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Style of 'The Metamorphosis' by Franz Kafka

but not from his condition. Rather, his melancholy is because of the "raindrops beating on the window gutter" (Kafka, 2002). Rathe...

Mikhail Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog

entertain with his biting sarcasm. The author has a long history of reaching out and inviting his audience to experience with him...

Jean Edward Smith's Grant

miles off" (Smith 23). When he was seventeen his father informed him that he would be attending West Point. In essence, accordi...

Life and Times of Pythagoras

communal ways. Kenneth Guthrie in his book, The Life of Pythagoras, states that the Pythagoreans were extremely secretive and cult...

Robert Moses Biography by Robert Caro

owe their existence to Moses. Additionally, he built the eleven parkways that run through the city and out towards the suburban co...

Flannery O'Connor

in Milledgeville, OConnor attended Georgia State College for Women and eventually graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Literatu...

Fires of Jubilee by Stephen B. Oates

them extensive evidence of plagiarism in two of Oates biographies. In his own defense, Oates accuses Burilngame of taking quotes o...

Robert Remini's Andrew Jackson

seems as though no action, no movement, could take place without a caucus being involved. This is perhaps where Jackson made th...

Hillary's Choice by Gail Sheehy

it is always Hillary. Advisors had warned that candidates should start to choose someone else because Hillary is just too popular....

The Minute Waltz by Frederic Chopin

grief for his homeland in the Revolutionary Etude (Machlis 82). Chopin arrived in Paris in 1831 and the majority of his musical c...

Gates How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry by Stephen Manes and Paul Andrews

as they did writing about Gates (Blankenborn, 1993; Manes and Andrews, 1993). Despite the focus mainly on Gates years with Micros...

Alexander Hamilton, American by Richard Brookhiser

review, said that he felt like a candle "beside the sun at noonday" when comparing his career to that of Hamilton (11). It is fr...

Leadership Qualities of William Bratton

"one of the first" hed "seen with the new-style rotating gumball-machine light, so that fascinated me. Every morning, this red-fac...

Life and Music of Composer Oliver Messiaen

book has had a significant influence on his characters and destiny (Johnson 9). During World War I, he lived with his mother and...

Critical Biography King by David Lewis

and sufficient material for a book. Despite his earlier assessment of King, Lewis did decide to write the book. It would be a jour...

Book II of the History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

even falling ill himself (Halsall Ancient History Sourcebook: 11th Britannica: Thucydides). During a heated campaign in 424, Thuc...

Connection Between Biography and History

individual experiences. Williams (1972) recognized that it is not uncommon for man to apply a collective view of individual or pa...

Eleanor Roosevelt A Personal and Public Life by J. William T. Youngs

not only who she was as a person, but to also put her contributions and her legacy into a proper perspective. The book details sp...

An Examination of Pocahontas

met John Smith in 1608 and between that time and the time she married another gentleman in 1614, she was kidnapped and raped by th...

Life and Times of Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger

Warren Burger's life and career are the focus of this biography consisting of eight pages. Five sources are cited in the bibliogr...

Biography of Elton John

a weight problem ("Wilsonweb," 1998). His parents divorced and after remarriage, his mother would encourage his musical career whe...

Biography of Teddy Roosevelt

the West, specifically, the Dakota Territory, soon after their deaths, bought land, and spent the next few years writing books and...

The Life of Leon Trotsky

been deported to Siberia. Again, he escaped and returned to London, where he met Stalin....

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...

The Roosevelt Presence The Life and Legacy of FDR by Patrick J. Maney

number of secondary sources listed and subdivided into ten chapters covering Roosevelts privileged youth, his marriage and growing...

Daniel Defoe's Protagonist Moll Flanders

where Moll informs workers that she wants to grow up to be a gentlewoman. What this means is that she wants to support herself and...

New York Democratic Congressman Maurice D. Hinchey

a masters degree and did advanced graduate work in public administration and economics at State University of New York at Albany (...

AN ANALYSIS OF A FEDEX HANDLING JOB

Focuses on a third-shift job as a FedEx package handler, and what compensation could be used to boost productivity on the job. The...

Biography of Paul by J. Albert Harrill

This book review is on Paul the Apostle, His Life and Legacy in Their Roman Context by J. Albert Harrill. This unusual biography f...

Little Girl in a Blue Armchair by Cassatt

This essay pertains to Little Girl in a Blue Armchair by Mary Cassatt. This work, along with Cassatt's biography, is described. Th...