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Literary Analysis of Wislawa Szymborska’s Poem ‘True Love’

love between two ordinary people: "Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it h...

Issue of Mortality in Literature and in Life

is common knowledge. Who does not worry about death? Even children, from a very young age, often ask the ultimate question which i...

Children's Literary Classic The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

a shelf, he decides to seek the counsel of the Skin Horse. He inquires what it means to be REAL, and the Horse answers, "Real isn...

Modernism and Literature

became sculptural" (Make It New: The Rise of Modernism). From another perspective one author notes, "It is usually thought that ...

Psalm 54 Exegesis

verse is the Vow of Praise: "I will sacrifice a freewill offering to you; I will praise your name, O LORD, for it is good" (v 6). ...

Suffering in Crime and Punishment

Sonya Marmeladov, a young woman who has prostituted herself in order to support her parents. While Sonya suffers physically becaus...

Lois W. Johnson/Trouble at Wild River

her mothers home country of Sweden. Ben had the "America fever" and stole the money in order to obtain passage to the US (Johnson ...

Schulberg/What Makes Sammy Run?

childhood, as well as everything he hopes to achieve is best illustrated in an incident that occurs between Sammy and Al Manheim o...

Nick Carraway/The Great Gatsby

through Nicks eyes Nick provides the voice by which the other characters are heard. As such, he serves as a "translator of the dr...

The Kite Runner and Family

in his friendship as well as literature (Hosseini 25). Even though he knows, or feels, that his father likes Hassan more t...

Cunningham's The Hours/Implications for Healthcare

not only relates to the societal restrictions with which women had to contend in regards to their expected societal roles, but it ...

Critical Analysis of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner

are not so lucky; they remain in Afghanistan under Soviet rule and then later are subjected to the tyranny of the Taliban regime d...

Mukherjee's Jasmine/Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter

This paper discusses Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter," but then focuses on Mukherjee's "Jasmine," as a novel that portrays immigrant e...

Three Nursing Questions

This paper offers answers to three nursing questions that address the role of nurse practitioners, the Consensus Model for APRN Re...

"Madame Bovary" and the Act of Reading

the morality of anyone who read the work, particularly women (Leonard 2010, p. 10). Such a fear stemmed from the then-popular conc...

Of Mice and Men/Symbolism

55). The appeal of this dream attracts the interest of both Crooks and Candy, who would also like to be part of the dream, as it...

Tim O’Brien, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq

book of the same name is a moving account of a platoon of "grunts" in Vietnam. This paper discusses various aspects of the story a...

Love's Power in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

love but rather sees it as simply a different option he is being offered in terms of continuing to love her and be devoted to her....

Town of Maycomb's Role in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County" (Lee 10). In this one gets the impression that it i...

Perspectives on The Scarlet Letter

scholarship addressing the character of Pearl have seen her as the "sin-child, the unholy result" of an adulterous love and a symb...

Comparative Analysis of Dances With Wolves Novel and Film

main character, but is predominantly depicted as a sympathetic witness to a way of life that he senses will soon be lost forever. ...

Their Eyes Were Watching God and Zora Neale Hurston's Use of Dialect

dialect, plain speaking, and easily conversational (Bloom 95). The subject of local gossips whispers, the thrice-married Janie co...

Comparing The Time Machine Novel by H.G. Wells and 1960 and 2002 Film Versions

indictment of the British caste system and the exploitation of laborers necessary to maintain its bourgeois lifestyle (Mitchell, 2...

Comparing Novel and Film Versions of The Color Purple

evolves because the men in the film are misogynist or because it is something that is a part of Celie, is unclear. Still, it seems...

Freedom Losing Out to Democracy in 2014 America

has been solicited by the government in return for security. The US has seen a fear that associated with Islam, it has suited the ...

Self Assurance in the Works of Zora Neale Hurston

unimportant, appearing merely as part of the background and playing not real role in Janies life. In her introduction to the no...

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

mass culture for anyone who is not included in it and for African-Americans especially, usually requires a leaving of ones own sel...

Henry James' Daisy Miller and Realism

for the tiny haven for the worlds most socially-prominent families: "There are, indeed, many hotels, for the entertainment of tour...

'Daedalus Myth' and A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce

him all his life, what he had been groomed to do. To not become one would mean breaking free and telling everyone he knows that h...

Karl Marx and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Creature

predicted in his Communist Manifesto that the inevitable overthrow of the bourgeoisie by the proletariat would first succeed in a ...