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Overcoming Fear - A Personal Narrative

quickly made friends, got to know the city, and generally had an excellent time. However, there was one small problem... actually,...

"Dr. Glass-Case" by De Cervantes

Cervantes "rather formulaic" descriptions of Italian cities were "perfectly in tune with the rhetorical canons of the time" (Cerva...

"Girl Who Was Plugged In" by James Tiptree

in "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" provides the author with the means to create a biting critique of contemporary societal values. T...

Adam and Eve and Current Relevance

Bible, it is a common experience that they interpret it according to how they have been taught. For example, Barbara Brown Taylor ...

On Going Home

Joan Didions short story "On Going Home" is a story that describes Didions childhood home and the influences that she...

Women's Participation in Traditionally Male Sports

of the females role in society, which confined women exclusively to the home and the roles of wives and mothers, lingered well int...

"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner

reader with an insiders view on the Southern culture of the era because narrator frequently describes the reactions of the townspe...

Walt Whitman vs. Emily Dickinson

each individual word. Yet, paradoxically, poetry is that art form in which what is unsaid is often as important--or more importan...

Symbolism in Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway

fiction has become a cardinal rule, with the demand being even more stringent in the short story due to its compressed form. Rese...

Moral Liability and Race in Benito Cereno by Herman Melville

In one page this essay discusses how this novel could be interpretated as a story involving moral liability that results from raci...

Motifs of Ancient Greek Literature and Superman

This essay consists of seven pages and presents the argument that the motifs in the contemporary Superman stories are much like th...

2 Articles on the Effects of Family Function Upon Adolescence

In five pages 'The Relation of Family Functioning to Adolescent Psychological Well Being, School Adjustment, and Problem Behavior'...

William Shakespeare Plays Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Hamlet, and Journeys

In five pages the heroic journeys presented in each of these plays by William Shakespeare are analyzed in terms of their significa...

Ellen Weatherall in 'The Jilting of Granny Weatherall' by Katherine Anne Porter

In six pages this short story is analyzed in terms of the title character Ellen Weatherall and considers her strengths and determi...

William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Themes of Pride and Loneliness

In five pages this paper discusses these themes presented in William Faulkner's short story with also literary elements including ...

Analysis of 'The Open Boat' by Stephen Crane

In three pages a short story analysis of 'The Open Boat' is presented. There are no other sources listed....

Myths on Creation

In ten pages the various stories on creation such as Western, Aztec and Mayan, Greco Roman, China, Mesopotamia, and Egypt civiliza...

Mythological Depiction of the Warrior Thor

In two and a half pages this paper discusses the hammer's loss in the story and the warrior and thunderous personality of Thor. T...

Media Depiction of the Affair Between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky

In nine pages ths report discusses media politics in terms of how this extramarital affair between the President of the United Sta...

Analysis of the Covenants and the Old Testament

In eight pages this paper contrasts and compares the covenants with God and the Old Testament stories of David, Moses, Adam and Ev...

Religion and Christian Women

In four pages Christianity is discussed in terms of women's roles with references made to Her Story Women in Christian Tradition ...

Babylonian God Marduk

In six pages this god is traced throughout history with similarities between the Biblical and Babylonian creation stories and the ...

Bona and Paul by Jean Toomer

In five pages this story is analyzed in terms of the importance of color symbolism. There are no other sources listed....

A Comparison and Contrasting Analysis of Sholem Aleichem's 'Fiddler on the Roof' (a.k.a. 'Tevye') and 'Tevye the Dairyman'

only one of 21 collected stories. However, it was the force of Tevyes energetic personality which made him appear dominant in the...

A Book Review of Cerebral Palsy and Irish Medical Care in the 1930's

In 3 pages ‘My Left Foot' by Christy Brown is reviewed and examines the story of how a man's struggles with severe paralysis...

'Platoon' vs. 'Apocalypse Now'

In 5 pages this comparative analysis considers the power of visual images in these films and how war is told through manipulative ...

Inner City Life in Cinema

The ways in which life in the inner cities are portrayed are contrasted and compared in an examination of the films La Haine by Ka...

Poetry, Recreation, Cinema, and Ethnicity

In five pages social and cultural ethnic representations in a Johnson short story, Divakaruni and Clifton poetic themes are discus...

Movies and How the Dracula Character Has Evolved

Transylvanian aristocrat remained unchallenged for nearly twenty-seven years, and it was not until 1958, when the British actor Ch...

London's Globe Theater

In five pages this paper examines London's Globe Theater story from one particular point of view. Four sources are cited in the b...