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The Puritans, Three Perspectives

This essay pertains to William Bradford's "From Of Plymouth Plantation," John Winthrop's "A Model of Christian Charity," and Mary ...

Satire: 12th Night vs. Miller's Tale

This essay discusses Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" and Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale." The writer asserts that Chaucer's narrative ...

Nineteenth Century Patriarchy and Kate Chopin

This essay is on nineteenth century writer Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour." The position presented is that this n...

"Dry September" by William Faulkner

This essay pertains to Faulkner's short story "Dry September." The writer offers analysis of the plot and argues that Faulkner use...

Dahl, Williams and Pediatric Patients

This essay refers to narratives by Raoul Dahl and William Carlos Williams that relate pediatric examination experience in the earl...

Sam in Fugard's Master Harold...and the Boys

son, Hally, who is young and in desperate need of both attention and guidance. In this regard, Sam plays the role of a surrogate ...

Black Literature and Violence

eras and toward different genders. The slave narratives of Douglass and Jacobs Douglass Narrative is the best known first-hand a...

The English Patient/Theme of Nationalism

blank slate for the imaginings of those around him, particularly Hana. Myth "crosses international boundaries and offers apparentl...

Language as a Key to Inner Landscapes

another persons mind and perception. We each live isolated lives with only language as a bridge to understanding the worldview and...

Martin Luther King/”Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

as his overarching rationale, as he is also in Birmingham "because "injustice is here" (King). In analyzing the situation in Bir...

3 Expert Tales of Death

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...

Beatrice C. Mosionier/In Search of April Raintree

It has never been out of print since its publication and has been translated into "French, German and Dutch" (Taillon 16). Written...

Toni Morrison as a Stylist in Sula

bedroom and gently holds him. Then she pours kerosene over the sleeping man and burns him to death. Morrison writes that Plum ope...

Discovering the Women in Slavery Edited by Patricia Morton

1817. While a master could lawfully punish a slave, using his own discretion and judgment, state law established a limit and that ...

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...

Analysis of a Passage/Charles Chestnutt

Circumstance," the author changes the narrative perspective twice, using three perspectives in total. A close reading of this pass...

Discussion of Ways of Knowing

This essay pertains to Margaret Edson's play "Wit," and Alice Walker's short story "Everyday Use." The writer argues that each of ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Cinematic Techniques and Narrative in The Graduate

by the same name and so was translated to the silver screen. When this is done it is always a touchy business. Much of the motivat...

Paul Hawken's Growing a Business

In ten pages this essay employs a first person narrative approach in a book review of Paul Hawken's Growing a Business in a consid...

Moving Beyond Writer's Block

an essay with my television on or with my brother blasting country music in the next room, I know I will not accomplish much. Alt...

Creative Essay 'Riding with a Dog Who Smelled Like a Skunk'

In three pages this descriptive and creative essay presents a narrative recounting a long car ride in which a family was accompani...

Plot Development in Two Novels by Antonio Lobo Antunes

instructions from a police inspector, who states, "Give the bozo some electric shocks and hell swear he killed his aunt, if necess...

Heroism in the Ancient World: Gilgamesh and Achilles

This essay pertains to the characters of Gilgamesh and Achilles and how they each warrior-heroes representing their culture. The w...

French Ethnocentrism and Amelie

This essay pertain to the film Amelie (2001) and what the narrative tells viewers about French cultural assumptions and ethnocentr...

Religion Theme and the Narrative of Mary Rowlandson

In two pages this essay examines the thematic importance of faith and religion in the narrative of Mary Rowlandson. There is no b...

Tim Burton's Big Fish Film Narrative

and makes sense in our world (Fournier, 2005). Then, we check the narrative fidelity and compare it to whether or not it matches o...