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English Social Critique Utopia by Thomas More

"For it is too extreme and cruel a punishment for theft, and yet not sufficient to refrain men from theft," because there is no pu...

Into That Darkness by Gitta Sereny

question, one of the jurors came up to her later and told her, "I dont want you to think it was unanimous--it wasnt" (Sereny 360)....

Drama During the Medieval Period

of a person in his or her prime, that is, Beauty, Strength, Discretion, and Five-Wits. However, after Everyman is led to confessio...

Is Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman a Tragedy?

In six pages this essay evaluates Miller's play based upon Aristotle's tragic components to conclude that Death of a Salesman is i...

'And Death Shall Have No Dominion' by Dylan Thomas

Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales in 1914 (Abrams, et al 1907). Early in 1933, when he was nineteen years old. Thomas sent two of ...

20th Century and its 'Dismal State' Captured in Text

this once desirable state of affairs. Indeed, the twentieth century saw fights in terms of the legalization of drugs and alcohol, ...

Human Condition as Described by Andrew Marvell and William Blake

In other words, if aging and death were not part of the human condition, that is, if there was time, her "coyness" (i.e. her modes...

The Symbolism of the Sea in Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening'

person aside from being mothers and wives. In the following paper we examine the symbolic nature of the sea in Chopins book, illus...

A Review of Europa, Europa

A 5 page essay exploring the work of the film by Polish writer-director Agnieszka Holland. An eye-opening look at the lengths som...

Village of a Million Spirits by Ian MacMillan

In five pages this essay examines the Treblinka Nazi death camp uprising featured in the novel by Ian MacMillan with the Magda Now...

Evangelium vitae/Nos. 78-105

to freedom and responsibility" (EV 83). In this regard, he stresses the pivotal position of the Sacraments, as a means by which hu...

Hermia's Speech/Midsummer Night's Dream

to a convent or even death. The image of a snake conjures the possibly of death, and suggests that Hermia is not as brave as she...

Patriarchal Culture, Gender, and the Works of Tayeb Salih and Gabriel Garcia Marquez

of Angela addresses the rituals that surround marriage in Latin American culture during this time. Bayardo brings Angela presents,...

Self Discovery Journeys in the Works of Higuchi Ichiyo, Leo Tolstoy, and Henrik Ibsen

him to commit suicide. Judge Brack discerns Heddas duplicity in Lovborgs downfall and insinuates that he will hold this over her. ...

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold and Themes of Guilt and Grief

In four pages this essay examines how guilt and grief regarding 14 year old Susie's death is thematically depicted by Alice Sebold...

'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin

is being raped, the experience evolves into something that is "sensually stimulating, relaxing, and, of course, spiritually illumi...

Death and Love from William Faulkner's Perspective

In five pages this essay examines Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' and 'A Rose for Emily' as they represent the themes of death and love....

Life of Kate Chopin and 'Story of an Hour'

She was the eldest of seven children and, though the family was well-established, they had fallen on hard times (Kate Chopin, A Wo...

Civilians Working In War Zones

There is the risk of capture or immediate death or permanent injuries. And, what is only recently being published, there has been ...

Comparing Three Works Thematically

This research paper/essay discusses parallel themes in three works: Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet' and his poem "The ...

Dancing Skeletons

A 5 page essay exploring the ethnographic account by Catherine Dettwyler. Medical anthropology entials precise fieldwork, professi...

Biography of Josef Stalin

In twenty four pages this essay considers the life of Josef Stalin, comparing his leadership of the Soviet Union with other leader...

The Irrational Love of Romeo and Juliet

is something that does not escape the young couple, for they do have the capacity to accept the grandeur that is love; while their...

Evidence in P. Winter's Paranormal Phenomena

In ten pages this paper discusses the essays featured in this text constructed in such a way that readers must make their own deci...

Opposing the California Death Penalty

In five pages this essay refutes each of the arguments posed by proponents of California's death penalty. There are four bibliogr...

'Because I could not stop for Death' by Emily Dickinson

of this world. She is saying good-by to earthly cares and experience and learning to focus her attention in a new way, which is re...

Emile Zola's 'la fortune du Rougons'

humide "(Zola). Il y a un sens th?matique puissant dans ce langage figur?, un sens th?matique que droit du commencement lie ?troi...

Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean

due to biblical passages describing how divine vengeance was "meted out to guilty and innocent alike" in "the Great Flood, the des...

Boxer Benny Paret

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how prizefighter Benny Paret's death was presented in two essays by Norman Cousins...

Death in 2 Poems by Seamus Heaney

(line 5). As this illustrates, the second stanza builds the tension even further as this comment intimates that this death is par...