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A Proposal of Strategies to Improve Employee Work Life Balance

The writer looks at the way a firm may adopt some specific strategies to help employee improve their home life by addressing the w...

Life and Times of Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin was educated in schools in Georgia that were segregated (Nobelprize.org, 2009). He graduated high school when he was 15 and...

Olson and Whitman

the same as every other human being; there is really no other way to interpret the line "For every atom belonging to me as good be...

Romantic Poets Wordsworth and Blake

This sentiment is further echoed in London, in which Blake contends that all people have their own sadness and anguish inside, and...

Death Poetic Perspectives in the Works of Thomas, Donne, and Davis

shalt die"(Donne 812). In this poem, then, the literary devices used include personification, sonnet form, and irony. Irony is mo...

Spiritual Fulfillment and Poetic Function

is, of course, contrary to the view of the Christian belief system. In the Christian system of belief, it is the other way around....

Religious Poetry of the Victorian Age

those around them, as if they were now removed from all responsibility to those around them. She seems to call them dead before th...

Literature of the First World War, Dying, Mutilation, and Death

that the other poppy "I gave to you" (line 8). In the third stanza, Rosenberg writes that the "sandbags narrowed" (line 9). The t...

'Inferno' by Dante Alighieri

is in line with Christian ideology. In Dantes interpretation of events, Hell is reserved for the pagans, again a tribute...

Man's Nature in the Romantic Poetry of William Wordsworth and John Keats

quite different in their presentation and their material or focus of material. But, at the same time the words of darkness apparen...

Three Poems by Gary Soto, Nikki Giovanni, and William Blake

focus of the poem is on how the anger of the narrator as a corruptive influence that turns him into a murderer. As this illustrate...

The Art of the 19th Century Poetic Manifesto

confused his contemporary readers, which often obscured from them his intent (Abrams 59). Therefore, neither Coleridge nor Blake ...

'Inferno' by Dante Alighieri and Gender

involving gender or related themes like romance and marriage. Yet, sex and love are highlights in the Inferno. Dante also writes o...

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century British History and Authors

as one author states, "The medieval church was defeated and the educated classes embraced scientific rationalism. Art, architectu...

The Daily Lives of Ancient Egyptians

or when (Montet, 1968). There is some historical text which has been deciphered giving some of the details of ancient Egypt. Mon...

Phillis Wheatley's Poetry

the population in America at the time would have preferred to not know that a black woman was capable of such complex and abstract...

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and Social Values

extremely civic-minded society and active participation in the democratic process was demanded of everyone. No one took his polit...

Maya Angelou's Poem 'Woman Work'

is left out: herself. "Shine on me, sunshine Rain on me, rain...

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...

Artifice and Art in 'Rape of the Lock' by Alexander Pope

In 5 pages this paper discusses how the poet pokes fun at Belinda for affecting an artistic appearance when all the while he is do...

Coleridge vs. Byron

Romantic poets Lord Byron and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were contemporaries who viewed the world through different perspectives. Thi...

Khalil Gibran and Love

In 5 pages this paper discusses how the Lebanese poet expresses love in terms of oneness and harmony in such works as 'Song of the...

John Milton's Literary Similarities

In 5 pages this paper discusses The Hymn and Paradise Lost in a comparative analysis of the thematic similarities that exist in po...

Aeneid vs. the Divine Comedy

The Aeneid of Virgil and Dante's The Divine Comedy are similar in style and format, both being produced by poets. This paper compa...

Virgil and Dante's 'Inferno'

In four pages the Virgil character is examined within the context of 'Inferno' and also considered as he actually existed as an ac...

Molefi Kete Asante's Kemet, Afrocentricity and Knowledge and Randall Robinson's Defending the Spirit A Black Life in America

In five pages these 2 texts are contrasted and compared. Three other sources are cited in the bibliography....

Literature Alternatives to Freedom

In six pages the concept of freedom through death as a release from life's hardships is examined through such works as William Fau...

Religious Inspiration of Poet Marcus Garvey

In ten pages this paper examines the inspiration religion provided poet Marcus Garvey in a biography and poetic analysis of some o...

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...

Definitive Characteristics of an Author of the Twentieth Century

In eight pages this paper discusses how poet Elizabeth Bishop's work adheres to the Norton Anthology's definition of how an author...