...

Lessons Learned Along King Lear’s Journey

blood. The Fool ironically exhibits more sense than Lear, and reprimands his master for what can only be described as a foolhardy...

Protagonists’ Voyages in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby, and The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

own death and running away. Along the way, he meets Jim, a runaway slave who is traveling north in hopes of freeing his family. ...

Determining a Hamiltonian Circuit Route

similar to that of the nearest neighbor, but in this instance there is the consideration of all the edges not only the individual ...

Hero’s Quest in the Film The Fisher King and in Epic of Gilgamesh

quest for the Holy Grail that were considered by filmmaker Terry Gilliam and screenwriter Richard LaGravenese in the 1991 movie Th...

The “Journey Motif” in Literature

that merits the death penalty. The only way to understand his savagery is as the climax of the poem, and a reward for his struggle...