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Self-Perception and Learning

however the temptation on the part of many parents, and there are even some who feel it is their right, to determine what a child ...

American Dream as a Nightmare in Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby'

In five pages this paper provides a comparative analysis of these two famous American literary works in terms of the acquisition o...

Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and Impact of Family

In six pages this essay compares these two literary works in terms of family impact and protagonist alienation. There are no othe...

Symbolism in Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea

In five pages this paper analyzes how loss, endurance, and religion are symbolically portrayed in this Ernest Hemingway novella. ...

Acculturation and Richard Rodrigurez's Hunger of Memory and Liu Zongren's Two Years in the Melting Pot

This paper considers the characteristics of acculturation by comparing and contrasting these two literary works in seven pages. T...

Mass Media and Agenda Setting Theory

In seven pages this paper discusses mass media and whether or not it sets an agenda regarding how information is reported to the p...

Contemporary Literature and the Maintenance of Identity

In five pages this essay examines maintaining identity in the first 50 years of the 20th century in a consideration of such litera...

Critical Review of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

In five pages this paper critically analyzes Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and addresses the various misconceptions often associated w...

Morality in Oedipus the King by Sophocles and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

In five pages this essay compares and contrasts these two literary works regarding the portrayal of morality in each. There are n...

Leslie Silko's Ceremony and 'Mother Earth'

This is an essay of 5 pages that argues that Silko employs literary devices and the characterization of Tayo to dramatize the spir...

Social Values Mirrored in Classic Literature

In nine and a half pages this paper considers how social values are reflected in the ancient literary works Phaedo, Euthyphro, Cri...

Cash Management Functions and Their Impacts Upon Business

In seven pages this paper examines working capital management and how it affects strategic decision making in business. Four sour...

An Overview of Harriet Beecher's Uncle Tom's Cabin

In five pages this American literary classic is presented in an overview. There are no other sources listed....

The Song of Roland and Its Interpretation

In nine pages this paper analyzes this Medieval literary work in a consideration of plot, characters, and message. There are no o...

The Lais by Marie de France

to aristocratic women, or it may have been included simply as a necessary literary device that aided Marie in recounting the condi...

'Man of Law's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

In five pages this research pape considers the era of Geoffrey Chaucer and Medieval literary customs in this comparative examinati...

Overview of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

In six pages this novel's style and themes as well as literary criticism are examined in this overview. Three sources are cited i...

Aristotle's Poetics and Oedipus

In five pages this paper examines how a tragic literary hero is defined by Aristotle in Poetics and then applied to Oedipus. One ...

Juvenile Literature and 'Outsider' Children

In five pages social exclusion of children for various reasons are examined within the context of such juvenile literary works as ...

Trio of Essays on To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

In nine pages 3 essays are presented regarding Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not that offer personal opinions, literary anal...

Analyzing Three Tales by William Faulkner

In eight pages characters from 'Barn Burning,' 'A Rose for Emily,' and 'Percy Grimm' are contrasted and compared and a discussion ...

Romance in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this paper examines how romance is used by the author in this famous novel within the context of Nathaniel Hawthorne...

A Criticism of Hawthorne's, Young Goodman Brown

This paper examines four literary criticisms of Nathaniel Hawthorne's story, Young Goodman Brown. The author also discusses Hawth...

The Symbolism of Rain in Hemmingway's A Farewell to Arms

A 5 page exploration of Hemmingway's utilization of natural elements as symbols for human emotion. The universal themes of sorrow...

Literary Criticism, Romantic and Classical Traditions

In ten pages this report compares romantic and classic traditions as they are reflected in literary criticism. Five sources are c...

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Lightning Symbolism

more thoroughly. By considering what lightning means in the novel of Frankenstein, and observing how it is used and in what prete...

Jesus Christ's Origins

In five pages this paper discusses the origins of Jesus Christ in myth in a comparative analysis of possible literary precursors H...

Comparison of Alexander Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock' and Jane Austen's Mansfield Park

In five pages this essay presents a comparative literary analysis of these works in terms of how women's social behavior is portra...

Samson Agonistes by John Milton

In five pages this paper discusses the literary concept of classical tragedy and how it can be applied to Samson Agonistes by John...

'To Build a Fire' by Jack London and Literary Style

In five pages the literary style in this short story is analyzed in terms of the story's direct and indirect evidence, deductive o...