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Student Supplied Readings on Being Human

the singing of cell phones. Nature has somehow gotten away from those who live in this brick and mortar and cyber society. Many ...

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

the worst storm to batter England in recorded history in late November through early December, 1703 (De Wire 34). One DeFoe schola...

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and a Literary Criticism of a Particular Passage

to Rochester to collude in the concealing their past" and overall many of the episodes from the past are forgotten by "the willed ...

Thematic Comparative Analysis of Gloria Anzaldua's Hybridity and Creative Identity as Described in Borderlands and Toni Morrison's Sula

related to sexist elements in society. Within her work are the essential themes used in "African-American and expressive enterpris...

Superhero Films, Comics, and Cartoons and Their American Significance During the Second World War and the Cold War

Comics and cartoons which appeared in daily newspapers and magazines in the 1930s and 1940s were considered originally to be an ex...

Reality and Illusion in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

she could display for all to see. She possessed all the "shallowness" (Fitzgerald PG) of a person who knew not how to love yet kn...

Failed Marriages in The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James and The Awakening by Kate Chopin

to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyzes her emotions. She learns from years of fighting those bottled up emotions that s...

Edith Wharton, Charles Dickens, and Charlotte Bronte on Experience and Innocence

In 5 pages the themes of innocence and experience as they are depicted in these Victorian and post Victorian literary works The Ho...

Maturity in Legacy, a Novel by James A. Michener

with methodical, journeyman style. As he told a radio interviewer in 1992: "My job is to be a hard-working man who sits at a moder...

An Analysis of Adultery in The Scarlet Letter

This 5 page paper reviews The Scarlet Letter, the classic first published in 1850. Even then, however, adultery was a universal t...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and the Character of Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale

In eight pages this paper presents a character analysis of Rev. Dimmesdale in a focus of the adultery theme in Hawthorne's novel. ...

Poetic Analysis of 'Hazel Tells LaVerne' by Kathryn Howd Machan

LaVerne," is a monologue of cleaning woman, who tells her friend of a strange encounter she had while performing her nightly toile...

Jean Genet/Querelle

This discussion of Jean Genet's Querelle offers an overview of the text and addresses the author's theme, which pertain to society...

Comparing The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith and Martin Eden by Jack London

In five pages these two novels' themes are contrasted and compared. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

Analysis of the Poem 'Lob' by Edward Thomas

In five pages this paper examines how lines thirteen to twenty represent Edward Thomas' poem 'Lob' and also analyzes poetic devisi...

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

1938 Remarque lost his citizenship, and he left Germany. He moved to Switzerland and later to the United States. All Quiet on the ...

An Occurrence at Owl Creek by Bierce

point out that the subject of death and dying has taken on new meaning in recent times. There is now recognition of similar events...

August Strindberg's Portrayal of Naturalism in His Plays

lower classes, provided subjects worthy of serious literary treatment. Correspondingly these dramas were to be rendered in as natu...

Comparative Analysis of William Shakespeare's Hamlet and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

In five pages this character analysis compares Hamlet to Nick Carraway and Claudius to Tom Buchanan with themes also compared. Th...

Marlow and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

In five page this paper examines the novel in terms of its themes, conflicts, and the protagonist Charlie Marlow. Three sources a...

Narrator Sammy in 'A and P' by John Updike

to whom Sammy is attracted, enter the A&P, there is a problem. The manager berates them, and they are seemingly embarrassed. Samm...

Macbeth by William Shakespeare and 'A Pardoner's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer Compared

In five pages the shared themes and death emphasis of these two notorious literary classics are contrasted and compared. Three so...

Reconstruction to the Populist Party in U.S. History

Lincoln developed a reasonable Reconstruction plan to stitch the nation back together again. But again, remember we are talking a...

A Review of Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

A 6 page analysis of the societal message being presented in this work. Plot and characters are outlined and the emphasis that th...

Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles and Conflict

In five pages the ways in which the theme of conflict influences characters, diction, and syntax in this novel are explored. Two ...

Scenes from Shakespeare

In five pages this paper discusses characters and themes in certain scenes from William Shakespeare's plays Troilus and Cressida, ...

Blood in the Face The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads and the Rise of a New White Culture by James Ridgeway Overview and Analysis

In five pages this paper applies the text themes to such concepts as identity, ethnocentrism, and subculture along with reader rec...

Culture and Crime in the Works of Oscar Wilde

In five pages this paper discusses the lack of incongruity between crime and culture as this theme pertains to Wilde's An Ideal Hu...

Brief Synopsis of William Faulkner's Barn Burning

This paper offers an explication of the story in three pages and includes setting, tone, style, characters, summary, narrator, the...

Nature of Evil in 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

In five pages this paper discusses the theme of evil within the context of this short story by Shirley Jackson. There are no othe...