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Identity: “The Story of an Hour”

she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...

'To Build a Fire' by Jack London and Literary Style

In five pages the literary style in this short story is analyzed in terms of the story's direct and indirect evidence, deductive o...

Comparative Philosophical Views of John Locke and Plato

to Locke. Locke was able to succinctly describe and honor the Enlightenment in his belief in the middle class and its right to fre...

An Analysis of Twain's, The Story of the Bad Little Boy

This paper analyzes thematic elements of the short story, The Story of the Bad Little Boy by Mark Twain. The author compares this ...

Comparative Analysis of the Poetry of Sharon Olds and Short Fiction of Raymond Carver

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the Sharon Olds' poem 'Sex Without Love' with Raymond Carver's short story 'What W...

Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolff

the bank while there is a line of people waiting for service, but rather than agree with a fellow human being, he is caustic and s...

Cheever's "The Country Husband"

every night to a battlefield" (Cheever 73). Later in the story, at a party, Weed recognizes the maid serving canap?s, as a woman...

'Ball of Fat' and 'The Necklace' by Guy de Maupassant

meant to be - mixing with society people and being decorated with fine jewelry. However, she ends up losing the necklace...

Comparative Analysis of Lois Lowry's The Giver and James Clavell's The Children's Story

teacher was replaced. Part of the reason for this is because the story takes place during only 25 minutes of the childrens day. ...

Character Influences in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and John Updike's 'A & P'

excitement in the place. It is not necessarily a nurturing environment for one who wants something more out of life than to be a b...

Peter Terson's 'Zigger Zagger' and Patrick McCabe's 'The Butcher Boy'

though not necessarily horribly so. In essence, the boy is neglected and it is not surprising "why parentless Harry was inclined t...

Immoral Actions and Henry Kissinger

there has been real "tension between Americas much-vaulted ethical and legal principles and its practical policy interests" (2000,...

Comparative Analysis of Ernest Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants' and Flannery O'Connor's 'Good Country People'

of course being to illustrate Christian mysteries of faith. In other words, through the everyday, mundane workings in her characte...

Comparative Character Analysis of Olunde in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman and Obi in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer At Ease

their native primitive cultures and European colonial modernization. Back in the 1940s, few Nigerians were accorded the opportuni...

Comparison of The Old Man and the Sea and The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

In seven pages this research paper presents a comparative analysis of these Hemingway novels in terms of plot, characterization, s...

A Sense of Place in James Joyce's 'Araby,' 'A Return to Araby,' and John Updike's 'A and P'

In five pages the importance of setting to these stories is discussed in this comparative analysis. Two sources are cited in the ...

Comparative Analysis of 'Death in the Woods' and 'A Good Man is Hard to Find'

in men. Her daughter had died in childhood and with her one son she had no articulate relations. On the night when she died she wa...

Knighthood's Conflicting Duties and a Comparison of 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and 'The Knight's Tale'

This paper consists of five pages and discusses the conflict that results from knighthood's overlapping obligations in a comparati...

'Platoon' vs. 'Apocalypse Now'

In 5 pages this comparative analysis considers the power of visual images in these films and how war is told through manipulative ...

Comparative Analysis of 'Representations of General Nature' in 'A Haunted House' by Virginia Woolf and 'Barn Burning' by William Faulkner

This paper applies Samuel Johnson's contention that 'representations of general nature' should be featured in good stories in a co...

Comparative Analysis of Richard Wright's 'Morning Star' and George Schuyler's 'Black No More'

Secure in the knowledge that his origins are unknown, Max joins a white supremacist group and allies himself with their bigotry. S...

Cass Mastern, Willie Stark, and Jack Burden in All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

In 5 pages this paper discusses the thematic connection between the stories of Cass Mastern, Willie Stark, and Jack Burden in this...

'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker, 'El Tonto del Barrio by Jose Armas and Values

Material objects and work as intrinsic and extrinsic values are discussed in a comparative analysis of these stories consisting of...

Psychological Theory and 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings' by Maya Angelou

into their conception habits, for they are an intrinsic component of being. "Life is a self-renewing process through action upon ...

Gold At Sutter’s Mill in California

epidemic, the discovery meant only "great misfortune," as it ruined all is "hard, restless and industrious labors" and meant that ...

Reconstruction of Automobile Destruction

involving who the subjects are, which is never really noted in terms of age or gender or race. Note the method used: The method o...

O. Henry/Gift of the Magi

being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...

The Breakfast Club/A View of Adolescence

"poor little rich girl or the princess," and is drive to school by her father in a BMW (The Breakfast Club, 1995). Allison is the ...

John C. Maxwell/Thinking For A Change

the authors father observed that successful people tended to have positive thoughts not only about themselves, but also of others....

Considerations in Humanitarian Intervention

sometimes a culturally driven process. It is the product of the morals and ethics of the entities involved on both sides of the s...