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Heroes and Heroines in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway

gained on the Italian front. Although Hemingway delicately avoids telling us precisely where the wound is, we know it is around hi...

Homeric Heroes and the Epic of Gilgamesh

end of the epic. This is different from the Homeric hero Odysseus for we generally like this man right from the beginning. The god...

Hero in Vasilis Arvanitis by Stratis Myrivilis

working for the occupying Turks to anti-Turk resistance (Machin, 1998). Vasilis, similarly, changes his role, both in relation to ...

Bernard Gordon's 'Elia Kazan: Hero or Coward?'

were refusing to speak. They were not going to name any names of people who may have been, or were, communist sympathizers or comm...

Hero or Fool 'Young Goodman Brown'

to be happening is that he feels he is risking his soul. If this is the case then a hero would emerge victorious in some way, havi...

'Hero and Leander' by Christopher Marlowe

In five pages the influence Marlowe received from writers of ancient Greece and Rome are considered as reflected in this poetic ep...

Was Huey P. Long a Villain or Hero?

In five pages the life of Huey P. Long is examined within the context of Glen Jeansonne's biography Messiah of the Masses Huey P....

1980s' Greatest American Hero Ronald Reagan

voice, Reagan began a career in radio broadcasting, but secretly hoped this avenue of work would somehow lead to the silver screen...

David Remnick's King of the World Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero

an American Hero brings the world of boxing into a sharp focus of anticipated excitement that is the essence of the match. This m...

Tragically Flawed Heroes in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

This paper contrasts and compares the tragic flaws of Achebe and Sophocles' protagonists in 5 pages. There are no other sources l...

Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

In five pages this essay summarizes and provides a review of this text by Joseph Campbell. Two sources are cited in the bibliogra...

Tragic Hero in Electra by Euripides

In five pages Euripides' tragic protagonist is examined in an application of Aristotle's Greek tragedy formula. There are no othe...

Wright and Singer and Their Hapless Heroes

Dave is horrified when he shoots Jenny, but rather than admit what hes done, he makes up some goofy story about her falling and la...

Searching from the Hero Within in Hamlet by William Shakespeare

alienate himself from his mother, uncle, fianc?e Ophelia and his old school chums, Rosencrantz and Guilderstern. The lone confide...

Romantic Hero Sir Lancelot

without peer (Spivack and Lynne 95). Lancelot was originally introduced to readers in French poet Chretien de Troyes Lancelot or...

Historic British Literary Heroes

imaginations. In examining the changing role of the hero in English Literature, five British literary periods will be examined. F...

The Tradition of Heroes in Literature

This paper discusses the elements necessary to creating a heroic character in literature. The author examines heroic protagonists...

Epic Heroes Gilgamesh and Hercules and Violence

In ten pages this paper discusses how violence is portrayed in the heroic epics of ancient Greece and Mesopotamia. Six sources ar...

Classic Literary Poets, Searchers, Lovers, and Heroes

In six pages this paper examines these character genres and how they occasionally have coincided or overlapped throughout literary...

Othello as a Tragic Hero

a noble falls, he takes a lot of people with him. Thats true here, where Othellos suspicion results in his destruction, as well as...

Hannibal Lecter as Hero

a woman-suit out of women (using their skin)-the ultimate in objectification" (Vorndam). Lecter is initially contemptuous of Starl...

Columbus, Hero or Villain?

doing so, Boorstin puts this within the context of the historical era. For example, he explains that fifteenth century sailors sta...

Cinematography in “Hero”

a "master swordsman," arriving at the Emperors fortress. Nameless explains to the Emperor how he vanquished "three deadly assassin...

Defining and Using Transaction Cost Economics (TCE)

boundaries may impact on its use. Transaction costs can be defined costs which are incurred as a result of managing production, ...

Defining and Measuring Customer Loyalty

The writer looks at some definition to be used when undertaking research into customer loyalty. The paper starts with definitions ...

DEFINING QUALITY: A LITERATURE RESEARCH AND REVIEW

Quality cannot be managed effectively unless organizational leaders can define quality and then get everyone in the company to bot...

Science-Fiction: Defining a Concept

the idea of life created not by God but by man and the repercussions produced by such an event. Science does play a key role in an...

The Humanities Defined

human and what serves to connect people. At the same time, it really goes deeper than to define the human being. It also attempts ...

Defining International Accounting Terms and Looking At Regime Differences

Standards Board (IASB). The board is made up of representatives from the accounting professions in many countries, and the standar...

Defining Civilization and Explaining Liberalism and Realism

The geographical aspect has been argued as one that is essential, as all civilizations may be located in a map (Braudel and Mayne,...