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The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor

In five pages this novel is analyzed in terms of its themes and portrayal of pertinent Irish American political and social issues ...

The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor II

In five pages this report examines the novel first published in 1956 in terms of the U.S. political changes that have occurred wit...

Romanticism and Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

In seven pages this paper discusses how Romanticism is evident in this early American novel with an examination of theme, characte...

Heroic Natty in Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

In three pages this paper examines the American values represented by the protagonist of James Fenimore Cooper's novel. Two sourc...

Themes in Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

In three pages this essay discusses the novels themes and also considers the characters of Cora and Uncas. There is 1 source cite...

The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault

of restrained antagonism -- somewhat similar to the "Cold War" of the 1950s and 60s -- simmered just under the surface, threatenin...

Review of The Last of the Curlews by Fred Bodsworth

In four pages this paper reviews the text that examines a species' extinction and the mistakes of humankind. There are no other s...

Book Review of Free At Last by Fred Powledge

In four pages a book review and analysis of this 1991 text by Fred Powledge are presented....

Lasting Legacy of Baseball's Jackie Robinson

In eleven pages Brooklyn Dodgers' baseball player Jackie Robinson, who successfully broke through the sport's color barrier in 194...

US Democracy and the Increasing Influence of the Internet

In fourteen pages this research paper discusses how the process of American democracy is being profoundly influenced by the Intern...

Entering the Field of Banking

For example, the average middle-class, American consumer can now bank online, search for the best mortgage rates online, transfer ...

Argument That Teenage Marriages Do Last

In five pages this essay argues in favor of teen marriages. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

The Last Supper, Garden Of Eden, and Garden Of Gethsemane

The Garden of Eden and the Garden of Gethsemane are compared and contrasted. The Last Supper, and controversy surrounding the work...

Various Approaches to Love in Literature

This essay presents an overview of how love is used thematic in various texts, which includes Dante's Divine Comedy, Chaucer's Can...

The Hobbit An Analysis

Tolkiens children's tale was significantly revised after its initial publication in 1937. There are five sources in this six page...

Satire: 12th Night vs. Miller's Tale

This essay discusses Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" and Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale." The writer asserts that Chaucer's narrative ...

"Othello" and The Canterbury Tales, Portrayal of Women

This essay pertains to the portrayal of women in "Othello," focusing on Desdemona, and in The Canterbury Tales, focusing on the Wi...

The Iliad and "The Knight's Tale"

This essay presented an argument that Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale" reflects the ideals of Homer's The Iliad. Four pages in lengt...

Gilgamesh, Genesis: Comparing Floods

This essay contrasts and compares the way that the "Epic of Gilgamesh" and Genesis describe the Flood. The writer argues that the ...

The Thirteenth Century French Greyhound St Guineforte

Although the tale of St. Guineforte revolved to a large degree around Christian iconography and teachings, it was condemned by the...

Chaucer's View of Religion, The Canterbury Tales

This essay pertains to the clergy members who are part of Chaucer's band of travelers in "The Canterbury Tales." The writer argues...

Confessions of Nat Turner, An Analysis

This paper focuses on "The Confessions of Nat Turner" and discusses the layer quality of the narrative. The writer also compares t...

Canterbury Tales and The Song of Roland

should control the entire known world and so the theme of religion, and the power of religious men, was not questioned in The Song...

The Tell-Tale Heart

a disease but madness surely is. And, his insistence that this "disease" has actually increased his skills and his awareness is fu...

Ninth Day, Sixth Story and the Reeve's Tale

as an "honest man" who kept a "little hut for the entertainment of travelers, serving them with meat and drink" but seldom offerin...

Boccaccio and Chaucer

A Pardoner, in medieval times, had the task of collecting money for the charitable enterprises that were supported by the church (...

A Tall Tale by a Member of the 1960s' Counterrevolution

might inspire Ginsberg to write a sequel to "Howl" and dedicate it to me, but he never did. In 1961, when I was 15, I got a handw...

Luchresi's Perspectives on "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe

his attire was a bit gaudy for a man of his social position. I have long suspected that Montresor and Fortunato were jealous of ...

Significance of Vernacular in "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer and "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri

Comedy." His Italian allegory depicts the Christian hereafter that is subdivided into cantos of Inferno (hell), Purgatorio (purga...

Poe and The Tell-Tale Heart, a Reaction

when it overwhelms everything, even the narrator who is trying to avoid being caught. Perhaps the most hideous thing about the sto...