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Essays 1831 - 1860

Contemporary Prisons and Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault

Damiens, was executed in this manner on March 2, 1757. The records of this execution appear to be quite detailed, as Foucault rela...

Andersonville Journey

A 5 page essay exploring the booy by Edward F. Roberts. This paper summarizes and analyzes this book and provides a personal react...

Liberalism and Its Challengers by Alonzo Hamby

This is an essay consisting of seven pages that provides a summary for each book chapter along with a critical text evaluation. T...

J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye as a Personal Narrative

This research paper/essay discusses the journey of personal discovery that is described in Salinger's famous coming-of-age novel. ...

Howarth's 1066 The Year of Conquest

"Everyone knows 1066 as the date of the Norman invasion and conquest of England. But how many of us can place that event in the co...

Sergio Zyman's 'The End of Marketing'

This essay summarizes the book in 5 pages, and includes a discussion of marketing's 'sacred cows,' and how the process has caused ...

Greg Levoy's Callings and James Hillman's The Soul's Code

In five pages this essay compares adn contrasts these two books and the argument that the authors take a different perspective tow...

Book VI of The Faerie Queen by Edmund Spenser

In five pages this essay analyzes Book Six of this poetic masterpiece. There are no other sources listed....

An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

This 6 page essay examines author Miguel Leon Portilla's "The Broken Spears : The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico&quo...

Chinese Domination on the Open Seas During the Fifteenth Century

and offered the natives beads and strings of coral as items for trade, the Europeans were ridiculed. The natives had products tha...

Lilliput, Satire, and Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

This essay consists of five pages and examines the first book of Gulliver's Travels in terms of how Swift satirizes eighteenth cen...

Characterization and Realism in the Dickens Classic Great Expectations

This work is discussed in depth and realism is the focus of attention along with a look at characterization. This paper looks at h...

Jean de Coras verses Gertrude B. Himmlefarb in The Return Of Martin Guerre and The New History and the Old: Critical Essays and Reappraisals

In this six paper paper the writer explores the book by Jean de Coras and updated by Nathalie Z. Davis. This exploration occurs a...

A Review of White Man's Indian

This six page essay explores the book by Robert Berkhofer, Jr. The writer emphasizes the diversity that characterizes Native Ameri...

How Do We Die? Text and Ethical Issues

In four pages this essay considers the book and the various issues pertaining to ethics that are discussed within. There are no o...

A Discussion of Babette's Feast

This 5 page essay illuminates the message and presentation in Babette's Feast. Based on the book by Isaak Dineson this film prese...

A Review of Extinct Humans

A 5 page essay that provides an overview of the book by Tattersall and Schwartz. The focus is evolution as it has been expererien...

A Review of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder As Reflected in the Movie Good As It Gets

habits are partially responsible for keeping him at arms length from the rest of the world. Considered for decades to be a diseas...

A Comparison of "1984" and "Brave New World"

This 5 page essay explores George Orwell's futuristic book 1984 and contrasts it with Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. 4 sources ...

Comfort and Sorrow According to Confucius and the Book of Psalms

In five pages this essay compares how comfort was found amidst sorrow as described in Confucius' Analects and in the Book of Psalm...

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan and Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

This 5 page essay analyzes discourse as it manifests in these books. Reality differs according to narrator perception. 2 sources...

3 Questions on Steven H. Star and Glen L. Urban's The Case of the Test Market Toss Up

Three questions are examined within the context of this book by Steven H. Star and Glen L. Urban in an essay of five pages. One s...

College Students and the Marketing of a Campus Poetry Night

In one page this essay discusses how to plan and promote a poetry night event on a college campus that includes a book signing and...

Analysis of Biblical Quotation 'Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself'

In twelve pages this quotation from the Bible is analyzed in terms of its interpretation in a book, essay, and poem. Four sources...

Example of an Interpretive Essay

The big red bus slowed to a stop. Wittman got off to stretch his legs for a moment. He almost bumped into the woman that he...

The Theme of Violence in The Prince Of Tides

episode at some point in life. Depression often hits the elderly more than any other age group; however, with each passing ...

Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's Inherit the Wind

In five pages this essay presents a critical examination of the book and the actual trial upon which the text was based. There ar...

'The Iliad' by Homer Book IX

In five pages this essay examines Ulysses' argument to Achilles and his response to it as described in Book IX of 'The Iliad.' Th...

The Business World from a Literary Viewpoint

pictured as giving them a chance to live as equals with everyone-no upper classes-everyone doing as he or she pleased. Sinclair...

Gatsby & the American Dream

is when Gatsby holds out his arms toward a small green light in the distance, which the reader learns later is the green light on ...