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Setting and How It is Used in Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

ability to so powerfully evoke a sense of place comes from his intimacy with it. "The sea wind drove snowflakes steadily inland, h...

Euro Disney

In eight pages this research paper examines Disney's gross cultural and financial miscalculations regarding its Paris based theme ...

Revenge in 'The Iliad' by Homer

leader, Hector (son of King Priam), he kills in single combat. The poem closes as Achilles surrenders the corpse of Hector to Pria...

Identity in No No Boy, The Invisible Man, and Beloved

In a paper consisting of five pages the shared theme of an identity search as reflected in these texts by John Okada, Ralph Elliso...

Open Ended Revenge in 'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe

In seven pages this paper examines how the revenge theme is developed in this short story and how whether or not it was Fortunato ...

Print Art Assessment

In three pages art prints featuring a musical theme are assessed in terms of the artists' self expression and how it makes the vie...

Critical Overview of The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

a certain credibility to what the reader ultimately experiences between the books covers. Indeed, it is often difficult to discer...

Sharon Pollock's Plays Earnest and Blood Relations

In five pages the primary elements of Walter Dale's interpretation of Sharon Pollock's Blood Relations is compared with recent ada...

Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Humiliation

In five pages this paper examines how humiliation is used as a theme in Ibsen's play and Hawthorne's novel. Two sources are cited...

Zoya by Danielle Steel

In five pages Steel's romance novel is critically assessed in terms of its theme and literary elements, which leave much to be des...

Tutorial on Plato and Ralph Waldo Emerson

In five pages the individual is defined as revealed in The Republic by Plato and in Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson with the ...

Analysis of Native Son by Richard Wright

This paper consists of five pages and analyzes the conflict, theme, setting, and character of Native Son by Richard Wright. Six s...

Overview of Irish Screenplays

In eight pages Frank McGuiness' Someone Who'll Watch Over Me and J.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World are examined in the...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Characterization

In a paper consisting of 5 pages rounded characters versus flat characters are considered within the context of Dicken's novel as ...

Comparative Thematic Analysis of Boys and Girls by Alice Munro and Doe Season by David Kaplan

In five pages the themes of these works are contrasted and compared regarding gender differences, sexuality, and coming of age. T...

Friendship in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

This 7 page paper examines the friendship between Huck and Tom in Twain's classic novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and ar...

Franz Kafka and Lewis Carroll on Absurdity and Logic

In ten pages this paper analyzes the logic of the absurdity theme in a comparison and contrast of Franz Kafka's The Trial and Lewi...

Robert Burns's 'To A Mouse' and Destiny

In three pages the theme of destiny is probed in this poetic explication. There are no other sources used and there is a FREE 1 p...

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and Freedom

In 5 pages this paper examines how the theme of freedom is developed in this classic work by John Steinbeck. There are 5 sources ...

'Mending Wall' by Robert Frost and Isolation

In three pages this paper examines the theme of isolation within the context of this poem by Robert Frost. There is a 1 page sent...

My Father's Wedding by Robert Bly

This research paper/essay offers a detailed explication of a poem written by Robert Bly in 1981 entitled My Father's Wedding. The ...

Ridley Scott's Film Blade Runner and Don Dellilo's Novel White Noise

The theme of alienation as it is represented in the film and the novel in terms of the present and future is examined in a report ...

Analyzing America is Her Name by Luis J. Rodriguez

of the population and discrimination among Hispanics toward any of their own who also can claim Indian heritage. Less obviously s...

McCauley's Sally's Rape as Compared With Fornes' Fefu and Her Friends

This research report compares and contrasts these two plays. Staging as well as themes and other key issues are carefully examined...

Everything Julius Caesar

In nine pages which also includes an outline of one page this essay describes the Forums of ancient Rome and then offers a critica...

Holy Fool in The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

the first Russian holy fool to be canonized, in the eleventh century, and his tactics were described as, "Not wanting human glory ...

Destiny and Futility in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard

In five pages this paper analyzes how in Rosencrantz and Guilderstern Tom Stoppard develops destiny and futility themes. There ar...

Everyman vs. Piers Plowman

Piers Plowman and Everyman by William Langland are contrasted and compared in this paper. Themes and genre are discussed. Only the...

The Treatment of Women in Mythology

This 10 page paper examines the way writers have treated women in mythology. The writer examines The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Metamo...

Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill

In five pages Burke's pentid model is used to analyze the play's themes of class, gender, and race. Four sources are cited in the...