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The Spy Game

of espionage. Today, there is a great deal of emphasis on the technical aspects of intelligence gathering-spy satellites, communic...

Orwellian Overtones in V for Vendetta

People, in theory at least, travel about at their leisure and enjoy what seems to be certain freedoms. On closer inspection, howe...

Self-Centeredness in Dorothea and Reverend Casaubon

(Eliot 30). In addition she is "likely to seek martyrdom," then try to escape it only to have it befall her when she stopped looki...

Middlemarch’s Unlikely Heroine

her society is willing to accept from her. This paper discusses why she is an unusual woman and whats interesting about her. Discu...

Controlling Past, Present and Future

so now that it seems to be coming true. With newspapers disappearing and media companies merging into fewer and fewer giant corpor...

Candida and Arms and the Man and Romantic versus Real Love

business without impertinence" (Shaw). He has never exhausted his store of "spiritual enthusiasm and sympathetic emotion," qualiti...

Thematic Comparison of Gilgamesh with Current Events

of evil. Bush pursued his quest for immortality by invading the Middle East, first in Iraq in March of 2003, and then established...

Picasso and Development of Cubism

Cubism presents a totally different theory of vision, as it takes into consideration the haste and fractured nature of the modern ...

Role of Candy in Mice and Men

to these men, as this would not only offer them security, but would allow them to establish relational bonds with their co-workers...

Explication of George Herbert's "Virtue"

dew that falls at night as weeping for the demise of day, "For thou must die" (Herbert line 4). The second stanza focuses on the...

Portrayal of Women in Two Play by G.B. Shaw

that there is little, if any, true relationship or familial feeling between the two women, as Vivie tells Mr. Praed, "I hardly kno...

Alice Walker and George Orwell

of these introductory lines the reader is made privy to who the individual is in some way, where they are, and ultimately what the...

Conservative Judicial Nominees of George W. Bush

nominee was subjected to his direct approval before and after vetting and prior to any official selection announcement (Miles, 201...

Political Language in the 21st Century

is aimed at supporting particular policy themes that will emerge and where emerging from the political arena. It appears th...

Orwell’s 1984

from the beginning, that this society does not encourage, or even allow, people to seek the truth. Ironically he works for the Min...

Viaduct at L'Estague by Georges Braque

This essay discusses "Viaduct at L'Estague" by Georges Braque, which founded Cubism. The writer analyzes the painting within the c...

The Truman Show and 1984

This essay contrasts the use of psychological manipulation in "The Truman Show," directed by Peter Weir, and George Orwell's 1984....

The Greatest Military Leader

One of the leaders who is always mentioned when discussing leaders in general and military leaders, in particular, is George S. Pa...

Social and Familial Status for Women in 3 Plays

and culture separate the 1888 play of Swedish playwright August Strindberg, Miss Julie, from those of twentieth century Canadians ...

3 Plays and Societal Influence on Family

societal factors that shape the familial situations in August Strindbergs Miss Julie, George Rygas The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, and Sh...

Coleridge and Byron, Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Darkness

personification of Death and Nightmare Life-in-Death; the sailors all dying and then their corpses reanimating, all of these image...

Reaction to Philbert's "Good" Plus a Brief Autobiography of the Student

I must master the processes associated involved in writing clearly as my ultimate goal is to teach middle school, and I must, ther...

The Vietnam Wars

The Vietnam war did not just happen. The French had been fighting in Indonesia since the early 1950s. The actual conflicts in Viet...

Canada and the Cold War

neighbor of the US, "one of the two superpowers defining the post-war world," the Canadian government chose to move "closer to the...

Post-War Adjustment: Literary Comparison

to the soldier, but to his family and the citizens in whose names he fought (Swofford). The author notes how those...

Mexico's Drug Cartel War: United States' Role

United States has long been in battle with itself in an ongoing attempt to control its rampant drug problem, on that clearly stems...

Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Historical Context

1852.5 Stowes portrayal of the cruelty of slavery generated "horror in the North and outrage in the South," as Southerners perceiv...

Sun Tzu's "The Art Of War"

those few but powerful pages described how to achieve holism within the esoteric nature of battle. Firing a weapon to kill the en...