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Analyzing the Orientalism of Edward Said

their own power and superiority. There was no real learning about the culture on the part of the Westerners, but rather a sense o...

1960s' Life and Mike Nichols' Film The Graduate

to comment on his future and to give him advice. The viewer comes to understand that Ben is expected to follow in his fathers foot...

Houses Prices in the UK 2003 - 2008

This 7 page paper looks at the pattern in the average house price in the UK from 2003 to 2008. The paper discusses the movement in...

Achievement Gap Among Students

attachment, and school climate each has an impact on student achievement (Stewart, 2007). Research that investigates these types o...

Moors and Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

have learnt the duty and office of a fore-mast man, and in time might have qualified myself for a mate or lieutenant, if not for a...

Life of Zora Neale Hurston in Their Eyes Were Watching God and Dust Tracks on a Road

be rash and foolish for awhile. If writers, were too wise, perhaps no books would be written at all. Anyway, the force from somewh...

Religious and Individual Tensions in Othello by William Shakespeare and Antigone by Sophocles

classic confrontation between the forces of good and evil in the Christian biblical tradition. The society of ancient Greece was ...

Soviet Union and Stalinist Despotism

individual supports their own interests. Olson writes: "...groups, if they are made up of rational individuals, are also rational...

Still Burning Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

trend of black militancy, which would blossom into full-flower during the 1960s, decrying it as little more than a "peculiar form ...

Art and Europe's Christianity Rise

of art etched into wood tablets, metal and on engraving plates. The religious overtones were highly pronounced and most of the wor...

Juliet's Images in Film Versions of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

the second quatrain and then the third, on her own (Downing 126). In so doing, she overturns the Petrarchan convention wherein th...

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky and the Dream of Raskolnikov

met them" (Dostoevsky 54). These figures, the darkness, can easily represent the turmoil within Raskolnikov. His thoughts and plan...

Punishment and Prisons in England During the Victorian Age in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

accountable. In one of his most memorable works, Great Expectations (1860-1861), Dickens tackled the social hypocrisy that was ru...

Maria Luisa Bombal's Works Compared

her life, her childhood, her adolescence, her adulthood and she sees the conflicts riddled in her experiences. Her role in life, ...

Greek Literature as Reflective of Greek Culture

to the outside, the cave becomes a type of conduit, or birth canal which brings him into the life of actual knowledge. What one ca...

Freudian Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories

the beginning. He states, "From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition. My tenderness of heart was...

Works of Angelina Grimke and Garland Anderson Compared and Contrasted

up and begins to see how hard life is for an African American in society, she decides to never bring a child into the world. This ...

Jesus vs. Thoreau, a Comparison

public inconveniencey, it is the will of God... that the established government be obeyed--and no longer" (1755). Christ was also...

Economic Growth and Inventions

1836. The beginning of this coincides wit the revival of the economy and the return to prosperity. The end of this increase is see...

Penelope's Suitors and Odysseus in 'The Odyssey' by Homer

He gains allies and waits for the right opportunity to enact justice. This also allows Homer to thoroughly document the wrongs per...

Robert Jordan as a 'Hemingway Code Hero' in For Whom the Bell Tolls

those standards of conduct which generations before World War I appeared to accept as adequate and perfectly satisfactory" (Meyers...

Teddy Roosevelt's Autobiography

belief in a strong and efficient National Government and Jeffersonian in their belief in the people as the ultimate authority, and...

Overview of the 1857 Dred Scott U.S. Supreme Court Decision

in his 1859 examination of the case points out that the US Supreme Court in hearing this case was also concerned with issues of co...

War's Effects in Texts of Pat Barker and Sebastian Faulks

mere surface appearances. All this opulent beauty will be hidden with the outbreak of World War I. Having already been inv...

Ideology of Authors Reflected in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and The Color Purple by Alice Walker

slaves and share-croppers and Cherokee Indian. During her time in university and her early years as a struggling writer, in which ...

Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine Writing About America

There is no question that through Jeffersons influence, the United States of America was built on a foundation of democracy and li...

Work of Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Influence of Transcendentalism

minister, it was necessary to leave the church" (Chapter Three: The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Essayists and Poets). His philosop...

18th Century Literature and Reflections of Commerce and Trade

The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton have as their basis international trade and commerce and the way...

The Battleship Potemkin and Birth of a Nation

Two sets of lovers from these families evolve over the course of the film: Ben Cameron and Elsie Stoneman and Phil Stoneman and Ma...

'Good Country People' by Flannery O'Connor

free; and Joy, whose miserable disposition is anything but joyful. It is Joy who is the chief protagonist, an educated 32-year-ol...