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Fitzgerald and Hemingway

Fitzgerald was seeking in his style and the forms that were emerging in relationship to the 20s. Berman notes how many of his stor...

A Gathering of Old Men

old and thus were, as children, clearly affected by many residual realities concerning racism as it was connected with the era of ...

Themes in Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea and A Farewell to Arms

so closely related is dangerous for the reader. Its tempting to think that this is nothing more than Hemingway retelling events in...

A Moveable Feast

errors, and so kind to people that I always thought of him as a sort of saint" (Hemingway 88). This is clearly a very high claim t...

The Old Man and the Sea

decide to go out on his own and catch a fish so that he was not unlucky any longer. He is also a very old man. In these respects o...

Life of Ernest Hemingway Reflected in his Art

Uncle Sam finally entered the First World War in 1917, Hemingway tried to enlist, but was constantly rejected because of his poor ...

Analysis of Two Works by Ernest Hemingway

an unnamed American man and his girlfriend, Jig. Theyre sitting at a train station in the valley of the river Ebro; its barren and...

Hesse's "Siddhartha": Enlightenment through Pain

such as Buddhism, then it might well be said to be that attachment to the transient things of the world breeds discontent and suff...

The Healing Applications of the Hypnotic Technique

Hypnosis is sometimes regarded more as a parlor trick than as an effective approach to influencing human behavior and...

The Common Philosophies of the American and French Revolutions

Introduction The period of western civilization that we typically refer to as the Enlightenment spanned the...

Enlightenment Views of the Reason vs. Emotion in Phadra by Jean Racine

reason for his hasty departure - his forbidden love for Aricia, the lone surviving member of the royal family Theseus defeated. A...

Frederick II

and Frederick II never loved her or cared about her in the least. Frederick William I died at the end of May in 1740. At that tim...

Oedipus Complex and Hamlet: 'Love Thy Mother

were old With which she followed my poor fathers body Like Niobe, all tears;-why she, even she,- O God! a beast that wants discour...

The Plague and Its Effects on European Society

course, plague was known so the deaths were not completely unexpected, but the disease interrupted lives, and no one knew who woul...

Hills Like White Elephants and Everyday Use

are giving in to another, and also demonstrating how they are not necessarily self confident or overly concerned about themselves ...

German Enlightenment and Faust by Goethe

argued that the German Enlightenment served as the beginning of unique aspirations and an original quest for truth. The journey t...

Declaration of the Rights of Man and Maximilien Robespierre

In five pages this research paper discusses Maximilien Robespierre's political writings and the Declaration of the Rights of Man i...

Industrial Revolution, The Enlightenment, and the French Revolution

An emphasis was placed on the concept of rationalism. Because of its very definition, the Enlightenment was a period of revolutio...

Loneliness: Faulkner and Hemingway

is also presented in a manner that makes the reader see what a sad and lonely life she has likely led. This is generally inferred ...

Women’s Rights and Hills Like White Elephants

women: "During the early 20th century the term new woman came to be used in the popular press. More young women than ever were goi...

Enlightenment and the Literature of Voltaire, Moliere, and Jonathan Swift

In two pages this research paper discusses how the Age of Reason is reflected in Candide by Voltaire, Tartuffe by Moliere, and Gul...

The Evolution of the Criminal Justice System

enlightenment philosophy? What form did those ideas take in classical criminological thought?" First, a look at each of the named...

Enlightenment Values in the Character of Phaedra in Euripides’ Hippolytus

what is bothering her, Phaedra seems to describe the Enlightenment philosophy in her observation: "We understand and recognize wha...

Modernist Portrait of Ernest Hemingway

It was Fitzgerald who is credited with coining the phrase Jazz Age to describe the 1920s. During this time, the spectre of war an...

Holistic Nursing Journal

discourse that I find confusing. Philosophy has often struck me as an amorphous subject. Its slippery and refuses to be categoriz...

The French Revolution and Enlightenment

wherein people began to argue that logical and scientific thinking were the answer to lifes questions. It was a form of thought th...

Loneliness and Hemingway

three oclock. What kind of hour is that to go to bed?" (Hemingway). His colleague says "He stays up because he likes it" (Hemingwa...

A Clean Well-Lighted Place by Hemingway

conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...

Kaplan, Imperial Grunts

to see Bissells point as Kaplan defines imperialism as "a form of isolationism, in which the demand for absolute, undefiled securi...

Mexico's Drug Cartel War: United States' Role

United States has long been in battle with itself in an ongoing attempt to control its rampant drug problem, on that clearly stems...