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Essays 1861 - 1890

Poe's Obsession with Beautiful Young Women Dying and the Influence of His Wife's Premature Death

In six pages this paper discusses how Edgar Allan Poe's obsession with young women dying was due to the premature death of his wif...

Life and Death According to 2 Artistic Interpretations

The Eric Clapton and Will Jennings' song Tears in Heaven is contrasted and compared with Dylan Thomas' poem Do Not Go Gentle Into ...

Death and Covenants

In nine pages student posed questions are examined regarding the status of covenants within the context of death in terms of the d...

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...

Children's Dramatic Roles

own. As a result of their inability to take responsibility for the prophecy they suffered at the hands of their son. Oedipus pu...

Comparative Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Black Cat' and 'The Tell Tale Heart'

reality in Poes work. And, the fact that it comes back to haunt the characters in the story further emphasizes the power of this "...

'Black Unicorn' by Audre Lorde

writes of black experience: Once when I walked into a room My eyes would see out the one or two black faces For contact or reass...

Tragedy as Defined by Aristotle

upon the very nature of man to enjoy learning something about others and in return about him or herself. In this way, he argues, w...

UK Criminal Law and the Intent to Kill

D was aware it was a virtually certain consequence ... . and if D foresaw the death as an overwhelming possibility" (Clark, 2000)....

Emily Dickinson's Works on Self and Death

line and the metaphor in the first, Dickinson employs all of the literary devices available, but, prefers, for the most part, to f...

F. Scot Fitzgerald and a look at the American Dream

Ambition and a self-made determination, and the freedom to achieve anything that one sets his or her mind to were the basic concep...

Death Poetry of Ted Hughes

examined in several of his later animal poems the themes of survival and the mystery and destructiveness of the cosmos" (Anonymous...

Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses and How Death Was Treated

fresh-faced innocent youths of before, but they are beginning to see life as a struggle. John Cole learned the first of these les...

Black Americans in the Construction Industry

Kingdom - is still predominantly that of white male, with a low representation of ethnic minorities, including African Americans i...

Machisma And Machismo In The Plays of Lorca and Marquez

other because they are in competition for available males. They are devious toward each other as well as toward their mother beca...

The Slave Mothers of Black Americans

slave Louis Hughes in his autobiography, Thirty Years a Slave (Hughes, 2001). In his account, he discusses how he was separated fr...

Inability to Ever Justify Cheating

to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...

Debate on Euthanasia Legalization

often, years of pain, suffering and despair (Paris, 1997). Patients like Karen Ann Quinlan were trapped by technology that could w...

UK Criminal Liability Law

from time to time laid down, are sufficiently injurious to the public to warrant the application of criminal procedure to deal wit...

Whites and Blacks as ''Natural Enemies' According to David Walker

the oppression thrust upon them by an unyielding and self-appointed superior white race. Evolution has a significant amount to do...

How Ruth Younger and Linda Loman Support Their Men

in his own quest to find his own American Dream, squanders an inheritance on a one-shot deal that goes bad. And in the old adage t...

Death of a Salesman and the Definition of Tragedy

by some serious flaw of character and/or judgment," with the ultimate goal being to inspire either pity or fear in the audience (K...

Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy and Marilyn Monroe

grandmother were institutionalized when they died and her mother spent most of the rest of her life in a mental institution (Towso...

Old Age as Viewed by Eliot and Frost

his mind tends to wander, that he has forgotten that the boy who helped him a few years earlier is off at school. Mary explains ho...

Solving Edwin Drood's Mysterious Death

He must wonder to himself why someone like Drood, who doesnt even love the lovely Rosa, should get to marry her...

Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity on the Afterlife

eternal soul and reap what you sow....Christianity" maintains "the notion of an eternal soul, a single lifetime, and eternal bliss...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Avenging the Deaths of the Fathers

and Achiles reenact the way in which Hamlet believes his father was killed by Claudius and how revenge will be exacted on the guil...

Giving Up Life for a Cause and Death Perspectives

those who are willing to die for a cause. After all, many appear to be unconcerned about their own deaths. Also, why should they c...

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and its Themes

included intelligence, depth, compassion, and integrity. It was now a dream that focused primarily on material success and the dre...