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Leadership Stories in Howard Gardner's Leading Minds

In ten pages this report discusses the leadership concepts featured in Howard Gardner's text with additional insights from Christo...

Robin Hood's Fact and Fiction

equated with a Robin Hood ideology. In fact, many do refer to people who hold such concepts as being a "Robin Hood." This twelfth ...

Literature on Civil Rights

In five pages literature on civil rights that is both nonfiction and fiction is considered and includes a discussion of Confrontin...

Business World and 'A Hero's Journey'

In five pages this research paper applies Christopher Vogler's 'hero's journey' concepts to Fictions of Business by Robert Brawer....

Cultural Identity and How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent by Julia Alvarez

level best to blend as quickly as possible into the melting pot of American culture. When this happens, it is very difficult for t...

Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot and Literary Modernism

In 5 page this paper defines modernism and then critically applies the concept to T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land,' and 'Tradition an...

'An Image of Africa' and 'Heart of Darkness'

This paper consists of 3 pages and considers the emotional elements that characterize these novels by Chinua Achebe and Joseph Con...

Smell Imagery in Surfacing by Margaret Atwood

preserve at least the signs of order" (Atwood 93). The narrators past contained so many painful memories that she created a fict...

Power and Gender in Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure and Charles Dickens' David Copperfield

In twelve pages this paper examines the themes of gender and power as they are represented in these works of literary fiction. Te...

Overview of Witness Protection Programs

are criminals, who have received reduced sentencing from the government because of deals (plea-bargaining) they have made. Unfort...

Reality and Fiction Blurred in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

In five pages this paper discusses how the author is able to blur reality and fiction through his unique novel structure in The Th...

The Accurate Portrayal of Ancient Egypt in Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie

In a report consisting of twelve pages the setting of Christie's fiction and the portrayal of families remarkably similar to those...

Overview of Documentary Television

to make it irrelevant whether or not the details are portrayed correctly. The distinction between narrative and fiction is that n...

Eudora Welty and an Imagined Interview

In 5 pages this paper imagines what an interview with author Eudora Welty would be like with the emphasis being on how her fiction...

Bible and Myths

In five pages this paper examines the Bible's collection of moral fiction, folktales, fables, and myths. Four sources are cited i...

Myth and Reality of Egyptian Queen Cleopatra

in "All for Love" presented a much more traditional Cleopatra, that is, someone who is more of an addictive substance then a ruler...

Unidentified Flying Objects, Real or Imaginary?

UFOs are the focus of this paper consisting of seven pages in which an effort is made to separate fiction from fact. Five sources...

Postcolonial Fiction and Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

In seven pages postcolonial fiction is defined in order to determine whether this 1996 novel is representative of the literary gen...

Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction and Existentialism

In ten pages existentialism is examined in a consideration of the philosophies of Nietzsche, Camus, and Sartre and then applies th...

Middle Eastern Crime Fiction from 1916 to 1980s

In six pages this paper presents a textual overview of The Middle East in Crime Fiction by Reeva Simon. Four sources are cited in...

Crime Detection in the Works of John Dickson Carr, Edmund Crispin, and Agatha Christie

In five pages this paper examines detective crime fiction and how the readers are engaged in the detection of the crime in Carr's ...

Indian Culture and the River Sutra's Healing Powers

In four pages this Indian myth is revealed as being more fiction than based in fact. There are no other sources cited....

Analysis of Old Mortality by Sir Walter Scott

In five pages this early 19th century historical fiction novel is analyzed in terms of the freedom struggles of the Covenanters ...

Virginia Woolf's Writings and the Agenda of Women's Rights

. . . for the perceived immorality of their personal lives" (McCoy & Harlan, 254). In addition to being extremely unconventional s...

Arab Nationalism's Misconceptions and Actual Reality

In twenty seven pages Arab nationalism is the focus of this paper which separates fact from fiction in a consideration of socioeco...

Overview of the Molly Maguires Group

In six pages this paper examines the violent post Civil War labor history of the Pennsylvania coal mines in this overview of the M...

Paper Life of Ernest Hemingway

In seven pages the ways in which Hemingway's real life mirrored his characters and fiction are examined within the context of vari...

Edith Wharton's Life, Writings, and Men

to ask her to marry him, but he remained her closest and most enduring friend throughout his life. Strangely, however, it was not...

Dracula Gothic Fiction Genre

In eight pages this research paper examines the genre of Gothic fiction in a consideration of Dracula by Bram Stoker. There are 4...

Is The Unredeemed Captive by John Demos Nonfiction or Historical Fiction?

In five pages this paper argues that despite some fictitious elements this work by John Demos represents a text of historical fict...