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Essays 1831 - 1860

Kassovitz's "La Haine" - a Marxist Criticism

as a document of ongoing social struggles in disenfranchised urban ghettos, or "banlieues" around Paris (Cartelli, 2008). The titl...

The Problem with Literacy Teaching in Schools

To potential value of a dialogic pedagogy has been recognized in different government policies. For example, in 2005 with the EPPI...

Witness to Jonestown, An Analysis

Witness to Jonestown, provides a film that commemorates the thirtieth anniversary of an event that is indelibly etched in the memo...

Discussion Questions for Death of a Salesman

he is only concerned with whether or not a given plan can be called a "million dollar idea" (Miller 2012). Despite signs that Biff...

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

denigrating to himself as he comforts John R. Isidore, a "special," that is, someone affected by the omnipresent radioactive dust,...

A Comparison, Poe and Longfellow

Psalm of Life" and Edgar Allan Poes "Sonnet-To Science" address the way that each poet perceived life and the reality of their era...

Counseling According to Scripture

can help. Anderson points out that secular counseling is not holistic in that it does not generally include the persons spiritual...

Pierre et Jean by Guy de Maupassant

Jean, which is evident from the picture of the family friend that his mother keeps on the mantelpiece. Unaware of the torturous th...

"Helas" and the Victorian Hypocrisy

by comparing his own life to a "twice-written scroll", bearing marks from both a pursuit of intellectual virtues, and a pursuit of...

Falls and the Retired Population - An Annotated Bibliography

The writer reviews and present the main theme of fifteen articles that would be useful in a project to assess the impact that fal...

Myth and Allegory in Beowulf

and Christian values that are embedded within the narrative; in other words, it, like many myths, intends to convey a central less...

The Raven, 1963 Film and Poe's Poem

of its first publication in 1845, Edgar Allan Poes poem "The Raven" has been an element in American cultural influencing the publi...

Literary Overview of 'A Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens

the commoners, Darnay renounces his title to the Evremonde Estate and goes back to England to live. He proposes to Lucie and she a...

Maya Angelou's Poem 'Woman Work'

is left out: herself. "Shine on me, sunshine Rain on me, rain...

Oscar Wilde's Gothic Novel The Picture of Dorian Gray

the landed wealthy(Frank 1981). The heroine is often too perfect and too sweet, whereas the heroes are usually young and dashing, ...

Intrusion and Gwendolyn Brooks

little from life. And, they are seen as beautiful for they are all described as "oaken" which, while illustrating they are African...

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson: An Analysis of Part I and Part II

way to Las Vegas to find the American Dream" (Thompson 6). In Part I of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Duke is motivated by his ...

Loneliness in Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men

in its effect (Goldhurst 49). Critical opinion agrees on this point. The time scheme covered by the narrative is from Thursday eve...

Dead Poet's Society and the Motif of Carpe Diem

to his students. He gives them no time to "adjust," but leaps right in with both feet on the first day by having the class read Ro...

Things Fall Apart by Achebe and Heart of Darkness by Conrad

with this great solitude" (73). Kurtz allows all of his most primitive desires to run rampant. The experience of being away from a...

Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel

on her symptoms she has cancer. Soon, Hagar will be an angel. But, since she is such a tough old bird, difficult to those trying t...

The Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko and Searching for Self

it is as much a story about the Earth as it is a story about the human characters that strive to seek resolution to the very real ...

Joseph Conrad's 'The Lagoon'

thinks the woman will die. Arsat is very sad and while he waits out the long night he begins to tell his friend about how he came ...

Beloved by Toni Morrison and Slavery Issues

We see that part of the past is dead, with the death of Baby Suggs who was a constant reminder of slavery and the hope inherently ...

Compare and Contrast: Welty's Why I Live at the P.O. and Walker's Everyday Use

been. She is flighty. She moved out of the family home early, as soon as she began college, but Maggie is still living at home. Wh...

Literary Analysis of Ernest Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants'

to convince her that having the abortion is no big deal. PATTERN OF SYMBOLS ASSOCIATED WITH MODERN WORLD It is an interesti...

Analyzing 'The Train' and 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

that if they go to Florida, where it has been rumored that there is an escaped murderer loose, they will all be killed. The family...

Njabulo Ndebele's The Prophetess

a good character is that they are three dimensional. They are that curious blend of good and evil, saint and sinner, and have the ...

'The Bluest Eye' by Toni Morrison and the Issues of Self Hatred and Beauty

was dictated by the fact that they were not white, and according to Katherine McKittricks literary criticism, they accepted their ...

Crime and Punishment in The Odyssey

growing stronger and more defiant with every passing episode. "...Homer certainly recognizes the notion of intention, and in many...