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Change vs. Tradition in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Okonkwo relished in the traditions which consolidated his power within the village and reinforced his identity. The supreme test ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' and Idealism

An elderly pianist, Mademoiselles music arouses Ednas artistic temperament. Additionally, Edna becomes infatuated with a young man...

'Song to a Waitress' by Aron Kessbury

demand. Kessbury does not employ rhyme in this stanza. In fact, he only employs rhyme once in the poem, in the last two lines, w...

The Concepts of Justice and Truth in Cervantes' Don Quixote

Quixote does hold some hope for the future. Cervantes was also disgruntled with the political systems as well. Just as Don Quixote...

Comparing Shakespare's 1 Henry IV and Richard II

championing the people who had initiated his ascent to power, Henry IV turned his back on them, and transformed himself into a dis...

Anita Shreve's The Weight of Water

review of The Weight of Water, "There is so much factual information about the Shoals here -- geographical, historical, nautical, ...

'Song of Myself,' 'When I Read the Book,' and 'One's Self I Sing' by Walt Whitman

With the plain-speaking simplicity that was his trademark, Whitman constructed this poem in such a rhythmic way that it could be s...

Illusion and Truth in the Plays of Henrik Ibsen

that she has thoughts and ideas that are not necessarily normal for a simple woman. She has a fire, and that fire is the element o...

Analyzing David Ives' All in the Timing

he wants. This becomes a central theme in many of Ives works, and one that highlights the sense of optimism which Ives disperses ...

Categorizing Films Through Genre

in that the main character, Abdel, has been abused by the police. He has been beaten so badly that he has had to be hospitalized. ...

Community in Medicine River by Thomas King

place that Will checks out in regards to a loan is the Department of Indian Affairs. Whitney Oldcrow shakes his head and explains ...

Beloved by Toni Morrison and Enslavement

the hope inherently possessed in freedom. But, even Baby Suggs understands that slavery will always be with them. She dreamed of b...

Montaigne, Donne, Spencer on Repentance

bodie in salt water smarting sore, The filthy blots of sinne to washe away, So in short space, they did to health restore The man...

Ian Frazier's On the Rez

and singing ancient songs and lose myself in that moment when all the breaths and all the heartbeats become one. What I want is ju...

Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders and Education

be a gentlewoman. What this means is that she wants to support herself and not live in poverty. At one point she goes to live ...

Macbeth by Shakespeare and Characterization

perplexed, sudden and desperate in act, from a distrust of his own resolution. His energy springs from the anxiety and agitation o...

Comparative Analysis of Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun and Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie

the additional mouth to feed will put the family into jeopardy. The audience knows that she is considering abortion. To end all of...

Analysis of 'The River Between' by Ngugi and 'Things Fall Apart' by Acheba

News Service). Even that consideration, however, is worthy of additional introspect in regard to the intended cultural meaning of...

Emily Dickinson's Attraction To Death

to a twentieth-century Existentialist philosopher, Ford opines, "Emily Dickinson felt great anxiety about death... She apparently...

Comparing Three Literary Works

writers overall mystique, utilizing such literary techniques as dialogue, imagery, figurative language and interpretation. ...

Evolution of the English Pub

continued in their Roman role, but in a much less organised manner. The names the taverns would receive reflected the role and tra...

Ursula K. LeGuin's The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

is forced to live in darkness. The child, the reader is told, is about nine or ten years old, lives on a half bowl of cornmeal a...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Theme of Appearance vs. Reality

give the appearance of being the blushing bride and groom, but their newlywed bliss is tempered by respectful grief for the belove...

Jean de la Fontaine's Fables

outward recognition. Why do Fontaines epic fable poems work? Primarily, one could state that they work because they embody unive...

Bharti Mukherjee's Short Story 'A Father'

no simple way, for an old culture to adjust to a new one. New and Old World Beliefs The primary character in this story is the...

Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, One of the World's Great Novels

The choices which Anna and Vronsky make are disastrous for both. Through these choices, however, Anna will come to recognize the ...

Failure Caused by Company Successes

companies who were once complex become simple and then fail (Miller, 1993). It is that excessive simplicity that eventually causes...

Sufi Poet and Mystic Jelaluddin Rumi

they are found in the Koran, point to this constant interplay of Mercy and Wrath, Beauty and Power" (76). (As bibliographical data...

Analysis of a Page from E.M. Forster's Book Howard's End

any ideas borrowed from this research in his or her own words and to cite the Paper Store as one source for their own paper. If th...

Phillis Wheatley's Poetry

the population in America at the time would have preferred to not know that a black woman was capable of such complex and abstract...