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Epic of Gilgamesh, Inferno, and Human Values

the Inferno. "In Dantes Inferno, there is an Upper Hell and a Lower Hell. Upper Hell is the place for those guilty of excessive se...

A Case Study in Hospital Critical Thinking

however, without first obtaining better control of interorganizational practices. Indeed, the situation at present is not only ch...

Hesiod's The Works and Days, Theogony and Gender Conflict

we note in the following: "Since before this time the races of men had been living on earth free from all evils, free from laborio...

Significance of Slave Narratives

control of countries worldwide. Naturally, showing dark natives the benefits of Western culture did not come without a price, as E...

Mark Twain's Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses

he knows of an undertow there which will hold her back against the gale and save her. For just pure woodcraft, or sailorcraft, or ...

Thoreau and Bryant's Impacts Upon the Writings of Oliver, Stevens, and Frost

or element that he has observed to the human condition or situation. This is directly evident in Frosts poem, "Mending Wall". ...

Is Plot a Function of Character or Is the Opposite True?

the undercurrent of human conflict is more than apparent as evidence of how plot is a function of character. "The evening, I reme...

Detective Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages the ways in which the detective literary genre was standardized by Poe's 'The Purloined Letter,' 'The Mystery of Mar...

Ernest Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants,' Raymond Carver's 'Are These Actual Miles?' and Marriage

He figures thousands on luxury items alone" (Carver NA). From these lines we note that the couple is likely very superficial an...

Pamela Joern/"Judgment Day"

This essay presents a literary analysis of "Judgment Day" by Pamela Joern. Three pages in length, one source is cited....

Maya Angelou Gives an Eloquent Voice to This Generation

this definition of black heroism and to the outline of a typical success story" (Walker, 1995, p. 91). Angelou is as simple...

Children of the River by Linda Crew and Roots by Alex Haley

he was sent to another culture and made a slave. With his plans and expectations already in place Kunta finds himself in Americ...

Comparative Analysis of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

reckless without hardihood, greedy without audacity, and cruel without courage" (Conrad 102). In Ellisons novel we see a young B...

Analyzing 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg' by Mark Twain

was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation uns...

Hell in Dante's 'Inferno' and Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus

down into the depths, and the church of Dantes medieval Italy labeled any direct and persistent questioning soul as heretical. ...

Critiquing Part 4, Chapter 5 of 'Gulliver's Travels' by Jonathan Swift

is based upon Lemuel Gulliver, who was a ships surgeon and he tells of being shipwrecked on the island of Lilliput (Summary of Gul...

Depiction of Women the Story of Kenreimon'in, 'The Wife of Bath's Tale,' and Antigone

still powerfully under the control of a patriarchal society. "For Antigone, there could never be any laws that could stand in t...

Magical Applications of the Legend of King Arthur

King Arthur was the only one who could have united all of England because he was the embodiment of the old and new ways. As such, ...

Supernatural and Dreams in The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann and The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

themselves whether or not the writer is referring to the natural or supernatural world as often the storyline it intercepted or ov...

Women's Aspects Concerning Marriage and Equality in Excerpts from Wollstonecraft, Ibsen, Mill, Chopin, and de Pizan

is considered a step in the right direction for women of the era who were trapped in unhealthy and unequal marriages. Regardless o...

Structural Functionalist Perspectives on 'The Souls of Black Folks' by W.E.B. Du Bois

Durheim, now looks on the structural functionalism theory as being useful in illustrating why certain sociological phenomena unfol...

Authors of the Latin American Boom Era Carpentier and Cortazar

indicative of what the new emerging countries might become. Julio Cortazar does...

Comparative Thematic Analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'A New Leaf' and Edith Wharton's 'Roman Fever'

much of a respected figure. One author, in noting this states that his "playboy image impeded the proper assessment of his work" (...

Jean de la Fontaine's Fables

outward recognition. Why do Fontaines epic fable poems work? Primarily, one could state that they work because they embody unive...

Literature and the Use of Language

In five pages The Tempest by William Shakespeare and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe are discussed in a consideration of how th...

That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis and Reality

In five pages this paper discusses the reality of this literary combination of fantasy and myth. Two sources are listed in the bi...

Acculturation and Richard Rodrigurez's Hunger of Memory and Liu Zongren's Two Years in the Melting Pot

This paper considers the characteristics of acculturation by comparing and contrasting these two literary works in seven pages. T...

Self-Perception and Learning

however the temptation on the part of many parents, and there are even some who feel it is their right, to determine what a child ...

American Dream as a Nightmare in Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby'

In five pages this paper provides a comparative analysis of these two famous American literary works in terms of the acquisition o...

Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and Impact of Family

In six pages this essay compares these two literary works in terms of family impact and protagonist alienation. There are no othe...