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Four Examples of Minority Literature

This paper examines four stories from the genre, including Bambara's Medley, Kingston's, No Name Woman, Chavez's The Last of the M...

Thomas Hardy and His Fated Heroine

The writer of this 6 page paper argues that Tess, the heroine of Hardy's novel Tess of the D'Ubervilles, is doomed before the stor...

'Indian Camp' by Ernest Hemingway and the Theme of Coming of Age

may have relevance to the overall plot. What seem to exude from this short story are the elements of pain and fear....

Colin Powell's 1995 Text My American Journey

and judging the enemy. I therefore advised Cheney to accept Norms (Schwarzkopf) recommendation." What he is referring to in this ...

Dhammapada's Social Lessons

In nine pages this paper examines women's role as conceptualized by Dhammapada in a consideration of the Buddha's 'five beauties' ...

A Critical Review of A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch

This 5 page essay examines the reaction the author's story solicited from its readers. 7 sources are cited....

Comparative Analysis of Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea and George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion

In five pages this paper compares the similarities of the turning points in each of these stories. Four sources are cited in the ...

Analyzing 'Swann's Way' by Marcel Proust

my hands, and to blow out the light; I had gone on thinking, while I was asleep, about what I had just been reading, but these tho...

Cinema and Novel Expansion of Blade Runner

but an android is not designed to react emotionally and must formulate a false emphatic response. The difference in the time invol...

'Gilgamesh,' 'Monkeys,' Beings, and Gods

In five pages these stories are contrasted and compared in terms of their presentation of magical creatures and gods. There are n...

David McCullough The Great Bridge

over 276 feet above the high water; and weighed an overwhelming 14,680 tons (Wright 616). For anyone who had the opportunity to s...

Leaving Home According to Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce

In five pages this essay considers the theme of leaving home as experienced by the protagonists in Ernest Hemingway's 'A Soldier's...

Analysis of 'My Father and I' by Par Lagerkvist

In five pages this story is analyzed in terms of metaphor usage and meaning. One source is listed in the bibliography....

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

in the first place. Frankenstein has two obvious choices. He can say I was not thinking of the Creature and was consumed by his ...

'Flying Home' by Ralph Ellison

Home and Other Stories. The story "Flying Home" had actually been published back in 1944, but had received at that time little cr...

Place and Time in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and 'The Miller's Tale'

This paper discusses the social elements represented in time and place aspects of these stories featured in Geoffrey Chaucer's The...

Moral History in Dubliners by James Joyce

In five pages this paper discusses how the relationships between society and its members and the moral obligations that resulted f...

Uncanniness in The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

interpretations. It is, first and foremost, a Gothic novel, which sets the tone for the supernatural aspect of this uncanny work....

Analyzing 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift

all. He knew that writing a political text lamenting the plight of the poor would generate little interest, so in "A Modest Propo...

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Franklin's Tale' and Dorigen's Complaint

tells him of what she has promised. He tells her that she must keep her promises and that he will respect her for doing so. But, a...

Money in 'The Lame Shall Enter First' by Flannery O'Connor and 'The Rocking Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence

Paul one day, "why dont we keep a car of our own? Why do we always use uncles, or else a taxi?" "Because were the poor members of...

Scientific Perspectives of Nathaniel Hawthorne

The information, however, should prove sufficient for further investigation on the part of the student. Tales and Sketches: Scie...

'In The Penal Colony' by Franz Kafka

In six pages dramas by Wenders and Brecht are compared with this 1924 story by Franz Kafka in a consideration of meaning and symbo...

Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror

Crusades, insurrection, the Schism of the Church, and massacres of Jewish people were but part of the horrors of that century. Th...

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Shipman's Tale'

more, this is obvious. We see the complications arise at a particular party: "This noble marchaunt heeld a worthy hous,/ For which...

'The Knight's Tale' and 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and Chaucer's Representation of Destiny and Choice

one year, what it is that women truly want from a man. For whatever reason, the Queen has chosen to give the man a choice - death...

What It Means to Be Female in the Brothers' Grimm's Snow White and L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables

that a cultural connection is thereby forged between sex and virtually every aspect of human experience" (Greenbaum 53). ...

An Analysis of A Rose for Emily

common to the Old South. And, it is in this essentially foundation of control that we see who Emily is and see how she is clearly ...

Historical Significance of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper'

relationship between Gilmans story and the reality of late-nineteenth century life for American women. Shortly after the America...

Ninteenth Century Women in Anton Chekhov's 'The Lady With the Dog' and Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an Hour'

by curiosity, I wanted something better" (Chekhov). However, the better life that she imagined did not materialize with her marria...