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Crimes and Misdemeanors, Film Analysis

over the credits, signifying that Judah has recovered from his burden of guilt and is prepared to get on with and enjoy his life (...

Langston Hughes' Blues Poetry

and white, life and death, happiness and sadness, rich (white majority) and poor (black minority) to express social injustice and ...

The World is Too Much with Us/William Wordsworth

other words, Wordsworth bemoans the materialistic nature of his society, which is a feature of Western society that continues into...

Describing Mental Illness

feels about their illness. The difficulties are then associated with a more physical symptom that the reader may be able to identi...

Running in Place by Pamela C. Joern

This essay offers analysis of Pamela C. Joern's short story "Running in Place." The writer focuses on Joern's skill in regards to ...

The Decision Aspect of the Stetler Model of Research Analysis

train sufficient numbers of new nurses. Turnover is high among those who remain in the profession, and those so dissatisfied - an...

Projections for Shang-Wa

nearest whole percentage. It is assumed that there are no extraordinary items and that the shares outstanding remain the same. Thi...

Significance of Jesus Christ’s Death and Resurrection as Decay and Renewal in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury

and one from their devoted black servant Dilsey Gibson and read like the gospels of the Bible in that observations of actual event...

Symbolism in Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

theme of pride that runs in Lyman and his ancestor, as well as other characters. In the work the author notes many instances, su...

Paul’s Case by Willa Cather

soul to the devil for what he desires. This relates well to Paul for he is a man who will do anything to live, if even only for a ...

Symbolism: The Lottery, The Necklace, and A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

day it was...Thought my old man was out back stacking wood...She dried her hands on her apron" (Jackson). Clearly this town is sym...

Animal and Bird Symbolism in “A Doll’s House”

he reminds her that that is still several months in the future (Ibsen). Her response is to suggest that they borrow what they need...

Overview and Analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

hit-and-run death of Toms mistress, the married Myrtle Wilson. Her widower is deceived into thinking Gatsby caused the accident, ...

Gospel Of John 7:37-39 Analysis

regions, such as Palestine, Bethany and Cana. Some of what John records only an eyewitness could have reported, such as the fragra...

Sexual Imagery/Depression in 3 Poems By Robert Frost

what might be causing the narrators shame. Shame is generally associated with sexual urges. During Frosts lifetime, i.e., the fi...

Catherine Mansfield/Miss Brill's Fur

she imagines that she is able to rub "the life back into the dim little eyes" (Mansfield 176). On one level, Miss Brill realizes t...

Symbolism in The Yellow Wallpaper

saved by a friend and turned to writing which greatly changed her entire perspective, giving her "some measure of power" (Gilman [...

Trifles by Susan Glaspell

women--and how they react when that legal system is about to destroy one of their own. Women did not make homicide law as it exist...

John Updike/The Rumor

circle. It soon becomes apparent that everyone with whom Sharon and Frank come into contact know the rumor and believe it. This cr...

Symbolism and Henrik Ibsen

Rosmer, haunts them. Both characters, as noted, feel they are the cause of the suicide of Mrs. Rosmer and by the end of the story...

Symbolism in Belle Epoch Literature

these regards, who states that "this was a time in which writers and artists were intensely involved in exploring contemporary soc...

Cisneros and Roethke

a room of her own and a house of which she can be proud" (Sandra Cisneros, 2003). Among the issues Esperanza faces are the "disadv...

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. ...

Nabokov & Use of Language

that fit with their role within the novels "deck." Martha Dreyer, Nabokovs "Queen," is a calculating woman with sharp intelligence...

The Symbolism of the Hindu Marriage Ceremony

complex, and comprises 13 separate steps, each performed in accordance with Vedic tradition, and each symbolizing some aspect of t...

Symbolism in Two War Novels

blood that is shed on the battlefield. The novel opens when the rumor runs through a Union camp that the army is finally going to ...

Symbolism in Yasunari Kawabata’s The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket

does he reach in and grab the insect and hand it to her. She is delighted and states it is not a grasshopper but a bell cricket, o...

Imagery in Aguilar’s Luminous Cities

about Aguilars work, one author notes the following in relationship to intertextuality: "The concept of intertexuality thus dramat...

Tree Symbolism in “A Separate Peace”

standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not mere...

Religious Symbolism in Hurston’s “Sweat”

cultures," and is always a figure of evil (Champion). Delia is busy working, when she is frightened out of her wits: "Just then so...