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African American Lecturer Frances E.W. Harper's Life and Works

In nine pages Frances E.W. Harper's amazing life as a reformer and lecturer are considered within the context of her recently surf...

Racial Bias in the Media

This paper discusses how racial and other forms of bias affect the way that news stories are reported. This nine page paper has si...

The Clinton and Lewinsky Liaison as Portrayed by the Media

The role of media politics in its depiction of this affair are examined as are the roles of propaganda and other items in this sto...

An Analysis of the company Beachy Kites

The proprietor necessarily needs to have an interest in the pastime of kite flying or sailboarding, and also needs the mechanical ...

Summer Vacation Exercise in Creative Playwrighting

In six pages this original play that is based upon a genuine news story discusses a sexually compromising situation involving a ma...

The Fictional Tale of 'The Day I Learned to Recognize People Of The Opposite Sex As Equals'

This paper consists of 5 pages and discusses the story of one boy's realization that girls are also 'real' people capable of doing...

New York Life During the Thirties

In five pages this paper presents a fictitious life story of a Brooklyn, New York woman who lived during the Great Depression and ...

Rules of the Game by Amy Tan

In three pages this essay discusses the symbolism of the novel's title and considers how it relates to the human experience. The ...

Character, Setting, and Culture in 'A Pair of Tickets' by Amy Tan

In five pages this story featured in The Joy Luck Club is analyzed in terms of the connection that exists between characters and c...

Joyce Carol Oates' Dark Writings

and families. Turners Rebellion was squelched before he ever reached Jerusalem, and after six weeks of hiding from the authorities...

Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time'

offered by A Wrinkle in Time is that the power of love can overcome just about any of lifes obstacles. When one confronts the dar...

'Guest of the Sheik' by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

In five pages Fernea's story is analyzed in terms of social constructs that are gender based and considers the Eastern cultural ex...

Katherine Anne Porter's 'The Jilting of Granny Weatherall' and Eudora Welty's 'A Worn Path'

In six pages the protagonists of these respective stories are compared and contrasted. There is no bibliography included....

Social Mobility in Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger

In five pages this paper examines the importance of social mobility in this Alger tale that defined the story of the American conc...

Edgar Allan Poe versus Arthur Conan Doyle

In six pages this paper compares Poe's 'The Purloined Letter' and 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' with Doyle's 'The Adventure of t...

Self Presentation, Insecurity, and Anxiety in 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

on her by her "captors." Because of the role of her own husband in her loss of freedom and the impact of societal perceptions on ...

Active Voice in 'Revelation' by Flannery O'Connor

In three pages Flannery O'Connor's story is examined with the consideration of a certain passage that utilizes language and active...

Marriage in the 19th Century According to Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In five pages 19th century marriage and the woman's role within it are examined in a comparison of Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an ...

Rights of Women in 'A Jury of Her Peers' by Susan Glaspell

In five pages this story is analyzed in terms of how it reflects the legal and social rights of women during the author's time per...

Conveyance and Point of View Manipulation in Turn of the Screw by Henry James

appear to be fraternizing with ghosts, are not so much the focus of the story as the governess, who begins questioning if what she...

Knighthood's Conflicting Duties and a Comparison of 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and 'The Knight's Tale'

This paper consists of five pages and discusses the conflict that results from knighthood's overlapping obligations in a comparati...

Epic Heroism of King Gilgamesh

The Epic of Gilgamesh, composed about 2000 BC and found inscribed on 12 tablets at Nineveh, is the earliest known epic. The Epic...

'Life of a Sensuous Man' by Saikaku

In five pages this paper examines the translation of this story by Saikaku in a consideration of 2 themes and irony as used by the...

'The Necklace' by Guy de Maupassant

In four pages this paper examines the very different discoveries the reader and the protagonist make as the story unfolds. There ...

'Abelard and Heloise' Translated by Jean de Meun

In eight pages this paper examines the Jean de Meun translation of this love story from Medieval France. There are 3 other source...

Change in Character at the Conclusion of Candide by Voltaire

In five pages this paper discusses how the 'happy' novel conclusion was the result of story and character changes. There are 2 so...

Neurosis in 'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin, Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

In ten pages this research paper contrasts and compares the neuroses that characterizes the protagonists Edna, Hedda, and Emma in ...

Thomas Woolf's 'Child by Tiger' and Graham Greene's 'The Destructors'

In three pages this paper compares these stories in terms of how evil dismantles society's goodness in each. There are no other s...

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

The use of irony by Burgess in his novel is the focus of this paper consisting of five pages and includes the impact of dramatic a...

Puritan Dilemma of John Winthrop

In six pages this essay discusses John Winthrop's story as presented by Edmund Morgan in a consideration of the Puritan dilemma an...