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Evil as a Theme in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Dante's Divine Comedy

A research paper addressing the portrayal of evil in Dante's Divine Comedy and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The author draws the c...

Lilliput, Satire, and Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

This essay consists of five pages and examines the first book of Gulliver's Travels in terms of how Swift satirizes eighteenth cen...

Yahoos and Houyhnhnms in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

In five pages this paper examines the fourth book of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels in its satirical portrayal of Yahoo brute...

Duality in Willa Cather's My Antonia

In five pages this paper analyzes My Antonia by Willa Cather in a consideration of its visual pioneer women portrayal and duality....

Beer and Circus How Big Time College Sports is Crippling Undergraduate Education by Murray Sperber

according to Sperber, is not casual social drinking but a phenomenon known as binge drinking. Adolescents and young adults who ch...

Premodern Japanese Peasant Life

their unswerving and loyal oath, many peasants were beginning to grumble about the heavy handedness of the Warlords. Marikos hom...

Theme of Death in Beloved by Toni Morrison and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

it we see the power of life and death in the novel and the people. However, Okonkwo did take part in the death and was warned that...

Why 'The Culture of Fear' Remains Alive and Well in the U.S. and Australia

States. Regardless of the fact that the U.S. is generally depicted as such a violent and dangerous nation, one has to remember tha...

'The Fire Last Time' by Nathan Ward

driver fled and the dynamite exploded a few minutes later. Ward (2001) quotes Charles P. Dougherty of the Sun, as saying that the ...

Differing Depiction of Women in Homer's Epics 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey'

Greek society was that imposed upon them by either their fathers or purchasers. They would never aspire to privilege or influence...

Daily Lives and the Intrusion of Violence and Murder

mean that parents no longer truly raise their children? In all honesty the parents do raise the children. In some ways by allowing...

Depiction of Women in Classical Greek Literature

In ten pages this paper discusses how Euripides' plays depicted Clytemnestra in this consideration of the shift in women's portray...

Callenbach's Ecotopia

The novel takes the form of a series of newspaper articles and journal entries by Weston; the society is therefore observed from t...

Literature, Self, and Identity

understand that there are many wolves out there, and when she finds one she is completely controlled by him and thus loses her inn...

Analyzing Ursula LeGuin's Sur

women unite to help with the birth of her baby. Upon their return there is news of the Amundsen Expedition...

Rebecca Wells' Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood

each triumph was their own as well. They trusted each other and their friendships were continually nurtured throughout time by the...

A Legal Courtroom Visit

the description of the room itself and the way the people orient to that room. There is, for example, the distinct separation of ...

The Fall of the Humanists in the Sixteenth Century by Jacob Burckhardt

individual" (Burckhardt, 1878; Mosaic, 2003). Modern historians often dispute some of Burckhardts claims but most concede that in ...

American Society and Body Image

is telling women that they should be very, very thin. While perhaps some women can shrug off such images--like Camryn Manheim who ...

Historical Significance of Inventing Eastern Europe The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment by Larry Wolff

on, when Russia was but a small eastern European principality, the desire for cultural advancement was not of paramount importance...

Reality and Films

Indeed, by looking at the role of the women in the movie it is a reflection of the social conditions. There is a reflection of the...

Twentieth Century Art and Psychoanalytical Theory

how Charles Baudelaire, Fran?ois Truffaut, and Sigmund Freud, based on their inheritance of lyricism, shaped and perpetuated a cul...

Power at Play Sports and the Problem of Masculinity by Michael A. Messner Reviewed

observations is that sports changed with the introduction of females and acceptance of gay athletes as traditional male sporting e...

Bernini, Michelangelo, and Donatello's Artistic Representations of David

order to provide more accurate representation of the human body. The advances in knowledge made during these years is evide...

Women in The House of Bernarda Alba by Garcia Lorca

give it up once Agustias is married. Poncia warns Bernarda that the women are going crazy being locked up as they are and that she...

Past and Present War Propaganda and the Media

has essentially been an ineffective battle so far. In other words, while the media and government espouses the "was on terrorism"...

'The Interesting Narrative' by Olaudah Equiano and 'Things Fall Apart' by Chinua Achebe

they do not inflict slavery upon the people, they do inflict oppression that is very similar to slavery. In the first chapter o...

An Organizational Website Evaluation

in regard to the web site at hand, this organizations principle mission is to create balance, but a question lingers as to whether...

Hospitality Theme in 'The Odyssey' by Homer

the theme of hospitality in such situations is emphasized when we recognize that this same theme is repeated many times in the Bib...

An analysis from Chapter 4 of the Autobiography of Carl Jung

to that of a man and saw womens role in society as being purely to serve men. When they were "no longer willing to fill that role,...