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Concepts Relating to Socrates and Plato

In five pages this paper examines concepts featured in 'Myth of the Cave' and The Apology and also considers 'The Death of Ivan Il...

Student Submitted Case Study on Spelunkean Explorers

their companions, the group made a pact. They decided that if they are truly starving, they would sacrifice one member of the grou...

HOW THE FINANCIAL CRISIS HIT HOMEOWNERS

late 1990s and early 2000s in the wake of the dot-com bust, and how all of those low interest rates (not to mention greedy lenders...

Bilbo Baggins’ Psychological Journey Towards Maturity in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit

adolescent, Bilbos development was being restricted by his limited - albeit comfortable - surroundings. Gandalf recognized that i...

Endangered Species: Indiana Bat

commercialization has had upon the Indiana bat population. Bats need to be left alone during hibernation; when people are provide...

Jose Saramago's Novels

make sure that isolation is maintained from the rest of the city. However, the controlling gaze of the soldiers is also negated be...

Jean Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and Andre Gide on Freedom

the cellars of the Vatican. Meanwhile, in the Popes place is an imposter. The Countess, of course, quickly antes up the money that...

Reflections on Homer’s Odyssey

he rolls a huge boulder across the opening to the cave. Polyphemus eats two of Odysseuss men and it is clear that he plans to make...

Buddhist Paintings in the Mogao Caves

surrounded by a host of celestial maidens... So awe-struck was the disciple that he immediately took up hammer and chisel, hollo...

Including Art in Third Grade Science Lesson

titled "Life Science: Animals and Their Environments" includes the idea of also incorporating art into the lesson. The first artwo...

Film as Nightmare '28 Days Later'

course, 28 days later, when a bicycle courier named Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakens from a coma and finds himself in an abandoned hos...

Use of Allegory in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

events during his and previous eras in history" (Tolisano, 2002; tolisano.htm). In better understanding how Chaucer did use all...

Analyzing The Call of the Wild by Jack London

up by identifying Buck as a dog, but throughout the course of the text, the complex dog-hero is amazingly human in terms of his pe...

Allegory of Social Dissolution Lord of the Flies by William Golding

with him are Piggy, the most intellectual of the boys; Simon, the most spiritual, and the twins Sam and Eric, who are later referr...

Political Allegory Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

presented for him. He witnesses the sport of rope dancing. In this sport, a candidate for high governmental office balances himsel...

John Ford's Films and Christian Allegory

individuals who had come before him. At the crux of the journey is the fact that the main character risks his life for his religio...

The Forms of Allegory in Lord of the Flies by William Golding

we see that the boys have perhaps just been initiated into the real world of men. They have bridged the gap between boyhood and ma...

Allegories in The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

to friends to see what their feelings were about what he had written. He explains that some told him it was wonderful while other...

Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and its Allegories

the next line. Its primary purpose is to establish a series of repetition in the name of sensible progression. For those words a...

Allegory and the English Morality Play Everyman

of them all. The allegory of "Everyman", which may also be defined as a parable or a metaphor, is based on what it is that "Everym...

John Barth's Use of Allegory in 'Giles Goat Boy'

There is, as is the case with any novel, a clear power of theme behind this comical tale of ones journey as a goat. Many have argu...

'The Pearl' by the Gawain Poet

In 5 pages this 14th century allegory is analyzed in terms of its protagonist's faith and pearl imagery. There is 1 source cited ...

Inferno by Dante Alighieri, Magic and Technology Conceptual Intersections

In five pages the ways in which magic and technology concepts intersect throughout the allegory along with their connections and d...

Allegory in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

In five pages the ways in which allegory is used by the author in this short story are discussed. Two sources are cited in the bi...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet, William Golding's Lord of the Flies, and Their Parallels

In 6 pages the parallels that exist in these works in terms of literary similarities of allegory, metaphor, simile, irony, personi...

Evidence of Things Not Seen by James Baldwin

In a paper consisting of five pages the use of symbols in Baldwin's allegory is examined. There are no other sources cited....

Fear Of Death in the Poems of Donne and Dunbar

This paper discusses ways in which death is used as an allegory or theme on Jon Donne's, Death Be Not Proud, and William Dunbar's,...

Social Structure Discourse of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

In six pages this paper examines The Time Machine as a form of social discourse in its futuristic commentary and functioning as an...

The Use of Allegory and Symbolism in the Epic Poem Beowulf

Goldsmith, who sees Beowulf as being addressed to the "powerful" and designed to "warn them of the dangers attendant upon power" (...

Intellectuals and the Use of Critical Thinking

The role of critical thinking in American society has taken on greater importance in the 21st century. This paper relates the conc...