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Patricate of Venice from 1300 to 1600 and the Impact of Economic Conditions

In twenty pages this three century period in Venice is examined in terms of the constantly changing economy and how this affected ...

Wholeness and Self Awareness

restricted in its understanding. At the very core of personhood is a sense of being. From that single source stems all other qua...

Relationship Between Tazio and Gustav von Aschenbach in Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

In five pages this paper discusses Aschenbach's obsession with Tadzio in this analysis of Death in Venice by Thomas Mann. There a...

Mann, Gide, Kafka, Woolf, and Modernism

It was realistic, but the writing was complicated and required the reader to become intimately involved with the subject matter. ...

19th Century Comic Techniques of Oscar Wilde

In five pages this essay compares An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest in a discussion of the comic techniques the...

Candide by Voltaire and Romanticism

In seven pages this paper discusses the Romantic aspects of Candide by Voltaire in a consideration of the elements of the love 'qu...

Aristophanes on Democracy

to see that Aristophanes was a conservative through and through and seemed to prefer an almost aristocratic rule to a democratic o...

How I Remember the Creator of Peanuts

inside Charlie Brown, the protagonist and the authors namesake who keeps going no matter what. At the end of his life, Charles bat...

Comic Writing of Jane Austen

good art and literature. One of philosopher Aristotles most pronounced contentions was that art holds a mirror up to life; with t...

Essays on Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, Video, and TV

at a blackboard writing words. As soon as he completes the "d" in the last word the tape is over. The running time for the tape is...

Superhero Films, Comics, and Cartoons and Their American Significance During the Second World War and the Cold War

Comics and cartoons which appeared in daily newspapers and magazines in the 1930s and 1940s were considered originally to be an ex...

Comic Characters in Tartuffe by Moliere

While Tartuffe makes his entrance somewhat late in the play, he is a central figure from the beginning, as he is discussed by vari...

Mass Media and Entertainment

on the futures of children who are currently nurtured on violent images as pleasure. In an equal area of concern, owners of mass m...

Flannery O'Connor and Comedy

in complete truthfulness, "a man" (OConnor, 1972, p. 255). When the pair become hopelessly lost in Atlanta, they find themselv...

Joe Sacco: “Palestine”

to types and devaluing them) but it also shows the inadequacy of the various responses to the Holocaust; i.e., they were also mini...

Don DeLillo: “White Noise”

with a dangerous and illegal drug said to rid a person of the fear of dying. Jack Gladney is not exactly a wholesome specimen, but...

Death in Venice and Him with His Foot in His Mouth

that he dies of a broken heart. The relationship among art, passion and intellect is really the heart of the story. Mann has very...

Why Does God Allow Pain and Suffering

This essay is a draft for a homily that would have been delivered shortly after the tornadoes in Oklahoma in 2013. The homily disc...

The Comic Book Magazine Market: A Look at Diversity

example, a guide on "sex appeal" by artist and writer Michael Turner (author of several superhero comics for DC and Marvel) recent...

Taxes and the Colonies

The British Parliament levied taxes on the Colonists but the colonists did not believe they were represented in the Parliament, th...

Chaucer's Merchant and Archetypes

role as archetypes of classes of humanity, Blake identifies many of the figures with the characters of Greek myth, whom also alleg...

Challenges for Online Merchants

E-commerce has grown exponentially over the last several years but many consumers are still fearful of using this mode of shopping...

The Tempest Play by William Shakespeare and the Film Version by Julie Taymor

focused on Shakespeares perspectives on innocence and its consequences. As envisioned by Shakespeare according to his stage direc...

Essay Questions on Henry V and King Lear by William Shakespeare Answered

tragic deaths of Lear and Cordelia. Therefore, many modern readers and critics regard the plays conclusion as being devoid of red...

It’s Not Just Whites that are Responsible for Slavery

Slavery is one of the more abhorrent reflections of world societies. Contrary to common belief, the institution was not limited t...

National Politics and Colonial New England Merchants

Declaration of Independence? The Declarations most famous statement is this: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all m...

Macbeth by William Shakespeare: Masking Characters Intentions in Act III

from them - / As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine -- / Why, by the verities on thee made good, / May they not be my oracle...

Comparative Analysis of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe and Hamlet by William Shakespeare

even if there were a few sinful missteps along the way. However, if they put themselves and their own needs ahead of what God exp...

Comedy and Tragedy Distinctions in Measure for Measure and Hamlet by William Shakespeare

three months after the murder of her husband. In Measure for Measure, its protagonist is not a man of illustrious social status. ...

How Identity is Mistaken in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

Ill follow thee and make a heaven of hell,/ to die upon the hand I love so well" (Shakespeare, Act 2, Scene 1, lines 241-244). W...