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Os Lusiadas by Luis Vaz de Camoes

In four pages this Portuguese literary classic is examined within the contexts of history and the life of the author's life. Thre...

Cousin Bazilio by Jose Maria Eca de Queiros

In eight pages the late nineteenth century society of Portugal is the focus of this thematic consideration of Cousin Bazilio. Fou...

Escaping into Nature Through Literature

In six pages this paper discusses how escaping into nature is thematically developed in Henry Roth's Call It Sleep, William Faulkn...

Assessing Fortitude An Operational Proposal

9 pages and 6 sources. This paper considers the concept of fortitude and the ability of hospital personnel to assess fortitude. ...

Protagonist Cyrano De Bergerac

In three pages this persuasive and personal essay examines the reasons why this protagonist qualifies as a hero. There is no bibl...

The Persian Letters by Montesquieu II

In five pages this paper examines how the letters point out the differences that existed during the 17th century between France an...

Yvain by Chretien de Troyes

cousins name and his own name, Yvain in the name of virtue, mounts the crusade for his own soul. Chretien De...

Love and Marriage in Yvain by Chretien de Troyes

In five pages the ways in which the protagonist develops an appreciation of love's value are discussed. There is 1 source listed ...

Knights and Nobles Relationship in Yvain by Chretien de Troyes

the armed services during a violent era. The rank of knight became a landholding rank. The knight held his land by as military t...

A Summary of The Song of Roland (Chanson de Roland)

it is possible that the poet telling "The Song of Roland" was using the character of Charlemagne to represent Christianity as it m...

'The Necklace' by Guy de Maupassant

In four pages this paper examines the very different discoveries the reader and the protagonist make as the story unfolds. There ...

Knowing in The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant

tapestries peopling the walls with folk of a past age and strange birds in faery forests" (Maupassant). She is very unhappy and cr...

Literature and Fate

In seven pages the literary device of fate is examined within the context of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Edgar Allan...

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

In four pages this Spanish classic is examined in terms of how this represents the author's commentary regarding the countrymen an...

Prospero in William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Don Quixote in Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote

In this research paper the differences and similarities between these characters are examined in an analysis of the assertion, 'Do...

Tempos De Siliencio by Luis-Martin Santos

In seven pages this paper evaluates the novel by Luis Martin Santos as it relates to the life and times of the author. There are ...

Theme and Symbolism in The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery

In five pages this paper discusses theme as well as love and responsibility unity through symbolism in Saint Exupery's The Little ...

Herbert Marcuse and Alexis de Tocqueville

in certain ways it is a lot more difficult. Equality, he saw, was the key to the democratic enterprise. To de Tocqueville, the ide...

A Letter To a New York State Congressman

This paper is a letter written to New York State Congressman Elliot Engel regarding the importance of medicinal use as well as cul...

Buying a Car, Transmittal Letters, and Business Writing

start writing is to list everything that needs to be relayed to the person being addressed, then sort that information into groups...

Sample Letter to the Editor on Ecological Devastation and Overdevelopment

In three pages this paper presents a sample of a letter written to a newspaper editor protesting community overdevelopment because...

Resident's Experiences During the US Civil War's Battle of Vicksburg

In six pages this paper examines 2 letters written by a fictional resident of Vicksburg that provide a student with an overview of...

20th Century Literature and Self Determination

In 6 pages this paper examines how self determination is thematically portrayed in 'The Red Wheelbarrow' by William Carlos William...

Writings of Pedro de Peralta Barneuvo and Jerry M. Williams

In eighteen pages this research paper examines this Peruvian writer's preEnlightenment writings as analyzed by historian Jerry M. ...

T.S. Eliot, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, and Modernism

In 7 pages the evolution of modernism is chronicled in an analysis of 'On the Genealogy of Morals' by Nietzsche; 'Civilization and...

Miguel de Cervantes, Dante Alighieri, and Homer's Heroic Quests

In 5 pages the heroic quest is analyzed within the context of Cervantes' Don Quixote, Dante's 'Inferno' and Homer's 'The Odyssey.'...

Concepts of Julien Offray de La Mettrie and Immanuel Kant

de La Mettrie - Mental Activity In "Man a Machine" (1748), de La Mettrie says: "Let us start out then to discover not...

African Writers V.Y. Mudimbe, Sembene Ousmane, and Mariana Ba Compared

which was published in 1960, Ousmane examines the topics of race and class in two distinctly political ways. One approach that he ...

A Robert Staples Letter

In nine pages this research paper presents a letter to the author of The Myth of the Black Matriarchy in which the writer agrees w...

Chapter 5 of Race Rules by Michael Eric Dyson

In eleven pages this is a letter written to the book's author regarding chapter five. There are no other sources listed....