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Essays 1981 - 2010

Seeking to be Free in 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin'

was lived during her time. Her work deals a large amount with the oppressiveness women felt within their married lives and their d...

Twentieth Century Literary Icon Ernest Hemingway

Park and published his earliest stories and poems in his high school newspaper. Upon his graduation in 1917 Hemingway worked six m...

Modernism and Poststructuralism

(2003) of CNN claims: " "The New York Times" plagiarism scandal still in the headlines and still causing shockwaves in journalism ...

Satire of Jonathan Swift

period in time, that logic, reason, and perhaps personal enlightenment regarding society as it involved reason and logic were the ...

Symbolism in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, 'The Minister's Black Veil,' 'The Birth Mark,' and 'Dr. Heidegger's Experiment'

corruption of politics; Colonel Killigrew (whose name in itself is symbolic) personifies the evils of pleasures of the flesh; and ...

Stylistic Techniques of Irvine Welsh in Acid House and Trainspotting

these days of infancy and childhood made her squirm with embarrassment. It seemed an essential denial of herself as she was now. ...

Death According to Mitch Albom

he is also far removed from Judaism (Schulweis, 2001). Albom describes Morrie as a "spiritual mutt," having gleaned the makings f...

Eleven As Modernist Literature

suggests that it belongs to Rachel, the teacher, Mrs. Price pounces on this piece of knowledge and insists that Rachel accept the ...

Socrates' Influence

charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...

A Letter from Waldo Frank to Carl Sandburg

"I am the people, the mob." In this, we share a similar sentiment. However, your work expresses a much more accepting and optimist...

Satire in Hard Times

in which the employers basically had the ability to "starve" their employees back to work, on the employers terms. The 1850s in En...

Role of Educational Philosophy Papers by Kieran Egan, George S. Counts, and John Locke and Classroom Experience by Teachers

upon them. For Egan, the teachers role is to allow the students to learn through abstract thought, previously thought too cognitiv...

Colonial Projects and the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling

such things as "To veil the threat of terror/ And check the show of pride" and "The blame of those ye better/ The hate of those ye...

From Pages to Silver Screen with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Blade Runner

has been a relatively tame comparison of such themes in comparison to what has been said about more recent futuristic movies, most...

Religious Sentiments in the Hebrew Bible's 'Psalm 104' and 'Hymn to the Sun' in Akhenaten Compared

majestic, awesome, bedazzling, exalted" (Mack, 1995, p. 45; Pandit, 1996, p. 179). Similarly, the opening lines of Psalm 104 also ...

Marty by Paddy Chayefsky

find a bride?" Thomas recommends the Waverly Ballroom to Martys mother, who comically parrots his words precisely telling Marty t...

Comparing William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Richard III and Themes of Justice and Destiny

especially apparent when critically examining Shakespeares historical play, Richard III and his final work, the dark comedy, The T...

Portrayal of Aristocracy in Pride and Prejudice and Daniel Deronda

Eliot provides us with a very intricate look at the aristocracy from these various perspectives. At first we are given the useless...

Elizabethan Drama, Scriptures, and the Christian Church

In fact, Lewis Wagers 1567 morality play based on biblical teachings, The Life and Repentance of Mary Magdalene, presented a chara...

Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards

on that he believes in the Presbyterian concept of Predestination -- "From my childhood up, my mind had been wont to be full of ob...

Style of 'The Metamorphosis' by Franz Kafka

but not from his condition. Rather, his melancholy is because of the "raindrops beating on the window gutter" (Kafka, 2002). Rathe...

Comparing Margaret Atwood Novels Alias Grace and The Handmaid's Tale

that there is always a tidy or satisfactory resolution to the womens dilemmas. In fact, in the case of the intentionally ambiguou...

Academic Essay Composition Tutorial

out of the equation (because it is less expensive or more convenient to go elsewhere to produce goods). Its also helpful to define...

Literary Modernism in the Works of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce

the most important elements of modernist literature is that which involves perspective. With modernist literature this involves "t...

Lives and Learning by Plato and Augustine

text in which he is painstakingly honest, demonstrates that his spiritual path was not easy. It is clear from the beginning that t...

The Open Theater Movement in Argentina

theater (Graham-Jones 7). Theater listings in the daily newspapers typically advertise fifty or sixty plays being staged at any gi...

Political Ideals and 'Politics and the English Language' by George Orwell

concomitant of transitional periods" (Orwell). Orwell looks behind the rhetoric to the true meaning of this sentence and offers ...

Relativism and Universal Values

proverbial bacon, is the fact that most humans share common basic needs and desires which, for the most part, they fulfill in much...

The Signalman by Dickens

and the creation of tension tailor-made for this particular short story, Dickens effectively conjures up intense imagery that serv...

Pilots, Paratroopers and World War II

idea had a great deal of potential, the war ended before he ever really got to try it out (D-Day Introduction, 2002)....