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Gothic Cathedrals of 1100 to 1500 A.D.

a major representative example and therefore more widely reviewed. Following subsections discuss the changes in cathedral constru...

Hemmingway, Farewell to Arms, and the Lost Generation

from the Lost Generation. Consider, for example, Ernest Hemmingways "A Farewell to Arms". "A Farewell to Arms" is a story of the...

Crocus sativus Saffron

Saffron has been used by mankind for centuries. It represents, in fact, one of the worlds most valuable substances. Consequently...

Hawkings Perspective on Time

This paper provides a critical discussion of Stephen Hawkings book A Brief History of Time. The paper’s author discusses how Hawk...

The Slow Process of Reform in Health Care

In a paper of four pages, the author reflects on the issue of health care reform and considers reasons that it has taken such a lo...

Sigmund Freud And Jose Ortega y Gassett

prone to violence if left on its own. Freud began his essay by acknowledging that the existence of a war leads to confusion within...

“The Story of Mathematics”

killed in battle. Whatever the precise thing or event they represented in that hazy chapter of mans early history, one thing is c...

Worldview of Washington Irving in 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'

But Ichabod has a problem, in the form of "Brom Bones," the nickname the locals have given to Abraham ("Brom" Van Brunt, a strong ...

A Gang Subculture Sociological Analysis

In this paper consisting of nine pages the text Monster The Autobiography of An L.A. Gang Member by Sanyika Shakur is examined as ...

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

In four pages this Spanish classic is examined in terms of how this represents the author's commentary regarding the countrymen an...

Thomas Malory's 'Every Man' and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Pardoner's Tale'

In an essay consisting of six pages what can be gleaned from these author's respective societies and times based on the stories is...

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

in his imagination as an "experimental novel, written like a play" (Hadella 5), dramatizing the working people and their striving ...

Rights of Women in 'A Jury of Her Peers' by Susan Glaspell

In five pages this story is analyzed in terms of how it reflects the legal and social rights of women during the author's time per...

Grisham's A Time to Kill and Racism

This research paper/essay examines Grisham's novel A Time to Kill and also offers a brief overview of the author's life in order t...

Stakeholder Strategy by Ann Svendsen

In four paages this business text is reviewed in terms of the author's view that profits must be maximized while at the same time ...

Thomas Pynchon's V. and Gender Issues

Pynchon's first novel is addressed in the context of this well written paper. This author treated characterization for the women q...

Analysis of Frank Conroy's Stop Time

that night, or of what they would be doing at school the next day. They are only thinking about the moment at hand. Frank speaks...

Moors and Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

have learnt the duty and office of a fore-mast man, and in time might have qualified myself for a mate or lieutenant, if not for a...

Emma Lazarus' Life and Times

rejection highly influenced Lazaruss "Spagnoletto," which provided Lazarus with the "literary props" to effectively represent the ...

Poetry and Time

can one accept that time runs out and that everyone will die someday? After all, time is of the essence. How does one love, be hap...

The War Against Boys How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men by Christina Hoff Sommers

In five pages this report considers Sommers' 2000 text and the assertion that in contemporary America boys are having a more diffi...

Society's Influence on Fitzgerald and Williams

and a truly brazen attitude - were in vogue, as was drinking. Although Prohibition was in force to try to prevent people from imbi...

Times Reflected in the Writings of John Keats, Moliere, and Niccolo Machiavelli

and was able to study their political tactics, particularly those of the ecclesiastic and soldier Cesare Borgia, who was at that t...

Time Travel: Possibilities

consider the situation of Sally and Sam, who are identical twins. While Sam remains at home, Sally gets on a rocket ship, "travels...

Backwoods of Canada by Catharine Parr Traill

For example, she is intrigued when the ship passes islands that have herd of cattle grazing on them. The captain explained that lo...

6 Latin American and Spanish Authors' Styles of Writing

of a historical document based on the observations of Columbus. ALONSO DE ERCILLA Y ZUNIGA Born in Spain in 1533, Ercilla became...

A Look at Great Expectations in the Context of the Author's Life

1824-1827 he was a "day pupil at a school in London" (Cody). But the year in the blacking factory "haunted him all of his life" t...

Latino Author's St. Mary's Church Memories

both Rosa and Marianna attended. Father Ramirez and Sister Stevens spent long hours in that basement classroom teaching us abou...

Haunted America by Patricia Limerick

people who eventually fought each other had prior history together. "Before whites and Indians would feel inclined to fight each o...

Pa Chin's "Family" - Author's Message

both grand and far-reaching; that this conundrum proves damaging to the familys whole infrastructure speaks to the underlying mess...