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Critiquing Literature's Treatment of Age and Youth

In a paper of five pages the youth and age of protagonists in Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea and A Clean, Well Lighted...

Education and Literature's Role

is the well read that appear to succeed in life, they have a broader base of knowledge from which to make judgements and decision....

British Literature's Mainstream Tradition and Peripheral Culture

of literature which, although derived from the centre, must be constituted as peripheral since they do not follow in a direct line...

American Literature's Portrayal of Immigrant Families

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the way immigrant families are presented in Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marsh...

Postmodernism's Rise and Literature's Fall

but vanished from the world, a look at the rise and fall of the New Criticism is rather appropriate. A set of practices called th...

Literature's Classic Adventure

far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy" (Homer The Odyssey PG). The Odyssey was written in 800 B.C. and woven in...

Medieval Literature's Portrayal of Honor and Dishonor

In seven pages this paper examines how Medieval literature thematically portrayed honor and dishonor in a comparative analysiis of...

African Literature's Oral Culture and Tradition

In five pages this paper examines the oral cultural traditions of Africa in a short story analysis of 'Talk' recounted by Courland...

Classic Literature's Portrayal of Male Characters

In five pages this paper evaluates the realistic depiction of male characters in literature past and present in a consideration of...

Community in the Writings of Cotton Mather, Roger Williams, and John Winthrop

In five pages these early American founding fathers are considered in terms of their community concepts that represent a kind of s...

Conservatism from 2 Perspectives

perspective in presenting a traditional African culture, but he also addresses deconstructing the counterfeit past that was superi...

Willy Loman as Author in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In seven pages the ways in which Death of a Salesman can be considered a reflection of playwright Arthur Miller are analyzed. Fiv...

Epistolary Novel and Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith

who never writes back -- she says that the name of her would-be friend ?tastes sweet in my mouth like honey or cane or how I pictu...

Satan in Paradise Lost by John Milton

In five pages this paper analyzes the characterization as Satan in the epic poem Paradise Lost as a reflection of the righteous co...

Ghosts of William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Elizabethan Superstition

Elizabethan superstition with regard to ghosts helps to fuel the supernatural inferences in Shakespeares Hamlet, because the two e...

Democratic Government and Aristotle

In a paper consisting of eight pages writings such as Politics by Aristotle are used to examine the Athenian Constitution and its ...

Property According to Edmund Burke and Jean Jacques Rousseau

In seven pages this paper discusses how property was viewed by philosophers Edmund Burke in Reflections on the Revolution in Franc...

Discrimination in Imposing the Death Penalty

by death. The word draconian survives to describe unusually harsh legal penalties. In modern times the use of capital punishment...

Credit Cards and Their History

The earliest development of bank-issued credit cards, the forerunners of what are now Visa and MasterCard, was instituted by the F...

Changing Twentieth Century Aesthetic Norms Regarding Black Literature

In six pages the ways in which black literature's aesthetic norms have changed and evolved are discussed in a consideration of the...

Pre Meiji Japan, Literature, and Feudalism

In five pages this paper considers feudal Japan in a comparative analysis of two works of literature Donald Keene's Anthology of J...

Respecting Nature and Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone became a meeting ground as bands traveled there for pigments or obsidian or other resources not readily plentiful else...

The Impact of World War II on Literature

first novel, Tales of the South Pacific (Macmillan, 1947) (Meador 14). This book, which was based on actual World War II experienc...

Cult of Courtly Love and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

This paper consists of 10 pages and examines the reflection of courtly love in this poem and its false ideals. There are 9 source...

Paul's Christian Understanding and Faith Message in the Corinthians First Epistle, Chapter 15

as an example to those sinners. His central message preaches the truth that the grace of God is still available and attainable fo...

'Americana and the American Renaissance' by Wallace Stevens

In 5 pages this 1950 poem serves as a reflection on the American literary Renaissance characterized by Walt Whitman and Ralph Wald...

Nursing, Pregnancy, and Use of Cocaine

In twelve pages contemporary literature relevant to the nursing role in at risk population pregnancies concentrating on the use of...

Verse Exposition of 1 Corinthians 1:5

In this essay consisting of 5 pages, the long letter written by St. Paul for instructional purposes is considered as reflection of...

The Culture of the Depression Era in Anthem by Ayn Rand

In a paper consisting of five pages the argument is presented that the novel is a reflection of the Depression era at its best and...

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Anne Tyler's Saint Maybe and Examples of Literary Christianity

Way" for Ian: forget college, provide for and rescue aging parents from the care of Lucys kids (ages six, three, and baby) and "se...