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This paper considers the loss of privacy and personal susceptibility that have been ushered in with the Information Age. There ar...
The Gilded Age was a time of many industrial and sociological changes. Not all of the changes that were ushered in were positive....
with it Risk Aversion "Brainstorming," throwing out ideas without judging them first Lack of Commitment Challenge long-time empl...
at 4 a.m., his guilty conscience elicits the narrators confession. Is this an example of another Poe murder mystery or does it re...
"In the nineteenth century, Poe influenced Ambrose Bierce and Robert Louis Stevenson, among others. Twentieth-century writers who ...
that country is assuredly America" (de Tocqueville). de Tocqueville discusses universal suffrage, which he says "had been adopted...
in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...
that both of these individuals were perhaps depressed, at least a few times in their lives, and thus their work examined the darke...
little concern for the development, the past, of the relationships that play a very important part in the stories. One could well ...
WILL you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them" (Poe). He describes himself as "v...
Are the descriptions of the narrator reliable or do they represent hallucinations brought on by a deteriorating mental state? In ...
his murder: he piles the bones against the wall and leaves the chamber, leaving the now-quiet Fortunato to die (Poe). He says "For...
a disease but madness surely is. And, his insistence that this "disease" has actually increased his skills and his awareness is fu...
wife Virginias slow death, the narrator focuses on every detail of his wife Ligeia as she lies dying: "The pale fingers became of ...
when it overwhelms everything, even the narrator who is trying to avoid being caught. Perhaps the most hideous thing about the sto...
any particular theme, any symbolic reference, other than the story itself. It is a poem that clearly reflects the work of ...
1836 he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year old cousin and went to Philadelphia to edit Burtons Gentlemans Magazine, to which he c...
early years were relatively chaotic, as one would expect. He went to the University of Virginia but was kicked out because of the ...
"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...
This essay provides an analysis of "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe. Three pages in length, four sources are cited. ...
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...
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...
In five pages this paper examines how Poe employs the theme of revenge and how it underscored the desires of the author for reveng...
In five pages these famous short stories by Edgar Allan Poe are summarized and compared in terms of similarities and differences, ...
In five pages this report considers The Mirror of Consciousness by Henry James and the author's contention that situation reaction...
In five pages this paper discusses the Gothic aspects of the writings by Flannery O'Connor and Edgar Allan Poe. Five sources are ...
structure" leaving "means neither of ingress or egress" (799). David R. Dudley states: "The Masque of the Red Death is a vanita...
In five pages this paper examines the gender relationships featured in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner, 'Ligeia' by Edgar A...
In five pages this research paper examines American literature from the late 18th century through the 20th century with such autho...
In five pages this paper examines how the death theme predominates in the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Lydia Huntle...