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Children's Literature, Humor, and Changing Messages

In fifteen pages this paper compares the humor and messages in a comparison of children's literature by Maud Hart Lovelace, Sydney...

State and Society Relationships in The History of Herodotus and Homer's 'The Odyssey'

In six pages this paper compares these two works of ancient Greek literature in a consideration of relations between state and soc...

Male and Female Relationships in William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and John Milton's 'Paradise Lost'

Cleopatra is a very sensual woman who is aware of her own passion. This, however, does not detract from her ability to rule...

Postcolonial Literature in Morocco and Kenya

and cultural domination by a foreign entity affects the colonized nation and its native people. Many of those changes appear to b...

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man, Nella Larsen's Passing, and Lynching

married to a very successful doctor who wishes to leave the country and find a place where they are not oppressed. Irene, however,...

Classical Literature and Common Theme of Perseverance in Overcoming Obstacles

fire, his roar is the roar/of the floodwater; he breathes and there is death (lines 128-129). Gilgamesh perseveres despite the ad...

Survival, Religious Faith, and Family in 'Go Tell It on the Mountain' by James Baldwin and 'Black Boy' by Richard Wright

to be a human being. These representations illustrate how and why a person acts the way he or she does, how moods, feelings and e...

Life and Literary Art of James Joyce

is encapsulated in his writings. Indeed, autobiographical elements are characteristic of much of James Joyces work. This...

Life's Big Questions

that further illustrated many of his theories concerning men and their mothers, which is not a far cry from theories of Jung, sinc...

Twentieth Century Literature and Theological Themes

young man who is certain that he offers more and that he is more everything than Orson. At the core of such behavior is an arrogan...

Classic Literature and Its Social Functions

all too suddenly succumbed to temptation and became the gatekeeper of Hell -- a place of consequence where one goes whose choices ...

Comparing Alice Walker's 'Everyday Things' with Eudora Welty's 'Why I Live at the Post Office'

it clear that there are many unsolved frictions between the two sisters, frictions which include the fact that the youngers husban...

Literary and Poetic Examples of True Love

even to the edge of doom" (Shakespeare 9-12). In the end he claims that if he is wrong then he never wrote and no man ever loved. ...

Men and Women in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

gender identities not only to themselves but also for society (Samuels 104). In The Last of the Mohicans, womens roles had evolve...

Twentieth Century British Experimental Literature

Two significant examples of writers who broke away from traditional forms well before the end of the millennium are Virginia Woolf...

The Importance of Women Writers to the School Curriculum

with a female perspective of the American frontier experience that would offer more complete picture with vantage points from both...

Medical Residents and Fatigue

to conduct studies of our own to assess the relationship between patient well being and medical resident work load. Much ...

Characters in Literary Works Contrasts

success and leading a happy life. Willys attitude toward being liked and being popular do not change at all. This is evident when ...

'Inferno' by Dante Alighieri and Gender

involving gender or related themes like romance and marriage. Yet, sex and love are highlights in the Inferno. Dante also writes o...

Role and Status of Women in 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton, Lysistrata by Aristophanes, 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer, and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

way to a jousting tournament rematch with the mysterious Green Knight, Sir Gawain is the houseguest of the absent Lord Bercilak, a...

Gender Portrayals in Homer's 'The Iliad' and Sophocles' Antigone

of Helen of Troy in marriage if she wins. This starts the war. In this we see that the war is being fought over a woman, Helen, c...

Use of the Vernacular in

of the bible belt that anyone who is connected to the clergy are inherently good people when in fact clergy are human beings, subj...

How Satire is Used in 'The Lady's Dressing Room' by Jonathan Swift and 'The Rape of the Lock' by Alexander Pope

It seems that Popes "Rape of the Lock" came about as the result of a real life disagreement between lovers, one whose pride was wo...

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, and Cultures

power in many ways. The more titles the greater the power. And, in a social perspective as it involves the government system, this...

Women in A Woman by Sibilla Aleramo and The Leopard by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

womans plight in a turbulent time in history. "The Leopard", in comparison, is more of an outline of male expectations in regard ...

Satire in Candide by Voltaire and Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

this particular case emphasized the role of the hero. Sancho is reminiscent of the modern world that cannot conceive or begin to f...

Uses of Satire in Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

great inner pain and conflict as does Flora. She refuses to give in to the superstitions which seem to govern the lives of her rel...

Meditations

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

Uses of Propaganda in Oronooko by Aphra Behn, Spectator Number 69 by Joseph Addison and A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift'

take a closer look at where it is headed in the overall scheme of existence upon this earth. Through his use of syntax...

Education and Literature's Role

is the well read that appear to succeed in life, they have a broader base of knowledge from which to make judgements and decision....