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Directing Style of John Ford

This essay pertains to the directing style of John Ford. Classic Westerns such as "Stagecoach," "Liberty Valance," and "The Search...

Life, Meaning, and Meursault in Alfred Camus' The Stranger

In six pages this paper assesses whether or not Camus' character Meursault lived a meaningful life with criteria contained within ...

Comparative Analysis of Heart of Darkness and Ancient Mariner

instead about the ancient mariner and his tale of woo. This is where the Mariner story and Heart of Darkness begin to draw s...

Mechanistic and Teleological Views of the World

In five pages this paper examines life's purpose and God as represented by these worldviews with such works as The Antichrist, Med...

Cars and The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

In 5 pages this paper examines what the car symbolized in this classic novel by John Steinbeck. There are 5 sources cited in the ...

An Analysis of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

This paper analyzes various elements of Shelly's classic novel. This seven page paper has no additional sources listed in the bib...

The Gangster Albert Anastasia

his brother Tony and by 15 had sneaked off his ship and into Brooklyn. Anastasia came to the US sometime shortly before WWI, in ...

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...

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...

"Troy" (2004) and Homer's Iliad

This essay discusses Homer's ancient classic epic, The Iliad, and the film Troy (2004, directed by William Petersen), indicating ...

Identity, Maturity and David Copperfield

This essay offers discussion of the issues maturity and identity in regards to "David Copperfield," the classic novel by Charles D...

Turning Point for James McBride, Within the Color of Water

This 5 page paper gives an explanation of a part of the book The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother. This p...

A Consideration of Romeo and Juliet as Tragic Heroes

This paper analyzes these classic characters, noting the traits that qualify them as tragic heroes. This paper has five pages and...

'The Odyssey' by Homer and Symbolism of the Olive Tree

In four pages this paper analyzes how life's renewal and rebirth are symbolically represented by the olive tree in Homer's epic 'T...

Life According to Friedrich Nietzsche

In five pages this paper discusses Friedrich Nietzsche's views on history for life within the context of the statement 'Life is wh...

Emily Grierson a Grotesque Character

late at night and sprinkling lime around, presumably on the theory that her servant killed a rat or snake and they smell its decom...

Voltaire's Candide, Misogyny, and Gender Bias

his audience, and this is something that will probably change the world for the better. He wants to display evil in such a way tha...

A Review of The Pardoner's Tale

extremely outspoken. One of his strongest skills it seems is public speaking. In fact, he is a performer! These characteristics ...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville and Symbolism Associated with the Whale

curiosity. Then the wild and distant seas where he rolled his island bulk; the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale; these...

Antwone Fisher's 'Finding Fish'

to protest against a society that had not provided them with the same privileges as their white counterparts. While Antwone was yo...

Monster Symbolism in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

"too well the treatment I had suffered the night before from the barbarous villagers" (Shelley NA). In this we see the slow develo...

The Oregon Trail by Parkman

Parkman is not when he begins his adventure. Parkman and his friend and relative Shaw are Eastern bourgeois; they are Harva...

Middle Ages, Freedom of Thought, and Dogma

One of the quests that sprung from employing the notion of feudalism was to create the vassal/lord union as a means by which to es...

Information Systems in Life and in the Workplace

First, most people are familiar with the many systems available to them at the workplace. They use it in their everyday duties. Th...

Raisin in the Sun

the family has placed high hopes on having a better future with the insurance money. The beginning of the play establishes the cha...

Levy on "The Glass Menagerie"

Levy believes that Laura is solely focused on her vulnerability, which is symbolized by the fragility of the glass (Levy). He writ...

How Old Can We Go? (Article Analysis)

the results. The author explains: " Remove those factors and researchers find that U.S. life expectancy continues to climb, but by...