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Essays 181 - 210

Tim O'Brien and the Vietnam Experience

who and what one was (Lee, 1995). In that, he wasnt unique. Thousands of Vietnam veterans experienced it, and dozens of writers ha...

The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

to the idea of "triangular" numbers. There is an "Alice through the Looking Glass" feeling to the book as almost anything can be a...

American English Compendium by Marv Rubinstein

slang and colloquialisms (of the world) smack of American English (1), and that this is true even in England. He credits this fact...

Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Modern Cinema Fantasies

npa), the use of the fantasy genre allows the author or director to stand outside of the reality with which we are familiar, and g...

Bram Stoker's Dracula and Kate Chpin's The Awakening Compared

at an early age and was raised by a cold, unfeeling father. Edna lives in a world that has strictly prescribed social boundaries a...

Review of Anthony Horowitz's Point Blank

a book by its cover. The boys, when sent to Point Blanc, are bonafide, out of control, juvenile delinquents who suddenly become mo...

Warren, Reeve and Fess's Accounting

all businesses accounting methods the same across the board. Although there are some differences between GAAP and International Ac...

Theme of Fantasy versus Reality in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

crop up in bits and pieces, in a haphazard fashion. He will start stories and then abandon them before reaching a conclusion, on...

Fantasy Space of Michel Foucault, Walt Disney and MGM Studios

at least the observance of it. At MGM Studios and Walt Disney World, human submission to discipline and punishment is complete, th...

Importance of Setting in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

consents not to give sovereignty (Shakespeare, Act 1, Sc. 1). However,...

Themes of Fantasy and Reality in Woody Allen's Film The Purple Rose of Cairo

her favorite actor in it, Tom Baxter. After the movie is over she finds herself unable to go home to face the reality of a man who...

Where Do We Go from Here Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King Jr.

in his critical assessment of Where Do We Go From Here, "If you stand with the poor, if you experience their homes and their house...

A Review of The American Privateers by Donald Chidsey

or her to make allowances for the various aspects of the book that seem somewhat sensationalized or overblown. It will also serve ...

Ellen Lewin's Lesbian Mothers Accounts of Gender in American Culture

And, by presenting the reader with both sides, so to speak, a reader cannot immediately start stereotyping the results as they app...

Avi's Don't You Know There is a War On?

The experiences recounted in this book, although fictional, have their basis in the deep emotional trauma which World War II wield...

Itah Sadu's “Christopher, Please Clean Up Your Room”

will not clean his room, no matter how much he is told to do so. The room gets so out of hand that the two goldfish he owns begin ...

The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order by Ellis Hawley

kicked off something else that was interesting - the worlds first mass consumption economy. The Industrial Revolution had been und...

Children's Literature: Borders between Worlds

when one of the friends drops in on another unexpectedly, he is always made welcome and given a meal. The animals are always upset...

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

getting them to turn from God. Each letter essentially presents steps and information for Wormwood to use in tempting this young m...

Mukherjee: "Jasmine"

her own future. She is a rebel from the beginning, and her desire to be different could be one of the reasons her life takes on wh...

The Book of Good Love by Juan Ruiz

dungeon and as such is nothing more than a simple fun work (The Book of Good Love of Juan Ruiz Archpriest of Hita, 2007). There ar...

Uncertain Vision in "Oedipus the King" and "Othello"

woman who was now a widow, he fell in love and married her-his mother (Sophocles). Apollo curses Thebes and says that the city wil...

Paul Roberts' 'The End of Oil'

industrial revolution and the transition to a coal-fired economy" (Pan). Roberts points out that the shift from an agrarian econom...

The Scale of Adolescent Dissociative Experiences

human being to respond in a way that intensifies the inherent manifestations of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Noted by a...

Fantasy Literature and Science Fiction

has its own set of rules, mostly that there are no rules. So perhaps a better paradigm to explore is whether or not, within a giv...

1491 by Charles Mann

cultures, cities and towns that were, at the time, larger than many European cities that were of importance. His journey discusses...

People in Crisis by Lee Ann Hoff

in the wings for his cue may be experiencing the stress we call "stage fright," but if he can channel that stress into his perform...

Eldest Inheritance, Book Two by Christopher Paolini

that her father will never agree to the match due to Rorans diminished prospects. Roran decides to rebuild the farm, but it thwart...

Douglas Bond's Mr. Pipes Comes to America

hymns that were written during that era (Wheeler). Each chapter in the book discusses a different hymnist (including John Calvin ...

Yuri Tanaka's Japan's Comfort Women

most perceptive reviews of the book is by Narrelle Morris; between his work and Tanakas own words we can examine the book critical...