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Failure Caused by Company Successes

companies who were once complex become simple and then fail (Miller, 1993). It is that excessive simplicity that eventually causes...

Bharti Mukherjee's Short Story 'A Father'

no simple way, for an old culture to adjust to a new one. New and Old World Beliefs The primary character in this story is the...

Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, One of the World's Great Novels

The choices which Anna and Vronsky make are disastrous for both. Through these choices, however, Anna will come to recognize the ...

Analyzing William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

and imprison-ment in the stocks. But there is something that excites in us a stronger feeling than all this-it is Violas confessio...

John Updike's A Month of Sundays and Of the Farm Compared

those demons in his closet that he thought securely battened down. His mother will not stop with the accusations and insinuations ...

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...

Sufi Poet and Mystic Jelaluddin Rumi

they are found in the Koran, point to this constant interplay of Mercy and Wrath, Beauty and Power" (76). (As bibliographical data...

Comparing Three Literary Works

writers overall mystique, utilizing such literary techniques as dialogue, imagery, figurative language and interpretation. ...

Evolution of the English Pub

continued in their Roman role, but in a much less organised manner. The names the taverns would receive reflected the role and tra...

Ursula K. LeGuin's The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

is forced to live in darkness. The child, the reader is told, is about nine or ten years old, lives on a half bowl of cornmeal a...

Emily Dickinson's Attraction To Death

to a twentieth-century Existentialist philosopher, Ford opines, "Emily Dickinson felt great anxiety about death... She apparently...

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards

the audience immediately. Edwards then frames four implications from the verse that begin with the lead-in sentence just quoted an...

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and Bernard Malamud's The Assistant

which Alpine realizes by the novels end, through Bobers example, can be the foundation of a meaningful life. Bober is unsuccessf...

Gwen Harwood and her Poetry

(lines 3-4). It is clear that whatever aspirations that the woman had as a pianist have been supplanted by her role as a mother....

Sueann Caulfield's In Defense of Honor

An additional catalyst to change, Caulfield reports, was the impending visit from the Royal Couple. As a result of the impending v...

Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta Critically Analyzed

fall apart, the truth is laid open for the reader to see. In reality, it is the women who are silently stoic because theirs is the...

Yevgeny Zamyatin's WE

such each person contributes much like the spokes on a wheel or the gears in a machine. Even emotion is regulated and defined by a...

Literary Analysis of Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides and Timothy Findley's Not Wanted on the Voyage

trademark. He occasionally collaborated with his partner, screenwriter Bill Whitehead, and was encouraged to embark upon a writin...

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and the Thematic Elements of Chapter X

if in answer to his call, Victor looks up to see the figure of a man approaching him. It is the monster. Despite the terrible curs...

Doubling in 'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

was paramount to understanding many of his stories and aspects of the life of Poe are often mirrored within the narrators of his s...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in an Historical Context

could neither read nor write. Most were still slaves and white Southerners viewed Douglass as somewhat of an anomaly. An educated ...

Anger and Fear in the Workd os Chinua Achebe and Homer

and the Greek forces suffer mightily without their hero. Later in the narrative, his anger propels him into battle. But, just as a...

'Yvain, the Knight of the Lion' by Chretien de Troyes and Reciprocal Relationships

the time when the Christian movement was beginning to gain headway in England. Most of the rural areas were still pagan believing ...

Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, and Their Poetry of Death

transcribe concerning the inevitable. One author notes that "The central theme arouses from Whitmans pantheistic view of life, fro...

Continuity in Indian Art

be contended to be one of the most integral components of Indian expression through the ages. From the most primitive aspects of ...

Mishima's Stories Patriotism and Death in Midsummer

The honour code which decrees that those who bring shame on the community must remove themselves from it was the ethical system wh...

The Necessity for Labor Unions and Women's Place in Them

a woman named, Mother Jones, who was well into her sixties when she embraced the cause, continued to fight for womens rights in th...

The Plague by Albert Camus and Human Meaning Struggles

been used, similar to George Orwells "1984" to describe the impact and the reaction of the Nazi invasion on France during World Wa...

Chantal Ackerman and Her Films Je, Tu, Il and Elle and the Eighties

attitude which pervades most of her works, even today, it can be stated. This is because feminism was asking women to redefine the...

1939 Film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington by Director Frank Capra

MGM and Warner Brothers, it had to rely on a limited group of performers. One of the most appealing was a tall, gangly young acto...