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Edgar Allan Poe's Poetry

Other Poems, and the poem Dreams, which was referenced above, is contained in this book (Misery is Manifold). His second book of ...

Roland Case and Penney Clark's The Canadian Anthology of Social Studies

the globe, to armchair inquiry into such things as films, television and music of contemporary urban life. While anthropology may ...

Alexander the Great and His Importance

culture that achieved global dominance, due to the efforts of Alexander the Great. He is still revered as one of the greatest mil...

Black Spiritual's Significance

time on their own to form cultural groups (1988). Piersen contends that New Englands black population was the most assimilated out...

Interviewing My Grandmother and Contemplating Time Changes

quite radically since the 1920s. These changes are evident in such personal aspects of our lives such as family life and religiou...

Novel Essays by George Lukacs and Virginia Woolf

criticism points toward a different orientation, as she accuses previous writers of materialism, and explains this accusation by ...

Overview of Photojournalist Margaret Bourke White

Margaret Bourke-White was born in The Bronx, New York on June 14, 1904, although some sources place her year of birth as 1906....

U.S. Migration by Mexican Immigrants Seeking the American Dream

money and even littler time to "enjoy" U.S. culture. Often times, however, these immigrants can turn their heritage into an asset...

Latino Music Genre Known as Salsa

year later Alegre Records released Charlie Palmieris charanga LP "Salsa Na Ma." In 1964, the Cal Tjader Quintet plus 5 got the i...

Invasive and Exotic Plants

state of fluctuation in terms of their plant and animal communities. Each of the above factors all interplay to create truly dyna...

Alice Walker's Literature

that is a large part of the appeal of Alice Walker the writer. Biography of Alice Walker "Alice Malsenior Walker...

Poetry and Style of Emily Dickinson

and it was this heart-felt emotion that elevated her works from ordinary to the ranks of extraordinary. Music had long play...

Black Rain Review and Criticism

yet sympathetic short stories about ordinary people in Japanese life. Black Rain is considered a novel distinct from all other tex...

Past and Present Mount Etna Volcanic Eruptions

of a giant named Typhon far beneath the volcanos surface (Gidwitz, 2002). Whenever Typhon would try to escape, Etnas mighty erupt...

Analyzing the Novel Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry

consider the color of that persons skin nor do they rationalize the behavior with a variety of preconceived notions which society ...

Moral and Intellectual Impotence of Shakespeare's Hamlet

father, as he speculates that the specter could have been a devil that assumed the shape of his father in order to lure him into s...

A Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Guttierez by J. Breslin

the contractors were building shoddy buildings, and nobody was getting reported for any of it. Of course Guttierez had no knowled...

Lasting Legacy of Leo Tolstoy That Goes Beyond Literature

into the dissipations of Moscows high society, which he candidly recorded in his diary with vows to reform" (Anonymous About Leo T...

Age of Extremes by Hobsbawm

placed on governmental ideologies such as communism and socialism and he goes through the rise and fall of those. He at the beginn...

Five Questions on Medical Law

himself to be placed in charge of Thompsons case, he assumed the responsibility of having all adequate medical knowledge to pursue...

Swedish Astronomer Anders Celsius

star through them. He could then compare the magnitudes of the stars by the number of glass plates needed to extinguish the light ...

Biography of 19th Century British Romantic Poet William Blake

begin studying engraving and it would be here that his genius would find a purchase. As a young man, some biographies state,...

Singer and Business Mogul Madonna

the success may be seen as a result of "street-smart business sense" (Harry Scolinos quoted in Grant, 1998). The initial beginning...

Lifestyle Choice of Transgenderism

significant elements as well. Therefore, transgenderism is truly the end result of the combination of these various components. ...

Anthropological Concepts Application

was connected by a road to the outside world. Throughout his text, Reck offers insight into the socio-political world of Celisti...

Human Life in the Films Man Facing Southeast, A Short Film About Killing, and Taste of Cherry

the most fundamental truths of human existence and the ways in which all human beings relate to stress and feelings of social and ...

William Faulkner Biography

Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...

Religion in the United States

impartial form of government: the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights. One only needs to look at the Amendme...

Artist, Scientist, and Engineer Leonardo da Vinci

better than his master and having seen that Verrocchio swore never to pick up a paint brush again (Hellmich, 1997). In 1481, Leon...

Beat Generation 'Filmographer' Robert Frank

viewer to simply glance at the picture and walk away. This Abstract Expressionism was not typical of the average snapshots of the ...