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Essays 481 - 510
In five pages this essay discusses how family relations are portrayed in Zia Summer and Heart of Atzlan by Rudolfo Anaya. There a...
humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....
physical state that supports the distinguishing characteristics of film noir. Though the term "film noir" is French, the st...
truly fulfilled, and in fact he likens this fulfillment to a nearly spiritual ideal. On the other hand, there was...
In five pages the ways in which the detective literary genre was standardized by Poe's 'The Purloined Letter,' 'The Mystery of Mar...
robots, coming to Earth to present power and knowledge in how people can live together. They insist that the people of Earth need ...
I am very tired. I work sixteen hour days and I only have one day off, Sunday. I found a church here. We talk politics here. We ...
were viewed as chance (Fate). Other religions view fate in pretty much the same way; in the Koran, for example, fate is based on G...
We note he grows to be a gregarious individual who seems driven to succeed in unusual ways, always seeking some adventure and some...
truths binding on everyone. Postmodernism is most often characterized by power struggles and a lack of objective reality, boundari...
a new life, and emphasizes how people, when tested by circumstances can overcome adversity along their path toward self-respect. ...
conception for the birth of all of those six children. There are no records that she was elsewhere during those times, or records ...
"artificial intelligence" was the choice..." Artificial intelligence involves the association of machines with comp...
death) (Welty 9). Tied to a surviving woman and his only surviving child, Musgrove is pushed into the wilderness by the Indians, w...
a disproportionate percentage of the crimes. While it might be easy to point to racial profiling as the reason for the...
family that was better off than his own. In order to make something of himself he began to write articles for various magazines. H...
In four pages this essay examines two books by Japanese writer Banana Yoshimoto in a consideration of how her works capture young ...
(Glotfelty; Fromm, 2003). It invokes thoughts of whether men and women write differently about the natural world, thus presenting ...
of cinema designed to convey a specific message about a particular government. The director may choose to present this message in...
age help to dispel myths and mistruths about the past that have erroneously been passed on as fact. Sometimes history is portraye...
slaves are forcibly taken from their native lands, "Husbands from their Wives, Parents from their Children," which he argues goes ...
to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town" (King). One of the most poignant parts of the speech is Dr. Kings examina...
love between two ordinary people: "Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it h...
he was struck by the "ways in which evil and beauty, love and pain, aspiration and finitude, are not so much balanced as interwove...
way his eyes move continually to the fact that he cannot stand to be touched: "Once, when he had been making a synopsis of a parag...
times (Faulkner). Fed up with Snopess carelessness and laziness-Harris provides wire for Snopes to repair his hog pen, but the man...
Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...
of specific interest, and which concern morality in the context of war, are those that argue for and against putting the Mitylene ...
a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...
considered to be a study of the process of recording history, may be as important as history itself (Crawford, 1983). In other wor...