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The Internet and its Impact on Ethics

This paper considers the loss of privacy and personal susceptibility that have been ushered in with the Information Age. There ar...

Industrialization and Its Social Impacts at the End of the Nineteenth Century

The Gilded Age was a time of many industrial and sociological changes. Not all of the changes that were ushered in were positive....

Ushering in Change to Best Snacks, Inc.

with it Risk Aversion "Brainstorming," throwing out ideas without judging them first Lack of Commitment Challenge long-time empl...

Edgar Allan Poe, Suicidal Tendencies, and ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’

at 4 a.m., his guilty conscience elicits the narrators confession. Is this an example of another Poe murder mystery or does it re...

The Influence of Edgar Allen Poe

"In the nineteenth century, Poe influenced Ambrose Bierce and Robert Louis Stevenson, among others. Twentieth-century writers who ...

Differing View of Democracy

that country is assuredly America" (de Tocqueville). de Tocqueville discusses universal suffrage, which he says "had been adopted...

Edgar Allan Poe’s Creative Uses of Atmosphere and/or Tension in “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and “The Black Cat”

in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...

Edgar Allen Poe and Emily Dickinson

that both of these individuals were perhaps depressed, at least a few times in their lives, and thus their work examined the darke...

American Literature

little concern for the development, the past, of the relationships that play a very important part in the stories. One could well ...

The Tell-Tale Heart and the Doppelganger Image

WILL you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them" (Poe). He describes himself as "v...

Gothic and Symbolic Elements in the Short Stories "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulker and "Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe

Are the descriptions of the narrator reliable or do they represent hallucinations brought on by a deteriorating mental state? In ...

Poushkin, Poe and Revenge

his murder: he piles the bones against the wall and leaves the chamber, leaving the now-quiet Fortunato to die (Poe). He says "For...

The Tell-Tale Heart

a disease but madness surely is. And, his insistence that this "disease" has actually increased his skills and his awareness is fu...

Allegory and Symbolism in the American Gothic Short Stories "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner and "Ligeia" and "The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allan Poe

wife Virginias slow death, the narrator focuses on every detail of his wife Ligeia as she lies dying: "The pale fingers became of ...

Poe and The Tell-Tale Heart, a Reaction

when it overwhelms everything, even the narrator who is trying to avoid being caught. Perhaps the most hideous thing about the sto...

The Haunted Palace

any particular theme, any symbolic reference, other than the story itself. It is a poem that clearly reflects the work of ...

Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe

1836 he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year old cousin and went to Philadelphia to edit Burtons Gentlemans Magazine, to which he c...

Edgar Allan Poe

early years were relatively chaotic, as one would expect. He went to the University of Virginia but was kicked out because of the ...

Cast of Amontillado and Tell-Tale Heart, a Comparison

"loved the old man" and had "no desire" for his gold (Poe "Tell-Tale Heart"). Why then, did he become obsessed with the idea of mu...

"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe

This essay provides an analysis of "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe. Three pages in length, four sources are cited. ...

'The Purloined Letter' by Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages this paper examines the detective story as it relates to the life of its author Edgar Allan Poe. Nine sources are c...

Short Stories by Jack London and Edgar Allan Poe on Death

In seven pages this paper examines how the theme of death is handled in London's short stories 'The Law of Life' and 'To Build a F...

Theme of Revenge in 'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages this paper examines how Poe employs the theme of revenge and how it underscored the desires of the author for reveng...

Comparison of 'The Cask of Amontillado,' 'The Tell Tale Heart,' and 'The Black Cat' by Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages these famous short stories by Edgar Allan Poe are summarized and compared in terms of similarities and differences, ...

Mirrored Consciousness Examples

In five pages this report considers The Mirror of Consciousness by Henry James and the author's contention that situation reaction...

Gothic to the Extreme in the Writings of Flannery O'Conner and Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages this paper discusses the Gothic aspects of the writings by Flannery O'Connor and Edgar Allan Poe. Five sources are ...

Theme of Death and Life Experiences in 'The Cask of Amontillado' and 'Masque of the Red Death' by Edgar Allan Poe

structure" leaving "means neither of ingress or egress" (799). David R. Dudley states: "The Masque of the Red Death is a vanita...

Joyce, Faulkner, Poe, and Their Short Stories' Gender Relationships

In five pages this paper examines the gender relationships featured in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner, 'Ligeia' by Edgar A...

American Literature Overview

In five pages this research paper examines American literature from the late 18th century through the 20th century with such autho...

Death Theme in Poetry of the Early Nineteenth Century

In five pages this paper examines how the death theme predominates in the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Lydia Huntle...