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Red Storm Rising, The Hunt for Red October, and the Cold War

authors practically since the beginning of the written word. These depictions have changed radically over time, however, in respo...

Veritatis Splendor by Pope John Paul II

goes so far in explaining life. The fact that science is embraced at all is significant, as the Pope does recognize the validity o...

Analyzing 'The Iliad' from Achilles' Point of View

(Hunter). She takes him to the River Styx because, "everything the sacred waters touched became invulnerable, but the heel remain...

Imperialism and The White Man's Burden by Rudyard Kipling

controversial issue; for Kipling to draw attention to the alleged need to further this political stance meant that he voiced suppo...

Depiction of Women in D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love and James Joyce's Ulysses

the chapter "Penelope", the readers is somehow seduced into believing that Mollys thoughts and monologue are somehow unmediated (S...

Patriarchy Shackled Women in The Awakening by Kate Chopin and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

over her life. While she can have an affair, and while she can perhaps pretend to have an important life, she is retrained from tr...

Hybridized Identity and Canada's Little Tolerance

the pain and suffering forced upon the Japanese Canadians after a political panic swept through post-Pearl Harbor. Their experien...

Roberto Rossellini's Film Europa, Europa and Its Psychological Impact

Perel was no more than a young boy when he was forced to fend for his own existence. Realizing that he had to either fight agains...

Seventeenth Century Love in Poetry

celebration of Gods love, as well as a poet that addressed the purity of a love for a woman. In better understanding this we discu...

Greek Styles of Government and the Film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

relationship between a city or Nations government and a person is much like that of a parent/child relationship. The state nurture...

King Arthur the Actual Man

is claimed as the King of nearly every Celtic Kingdom known," an important fact to note considering barbarians were very much a pa...

Utopian Analysis of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Swift employed satire to convey his message, and his target was, naturally, Europe, as it existed during the sixteenth century, bu...

Literature and Freedom Themes

freedom is conveyed in The Awakening. Edna yearned to be free but she lived in a society where she felt a prisoner. She could not ...

Good and Bad of Human Nature as Portrayed in Literature

Swift, "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley, and "Heart of Darkness" by William Conrad. Gullivers Travels "Gullivers Travels" is a b...

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and Unwritten Law's Power

marry his mother. This involves a very powerful unwritten law concerning incest. While there was perhaps no laws concerning this p...

Films Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein and Science

about cloning, for example, is that one will create a monster like what appears in the Frankenstein films. And while the monster i...

Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Unreality

by going to church, trying to do the right things in life and communication with him beforehand. Yet, it will only be after their ...

Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Futility

are constantly fighting a futile battle. As one author states, the two main characters are the epitome of confusion and futility a...

Impact and Culture of the !Kung and Ju/'hoansi Tribal Peoples

constraints. These people have been put into a position of having to cooperate with their society in order to accomplish the som...

Quest for the Purpose of Life in 'Absalom, Absalom!' and 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'

overrule her inherent independence as a strong, black woman by telling Phoeby she can "tell em what Ah say if you wants to. Dats ...

Works of Literature and Race

with open galleries and porticoes. Bottles of milk were grouped on the steps, and occasionally light flickered from the kitchens w...

Contemporary Women's Lives and Backlash by Susan Faludi

progress because of the biased portrayal of women by the media and society at large. In this regard, this book is...

Symbolism of Man and Nature in Willa Cather's O Pioneers

has not lost beauty, only become more spiritually connected with the land as she takes on the guise of earth. This is because she ...

Landscape's Symbolic Uses in Chinese Movies Red Sorghum, The Blue Kite, and Yellow Earth

meant to symbolize the conditions of rural poverty in China and its openness and vastness is typical of Chinese art works which eq...

Kesey Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

However, if the book only presented this anti-establishment theme, then it would never have had the complexity and depth which hav...

Social Order Visions in Police Cinematic Dramas

the beginning perhaps, a cop who felt that policeman could truly offer some form of social control that would eventually benefit a...

Arthurian Legends and the Depiction of Women

The earliest texts of Arthur skim over the women, focusing mainly on the achievements of King Arthur himself, and his success in b...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Writings and the Impact of History

have totally disrespected him and used him, then effectively disposed of him), the town itself has refused to realize that the vio...

Jean Edward Smith's Grant

miles off" (Smith 23). When he was seventeen his father informed him that he would be attending West Point. In essence, accordi...

Thematic Analysis of Things Fall Apart by Achebe

his titles. He is part of the society, and like any good leader or member, he finds that he must make personal sacrifices in order...