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Oedipus Rex, The Iliad and The Odyssey and how these works relate to Gender

Oedipus. He learned that his predecessor and his wifes late husband, King Laius, had been murdered, Oedipus contends that it shou...

F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway on the American Dream

done in their lives as they see no hope in the future. Their American Dream is one that came smashing down with the pessimistic re...

Two Essays in One, the Great Depression and Alexander Hamilton's Financial System

effect was worse due to the number of people who had bought their stock with borrowed money and were forced to liquidate capital t...

Eighteenth Century Canada and Relations Between Great Britain and France

with the Iroquois in the seventeenth century and the Thirteen Colonies in the eighteenth."3 This author also indicates that a larg...

Criminal Justice VII

would be that such a thing would never happen in the US without great public outcry, but that was before passage of the Patriot Ac...

Catholicism and the Poor by Dorothy Day

poor and the "undeserving." Day and Maurin shocked traditionalists by welcoming drunkards and other men down on their luck, which ...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Water Imagery

pursues a materialistic dream that is draped in romantic expectation. Nick comes to feel that Gatsbys misplaced idealism and roman...

Nick Carraway, the American Dream, and The Great Gatsby

in the promised land did so through the exploitation of the land, its resources, and its natives" as is the case with Jay Gatsby (...

Fiction of the 20th Century and the City

the city may appear attractive and it certainly attracted Nick, it is hollow. He expresses this by returning home to the midwest. ...

Social Standing as a Barrier to True Love

of the aristocrats. Although Cathy took to Heathcliff immediately, her brother Hindley was not nearly so receptive, and had taken...

History and Financial Performance of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co.

2004). Operations also take place with the core brand name of A & P, in Canada operations take place under the name Dominion In Mi...

New Deal of FDR and its Importance

done created a stellar U.S. economy and a great deal of productivity. Of course, many of the measures were meant as temporary fixe...

Analyzing A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes

fictional historical account, as the author uses a host of unusual situations and characters to dramatize historical interpretatio...

View of Grandfather's House Overlooking the North Carolina Great Smoky Mountains

too steep and rocky to be of any value for farming. The soil is thin on the steep hillsides; rains wash the rich, fertile topsoil...

Immigration to Nineteenth Century America in 'The First Great Wave'

of the time were the primary motivators for virtually all of the immigrants to the United States. The example of the Irish serves ...

Great Britain During the Victorian Age and the Roles of Women

police and the criminal justice system as well as voluntary workers and professional helpers (van Dijk, 2002). Prior to 1970, v...

British Women During the Victorian Era

The angel required Woolf to participate in her writing only within boundaries, and without stepping passed cultural limitations. ...

Twentieth Century Leisure and Social Change in Great Britain

agriculture is a priority and employment patterns are dependent upon it, leisure is not only constrained by the amount of "spare t...

Demeter and the Great Mother Archetype

was mandated that she should be returned to Hades for three months of the year. While Persephone is in the underworld, the natural...

3 Non US Newspapers Reflect American Foreign Policy

differences in the two accounts is that The Globe and Mails version states, "Mr. Hussein was allowed to write a note to his family...

Social Services, Nursing, and Collaboration

team discuss examples of collaboration that are drawn from various databases and professional journals that demonstrate collaborat...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and its Social Criticism

Meckier 1993). This book can be said to have more dark overtones than those of some of his other novels. In most of his stories, o...

Women's Opportunities in Great Britain During and After World War II

woman suffrage committee was formed in Manchester in 1865, and in 1867 Mill presented to Parliament this societys petition, which ...

Definitive US 1828 Tariff

American industry as prices rose and the British began making noises about getting cotton from other markets. Success had come at...

Great Britain and Nazism in Remains of the Day

were emphatically not members of the aristocracy that it was almost impossible for them to transcend their conditioning and upbrin...

Update on LBJ's 'War on Poverty'

economy (Grier and Jonsson, 2004). These days, some of the programs continue - one of them being Medicare (Grier and Jonsso...

Maya Angelou's Sister Flowers

a very well to do family. She attempts to foster a love of beauty and words to the narrator. In order to do this she encourages th...

Victorian Women's Fallen Status in the Works of Charles Dickens

values, and sin versus redemption. The cycle of Pips life illustrates how Pip went from being an innocent boy, into being an arrog...

The Development of Great Britain as a Center of World Economy Through the Use of Trade and Finance

the late 19th and early 20th century, these countries had amassed a great deal of wealth through technology. Not only were factori...

An Analysis of Fitzgerald's Gatsby and Larsen's Passing

basis for Nicks disillusionment with the decadence of east coast American society (Fitzgerald 3). Gatsbys pursuit of the American ...