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Ancient Irish Tale 'How Ronan Slew His Son'

not take a sedate woman? That would be more fitting than a little skittish thing of a girl." However, Ronan could not be stopped, ...

Frederick Douglass and Harriet Ann Jacobs on Male and Female Slaves

knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. My father was a carpenter, and considered so intelligent and skilful in...

Comparison of Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass

of the public social sphere, keeping themselves completely within the domestic sphere. The "good" or "true" woman was passive, dep...

John Forbes Nash Jr.'s A Beautiful Mind

and beyond. Nash appears to be destined for fame on the order of perhaps Albert Einstein. He already had gathered international ...

Literature and the Nature of Good vs. Evil

goading and nagging, contributed to Macbeths downfall; however, when one examines the play that the main impetus to Macbeths actio...

Euripides' Hippolytus, Iphigenia in Tauris” and Alcestis and Aeschylus The Oresteia, Agamemnon, The Libation-Bearers and The Eumenides and Tragic Drama

specifically tailored their works to suit the tastes of their Athenian audiences, mirroring the "fears, tensions, and potential vi...

Student Submitted Questions on the Life Cycle of a Product

In seven pages this paper answers student posed questions on the life cycle of a product in terms of production model development ...

Sophocles vs. Jean Anouilh's Character Interpretations of Antigone

actions is shaped by the other characters around her. Creon is of particular importance in shaping the character Antigone in both...

Punishment in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Dante's 'Inferno'

manner in which both people and society are viewed. The very basis of the story is perhaps the biggest symbol, where Hester Prynn...

Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Edgar Allan Poe's Composition Philosophy

creation of Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. For some time now, as the student researching this topic may be aware...

Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, and Love Relationships

and feels that he usurped his place in the family. Therefore, when Hindley torments Heathcliff when he gets the opportunity. Cathy...

Around the World in Eighty Days by Verne

detail as his protagonist, Phileas Fogg. Phileas Fogg is the central character, without whom there would be no novel, and yet o...

Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Marital Abuse

her story, she shares that her grandmother, a very strict woman and set in her ways, decides that Janie should be married off to s...

The Enduring Popularity of Antigone

honor and integrity into the courtroom as well as to the attention of the public (Conte 26). These are the issues that should con...

Overview of Life Cycles in Organizations and the Theories of Anthony Down

action on the part of organizational leaders" (Lorenzo, 1989). Though the models cited above are detailed, the reality is simpl...

Veterans' Benefits

into perspective when one considers the fact that benefits are still being paid to offspring and widows of both the Civil War and ...

Actor Christopher Reeve's Life

quite proud of his physical abilities and thus the accident left with virtually nothing as he could move almost nothing in his bod...

Theme of Revenge in Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, 'The Inferno' by Dante, Oedipus the King and Antigone by Sophocles, 'The Odyssey' by Homer

short temper gets him into trouble. In Book IX, Polyphemus, the son of the sea god Poseidon, decides to dine on a few Greeks who ...

U.S. Culture and the Blues

the blues is slower and contains much depth of feeling. Later on, the acoustic urban would become electrified, but early on, there...

Mark Twain's 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'

his civilized life. The plot, other than Huck running away, involved Huck running and coming in contact with Jim, a slave he kn...

Feminist George Eliot

In her novels, Eliot seems to rail against the fact that a woman must be a certain type of person and act a certain way...

Great Expectations and Charles Dickens

conditions within the factories were terrible. Unfortunately, it can be said that they same disgraces that Dickens saw during his ...

Divine Justice and Fate Reflected in The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio and Inferno by Dante Alighieri

poem makes it clear that the human soul can only enjoy a happy eternity by pledging complete faith and allegiance in God, Boccacci...

Mary Shelley's Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Joseph Conrad's Kurtz and Human Personality

In five pages this paper applies the human personality theories of Sigmund Freud to an analysis of these two classic literary char...

Don Quixote Character Analysis

servant and friend, Sancho Panza, he experiences successes and times of humiliation until he is finally forced by defeat to return...

Film Noir Techniques in the Film, Gilda

what the audience is viewing with his own subjective observations. In his consideration of film noir, Jon Tuska (1984) noted that...

37th President of the United States Richard M. Nixon

"Kitchen Debate" with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in which the two men debated world politics - in a fake kitchen - during a...

'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson and Symbolism

small town life where everything is simple and seemingly perfect and content. But, in reality they are nothing more than a symboli...

Francis Ford Coppola's Film The Godfather, Archetypes and the Hero's Journey

Furthermore, there are certain commonalties that run through the storylines of all epic writing. Examples of such include heroism,...

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 ...