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Social Work and the Importance of the Christian Thought

as well as their learning abilities. The Bible teaches people that it is important, and crucial, to care for others and to neve...

Alice in Wonderland and Harry Potter

his introduction to The Annotated Alice, Martin Gardner relates some of the complex meanings that have been attributed to Alice. F...

Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Images of Darkness and Light

with the world of tradition, the world of civilization. Huddled within the womb-like interior of the Congo, he retreats ever furth...

Ancient Rome and the Works of Vergil

by Homer, Vergil, by establishing Aeneas as a Trojan also justifies Romes invasion and conquest of Greece as retribution for the f...

Emile Zola's 'la fortune du Rougons'

humide "(Zola). Il y a un sens th?matique puissant dans ce langage figur?, un sens th?matique que droit du commencement lie ?troi...

Emily Dickinson's Views of Self and Society

the feeling that the poet is engaging the reader in a secret and private conversation. One has the feeling that, in the breaks pro...

Crime and Punishment in The Odyssey

growing stronger and more defiant with every passing episode. "...Homer certainly recognizes the notion of intention, and in many...

A Comparison of Post Modernism in The Tortilla Curtain and The Things They Carried

that are specific to each individuals defined social status; while one person might consider a purchased home with a white picket ...

The Theme of Alienation in Death In Venice and Notes From The Underground

comment, a smile, occupy him more than their due; they sink silently in, they take on meaning, they become experience, emotion, ad...

Stylistic Techniques of Irvine Welsh in Acid House and Trainspotting

these days of infancy and childhood made her squirm with embarrassment. It seemed an essential denial of herself as she was now. ...

Literature of the First World War, Dying, Mutilation, and Death

that the other poppy "I gave to you" (line 8). In the third stanza, Rosenberg writes that the "sandbags narrowed" (line 9). The t...

No Shame in My Game by Katherine S. Newman

are also seeing to gain protection from the pressures of the street and, often, to escape trouble at home and in their neighborhoo...

English Literature and Virtue

when the Beowulf poet writes "Fate always goes as it must" (43) and "Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good" (...

Departures vs. Emergency, Similar Themes

mothers feelings. Nevertheless, he never rectifies this error and remains increasingly more aloof from human concerns and true car...

Anne Hebert and Gabrielle Roy

be troubled by the nature of life and how, so often, those we love are either ahead of us or behind on lifes journey. Each of the ...

Meditations

controlling his temper, modesty, and manliness, he learned piety, abstinence, and how to live simply "far removed from the habits ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Work, and 'Self Reliance'

of the things which were already history and beyond ones control. This ability was made possible only through true power. ...

Banana Yoshimoto's Fiction

In four pages this essay examines two books by Japanese writer Banana Yoshimoto in a consideration of how her works capture young ...

Evaluating King Henry IV Through Machiavellian and Other Perspectives

King of France in 1589 (2000). He was raised in the Protestant faith and "he settled the religious question by adopting Catholicis...

3 Essays on Romantic Composers

up and down the keyboard and accompaniments vary from simple chords to arpeggios that span all possibilities (Pniewski, 1999). O...

Maya Angelou's 'The Reunion' and Louis 'Studs' Terkel's 'Lucy Jefferson'

This is a 7 page essay that compares and contrasts these two works. There are no additional sources cited in the bibliography....

Comparative Analysis of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

In five pages this essay contrasts and compares these works in terms of such issues as liberation for women and sexual equality. ...

Morality in Oedipus the King by Sophocles and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

In five pages this essay compares and contrasts these two literary works regarding the portrayal of morality in each. There are n...

Contemporary Literature and the Maintenance of Identity

In five pages this essay examines maintaining identity in the first 50 years of the 20th century in a consideration of such litera...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' and Nella Larsen's 'Passing'

This paper consists of a 10 page essay that compares and contrast these works by arguing that the two individuals are respectively...

Relationships in Literature and 4 Views

In an essay consisting of 5 pages the ways in which the narrative framework develops the love and hate that are a part of male and...

A Review of Circles by Ralph Waldo Emerson

A 5 page essay analyzing the sociopolitical context of this work. Tone, imagery, form, and symbolism are detailed. 3 sources....

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...

Faulty American Dream in House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

In eight pages this essay considers how each of these works reveal the American Dream to be flawed as reflected within their diffe...