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A Critical Review and Analysis of the Film, Halloween

the horrific murders of her school friends tips off the audience that she is the deranged killers elusive victim. The audience is...

Types of Serial Killers

relative change in the number of incidents. Mitchell (1996) cites the words of retired FBI Agent Robert Ressler: "Serial killing ...

Fairytale Modernization

In ten pages this paper examines the modernizing of Charles Perrault's fairytale classics including Little Red Riding Hood, Sleepi...

U.S. Civil War and Escaped Slaves' Maroon Societies

consider productive. II. Brutality Under Slavery It is hard to fathom the concept of accepting the ownership of people but du...

Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days Compared

In five pages the heroes in these classic works are contrasted and compared. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

20th Century Life Changes

In five pages an essay critically assesses how in the 20th century life evolved due to the changes in daily life, human relations,...

Eleanor Roosevelt's Influence

In five pages the text Eleanor Roosevelt A Personal and Public Life is used to study the life and contributions of this influenti...

Comparing Novel, Play, and Film Versions of To Kill a Mockingbird

In five pages the varying interpretations of Harper Lee's classic novel are considered in terms of how the written text is transla...

Libertarian Manifesto of John Hospers

In four pages this report examines the Manifesto 'Each human being has the right to live his life as he chooses, compatibly with t...

The Middle Ages by Morris Bishop

part of the agrarian economy (Bishop, 1987). As this brief synopsis of the beginning of Bishops test indicates, the beauty of t...

1958 Film Touch of Evil by Director Orson Welles

drug-trafficking case. Heston, covered in unconvincing dark makeup and no audible Mexican accent, assists Welles in the car bomb c...

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and Symbolism

In six pages this paper examines the importance of imagery and symbolism in Hurston's 1937 classic novel. Six sources are cited i...

Colonialism and 'Wealth of Nations' by Adam Smith

In six pages this paper examines colonialism as portrayed by Smith in his classic economics text. There are no other sources list...

Jon Scieszka's The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales

In five pages this paper discusses storytelling within the context of this work by Jon Scieszka along with The Classic Fairy Tales...

Acculturation as Portrayed in Bread Givers and Black Elk Speaks

A 5 page assessment of the factor of acculturation as it influences these two classic books. Black Elk Speaks, translated by John...

American Dream as Represented by Frederick Douglass and Benjamin Franklin

In five pages this paper examines how these important men's lives reflect the concept of the American Dream as depicted within Nar...

A New Sibling in the Family

In a personal experience creative essay of six pages the changes represented by a new baby sister in the life of a ten year old gi...

'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and Differences in Concepts of What Medieval Women Truly Want

In six pages Geoffrey Chaucer's classic tale is examined from the differing perspectives regarding what Medieval women truly wante...

The Role of Man in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

has been much experimentation with creation. Test tube babies somehow evolved into the concept of designer babies and couples tryi...

Art and Life of Ernest Hemingway

in Europe. He was seriously wounded in Italy, and incurred nearly a dozen operations to restore complete function to his knee, whi...

Slapstick Masters Woody Allen and Charles Chaplin

machine. The idea is that this feeding machine will cut down on the time needed for lunch breaks and, thereby, make the factory mo...

Disillusioned Characters in Brave New World

this brave and controlled new world. Happiness is a mass illusion in this new world order, and as is the case with most widesprea...

'Interior Life' of Slaves and Toni Morrison

As the development of bound labor in the American south moved from the indentured servitude system of the colonial era to the grow...

Conflict Between Religion and Science

that it is only through science and the scientific method of inquiry that human beings can obtain reliable knowledge (Nord, 1999)....

African Americans and Their Evolution in Fiction and Nonfiction

social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...

The Legacy of Billie Holiday

music, which she may have initially embraced as a kind of personal salvation.3 While male lovers would betray her, seductive jazz...

Jackie Kay's 'Trumpet'

The world as a whole, in fact, was not privy to that information. It would only be when Joss died and his body was processed thro...

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

to the twenty-first century reader somewhat of an ordeal to read through the entire volume. The author for example talks about nin...

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

There is no question that death plays a major role in this story, as evidenced not only by all the dying patients but also through...

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Manipulation of Narrative

of the novel, the other narratives, we do not simply see him as a kind and gentle creature. We also have the narrative that com...