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U.S. Cities Growth

moved to the cities (War and prosperity, p. 231). "By 1950, 64 percent of the countrys total population lived in urban areas..." (...

Literary Tools Used by Emily Dickinson

61). Symbolism is the use of one thing to stand for or suggest another; a falling leaf to symbolize death, for example. And langua...

Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore as Descendants of Emily Dickinson?

however, this relationship can also be shown by examining three representative poems: specifically, "The Wind begun to knead the ...

Violence and War in Michael Cimino's Film The Deer Hunter

there are individuals who either remember it or have hand one reason or another to study it. Americans themselves, in fact, held ...

William Congreve's Contributions

works called The Mourning Bride which was created in 1697 contains the following well known line: "Heavn has no Rage, like Love to...

Cultural Influences Exerted by the Life and Art of Robert Frost

other poets of the time by rejecting modernism. As this poem demonstrates, Frost frequently drew his imagery from nature. While m...

Buddhism and the Impact of War

a Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Nhah Hanh, "whether he would rather have peace under a communist regime that would mean the end o...

Modern Technology and the U.S. Civil War

new technology. With these elements in mind, the following paper examines railroads, weaponry, and ironclads as it relates to the ...

Armor Development

broke down and even when they were working, "were not capable of performing on a real battlefield" (Tank history, 2004). French ...

Second World War Crimes and Japan

things. Resulting in 200,000 deaths, "The Nanjing Massacre is one of the best documented of Japanese atrocities because independen...

Symbolism in the Love Poetry of William Butler Yeats

in form and lessened in abstraction. Yeatss once short, rhyming poems transformed into more lengthy poems that were less concerne...

The Sadness of Thomas Hardy

the poem did not deviate from this perspective it would become something of a pointless poem that was only possessed of sadness. T...

Vietnam War and the Agency Concept

can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...

Why the US Fought in the Vietnam War

Bien Phu ended French control of Indochina. (Anonymous PG). Ironically, French General Henri Navarre had wanted this batt...

'Noiseless Patient Spider' by Walt Whitman

An analysis of this poem and what it reveals about the life and poetry of Walt Whitman is presented in five pages. Attached are 4...

Poet Phyllis Wheatley and Her Impact

In five pages this paper discusses the impact of African American poet Phyllis Wheatley in a consideration of her life and her poe...

Romantic Period Poets John Keats and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

pursued, his literary prose are filled with illusions that do not equate with realistic events, but rather, they conjure up sensat...

Opposition in William Blake's Poems

all three in a way that is distinct from all other "political appropriations" of the myth (Schock 445). As a new heaven is...

Red Tail Angels of the Second World War

The Second World War's Red Tail Angels, also known as the Tuskegee Airmen, are examined in an overview of their courage despite ra...

Elie Wiesel's Night and Albert Camus' The Plague

In seven pages these stories are compared in terms of their similar messages regarding the Second World War's harsh realities. Th...

U.S. Civil War and Conscription

In five pages this paper discusses the U.S. Civil War in a consideration of the history of conscription or the draft and its decli...

Jimmy Santiago Baca's Hispanic Native American Poetry

In five pages this paper examines Jimmy Santiago Baca's modern and totally unique style of poetry. Two sources are cited in the b...

A History of Blacks in America From the Oppression of Slavery to the Civil Rights' Movement

direction that this country would ultimately take. They were also critical elements in determining the ultimate fate of the Afric...

Central European Politics from 1910 to 1939 and Modernist Art

of art. Europes turbulent, social and political changes offered (and still offer) suitable conditions for artistic temperament to ...

Comparative Analysis of the Poetry of Carl Sandburg and Walt Whitman

himself with a sense of timelessness. Each of the poets gives the reader a sense of a good friend explaining something with an at...

'The Temple' Poem by George Herbert

moral and religious instruction, Herbert includes an invitation to delve deeper in the "church" before beginning the next section....

Nuclear Weapons and the Cold War

In eight pages this paper examines the perspectives on nuclear war during the Cold War and in the present with 'Chinagate' among t...

Singing the Song of the People in African American Literature

her works dealt little with the condition of the slaves in America, and held mainly to classical poetical themes. She was an accom...

Edgar Allan Poe's Writing Style Revealed in His Short Stories and Poetry

shows his endeavor in following a specific element of style that was all his own. Mood: for example in "The Fall of...

Aeneid vs. the Divine Comedy

The Aeneid of Virgil and Dante's The Divine Comedy are similar in style and format, both being produced by poets. This paper compa...