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Strange Life and Literary Journey of Hunter S. Thompson

be permanently altered when Thompson ran afoul of the law (Medenhall, 2004). A series of arrest would eventually land him...

Literature, Naturalism, and the Works of Frank Norris and Rebecca Harding Davis

are more things in common with these two works than the simple fact that both deal, in a sense with the railroad industry....

Dairy Queen Days by Robert Inman

sense of conflict has to do with his fathers participation in an Easter Sunday service at the Ohatchee Methodist Church, a time wh...

Women in 'Wide Sargasso Sea' and 'Medea'

she has given up. She is dejected and withdrawn, lying on her bed despondent and weeping. This depiction highlights Medeas femin...

Educational Leadership and American Literature

of referrals to these types of programs have resulted in the need to seek out better methods for enhancing educational leadership ...

Guillien de Catro y Bellvis' La Mocedades del Cid

DIEGO: ...excesivamente honrado,...

Characterization in Anaya's El Pachuco and Zoot Suit

tendency when one embraces a cause. In Bless Me Ultima the struggle is generational in nature. The older people in the village hav...

Kate Chopin and Raymond Carver on Love

quietly, knowing something is coming her way, some feeling, some understanding, some epiphany. Then, it comes. It tells her she is...

A Ficticious Literary Panel Discussion

its extreme, I pointed out the evil being perpetuated against the Irish." Lady Macbeth interrupts, "I am familiar with this wo...

Element of Horror in Fiction Stories 'The Monk' by Matthew Lewis and 'The Castle of Otranto' by Horace Walpole

style presented in this story, a style that clearly speaks of a dark and foreboding reality, we present some of the opening paragr...

African Americans and Racism

became indentured servants, but this was rare (Faragher, et al 57). Because of the institution of indentured service, "New world s...

Social Reform According to Ralph Waldo Emerson and Other Writers

reform, but a constant, measured effort. Despite Emersons optimism, there is a lot of truth to the idea that Americans now accept...

Comparative Analysis of Prometheus Bound and Medea

the gods may not necessarily determine all aspects of humanity, that which has been labeled as free will may not be free after all...

"Faust" and "Madame Bovary"

who is, for a good many people, the most entertaining character in the play. Mephistopheles manipulates Faust so that he "loves an...

Magical Realism and Marquez’s Death Constant Beyond Love

Garcia Marquez seriously or are they an absurdists slanted look at the world? This paper argues that even though they are often co...

Gilgamesh - A Review of Symbols and Themes

one might look at the very opening lines of the epic, which address the reader, even the contemporary reader, directly and states ...

Arthur Miller’s Importance in Today’s Literary Canon

from Millers uncle: "As Arthur Miller tells it, the writing of Death of a Salesman began in the winter of 1946/47 with a chance me...

Archaeology, Traditional Cultures and Oral History

and a cultural object" (Romer, 2006, p. 735). In her book, Sofaer "discusses the way skeletal material in the mortuary context act...

Violence - the Monster that Torments Society

But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of violence as it ...

Violence - the Monster that Torments Society Examined in Literature

of fiction. But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of vio...

Villainy, Chaos and Death as Literary Devices

to illustrate important themes. This paper considers how an authors use of death, chaos and villainy bring other aspects of the wo...

Common Theme: Identifying with the Character

be "good" persons. But what does it mean to be "good"? I understand that to be good means to follow "their" rules, the churchs rul...

Burmese Law Enforcement Experiences of George Orwell and How They Shaped His Views of the British Empire

Acquiescing to pressure from his father to also become a member of the Imperial Service, Orwell joined Burmas Imperial Police in 1...

Literary Conflicts in Plays

This 3 page paper gives an explanation of literary devices and conflicts within the plays Macbeth and Mistaken Identity. This pape...

The Literary and Film Versions of Alcott's Little Women

are pleasant individuals who go through many different dilemmas, relatively simple dilemmas in the beginning. They become friends ...

Literary Depiction of Women During the 19th Century

light. But still, few heroes emerged from literature or non-fiction of that century to truly portray the strong women who did exis...

Literary Women in Ancient Rome and in the 20th Century

In seven pages this paper examines how society treated women in these respective time periods in a comparative analysis of 'The Ae...

Literary Self Determination in Women and Sexuality

-- but to deny their husbands sex until the men agree to sign a treaty. It is the women, therefore, who actually end the war. Rea...

19th Century Literary Heroines The Woman in White and Madame Bovary

In five pages this paper considers the Victorian concept of feminine identity as depicted in Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White an...

Prejudices Women Face in the U.S.

levels of power and position. It would be foolish to argue that women havent made progress, because they have, but it would also ...