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Strange Life and Literary Journey of Hunter S. Thompson

be permanently altered when Thompson ran afoul of the law (Medenhall, 2004). A series of arrest would eventually land him...

"Time and J.R.R. Tolkien" by Marie Nelson

This essay is on Marie Nelson's article "Time and J.R.R. Tolkien's 'Riddles in the Dark.'" The writer relates Nelson's principal a...

Travel Poems by Frost and Stafford

Taken" and William Staffords "Traveling Through the Dark" are both poems about lifes journey and the choices that confront each in...

Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Light vs. Dark

1902 novel Heart of Darkness is widely acknowledge as a literary classic that provides considerable psychological insight into the...

The God of Small Things and Sexual Transgression's Dark Reality Symbolism

so clearly it is evident why the Indian people placed such importance on caste and took the entire system so seriously....

Symbolism, Theme and Perspective in Two Poems

has grown deep like rivers" (line 4). Setting the line off by itself emphasizes its significance, as it ties the narrator directly...

Vitamin D Study, Article Analysis

This research paper offers an overview and summary of a study, conducted by Brand and colleagues in 2008, which explored the issue...

How Osteoporosis Affects the Elderly

This essay discusses osteoporosis - what it is, risks, and incidence. It does so in the context of a film entitled Fire in the Dar...

Analyzing U.S. Labor Unions

the government was concerned, there was much less power upon industry, and the combination of these factors entirely changed the e...

Cinema and Time's Role

human being he is. This comes as a shock to Oliverio who is as bad as the rest in assuming that prostitutes have no brains. Actu...

Bram Stoker's 'Dracula's Guest' Analyzed

he decides to proceed anyway. Clearly, the dark, cold, unforgiving surroundings that encapsulate the guest as his driver leaves h...

Dark Stories of Gaitskill and Braverman_

track marks still showed. The fact that Lenny articulates the protagonists hidden thoughts and desires provides substantiation th...

Big Trouble by Dave Barry

that group of people "who, merely by existing, tended to violate laws that solid citizens never even thought about, like how long...

Frank Norris's McTeague

his mother dies he was over six feet tall and with his blond hair was an imposing figure, he used the money to set up his own busi...

William Shakespeare's 'Dark Lady' Sonnet 127

In this way the sinfulness is likened to the darkness, since evil and dark tend to go hand in hand. And the fact that one is a mi...

Comparative Thematic Analysis of Apocalypse Now and Heart of Darkness

he was supposed to have picked up at this station has broken down, so he is delayed. He tries to make himself busy and during this...

Dark and Death Themed Comedy Plays

David Ives "All in the Timing" is a series of one act plays which tell the story of different situations all with a comical and...

Dark Suspense Elements in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado'

Dark suspense elements are the focus of this comparative analysis of two 19th century great American short stories in five pages. ...

Women and the African Diaspora

practices of their homelands. African Diaspora in the 21st Century Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie (2002) addresses the issues associated w...

Tartt's The Secret History and the 'Fatal Flaw' Concept

morbid desire for the picturesque, which evidently is not mean to imply that picturesque is used in its more positive sense of att...

Analyzing 'Your Dog Dies' by Raymond Carver'

is perhaps the first experience they will have when they lose someone very close. The poem goes on: "you feel bad about it/ you fe...

The Journey in Apocalypse and Heart of Darkness

bring his Kurtz back to civilization, Willard is instructed from the start to find and kill his Col. Kurtz. This difference is st...

A Review of Holes

A 5 page analysis of irony and dark humor in the book by Louis Sachar. Character and plot development revolve around both. 1 sourc...

Monster Threat in the 1987 Horror Movie Near Dark

This report analyzed the Near Dark horror movie within the context of critic Robin Wood's observation that 'normality is threatene...

Romantic Fiction's Gothic Genre

are generally seen as common to the Gothic novel, including a medieval or pseudo-medieval setting, a solitary protagonist and a se...

Today's Youth and Counterculture Force Feeding

examines how todays dark counterculture is marketed to modern day youth, what is involved/ at stake, and how music (and other medi...

Different Views on American Labor and Politics

In ten pages authors Max Green and Taylor E. Dark and their opposing perspectives on American labor are examined. Ten sources are...

Women's Issues in Brazil According to De Jesus and Caulfield

In six pages this paper is structured in terms of interviewing these authors in a hypothetical Q&A format with the texts Child...

Horror Film Evolution

mindless conformists, and sought to sound a warning through the medium of film (Caligari, in the figure of the mad doctor compelli...

Mark Twain's Life Transition Represented by Huckleberry Finn

story we can see this as Huck states that "I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the wi...