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Victor Hugo's Hernani

learns from this encounter that Hermani is a bandit and not a nobleman and refuses to duel with him. Hermani allows the king to go...

Bessie Head's The Collector of Treasures, Life, and Judgments

essence, sex was available to anyone and there had previously been no such thing as the selling of sex. But, this also enticed the...

Feminism and the Stargate Television Series

While Carter is rescued by the rest of SG-1, Nya is caught trying to elope and her father sentences her to death by stoning as pun...

Maleness in Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner

more valuable male to another as Amir is in a far better social and economic position than Hassan. While he clearly adores his fri...

Willa Cather's 'Paul's Case'

down, pistol in hand, and he had cried out in time to save himself, and his father had been horrified to think how nearly he had k...

Self Deception and Silence in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

tells Stella that hes done some checking on Blanche and found out about her unsavory past, including her affair with a 17 year old...

Pecola Breedlove and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

is affirmed in Pecolas mind when Maureen comes to her aid to protect against the boys who are teasing her and they immediately sto...

Bible, Book of James, and Leadership

humility, especially in relationship to the religion of Christianity, they are not successful leaders. And, even aside from Christ...

The Cell Film and Costuming

sees a boy, Carls character as a child. She is dressed in a skirt and a top, very casually, as she would dress perhaps every day i...

Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night and Past Guilt

women but prostitutes" ("Eugene (Gladstone) ONeill"). These are exactly the same people that ONeill puts on the stage. We might ...

Individual Personality Trait Identification and Hierarchy of Needs by Abraham Maslow

positive contribution to a successful life, defined as far more than only financial success as many see it. True success includes...

Mrs. Wilson's Battle in "I Want to Live!"

serious illness. The five stages are generally thought to be denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance ("The stages of ...

Caliban, Political Powers, and The Tempest by William Shakespeare

political systems: Antonio represents what we might call the "real" government in Milan and Prospero represents a "state of nature...

Divakaruni and Cisneros

dies and leaves her a widow and it is while mourning him and getting ready for a ceremony that she realizes that although she is s...

Response to Outside Influence in Two Short Stories

of superstition that he is there to stamp out. He suggests that the villagers build a new path skirting the school grounds; he rem...

Aspects of "Tartuffe"

right opposite my place, / And drew the eyes of all the congregation, / To watch the fervour of his prayers to heaven; / With deep...

Creon in “Oedipus the King”

"Oedipus the King" (The Classics Pages: Antigone). Before Oedipus came onto the scene it seems that Creon may well have had a ch...

"The ABC of Aerobics" by Peter Meinke

This essay presents a character sketch of the narrator in "The ABC of Aerobics," a poem by Peter Meinke. Three pages in length, th...

Considerations in Adult Learning

This 3 page paper compares commonalities between today's adult learner and those delineated by the character Jesse Hallman in the ...

Hero's Cycle and Lord of the Flies

This essay presents the argument that in William Golding's Lord of the Flies, the character of Simon is congruent with Joseph Camp...

Enlivening American History

This paper reviews the book A Young People's History of the United States. Written by Howard Zinn, this book provides an interest...

Images of Ophelia

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Hamlet's Ophelia. Fine art depictions of the character from history are used to exp...

"Barn Burning" by William Faulkner

This essay pertains to Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning" and focuses on the character of Abner Snopes. The writer argues that ...

Why I Want to be an Actor: Chasing the Dream

A young man's description of wanting to be an actor in a consideration of imagination, training, developing character, and stage p...

As I Lay Dying: Addie Bundren

necessarily as depressing as one could envision in relationship to the process of dying and the construction of a coffin outside h...

Oedipus and Antigone

her. Antigone The second question involves characters in the story of Antigone. The characters under discussion are Antig...

Bill Lumbergh, the World’s Worst Manager

and emotionlessly micromanages his employees while engaging them with superficial small talk" (Office Space, 2008). Lumberghs la...

Gender Identity Patient Disorder Diagnosis, Treatment, and the Film Boys Don’t Cry

by persistent discomfort with ones sex" (Meyenburg, 1999, p. 305). This gender identification with the opposite sex typically com...

Poetic Analysis of Jimmy Carter’s “I Wanted to Share My Father’s World”

is a pain I mostly hide, but ties of blood, or seed, endure, and even now I feel inside the hunger for his outstretched hand, a ma...

Nietzsche and O’Connor

bus she and Julian are taking downtown to the Y, his mother plays with the child (OConnor). She doesnt see that the childs mother ...