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Death of Ivan & Faust

child and is sentenced to death. As this indicates, Faust is plot driven. This contrasts sharply with Ivan Ilych, which mostly c...

Controversy of I, Rigoberta Menchu

benefits which had been gained from the experience, since this would be counter-productive in terms of the effect on the reader....

A Comparative Analysis of My Name is Asher Lev and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

an "observant Jew," which means that he is at odds with his own culture because "observant Jews do not paint at all" (Potok 3). H...

Abraham Cahan/Yekl

of antecedents, tastes, habits, inclinations, and speaking all sorts of sub-dialects of the same jargon, thrown pell-mell into one...

Bless Me, Ultima & The Odyssey

reacts to the presence of the men by eating two of them, Odysseus attacks and manages to blind Polyphemus by stabbing him in his e...

Fischer/Washington’s Crossing

action, with red gunports open, batteries run out, and huge white battle ensigns streaming in the breeze" (Fischer 31). He then r...

Christianity in Beowulf

has received a considerable amount of attention. Eighteenth century critics argued in favor of viewing the poem as fundamentally p...

Ayers: "In the Presence of Mine Enemies"

or that Lee wanted to resign after Gettysburg. Ordinary people behave in ordinary ways. The North was shocked and dismayed by the...

Gender/Sexuality in 6 Films

the others, feels compelled to protect this young bit of innocence and humanity at all costs. The symbolic way that the child co...

Kenneth Roberts/Arundel

find and rescue her. Early on, the reader is also introduced to Cap Huff, an adult friend of the Nason family, and Phoebe Marvin, ...

New York City/Bonfire of the Vanities

incredibly shallow, supercilious and caught within such a fierce atmosphere of competitiveness that they use the millions at the d...

Gawain & Green Knight/Wife of Bath

the entirety of those present that one of them should strike the Green Knight with the ax, which he has brought as a gift, and tha...

John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

or easily assessed manner. As an example, in the first paragraph being examined Locke states, "Clear and distinct ideas are term...

Wit & Palliative Care

also a former student of Vivians is now in the rather awkward position of also being one of her doctors, as he is an intern and re...

A Most Fortunate Ship

particular national treasure which has taken the military through many different periods in history. Such is further enhanced by M...

The Mormon Church - Church Of Latter Day Saints

parish or congregation that has between 300 and 600 members, a stake encompasses between five and twelve wards and totals at least...

Inward Lives of 2 19th Century Women

and "one day could not explain some term of horsemanship to her that she had come across in a novel" (Flaubert 29). Emmas disappoi...

Scarlet Letter/Sin of A Guilty Heart

its mothers shame has come from the hand of God," and, in so doing, works upon the heart of her mother, both giving her joy and pr...

Last Samurai & Breakfast at Tiffany's

pain and trying to find herself as she divorces herself mentally from her poor beginnings when she was married at fifteen to a hor...

Rauchway/Murdering McKinley

that Roosevelt succeeded in causing the majority of Americans and many historians to forget about McKinley in the wake of Roosevel...

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

work of fiction to which Alvarez brings her skills as a novelist in creating characterization for each sister. The book is divided...

Theories of Carl Jung and Dream Interpretation

as I would get closer and closer to the foundation of my home, it was darker and sparser. I felt a sense of suffocation and loneli...

The Film The Ten Commandments from a Personal Perspective

because I am religious and watching Moses and his interactions with God is quite enlightening and moving. Like Moses, I feel that ...

Comparing Soviet Film Directors Sergei Eisenstein and V.I. Pudovkin

(Manvell 37). While Pudovkin would occasionally use non-professional actors in the name of realism, he preferred relying on profe...

Book of Genesis and Epic of Gilgamesh

(Tablet XI). As this indicates the Babylonian myth does not associate the disaster of the floor with any sort of immorality. Lik...

Discussion of the Old Testament's Book of Jonah

the ship and all on board. The mariners were obviously of mixed nationalities because they all honored different gods.. Each man...

'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

narrator opens her journal entries with a brief description of her new location, i.e., that her family has rented "ancestral halls...

The Virgin Suicides Aspects

and possibly guilty over Luxs reaction to her initiation to sex. Lux is extremely young and a strictly raised and sheltered Cathol...

Reflections of an Era in 'Soldier's Home' by Ernest Hemingway

his mother. Prior to the war, Hemingway lets the reader know that Krebs was in tune with small town life. He attended a Methodist ...

Comparing the Gospels

as actively participating in his fate, rather than demonstrating passive acceptance. In the synoptic gospels, action is, for the m...