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Comparing The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain and The Sketch Book The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving

The temporary absence of worldly scenes and employments produces a state of mind peculiarly fitted to receive new and vivid impres...

Language and Imagery in Depicting Opposition in Stories of Snow by P,K. Page and The Smooth Skull of Winter by Gretel Ehrlich

In five pages this comparative analysis considers how imagery and language are used to portray opposition in these works. There a...

Are There Accurate Portrayals of Hispanics in The Mark of Zorro, Lust in the Dust, and West Side Story?

In four pages this paper evaluates if the portrayal of Hispanics in these three films is accurate. Five sources are cited in the ...

Opposition in The Smooth Skull of Winter by Gretel Ehrlich and Stories of Snow by P.K. Page

In five pages this paper examines opposition in a contrasting and comparison of these works. There are no other sources listed....

Self Discovery in the Stories 'In Country' by Bobbie Ann Mason and 'Mules and Men' by Zora Neale Hurston

The self discovery journey and sense of place featured in these works are contrasted and compared in five pages. Two sources are ...

Using Structure to Develop the Story in How to Make an American Quilt and The Color Purple

This 9 page paper describes the way in which two authors use structure to develop the ideas in their books. The works under consid...

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie, The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, and Postcolonialism

In five pages these texts are compared in terms of how postcolonialism manifests itself in each. Three sources are cited in the b...

Environmental Collapse and Kathryn Phillips' Tracking the Vanishing Frogs and Michael Harris' Lament for an Ocean A True Crime Story

mystery to what is underneath our declining environment. There is, in fact, one common factor. That factor is man himself. "Lam...

The Role Of Food In Carol Shields' Novel "Swann"

kitchen, ultimately expressing the inherent fortitude that comprises the female spirit. Beyond the gender element of food in Shie...

Ritalin, Pro & Con

vision problems or learning disabilities or "whether a childs behavior is simply immature or exuberant" ("Attention" 77). Accurate...

Chopin's Awakening/Edna & Adele & Mme. Reisz

On a conscious level, Edna realizes that she can never be like Adele. Therefore, she is also drawn towards Mademoiselle Reisz, who...

Frida/Accuracy of Recent Film

Frida, as a young teen, sneaking into an auditorium to watch Diego painting a mural. Diegos wife Lupe appears and confronts Diego ...

Catalyst for Bad Behavior at Work

Culture is the sum total of characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people. Our culture tells us what is acceptable...

Post-War Adjustment: Literary Comparison

to the soldier, but to his family and the citizens in whose names he fought (Swofford). The author notes how those...

Imperialism & Conrad's Heart of Darkness

complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves" (Bowers 91). Marlow is discouraged by other Europeans who work for the enigm...

"A Beautiful Mind" - Six Concepts

the disease from ultimately overtaking his very being; rather, in a quirk that even science cannot fully explain, he is able to se...

Sense and Sensibility/Novel v. Film

mother, Elinor and Marianne (who are both young women) and younger sister Margaret, by beginning with the death of Henry Dashwood,...

Controversial Literature: Huck Finn

imitates life (Hamlin et al 12). It is important for the student to realize that as essential as Huckleberry Finns character was ...

Homicidal Fantasy

qualitative methodology because it strives to reach much more deeply into the subject matter than its quantitative counterpart, pr...

Federal Shield Law: A Journalist's Right

From anonymous to citizen to professional to criminal, informants are comprised of various types of individuals who uphold an asso...

Accuracy in the Film "Frida"

draw and paint, which is a "direct expression" of "her interior life" (Young 29). When she is finally able to walk again, she visi...

Ralph Ellison/The Dream at the end of "Battle Royal"

the leading black American of his era, gave at a primarily white audience in Atlanta in 1895. This speech became known as the "Atl...

Submissive Characters In Children's Literature: Influence Upon Self-Perception In Female Children

set down for them without making any fuss. Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen, authors of Writing and Reading Across the Curri...

Turkle's "Can You Hear Me Now?" - Summary/Response

his species - has long been a determinant of how advanced human beings have become throughout the ages. Fire established man as a...

Jean-Paul Sartre/The Flies

plagued by both flies and a sense of overwhelming guilt. The stage is dominated by a statue of Zeus, "god of flies and death," whi...

Ishmael Beah/A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

verge of being reunited with his family, only to have this chance taken away by another rebel attack. He is changed by his experie...

Gatsby & The American Dream

her well-loved eyes" (Fitzgerald 111). As this suggests, Gatsbys many possessions and signs of extreme wealth are not important ...

Cheikh Hamidou Kane/Ambiguous Adventure

the structural framework of the novel, as it demonstrates the authors reliance on dialogue, both between characters and also the i...

Media And Domestic Violence

Disease Control and Prevention, impacts almost twenty-five percent of American women who are reported to have been abused at some ...

"The Kite Runner" - Formalist And Psychological Analysis

never-ending gnawing of social class expectations, guilt from betrayal and his all-embracing quest for redemption. There is nary ...