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Geoffrey Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales

This essay delves into the man behind The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer. The author utilizes both an in depth reading of the...

Evil as a Theme in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Dante's Divine Comedy

A research paper addressing the portrayal of evil in Dante's Divine Comedy and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The author draws the c...

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

In six pages this paper examines the protagonist in this novel by Joseph Conrad in terms of how he represents man's emotions. Ten...

Men in the Life and Work of Edith Wharton II

In four pages this paper discusses how the men in Edith Wharton's novels Summer and Ethan Frome reflect the actual men in her life...

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

In five pages these works are contrasted and compared with similar themes of man's goodness and the conflict between freedom and c...

Prejudice, Assimilation and Tolerance

call these people barbarians, in respect to the rules of reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind o...

Napoleon Bonaparte v. Adolf Hitler

In eight pages this paper compares these two men's leadership styles and power base abuses of each. Seven sources are cited in th...

Brazil's Machismo

In ten pages this report discusses the profound impact of Brazilian men's machismo on the country's women and children. Eight sou...

Willy Loman's Tragedy in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In five pages Miller's contention that 'tragedy is the conscience of a man's total compulsion to evaluate himself justly' is analy...

Young Men, Violence, and its Causes

In five pages this paper examines drugs, poverty, and media desensitization as possible causes for young men's violent behavior. ...

Epictetus and Soren Kierkegaard

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these men's concepts regarding personal development, selfhood, despair, and fait...

Book Review of Black Elk Speaks by John G. Neihardt

In five pages this book review considers the Ogala Sioux holy man's story and the lessons readers can learn from it. One source i...

Malcolm X's Transformation

This paper discusses how The Autobiography of Malcolm X reflects the man's spiritual transformation in six pages. Three sources a...

A Comparison of Two Southern Literary Works by Agee and Hurston

This paper compares and contrasts the views of the rural south as seen in James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, and Zora Neal...

Frederick Douglass and Alexander Pope - A Critical Comparison

young age, producing a large body of critical works that examined what he perceived as some of the most pressing societal ills of ...

Forgiveness and the Dew Breaker

through several short stories, including those of his victims and their families. In the novel we meet the Dew Breaker later in ...

Society, Man and Destiny

In ten pages this paper evaluates the extent of man's power over his fate within the literary contexts of 'Epic of Gilgamesh,' 'Th...

Human Nature According to Thomas Hobbes and Hsun Tzu

In eight pages this paper discusses man's social role within the contexts of Hsun Tzu and Thomas Hobbes. Six sources are cited in...

Mankind and the Environment - Exploitation or Stewardship

present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" (WECD, 1987). This approach clearly indica...

Why I Want to be an Actor: Chasing the Dream

A young man's description of wanting to be an actor in a consideration of imagination, training, developing character, and stage p...

American Dream as Represented by Frederick Douglass and Benjamin Franklin

In five pages this paper examines how these important men's lives reflect the concept of the American Dream as depicted within Nar...

Motivation Theories

In five pages types of employee motivation are considered in the theories of Adam Smith's 'economic man, Taylorism, social man of ...

Midlife Crisis and Men

In nine pages this paper discusses 'male menopause' or men's midlife crisis in terms of definition, symptoms, and how to cope with...

The Similarities in Thinking of Bonhoeffer, Luther, and Augustine

In a paper consisting of six pages the writer argues that despite living in different times these men's concepts and thoughts were...

Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels

her fate, whether it was quick, or lingering. Close to starvation, Jakob is discovered by Athos Roussos, a Greek geologist who has...

Book of Daniel Analysis

In a paper consisting of twenty five pages the Old Testament's Book of Daniel is extensively analyzed and presents the argument su...

Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding

In three pages this paper examines how a good man's virtues are represented in the novel by Abraham Adams and Joseph Andrews. Two...

The Struggle of Assimilation

In a paper consisting of 6 pages the struggles encountered by a Korean man and a black man in white community assimilation are exa...

Concepts of Saint Thomas Aquinas

has likely already noted that . Bracken (1996) suggests that what is missing from Aquinass argument is a distinction between per...

Mechanistic and Teleological Views of the World

In five pages this paper examines life's purpose and God as represented by these worldviews with such works as The Antichrist, Med...