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311, Cassander held 13-year-old Alexander IV, Alexander the Greats only surviving heir and his mother captive and he had them both...
were possible under the enforced peace in the Empire under Alexander. Philosophy had in Alexander a supporter and it flourished. T...
into began and ended with the Russian court. She did not ascend to power overnight; she had eighteen years to observe how the bus...
In five pages this essay considers two artistic images of Alexander the Great a woodcut print from the 16th century, 'The Three Go...
advances that were made in transportation are considered the problem in terms of why consumption of goods form the colonies was so...
The history of ancient Rome revolves largely around warfare. There was, however, a time in Roman history when...
PG). His father was Philip II, a strong leader in his own right, who had united Macedon, making it the first real nation in the mo...
as the finest American novel ever written. It retains its power because it is a sort of dual effort: it praises the American Dream...
Ambition and a self-made determination, and the freedom to achieve anything that one sets his or her mind to were the basic concep...
went to work on the street early in life, and fell in with a teenage gang from the Lower East Side. Taking advantage of Prohibitio...
Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is compared and contrasted with F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby character. The Ame...
hostile public world. Yet, she confesses to a friend that she keeps her business activities a secret from him because it would be ...
size," who attacks it nightly (Kennedy xiv). Beowulf, in particular is described in heroic terms: Of living strong men he was the...
own death and running away. Along the way, he meets Jim, a runaway slave who is traveling north in hopes of freeing his family. ...
and to happiness (Fitzgerald, 1995). The story that unfolds is actually quite sad. Jay is obsessed with recreating the p...
"well aware of the way African American identity had become irreducible to a simple set of criteria" (Favor 28). In The Autobiogr...
is to truly examine our lives. It may seem that living a life of wealth would be easy and would negate the necessity of deeper ex...
attended but did not graduate from Princeton University. While at Princeton however, Fitzgerald was first exposed to the exceeding...
ensuring that Winterbourne knows that she has plenty of male friends in New York, giving him "lively eyes and...light, slightly mo...
her womanhood, she is one who lives at the mercy of her desires. Not aware -- or at least not caring -- about the havoc she wreak...
In six pages this report compares women's subservient status in each of these literary works. Eight sources are cited in the bibl...
This sense of optimistic euphoria was forever captured in F. Scott Fitzgeralds 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby. Its featured charact...
In five pages this paper provides a comparative analysis of these two famous American literary works in terms of the acquisition o...
In five pages this report argues that the literary views of longing and love have long shaped conventional attitudes and examine t...
that sometimes money will create more problems than it solves. Such is the case with Jay Gatsby, and this essay will examine Fitzg...
The seventh and most western of the apartments was "closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries" and it was only in this room that...
were signified by it" (1323). He then goes into great narrative detail to describe the letter to emphasize its significance: "The...
she imagines that she is able to rub "the life back into the dim little eyes" (Mansfield 176). On one level, Miss Brill realizes t...
saved by a friend and turned to writing which greatly changed her entire perspective, giving her "some measure of power" (Gilman [...
of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...