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Essays 1981 - 2010

Critical Essays on Nathaniel Hawthorne

The House of the Seven Gables and The Marble Faun are the source of much critical analysis of Nathaniel Hawthorne's work. This pap...

John Barth's 'Lost in the Funhouse'

This is a book review consisting of 5 pages that considers the collective work of short stories and essays and how the works stead...

La Religieuse by Denis Diderot

She pressed me in one place and then another. In a soft and low voice, she asked me to increase my efforts, and I did so." Again ...

Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders and Identity

realize from that gain in herself. Moll is cautious, and definitely "aware of the market." As each time she is forced to re-evalu...

Imagery in Ulysses by James Joyce

Conmees thoughts. There are no quotation marks, and only rarely does Joyce direct the reader with a phrase such as "he thought," r...

Anger of the Author Revealed in Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende

In five pages this report discusses the author's anger and her spiritual strength and determination as they manifest themselves in...

Purple Robe and Anemones Painting by Henri Matisse

In six pages this painting is analyzed in terms of its representations of a woman's sensuous nature and her strength as these qual...

'Lady with a Lapdog' by Anton Chekov

himself." Images The title that Chekov has chosen for this story is particularly poignant. He did not choose the Lady with the W...

Life of English Essayist Charles Lamb

at Blakesware in Lambs mothers native county of Hertford (Ward and Waller, 2002). The business of London contrasted greatly with ...

Analyzing Claudius the God and I, Claudius

In twelve pages the summaries of these Robert Graves' texts are presented with the focus being on comparing the author's interpret...

The Third Wave by Samuel Huntington

countries. The second wave, the student should list, as defined by Huntington, began with the ending of World War Two and ...

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Symbolism

die Puritans. Hesters first act in The Scarlet Letter seems to be an act of free will," that being her decision to commit adultery...

The Return of Depression Economics by Krugman

Krugman focuses on the cause of the collapse, noting that defeating inflation (i.e., using more dollars to buy products) is one re...

The Enlightenment by Peter Gay

inherent in it; there was fighting between the two as well. Gay says: "The philosophes experience, I discovered, was a dialectical...

Analyszing 'Psychological Characteristics of Children of Alcoholics' by Kenneth Sher

children of alcoholics (COAs). He explains that to a large extent most of the research in this area is based upon the interest of ...

Introduction to the Old Testament by Anthony Ceresko

Old Testament as a straightforward history. Rather, both men advocate that these texts emerged as a "self-defining narrative of a ...

Presidential Selection by James Ceaser

he seriously holds that the delegate selection changed from closed caucuses that were controlled by an old fashioned mechanism to ...

Human Universals by Donald E. Brown

out that this is two-way street. He writes, "...by the same token that we may seek the explanation for universals in human nature,...

Introduction to Old Testament Wisdom by Ceresko

book touches on many mundane matters. How to get through life and understand its wrath is truly lifes most contemplated topics and...

Reviewing The Book of the Torah: The Narrative Integrity of the Pentateuch by Thomas Mann

are already well acquainted with the Torah, his book provides an excellent introduction for those that are only somewhat familiar ...

Flannery O'Connor

in Milledgeville, OConnor attended Georgia State College for Women and eventually graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Literatu...

The Four Gated City by Doris Lessing and Uses of Narrative

not follow any timeline, as it jumps around continuously from one moment to another. In the end we are left understanding the enti...

Africans and Africa in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

that Africa has on the Europeans in the story. His argument, therefore, it that imperialism is wrong, not so much because of what ...

Edith Hamilton's Mythology

Chaos. Gaea, the first Titan, was the earth, itself. After she emerged from the Chaos, she gave birth to her own consort, Uranus, ...

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's A Midwife's Tale The Life of Martha Ballard Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

relationships which existed in this time and even the incidence of domestic violence. The impacts which are revealed throughout B...

'Desiree's Baby' by Kate Chopin

story is that Chopin also begins to set up the ending. The reader sees the Aubigny estate, LAbri, through the eyes of Madame Valmo...

Arkady Shevchenko's Breaking With Moscow

days later that the world learned that Arkady Shevchenko had defected to the United States. In 1957, Arkady Shevchenko, a Commu...

Analysis of Frank Conroy's Stop Time

that night, or of what they would be doing at school the next day. They are only thinking about the moment at hand. Frank speaks...

Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery Critically Reviewed

1963). A few decades later he would write his book, Up from Slavery. The book, itself, is autobiographical in nature, chroniclin...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in an Historical Context

could neither read nor write. Most were still slaves and white Southerners viewed Douglass as somewhat of an anomaly. An educated ...