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'An Image of Africa' and 'Heart of Darkness'

This paper consists of 3 pages and considers the emotional elements that characterize these novels by Chinua Achebe and Joseph Con...

A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Twelfth Night - A Look at the Fools

This research report examines the fool character in each of these Shakespearean works. How these are important characters is highl...

William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom! and Behavior of Middle-or Upper-Class Southern Women Miss Rosa, Miss Quentin, and Mrs. Compson

beginning, she lacked that all-important female role model. From the moment of her birth, Miss Rosa has been incapable of fitting...

Days of the Week Characters in Chesteron’s Novel

in anarchy wherein a lack of rules in a society would lead to utter chaos and the ultimate destruction of order in the world. Sy...

Personal Limitations and the Illusion of Control Sustained by Leaders

is certainly one of the qualities that people look for in a leader, so a good leader will present an illusion of confidence even i...

Downfall of William Shakespeare's Tragic Hero Macbeth

with a trio of witch siblings (described in the text as the weird sisters), who issue this prediction to the Thane: THIRD WITCH. A...

Babylon 5 vs. Star Trek

characters who came after them. Star Trek is also known for its progressive point of view. Roddenberry often presented a sort of ...

Faulkner and Bambara on Communities

expensive toy store. The children are amazed, as this gives them a glimpse of another world and lifestyle that is totally alien ...

The Animated Characters of Disney

in the way different characters are presented, as well as beauty in different meanings at different levels. It may be argued tha...

Science-Fiction: Defining a Concept

the idea of life created not by God but by man and the repercussions produced by such an event. Science does play a key role in an...

Meaning and Literature

The stories being examined, by Chekhov and Mansfield, are clearly two stories that truly delve into the inner being of an individu...

Rampo's fiction and Ero-Guro-Nansensu

movement in Japan, which became prominent in the 1920s focused on the "prewar, bourgeois cultural phenomenon that devoted itself t...

Character Analysis of Emily Grierson in "A Rose for Emily"

that a womans association with a man is what defined women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet, Emily was le...

Grisham Indicts the Criminal Justice System

cannot find the murderer; five years later, an author starts to question the police methods in another case (Cornell, 2006). Stung...

Jack Rabbit Slim’s Dance Contest

works for her husband, and hes supposed to show her a good time and do what she wants, so shut up and dance because she wants that...

Jurisdiction for Arbitration

the issue was a simple translation mistake, but this does open the door for there to be an appeal by the defendant and the German ...

Terminator Science Fiction Film Review

In three pages this essay presents a review and analysis of the science fiction film Terminator. There is no bibliography include...

Analysis of William Shakespeare's Hamlet as a Religious Play

In five pages this research paper considers the religious aspects of Hamlet by William Shakespeare in an analysis of Hamlet's acti...

William Shakespeare's Historical Play 'Henry IV' Part I

This paper consists of 10 pages and considers the characters' many contrasts in terms of the play as well as their creation. Ther...

An Analysis of Comedy Of Errors

This seventeen page paper analyzes the intriguing characters in Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. The paper emphasizes the critical...

Ophelia's Character in Hamlet by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper analyzes the character of Ophelia and the role she plays in this tragedy in terms of how other characters...

Bible and Myths

In five pages this paper examines the Bible's collection of moral fiction, folktales, fables, and myths. Four sources are cited i...

Myth and Reality of Egyptian Queen Cleopatra

in "All for Love" presented a much more traditional Cleopatra, that is, someone who is more of an addictive substance then a ruler...

Portrayal of Women in Merchant of Venice and As You Like It by William Shakespeare

of Orlando sets in motion the complex maneuverings that form the core of the plot (Kinney 299). The poems of Orlando are a mirror...

Postcolonial Fiction and Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

In seven pages postcolonial fiction is defined in order to determine whether this 1996 novel is representative of the literary gen...

'Psy Fi' Genre and its Meaning

In five pages this report considers the science fiction or Psy Fi genre in an examination of texts written by Richard Matheson, Fr...

Evaluation of Greg Bear's Blood Music

The science fiction novel is analyzed. A summary is included. The conclusion of the book is carefully evaluated. This six page pa...

Unidentified Flying Objects, Real or Imaginary?

UFOs are the focus of this paper consisting of seven pages in which an effort is made to separate fiction from fact. Five sources...

Isaac Asimov's Foundation and 'Psychohistory'

In 5 pages this essay defines psychohistory and then applies it to Foundation, a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov. There are...

The Death of the Earth by J.H. Rosny

An analysis of this French science fiction novel is presented. There are no other sources cited in the bibliography....