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Christine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies

In six pages this landmark fifteenth century feminist text is analyzed in terms of how the author portrayed the connection between...

Epic of Gilgamesh and Relationships Between Parents and Children

In five pages this paper examines how parent and child relationships are portrayed in this epic in a consideration of Gilgamesh's ...

Zeus as a Leader in Hesiod's Theogony

Hesiod portrays Zeus as a leader due to the fact that he has authority. Wisdom is discussed as well. This five page paper has on...

History, Movies, First Knight and Jabberwocky

In five pages this essay examines how Middle Ages history and life are portrayed in the films Jabberwocky and First Knight. Two s...

American Dream's Failure in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser, and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

This sense of optimistic euphoria was forever captured in F. Scott Fitzgeralds 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby. Its featured charact...

Epic Heroes Gilgamesh and Hercules and Violence

In ten pages this paper discusses how violence is portrayed in the heroic epics of ancient Greece and Mesopotamia. Six sources ar...

Portrayal of Families in Robert Frost's 'Home Burial' and John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation

imaginative young man. Initially, Ouisa and Flan are entertaining and doing their best to suck up to South African businessman, ...

The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambera, Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr., A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor, and Justice

story, "The Lesson," educates readers on the dual meaning of justice in American society, and how it is affected by income and edu...

Tragic Hero's Journey in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and William Shakespeare's King Lear

In five pages this paper examines how the tragic hero's journey is thematically portrayed in these plays. Three sources are cited...

Chicano Family Relations in the Fiction of Rudolfo Anaya

In five pages this essay discusses how family relations are portrayed in Zia Summer and Heart of Atzlan by Rudolfo Anaya. There a...

Euripides' Medea and Ibsen's Nora

society has determined what their roles are and how long they are to enact them. Enter Nora and Medea, who both prove to have min...

Victorian Morality and An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

In five pages this essay discusses how Victorian morality is portrayed in Oscar Wilde's witty and sophisticated play. There are n...

Novel and Film Adaptation of The Perfect Storm

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the book and movie versions of The Perfect Storm and how each portrays man and natu...

Social Inequities According to Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, and Eugene O'Neill

just enough on the ball to attempt to rise to a higher level. However, the plays hero is not a particularly unique or sensitive i...

The Use of Figurative Language in Plath, Keats, and Layton

her own, and ultimately committed suicide in 1963, one year after completing "Lady Lazarus;" Keats was noted for his romantic natu...

Irish Literary Themes in 1916 by Morgan Llywelyn

conflict rages within, there are conflicts aplenty without. The passage of time also brings with it change, often initiated throu...

The Iron Wall by Shlaim

In five pages this paper considers the U.S. role in the relationship between the Arabs and Israelis as portrayed in this foreign p...

20th Century China in Jung Chang's The Wild Swans

This paper of six pages answers 15 questions on China of the 20th century as portrayed by Jung Chang in The Wild Swans. There are...

Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and its Psychological Effects

In five pages this paper examines how the psychological effects of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima is portrayed in Hiroshima by He...

The Language of the Land by James Stephenson

who have changed little since the Stone Age (Stephenson, 2000). This essay examines a number of issues relevant to Jemzis develo...

Religion and Morality Views of Freud, Nietzsche, Ibsen, and Dostoyevsky

In eight pages the perspectives of Nietzsche and Freud regarding morality and religion are examined as they are portrayed in Enemy...

Feminist Accomplishments in Erin Brockovich and Chocolat

for how its members would be perceived -- in order to create the fervor that was ultimately produced from its presence. Thr...

Comparison of John Donne and Christopher Marlowe

this?...(Marlowe 7). As this illustrates, Faustus is rationalizing his desire to elevate himself, to live as a god himself. Rat...

What is Normal? Lahiri vs. Chabon

Mr. Pirzada Came to Dinner by Jhumpa Lahiri and Spikes by Michael Chabon are good sources for comparisons of what is considered a ...

Cultures That Are Invisible

In five pages the notion of 'invisible cultures' as portrayed in Blues People by Amiri Baraka, Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, Sp...

Robert A. Orsi's Madonna of 115th Street and Catholic Identity

reader see that the various gestures and postures of the people, as well as the kinds of prayers said, and the way in which they w...

Analysis of 'Enoch Arden' by Alfred Lord Tennyson

In seven pages this paper analyzes the poem that asserts the spiritual themes of the poem are metaphorically portrayed by the trag...

Comparing Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai with Homer's 'The Iliad'

heroic ideal of the young and noble combatant who appears to be destined to die at an early age on the battlefield. Achilleus is ...

Symbolism of Darkness and Light in East of Eden by John Steinbeck

presenting us with a violent and angry man who cannot be all good because he cannot see truth nor can he forgive. The father pr...

Comparing News Stories in History

job. Though the headlines from these dates varied significantly in terms of their focus, one element was shared by all of the s...