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The Culture in the World of Comics

perpetuate a creative and productive mind; comic books, while appearing to project little more than superficial entertainment, pro...

The Sociological Phenomenon That Was Andy Kaufman

In six pages the conflicting views on this late comic's career are noted while the writer applauds his uncompromising slice of Ame...

DC Comics and Homosexual Couples

In six pages this paper discusses whether or not the world is ready for a DC Comics' homosexual crime fighting couple. Five sourc...

Venice, Italy

be seen both across the expanse of water and reflected in it (Lauritzen 12). San Marco is constructed so as to catch the light. Th...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet, William Golding's Lord of the Flies, and Their Parallels

In 6 pages the parallels that exist in these works in terms of literary similarities of allegory, metaphor, simile, irony, personi...

Comparative Analysis of Ralph in Lord of the Flies by William Golding and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

his foul and most unnatural murther" (I.v.29). Hamlet will need all of his inner resources to successfully meet this crisis, for ...

'The Merchant's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

and hoor; /Thanne is a wife the fruit of his tresor" (Chaucer 55-58). At this point, it is not certain that Januarie sees, as ce...

Chaucer/Merchant's & Franklin's Tales

French fabliaux, which provide the source material on which many of the tales are based. Essentially, Chaucer use of gardens sugge...

New England in the Seventeenth Century and Environmental History

native population because "by the marvelous goodness & providence of God not one of the English was so much as sick."3 This sent...

Hamlet's Comedy Provides Relief

remark that Laertes and Ophelia had been discussing Hamlet, Polonius starts into a long dissertation on Ophelias lack of experienc...

Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and Social Class

a man who liked to demonstrate his position as more than it honestly was, socially speaking. "He hid his debt well. He wore daintl...

The Works of Amy Tan

In a paper that contains eight pages the inspiration writing has provided Amy Tan throughout her life is examined in essay 'Young ...

Tragic Hero Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

First, is that the play should be of serious magnitude, and have an impact on many, many people (McClelland, 2001). The second fac...

King Oedipus, Prince Hamlet, and Their Tragic Flaws

In five pages the tragic flaws of these play protagonists are contrasted and compared....

The Story of Alvar Cabeza De Vaca y Nunez

In five pages the exciting and tragic story of Cabeza and his Florida colonization efforts on behalf of Spain are discussed....

Analysis of Oedipus the King by Sophocles

truth about who killed his wifes husband is being uncovered. He shows himself again as noble by insisting that justice be done and...

Tragic Personality of Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

of this play, we find Ibsens comments for what he called his "modern-day tragedy," He says, "There are two kinds of moral law, tw...

Hamlet, Oedipus & Death of a Salesman

"Hamlet," the troubled Danish prince is morose and troubled because, just a short time after his fathers death, his mother remarri...

San Marco, Venice's Artistic and Musical Humanism During the Renaissance

of Venice and the notion of Renaissance humanism. The focus of this research study, then, is to consider the notion of humanism i...

Penelope of 'The Odyssey' vs. Desdemona of Othello

In three pages Homer's Penelope is compared with William Shakespeare's Desdemona in terms of Desdemona's simplicity and naivete in...

Wives' Lives in Othello and A Doll's House

In five pages this paper discusses the similarities and differences in wifely roles between Desdemona in William Shakespeare's Oth...

Literary Self Determination in Women and Sexuality

-- but to deny their husbands sex until the men agree to sign a treaty. It is the women, therefore, who actually end the war. Rea...

Henry the Sixth by William Shakespeare and the Influence of Niccolo Machiavelli

In twenty pages this paper discusses how the statesmanship concept of Niccolo Machiavelli manifests itself in Parts One, Two, and ...

Staging of The Tempest by William Shakespeare and Racism

In six pages this paper discusses how racism issues must be contended with in the staging of William Shakespeare's The Tempest. S...

William Shakespeare's King Lear, Othello, and Hamlet in Terms of Themes and Dramatic Structures

In five pages the dramatic structures and themes are compared in this examination of a trio of William Shakespeare's plays. Two s...

Mastering the Literary Art

In five pages this paper examines the Holy Bible's Old and New Testaments, 'The Odyssey' of Homer, and William Shakespeare's Hamle...

The River Merchant's Wife by Ezra Pound

In five pages this essay considers the poem from several different interpretations. One source is cited in the bibliography....

Hesitation of Hamlet in Murdering His Uncle King Claudius

In nine pages this paper examines why Hamlet delayed killing the conspiratorial Claudius in William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. ...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Queen Gertrude's Character

and quite unthinkingly into a marriage to his murderer, and was able to ignore the facts and clues that encircled her, pointing to...

Madness of Prince Hamlet of Denmark

In three pages this paper analyzes what is meant by Prince Hamlet's 'antic disposition' remark in the first act of William Shakesp...