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'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' Analyzed

the intent of the writer. Might he have an agenda hidden under the ghost story? At the same time, this is a classic supernatural t...

Louis de Bernieres' Captain Corelli's Mandolin and Human Goodness

they must do the unthinkable, or they find themselves blindly doing something which would seem impossible to them prior to the war...

Racism and The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin

congenitally passive nature and fear of his uncontrolled dream states, allows the therapy to continue. After a few therapy session...

A Plan for Branding an East Tennessee TV Station

as The Volunteers, or more commonly, Vols. People across the region take their college sports seriously; the area code for the Kn...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

the far corners of the globe, and also describes the whaling operations. Queequeg becomes ill and is so convinced he is dying tha...

Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Slavery, and Freedom

Pilot and the Passenger (1956), vernacular language carries democratic social value" (Review). As difficult as it has been for A...

Maturity, Loyalty, and Friendship in The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

inner struggles that can be set free through no other means than verse. Indeed, the adventures of the Mole, Water Rat, Badger and...

Macbeth by William Shakespeare and the Staging of the Witches' Scenes

the scenes involving the witches are accompanied by loud claps of thunder. Staging Macbeth outdoors gave Shakespeare natural soun...

Searches in 2 Films by Orson Welles

series of flashback scenes, it becomes apparent that Kane, though quite wealthy, does not know who he is anymore. Having risen fro...

Roald Dahl's Lamb to the Slaughter

countertop. Still reeling from Patricks announcement, Mary finds herself with the leg of lamb in her hand and without much contemp...

Line Analysis of 'Every Sin is the Result of Collaboration'

accuse the owners son, Johnnie, of trying to kill him. Threatening to leave the hotel, the owner (Scully), convinces him that to g...

Martin Scorsese's 'Raging Bull'

It is likely that DiNiro, a highly acclaimed actor put a lot of himself into the film and also Scorcese was brilliant as usual. Go...

Alexander Hamilton, American by Richard Brookhiser

review, said that he felt like a candle "beside the sun at noonday" when comparing his career to that of Hamilton (11). It is fr...

Lorraine Hansberry's 'A Raisin in the Sun' and Eternal Hope

fact deliberately so. Hansberry does not leave it there, however. Though the play seems to be going headlong in that direction fo...

Environmentalist Paul Shepard's Nature and Madness

that covered human ecology and the so-called "deep ecology" movement. Madness and exploitation Once upon a time, according...

Analysis of 'Desert Places' by Robert Frost

contemporaries, Frost sees no meaning in nature. It is simply emptiness. There is no God there, no Creator, just emptiness. In the...

Analysis of Emily Dickinson's Poetry

The truths of our lives are such that we often see only a part for a time and perhaps even forever. Even those truths...

James Dickey's Deliverance

said that it eventually becomes the story of the city versus the country. On their first night to make camp, Ed Gentry and Bobby g...

Runaway World by Anthony Giddens

said, "the nation becomes not only too small to solve the big problems, but also too large to solve the small ones" (31). Accordin...

Rudyard Kipling's Language and the Novel Kim

Kiplings earliest works were first poems and ballads. The sense of rhythm, it can be said, is found in the book, Kim. The sentence...

Piano Concerto in A Major by Wolfgang Mozart

provides color, form and melody throughout the work (Landon, 1956). In general, Mozart employed two types of punctuation tools t...

Contemporary Influence of the Myth of Pandora's Box

has "opened Pandoras Box." In addition to the nomenclature of Pandoras Box that has entered into todays society as a descr...

Temptations in C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters

thinking about and towards that which we shouldnt. The manner which he does so is pure stealth. Screwtape is delighted, for exam...

Discussing Some of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

in turn seduce the wife and/or daughter of the miller. In the end a ridiculous fight breaks out wherein the students seem to win, ...

Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers

In a paper consisting of 5 pages this novel is examined in terms of whether or not it should be considered a work of art based upo...

Deliverance by James Dickey

The four men are tackling the wilderness, in the form of a river in North Georgia, and...

Native American Literature

especially true in Love Medicine, where the abandoned son attempts to brew a love medicine for his grandfather. However, he gets s...

'Shooting an Elephant' by George Orwell

of the perseveration and thought, but he does shoot it. The villagers immediately strip it of meat and ivory - of everything they...

Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and the Supernatural

involuntarily. I started: my bodily eye was cheated into a momentary belief that the child lifted its face and stared straight int...

George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion

she must attend an ambassadors party and again pass as part of Englands elite. These hurdles seem small in comparison to the hurdl...