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Death and Dying as a Literary Theme

This paper examines Mitch Albom's book, Tuesdays with Morrie, and Kenneth Kramer's work, The Sacred Art of Dying. The author expl...

Asceticism According to Matthew Arnold and Friedrich Nietzsche

In five pages this paper compares and contrasts Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold and On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich ...

Contrasting Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

In five pages this paper compares and contrasts what each author's intentions are in their respective works along with the sense o...

Dialect in Anzia Yezierska's How I Found America and Pietro Di Donato's Christ In Concrete A Novel

entertaining of all ethnicities, for they are extremely vocal and animated at the same time. In a crowd or at a family gathering,...

Of Mice and Men vs. The Pearl

Mexican Peninsula just south of San Diego. Like Of Mice & Men, it is confined within a time period of only a few days, and also l...

Smell Imagery in Surfacing by Margaret Atwood

preserve at least the signs of order" (Atwood 93). The narrators past contained so many painful memories that she created a fict...

Ibsen's A Doll's House, Kafka's Metamorphosis, and Human Limitation

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the works by Henrik Ibsen and Franz Kafka in a consideration of each author's pres...

An Examination of Hermann Hesse

In six pages the author's artistic metamorphosis is explored through such works as Demian and Narcissus and Goldmund, The Glass Be...

Common Themes in Literature

see this throughout the world. It is not something peculiar to a time and place. Only communism was supposed to alleviate the clas...

Father Gabriel Sagard's The Long Journey to The Countries of the Huron Interpreted

which may indicate the natives side of the story. At the time of writing this, Sarard may be seen as a member of the colonial powe...

Comparison of Structure of Scientific Revolution by Thomas Kuhn and The Content Of The Form Narrative Discourse And Historical Representation by Hayden White

scientific theories emerge, develop and demise over time, the student will want to discuss two critical points to Kuhns philosophy...

Allan Blook and Rousseau in Comparison

better educated, then by extension so too would the world be a better place to be. Rousseaus philosophies were controvers...

Comparing and Contrasting Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs

only reinforces the theme of madness. The book is one of dense layers. On the purely shallow context, this book is about a mans ...

Self-Evaluation Paper: Diversity Identity

This 4 page paper gives an overview of the authors diversity identity. This paper includes the authors diversity groups such as R...

The Truth of Cornelia's Struggle

In a paper of four pages, the author reflects on the work Cornelia's Struggle. The author writes about the issues facing the main...

Capitalism Fuels Colonial Expansion

the scene may seem sublime, it can be interpreted as a depiction of contrast between cultures. In the foreground stands the Europ...

Mexican Drama and Xavier Villaurrutia

to Pirandellos play. Villaurrutia was obviously interested in the Italian playwrights concepts and this preoccupation becomes clea...

Cinematic Neorealism

neorealistic filmmakers, such as Rossellini, Vittorio DeSica and Cesare Zavattini, was to make a "moral statement," which forces ...

Perspectives on The Scarlet Letter

scholarship addressing the character of Pearl have seen her as the "sin-child, the unholy result" of an adulterous love and a symb...

Italian Cuisine in the 1400s - Social Divisions and Food

looks at food preferences in a competitive way" (Gustafsson & Draper, 2009). However, this sociological dimension of food is immen...

Neorealism in "Voyage to Italy" and "Open City"

In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at Rossellini and Italian neorealism. Two films, "Open City" and "Voyage to Italy" are...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado' and the Setting of Italy

themselves, perhaps unnecessarily, on their knowledge of wines. This offers us a very powerful and self righteous look at these tw...

Human Nature and Behavior: Jews and World War II

Primo Levis classic book "Survival in Auschwitz" is an account of the authors capture and deportation to...

Contemporary Application of the Ideal Leadership Theory of Niccolo Machiavelli

Machiavelli had been imprisoned by the opposing Medici and he saw how the conflict between politicians can destroy what issues are...

1968 Film Romeo and Juliet by Franco Zeffirelli

In three pages this paper examines the filmmaker's various cinematic techniques and include elements such as utilizing teenage act...

Italian Heritage

very powerful aspect of Italian heritage to many, even Italians. For example, a few years ago Mayor Giuliani gave an impersonation...

Comparing Italian and Pakistani Customs

to "stare at anyone," but it is particularly rude to "stare at women" ("Pakistan Local Customs"). This cultural prohibition is str...

Gothic in Literature

is actually a monk, Shedoni, but he is a man who had a presence that possessed the "gloomy pride of a disappointed one" (Radcliffe...

How Ann Radcliffe Responded to Lewis in The Italian

In a paper consisting of three pages the argument is presented that The Italian was in response to The Monk by Lewis and offers ch...

Italy During the 1490s' Decade

the major Greek authors of antiquity before 1515, thus ensuring their survival for posterity" (Harris, 2002). In pointing to so...