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Satire of Jonathan Swift

period in time, that logic, reason, and perhaps personal enlightenment regarding society as it involved reason and logic were the ...

Symbolism in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, 'The Minister's Black Veil,' 'The Birth Mark,' and 'Dr. Heidegger's Experiment'

corruption of politics; Colonel Killigrew (whose name in itself is symbolic) personifies the evils of pleasures of the flesh; and ...

Colonial Projects and the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling

such things as "To veil the threat of terror/ And check the show of pride" and "The blame of those ye better/ The hate of those ye...

Religious Sentiments in the Hebrew Bible's 'Psalm 104' and 'Hymn to the Sun' in Akhenaten Compared

majestic, awesome, bedazzling, exalted" (Mack, 1995, p. 45; Pandit, 1996, p. 179). Similarly, the opening lines of Psalm 104 also ...

Stylistic Techniques of Irvine Welsh in Acid House and Trainspotting

these days of infancy and childhood made her squirm with embarrassment. It seemed an essential denial of herself as she was now. ...

Summary and Resources on Virginia Woolf

to dehumanize both the invader and the invaded to the extent that the value of human life is lost(Phillips 123). Phillips ...

Connection Between Violence and War

he, dare each other to brave the open battlefield to gain access to a well on the other side. "Thunder! I wisht I had a drink. Ai...

Twentieth Century Literary Icon Ernest Hemingway

Park and published his earliest stories and poems in his high school newspaper. Upon his graduation in 1917 Hemingway worked six m...

Modernism and Poststructuralism

(2003) of CNN claims: " "The New York Times" plagiarism scandal still in the headlines and still causing shockwaves in journalism ...

Death According to Mitch Albom

he is also far removed from Judaism (Schulweis, 2001). Albom describes Morrie as a "spiritual mutt," having gleaned the makings f...

Virtue Critiques in Billy Budd, Sailor and 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' by Herman Melville

- he refuses to take nourishment or leave his place of business. Instead of taking a sympathetic view of his employee, the narrat...

Visionary Theorist W.E.B. Du Bois

works is quite appropriate. The Souls of Black Folk provides an overview of how the black man is seen in American culture. At lea...

Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and the Feminist Movement

of debt, or to make it possible for the younger children of the family to go to school"( Cather 172)...

Spirituality, Cultural Identities, and Alienation Themes in Castillo, Morrison, and Silko

forced to give up many of their stories which reminded them of who they were as a people and as individuals. As a...

Flicker in the Porthole Glass by Desautels

cinematic and visual in their orientation. She describes, first of all, a night when Ruineux allows her into the projection booth ...

People Who Are Sloppy and Neat

glance in the co-workers car affirmed the assessment of sloppiness, as the floor boards in all passenger areas were engulfed at le...

Contemporary Western Culture and Humanities

deal of power into one ruler (or, at the very least, a collection of rulers who wont end up fighting among themselves)....

Leslie Marmon Silko

notes, "Silko reveals that living in Laguna society as a mixed blood from a prominent family caused her a lot of pain. It meant b...

Creative Essay on Virginia Woolf's 'Death of a Moth

I had two cats that had already voiced their opinion on the matter. No Dogs allowed was the agreement. And, Im certain that they f...

Literary Criticisms of the Style and Works of O. Henry

does so in a most subtle way. It is as if O. Henry plays on the expectation of a terrible demise, then, at the last moment, as a s...

Virginia Woolf's Professions for Women

nothing. She is not arrogantly assuming she is a great success, but rather sucking the listener/reader into a position where they ...

E.B. White's Once More to the Lake

them, but he had yet to develop them. White almost offers an aggressive and incredibly passionate look at all of this in his us...

James Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son

the black man as one who thinks deeply, spiritually, and intelligently. In a time when the narrator is oppressed and ridiculed ...

Zora Neale Hurston and the Fiction She Inspired

card ready, as this seemed to impress people and verify that, yes, an African American could be a public accountant. Mentally, Ann...

Moravian Food and Christmas Cookies

little old ladies--was to make them ourselves. Mom obtained found a recipe, recruited me as her assistant and one Saturday befor...

1 Thessalonians and an Exegesis of Chapter 2, Lines 1 through 12

blamelessly we behaved toward you believers; (11) just as you know how we were exhorting and encouraging and imploring each one of...

Deception and English Criminal Law

was brought under section 15 and not section 16, where workman told a householder work needed to be undertaken when it did not, a...

Law, Power, and Politics According to Saint Thomas Aquinas

belief at the time (The Radical Academy, 2004). God gives this power to the people as a whole, not to individuals (The Radical Aca...

Literature, Poetry, and Self Reliance

many ways Emersons views of self-reliance can be seen in the following excerpt from the work: "There is a time in every mans educa...

Analysis of an Effective Sales Letter

attention firstly by the use of a personal address, but this is not sufficient. There has to be a reason to carry on reading, so t...