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2 Carpe Diem Poems

the fleetingness of time, but his imagery and argument are more nuanced and complex. He, first of all, advises his mistress that i...

Hitchcock/Psycho & Shadow of a Doubt

the nature of good and evil. In "Shadow," there are the two "Charlies," Uncle Charlie and his niece, Charlotte, who is known as "C...

Domestic Violence And Immigrant Hispanic Women

dominance, a reality much of which is attributed to - or blamed upon - religious underpinnings. Laughton (1995) notes how women h...

Faulkner/Knight's Gambit

starting point by which to judge his slow drift away from this position towards enforcing justice as he sees it. In "Monk," Faul...

White Noise by Don DeLillo

electrifying success. The chancellor went on to serve as adviser to Nixon, Ford and Carter before his death on a ski lift in Aust...

Uncanniness in The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

interpretations. It is, first and foremost, a Gothic novel, which sets the tone for the supernatural aspect of this uncanny work....

'Sonnet 75' from Amoretti by Edmund Spencer

original, so much so, that he invented his own rhyming scheme, hence this sonnet is typical of the "Spencerian" form. It is one of...

Literary Techniques in Dickinson's 'A Narrow Fellow in the Grass'

This paper examines Dickinson's 'A Narrow Fellow in the Grass,' and examines the author's use of visual, auditory, visceral, and p...

Anatomy of an Illness by Norman Cousins

This paper discusses the author's ankylosing spondylitis and how he managed his own course of treatment in 6 pages. There is 1 so...

Class in America by Paul Fussell

In nine pages this essay considers the author's primary points made in this 1983 text and disputes his position regarding the cult...

Article Overview of 'Bully, Bully: Do gossip and rumors count as punishable behavior?' by John Leo

reference to a particular study, the reader gets a sense of where the article will go. That is, Leo does not agree with the report...

Chapter Thirteen of Brendan Prairie by Dan O'Brien

In five pages this essay provides a chapter summary and also analyzes the author's employment of action, setting, and characteriza...

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift and Shock, Satire, and Irony

In five pages this paper examines the author's masterful uses of irony, satire, and shock in his criticism of British greed and Ir...

'The Starry Night' by Anne Sexton

The author's use of imagery in the poem is the focus of this paper consisting of five pages. There are no other sources listed....

Allegories in The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

to friends to see what their feelings were about what he had written. He explains that some told him it was wonderful while other...

David J. Lieberman's Never Be Lied to Again How to Get the Truth in 5 Minutes or Less in Any Conversation or Situation

are often apparent but sometimes misleading. Lieberman delves into how to discern between these signs in his second section on ho...

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney

Major highlights of the authors views include such acknowledgments as early capitalist development, imperialism and colonialism, a...

3 Views of China's Government

there were certain aspects of rights and responsibilities which could not be transcended and which ensured that each member of soc...

Professions and Disciplines by Daniel Rossides

deals with knowledge about how knowledge itself develops. From this starting point, Rossides goes on to discuss a brief history of...

Kristin Shrader Frechette's Technology and Values

In five pages this paper discusses the author's message and how whether or not the human cost of technology should influence its v...

The Historical Context of All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

poetry, essays, stories and novels from men who had never envisioned themselves as literary artists. From their painful wartime e...

An 'Othello' Sociological Analysis

In this instance, racism is a problem, and it is today. Yet, in looking back through history, one sees that racism was much more p...

Article Review on Management Learning

In five pages this paper critiques the article Responding to New Roles A Qualitative Study of Managers as Instructors' in terms o...

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

that tended to see women in a strictly stereotypical fashion. The following examination of Charlotte Brontes life and her mast...

Kurt Lohbeck's Holy War, Unholy Victory Eyewitness To The CIA's Secret War In Afghanistan

In seven pages this paper reviews Lohbeck's text in an emphasis upon the roles of Islam and the CIA in the author's Afghan reality...

Analyzing Bleak House by Charles Dickens

society." With his literary weapon, Dickens took direct aim, launching a vitriolic attack on the legal, political and socioeconom...

The Overspent American by Schor

that in America, an annual vacation that might cost thousands of dollars is thought to be a necessity. The automobile-a depreciati...

The Use of Figurative Language in Plath, Keats, and Layton

her own, and ultimately committed suicide in 1963, one year after completing "Lady Lazarus;" Keats was noted for his romantic natu...

Cinema and Novel Expansion of Blade Runner

but an android is not designed to react emotionally and must formulate a false emphatic response. The difference in the time invol...

Emilio Zamora, Cynthia Orozco and Rodolfo Rocha's Mexican Americans in Texas History

their respective fields of historical inquiry. The fact that each essay was written by academic experts is no coincidence. The a...