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Corporate Leadership: Meg Whitman

for her considerable work and success as the CEO of eBay. However, Whitman was not always a part of this international internet ph...

2 Very Different Popular Songs

holding this note, the music modulates to F and then back to C as the rest of the word is sung to descending tones. The rhythm is ...

Use of Metaphor in Popular Songs

but other support metaphors are also created that emphasis the illusionary quality of attraction that deludes the singer into thi...

Hotel California and California History

in California. The song opens by picturing a "dark desert highway" and the "Warm smell of colitas" (Felder, et al). "Colitas" is...

"The War Drags On" by Donovan

This essay provides analysis and discussion of Donovan's 1969s protest song, "The War Drags On." Seven pages in length, two source...

Compare and Contrast: Jazz by Toni Morrison and Black and Blue by Louis Armstrong

This 5 page paper compares and contrasts Toni Morrison's book Jazz with Louis Armstrong's song Black and Blue....

Khalil Gibran and Love

In 5 pages this paper discusses how the Lebanese poet expresses love in terms of oneness and harmony in such works as 'Song of the...

Civil War and the Poetry of Walt Whitman

In five pages this paper discusses how Walt Whitman represented the Civil War in such poems as 'A March in the Ranks Hard Prest an...

'A Noiseless Patient Spider' by Walt Whitman and 'A Spider Sewed At Night' by Emily Dickinson

In three pages these two poems are contrasted and compared. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson

In 5 pages these influential 19th century authors are examined within the context of their writings 'Preface to Leaves of Grass,' ...

20th Century Glimpses in the 19th Century Poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

In five pages these poets' visions of the next century are examined in a consideration of their respective works. Five sources ar...

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman and its 1855 Preface

time, as well as giving rise by their death to the new life, the "stalwart heir who approaches" (Whitman 1) of the new America....

Science According to the Poems of Walt Whitman and Edgar Allan Poe

1). Using this metaphor, he goes on to say that Science "alterest all things with thy peering eyes," which preys upon his poets h...

Poets Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman

therefore sees the differences between the two as being "artificial" - Dickinson was reclusive, and ridden with doubt, whereas Whi...

Poets Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, and Nature

the spider and it is true for man as well. Obviously, he doesnt actually say this specifically but he instead illustrates it thro...

Symbolism, Theme and Perspective in Two Poems

has grown deep like rivers" (line 4). Setting the line off by itself emphasizes its significance, as it ties the narrator directly...

Religious, Cultural, and Historical Thematic Influences in the Writings of William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, and William Golding

for the Jews at that time. Lastly, William Golding in his novel "The Lord of the Flies" (1954) reveals the theme of the horrors of...

An Analysis of Whitman's A Backward Glance over Traveled Roads

great exception may arise and disregard and overturn it"(Whitman 2003). This would seem to show a type of reflection on...

Meaning of Grace Slick's Song White Rabbit

. . sure, Sgt. Pepper gave the Summer of Love its soundtrack, but White Rabbit melted the patchouli-scented essence of 1967 into t...

Sailor Song by Ken Kesey and Symbolism

In 5 pages the first chapter of Ken Kesey's 1992 novel is analyzed in terms of how its symbolism provides a foundation for the com...

"A Subaltern's Love Song" - Post-Colonial Symbolism

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "A Subaltern's Love Song" by Betjeman. Symbols of post-colonial significance are de...

Symbolism and the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Such a setting, she points out, simply added to the fear and accusations of witchcraft against innocent people (Jacobs). I...

Symbolism in 'The Second Coming' by William Butler Yeats

of Spiritus Mundi" (Yeats, 1920). "Spiritus Mundi" can be translated as the "Spirit of the Universe" which Yeats saw as holding i...

Bob Dylan and His 1965 Song Highway 61 Revisited

time he arrived, he had legally changed his name to Bob Dylan, and while always insisting this was not an homage to poet Dylan Tho...

Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun and Symbolism

In five pages this paper examines how within her award winning play Lorraine Hansberry makes the most of the symbolism literary de...

Tolkein and Fellowship of the Ring

tale is primarily told in a book titled "The Hobbit," wherein he has many adventures and comes into possession of the one ring of ...

Life Analysis of This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff

- Toby and his mother are escaping an abusive situation (one that, ironically enough, Tobys mother was used to, having dealt with ...

Exegesis of Psalm 137

as the historical circumstances, which inspired the psalm and whether or not the poem is a song or a prayer (Jackson). The student...

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' Explicated

in a language that, though poetic, little resembles modern English: "By very force he raft hir maidenheed, / For which oppressioun...

Water and Taoism

Appreciating the goodness of life in all senses -- mentally, physically, spiritually -- is what Taoism strives to achieve. These ...