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Evaluation of Sudden Fiction Edited by Robert Shapard and James Thomas

he is about to leave home, his oldest daughter asks her mother to do the can-can. His wife kicks up her heels and begins to dance....

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

chocolates. However, whether he realizes it or not, he is still a hero for trying to the utmost of his ability to correct a situat...

Literary Analysis of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The work was going on. The work! And this was the place where some of the helpers had withdrawn to die. They were dying slowly it ...

Comparing the Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne

he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...

Mordecai Richler and Margaret Atwood on Self Victimization

"moves slowly, but surely into a plotline filled with many serious topics: abuse, rape, the inability to love, the immediate reper...

The Culture, History and Artistry of Black America

vision, no true identity, and certainly does not connect with his African American culture. His mother, however, changes some o...

'The Merchant's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

and hoor; /Thanne is a wife the fruit of his tresor" (Chaucer 55-58). At this point, it is not certain that Januarie sees, as ce...

Religion in Beloved by Toni Morrison and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

on a culture. Indeed, to mask such somber episodes as Umuofias abrupt European colonization as being an important part of global ...

Masculinity in Modern Cinema

the natural disaster" (Action Films, 2002). Marchetti also states that action-adventure films have long been the domain of male...

Comparing Greek Classics 'The Aeneid' by Virgil, 'The Bacchae' by Euripides, and 'Oedipus the King' by Sophocles

his rule to all those who regarded him as an interloper. He sought the assistance of his most trusted advisor, his brother-in-law...

Pat Conroy's Novel The Prince of Tides Compared with 1991 Film Adaptation

the event of Savannahs hospitalization after a second suicide attempt and Toms journey to New York to assist her psychologist, Dr....

Medea, Wide Sargasso Sea, and Gender Roles

dynamics of the power relationship between them is more complicated than a simple balance between active and passive: at the start...

History of Quaker Oats

This research paper realtes the history and tremendous success of the Quaker Oats Food Company. This includes an overview of the ...

Supervision Model Project/Coeur d’Alene School District

phases of interaction between mentors and learner: the planning conference; lesson observation and a reflection conference (Cognit...

Art, Women, and Elsa Honig Fine's A History of Women Painters and Sculptors from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century

In ten pages this paper discusses this text's perspectives on art and women. Nine sources are cited in the bibliography....

Thematic Analysis of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and Ethan Frome and “The House of Mirth”: The Themes of Loneliness, Isolation, and Silence

on his feelings because of the societal mores of his day. The closest town, Starkefield, symbolizes these mores. Central to the ...

Parallel Themes and Descriptiveness in 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle' by Washington Irving

of his talent. He sees and then conveys meaning in the smallest of details and, again, weaves them together in ways that create th...

Comparing the Main Characters and Dark Themes of Hawthorne's The Minister's Black Veil and Young Goodman Brown.

concealed his frame and face from onlookers by wearing a black cloak, as a symbol of a fearful secret between him and them" (Barna...

The Themes of Motherhood and Maternalism in Dessa Rose by Sherley Ann Williams and Beloved by Toni Morrison

-- could be guaranteed. Then Sethes mother had to return to the fields, and Sethe would be nursed -- insufficiently -- by the whit...

Theme of Vengeance The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende and Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

In seven pages the thematic representation of violence in these literary works is contrasted and compared. There is 1 source cite...

Death and Sex Symbolism and Themes in 'Patriotism' by Yukio Mishima and 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

Throughout the story, the reader is forced to determine just which gender Emily actually represents. Additionally, it becomes cle...

An Overview of the Theme of Intimidation in A Rose for Emily and Big Black Good Man

This 5 page essay explores Faulkner's and Wright's choices of characters and their common burden of intimidation. Interrelationsh...

Comparative Analysis of Catholic Themes in Colleen McCullough's The Thorn Birds and Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory

The ways in which priests and Catholicism are thematically depicted in these texts are contrasted and compared in a paper which co...

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Miller's Tale,' 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,' and the Themes of Code and Courtesy

In five pages this paper evaluates whether the honor code and courtesy are used righteously or self righteously in these Medieval ...

Singular Theme of Michel Saint Jean de Crevecoeur, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin?

his background/ mindset was initially staunchly European. Consequently, besides being writers who lived during the 18th century, w...

Modernist Themes in 'Death in Venice' and 'Mrs. Dalloway' Compared

Complex inner feelings and emotions as conveyed by modernist authors Thomas Mann and Virginia Woolf are compared and contrasted al...

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, Brown Girls, Brownstones by Paule Marshall, and The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros and the Theme of Domestic Space

Esperanza. Her family cannot afford to buy a home, so they are forced to live in a dilapidated and overcrowded tenement on Chicag...

Comparative Analysis of Lessons and Themes in E.M. Forster's 'A Passage to India,' Graham Green's 'The Heart of the Matter,' and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's 'Heat and Dust'

A feminist approach is used in this paper consisting of five pages in which reliance upon spirituality is stronger and more import...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and a Reaction to Its Good vs. Evil Theme

we use our life experiences to decide what wee believe otherwise to be. In Young Goodman Brown we are faced with a...

Jorge Amado's Gabriela, Clove, and Cinnamon, Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera and the Theme of Love

In 5 pages this paper compares and contrasts how each author portrays love in his respective literary works. There are no other s...