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Meditations

controlling his temper, modesty, and manliness, he learned piety, abstinence, and how to live simply "far removed from the habits ...

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...

Little Women Examined with a Critical Eye

mother, "Little Women centers on the conflict between two emphases in a young womans life-that which she places on herself, and th...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Material Wealth

own enjoyment so much as for the enjoyment of others, for the pride he could have when looking at what he achieved through the eye...

Main Concepts of Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

The major points covered in Darwin's classic text are discussed in five pages and include existing species and the rise of new one...

Tragic Heroes in Death of a Salesman and Oedipus

A 10 page analysis of the tragic hero as he manifests in these two classic plays. Twists of events affect these heroes differentl...

S.I. McMillen's None of These Diseases

Innes (20001) makes the point that much of the Bibles historical prophesy has come to pass and been documented as predicted. He s...

New Designs from Ancient Forms

Originally, there were fifty-eight columns: seventeen on the sides, eight at each end, and six in the inner row of each porch. Th...

Industrialization in Hard Times

Industrialism as it existed in the time of the author is discussed in the context of Dickens' classic novel Hard Times. The proble...

Comparative Analysis of 'Araby' by James Joyce and 'A and P' by John Updike

In a comparative analysis of five pages John Updike retells Joyce's classic tale in a contemporary way with distinctions made betw...

An Analysis of Adultery in The Scarlet Letter

This 5 page paper reviews The Scarlet Letter, the classic first published in 1850. Even then, however, adultery was a universal t...

An Analysis of Citizen Kane

This research report looks at this well known classic film.A great deal of information is included in this report that not only pr...

Continued Validity of the Frankenstein Story

In ten pages this paper considers the issues contained within Mary Shelley's classic novel Frankenstein and how they remain as val...

Reality and Illusion in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

she could display for all to see. She possessed all the "shallowness" (Fitzgerald PG) of a person who knew not how to love yet kn...

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...

Portrayals of Women in Sunset Boulevard and Breakfast at Tiffanys

A 6 page essay reviewing how women are portrayed in these classic movies. The plots are outlined and compared. Societal circums...

Interpretations of Oedipus the King by Sophocles

In seven pages this research paper discusses the various interpretations of this classic Greek tragedy including those of Sigmund ...

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Themes of the Individual and Community

In a paper consisting of 5 pages Achebe's classic novel is considered in terms of the individual and community interrelationship a...

James Joyce's 'The Lestrygonians' and 'Circe'

In five pages Chapters 8 and 15 of Joyce's classic Ulysses are analyzed. One source is cited in the bibliography....

Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote and Social Criticism

In seven pages this paper discusses the Monty Python type social satire that is featured in this classic Spanish novel. Eight sou...

Toni Morrison's Beloved and the Degrees of Separation

An eight page paper looking at the issue of separation in Toni Morrison's modern classic. The paper points out that there are real...

Analyzing Plato's 'Republic'

role of rhetoric within the political arena. Therefore, "Rhetoric is the expressed genre of the second grammatical person" (545)....

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Their words were powerful weapons that turned into action that threw the entire city into war. Because of the feuding families of...

Anne of Green Gables and Author Lucy Maud Montgomery's Use of Imagination

In 8 pages this paper examines how imagination and the power it wields are depicted in this classic children's novel. There are 5...

Candide by Voltaire and 'Eldorado'

In a paper consisting of 5 pages this portion of Voltaire's classic novel is discussed as it relates to the whole and the Utopia a...

Analects, Symposium, and Bhagavad Gita

a state of disinterested selflessness. Confucius (or more accurately Kung-Fu-Tzu or Kongfuzi) explains the thinking and motivati...

Husbands and Wives in John Milton's 'Paradise Lost' and William Shakespeare's Othello

In five pages this paper examines the roles spousal relationships play in this classic poem and Elizabethan tragedy. There are no...

Achilles and Odysseus in A Modern Comparison

In this paper of six pages a broad comparison of thes classic heroes considers how they would fare in the contemporary world. The...

The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler

This 5 page paper discusses Alvin Toffler's classic book The Third Wave, and argues that the second wave was not successful. The w...

English Romanticism in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

underpinning of romanticism, the innocence and exaltation of the common man. The auto biographical nature of Mary Shellys Fr...