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Beloved and Personal Demons

She has attempted to find a place in herself wherein she can survive and go on despite her actions. It is a very cloudy place that...

Neely's Spilled Salt

both Myrna and Kenny is quite apparent. Myrna cannot really help Kenny, even if she is able to reach him. After all, he raped a gi...

Turning Points

pride and sense that he must be completely honest, telling her that he has these feelings in spite of knowing she is inferior to h...

Mordecai: An Early American Family (Book Report)

North. The business this family chose to engage in, at least eventually, was education. They started a school. The school would be...

Suffering and Conflict in Cultures

not necessarily better than the other. Death was perceived as a place, a further step in life that would offer more security and s...

A Worn Path by Eudora Welty

about my feet, time I get this far,...Something always take a hold of me on this hill- pleads I should stay" (Welty). There is no ...

Theme in Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper

how her husband clearly has no idea what is bothering his wife, although he clearly also presumes to have the answer in taking her...

Science Fiction Shakespeare

possible, but have not been invented yet. This will sound strange, because science itself is just getting started, but really, all...

Sundiata: The Text and the Man

in Africa. The importance of the character in the book is that he becomes a true hero. Conde frames the story of Sundiata "with g...

"Murders in the Rue Morgue" and Concepts of Intelligence

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "Murders in the Rue Morgue". The story is analyzed for its philosophical stance on ...

Updike's A&P and the Conflict of Values

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Updike's A&P. Moral values inherent in the story are explicated. Paper uses one sou...

Transamerica, a Film Review

This film review pertains to Transamerica (2005, directed by Duncan Tucker), which is the story of Sabrina "Bree" Osborne, a trans...

Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ

as director. This Catholic perspective is also quite evident in the fact that Mary, the mother of Jesus, is the most prevalent c...

Book of Esther

no historical value to the Book of Esther and that it is a "work of the imagination, written for the purpose of popularizing the f...

Ovid & Hesiod/Creation Myths

narratives opening reveals. Hesiod pictures the "Void or Chaos" as primordial environment, then comes Earth (Gaia) and then Ero...

Vulnerability: Chopin and Godwin

A 4 page paper which compares and contrasts the characters in The Story of an Hour by Kate Choping and A Sorrowful Woman by Gail G...

In Admiration of Job

substantiates this position by indicating that the origins of Job can be found in folk poetry, but also believes that the beauty o...

Shelley's Frankenstein, Adam Imagery

This essay pertains to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's nineteenth century gothic novel Frankenstein and the allusions that Shelley m...

William Wilberforce and the Definition of Statesmanship

This paper concludes that the life story of Wilberforce might prompt one to examine personal motivation and the need for objectivi...

"The Wizard of Oz" Group Development

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at group development in "The Wizard of Oz". Four stages of development (forming, stormin...

Analysis of "Martha of California"

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "Martha of California". The paper explores various details of the story. Paper uses...

Zadie Smith's White Teeth, Role of Ancestry

This essay is on "White Teeth" by Zadie Smith. This novel relates the stories of a multiethnic cast of characters, focusing partic...

Franz Kafka and the Big Bug

There are four central themes in Kafka's Metamorphosis: the absurdity of life, the disconnect between mind and body, the limits of...

Humanity's Future, Science Fiction Visions

This essay pertains to the novel "Dawn" by Octavia Butler and the films "District 9" and "The Omega Man," and argues that each of ...

Susie Taylor Experiences on Simons Island

In a paper of three pages, the author writes about the wartime experiences of Susie King Taylor. The author of this paper summariz...

Themes in The Picture of Dorian Gray

This 4 page paper gives an overview of the story The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. This paper includes a discussion of ho...

Readers Response to the Novel Fahrenheit 451

This 3 page paper gives a response to the authors reading of the novel Fahrenheit 451. This paper includes examples from the text ...

Analysis of “The Zebra Storyteller”

This 4 page paper gives an analysis of the story The Zebra Storyteller. This paper includes both lateral and vertical analysis as ...

American Values Found Within The Scarlet Letter

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the story The Scarlet Letter. This paper includes how the theme and parts of the novel refl...

Questions Concerning Five Works of Literature

This 3 page paper gives answers to questions about the works Song of Myself, slave narratives, Bartleby the Scrivener the subtitle...