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Women Doctors

and early 1900s found it a particularly difficult career to pursue because of the prejudice against a woman doctor. She seems som...

Valerie Polakow's Lives on the Edge Single Mothers and their Children in the Other America

children, Polakow says makes it seem as the nations elected officials and policy-makers think and act as if poverty seen is a priv...

Scholarly Opinion on John 21, Verses 15 through 18

Jesus disciples, literally as pastor (i.e., shepherd) alongside the enigmatic Beloved Disciple." 1 However, in expressing the mea...

William Close's Novel Ebola

was unconscionable. Little did these religious people know that they would face an insurmountable medical problem. Ebola was on it...

A Review of Holes

A 5 page analysis of irony and dark humor in the book by Louis Sachar. Character and plot development revolve around both. 1 sourc...

Concepts of Restraint and Freedom in Utopia by Thomas More

the society of sixteenth-century England. For example, the Utopian cities are all built on similar lines, at least as far as possi...

'The Way of Duty' and 'Mary Silliman's War'

This paper consists of 6 pages and compares the book The Way of Duty by Joy and Richard Buel and the film version, Mary Silliman's...

The Significance of Fire in The Beast in the Jungle

An 8 page analysis of the book by Henry James. This paper illuminates the significance of fire. 3 sources....

A Review of Extinct Humans

A 5 page essay that provides an overview of the book by Tattersall and Schwartz. The focus is evolution as it has been expererien...

A Discussion of Babette's Feast

This 5 page essay illuminates the message and presentation in Babette's Feast. Based on the book by Isaak Dineson this film prese...

Joseph Smith, the Dead's 'Voice,' and the Mormons

In four pages this paper discusses the dead's voice as provided by Joseph Smith in Age of Reason as well as in The Book of Mormon ...

Nega Mezlekia's 'Notes from the Hyena's Belly'

we later see Mezlekia escape to the Netherlands and later to Canada. The time period is primarily the 1960s and the 1970s. This wa...

The City of God - Two Cities

of his time period would see the end of the one city, the city of man, and the reign of another, the city of God. One author state...

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and 'Nothing To Fear'

This paper consists of six pages and analyzes how the issues the book raises lend themselves to the quote 'nothing to fear by fear...

Contrasting Modern Psychiatry with Treatments Featured in 'Girl Interrupted' and 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'

Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest", produced during the 1970s. "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" presents a bleak yet amusing picture of ...

Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness and Race Relations by Brian Ward

post-World War II African-American music was growing up and into the mainstream, the white mainstream, of American consciousness. ...

A Review of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder As Reflected in the Movie Good As It Gets

habits are partially responsible for keeping him at arms length from the rest of the world. Considered for decades to be a diseas...

A Comparison of "1984" and "Brave New World"

This 5 page essay explores George Orwell's futuristic book 1984 and contrasts it with Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. 4 sources ...

Washington at Work Back Rooms and Clean Air by Richard E. Cohen

In eight pages this paper examines the Clean Air Act of 1990 and related issues within the context of this book by Richard E. Cohe...

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan and Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

This 5 page essay analyzes discourse as it manifests in these books. Reality differs according to narrator perception. 2 sources...

The Sweet Herafter

In this six page report the writer provides an overview of the movie and book renditions of the school bus accident that took the ...

After the Odyssey

The writer presents a creative essay written in iambic pentameter, describing the journey Teiresias commanded Odysseus to make aft...

Jean de Coras verses Gertrude B. Himmlefarb in The Return Of Martin Guerre and The New History and the Old: Critical Essays and Reappraisals

In this six paper paper the writer explores the book by Jean de Coras and updated by Nathalie Z. Davis. This exploration occurs a...

Characterization and Realism in the Dickens Classic Great Expectations

This work is discussed in depth and realism is the focus of attention along with a look at characterization. This paper looks at h...

Themes of A Tale of Two Cities

The idea of sacrifice is the focus of attention in the context of this thoughtful analysis of this Dickens tale. Darnay and Carton...

Works of D.H. Lawrence

In four pages the political views and books of D.H. Lawrence are examined in terms of human nature and sexuality. Three sources a...

British Literature and the Theme of Sin

In fifteen pages this paper discusses how sin is depicted in the Books of Genesis and Romans as well as how it is thematically dev...

Overview of a Family's Holocaust Horrors in Tale I of Art Spiegelman's Maus

In ten pages this paper examines Art Spiegelman's cartoon book in a consideration of how one family managed to survive the Holocau...

Concentration Camp Understanding and Night by Eli Wiesel

on the cold night air, and see the tendrils of smoke as they curl up through the lights above the camp. It is a prison. The sigh...

Honestly Appraising Political Opposition in Binka Le Breton's A Land to Die For

Journalist Binka Le Breton's investigation into the assassination of Brazilian priest Josimo Morals Tavares consists of seven page...