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Ulysses by James Joyce

In 5 pages this paper examines the complexities of this great 20th century novel and considers how it serves as a biography of the...

Do Humans Control Their Own Lives?

This 7 page paper asks to what degree humans control their own lives. It uses three literary works, Metamorphosis by Kafka; The Lo...

Life Philosophy of John Steinbeck in Travels with Charley

In 5 pages this paper discusses how this travelogue represents the life philosophy of its author, novelist John Steinbeck. There ...

Eudora Welty and an Imagined Interview

In 5 pages this paper imagines what an interview with author Eudora Welty would be like with the emphasis being on how her fiction...

Ernest Hemingway's Life and Writings

war, his writing talents waned but soon a short novel, The Old Man and the Sea, would emerge in 1952 ("Hemingway" PG). He won the ...

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...

Emily Dickinson's Life and Influences oh Her Poetry

This paper looks at ways in which Dickinson defined life through her poetry. The author identifies common themes in her work and ...

Thomas Hardy's 'Jude the Obscure'

A summary of this novel highlights this 5 page paper which also includes how Hardy's life is incorporated into the story through t...

Analysis of Hemingway's, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

This paper analyzes Ernest Hemingway's short story, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. The author addresses narrative voic...

Heinrich Mann's 'Man of Straw'

In this paper of 7 pages, the way in which the author reveals more of how society really works than is found in conventional histo...

'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...

A Character Study of Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby

This paper analyzes characterization and the theme of abandoned ethics seen in Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby. The a...

Romantic 'Perfection' in Literature

In 3 pages this paper considers how a few Romantic authors managed to offer a glimpse that life and men were flawed in their writi...

David Handler and Lemony Snicket The Unauthorized Autobiography

authenticity of which always must be questioned (Giorgis and Johnson 408). The autobiography is subdivided into thirteen (not coi...

The Personal and Professional Life of Louis L'Amour

Louis LAmour was born in Jamestown, ND. He left home at age 15 and worked his way around the world. He worked as a...

Life's Big Questions

that further illustrated many of his theories concerning men and their mothers, which is not a far cry from theories of Jung, sinc...

The Jewish 'Father' Abraham

Michalowski explains, "Each person also had an additional, personal god" (Szulc, 2001, p. 90). A close interaction with this pers...

Federalism and Watershed Issues in the United States

settlers and encouraged them to irrigate their farms. To this day the Shoshone and Arapaho tribes are still trying to negotiate wi...

Ralph Ellison's Life and Literary Career

However, any hope for a middle-class life died in 1917 with the death of Lewis Ellison (Rogers 12). Nevertheless, the...

Islamic Women's Lives

Women had been treated as possessions of their husbands; Islamic law made the education of girls a sacred duty and gave women the ...

The Feminist Literary Works of Mary Wilkins Freeman

are powerfully illustrative of the claim that many female writers of the time used the ghost story as a means of examining, indire...

Female Plantation Slaves and Deborah Gray's, Aren't I a Woman

the world. Their identities were constantly negated and they were devalued for nearly everything which they were. Contra...

The Shadow of the Galilean by Gerd Theissen

a recognized authority on the social setting of the new Testament (Powell, 2002). Although this is a work of fiction, Theissen ass...

American Author Washington Irving

his long literary journey in newspapers and journals, becoming a contributor to his brothers Morning Chronicle and publishing his ...

Classical Greek Poet Homer

The Odyssey. In his History, Herodotus (484-425 B.C.) came up with dates for the singer (400 years before my time-and no more than...

Life and Works of Rose Wilder Lane

life illustrating how she was truly an American Writer, for she lived America and embodied all that Americans can be, or can wish ...

Career in the Pharmacy Business

beings. Almost from the time humans can walk, they attempt a balance in their lives - little kids play hard, but they also sleep v...

Quest for the Purpose of Life in 'Absalom, Absalom!' and 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'

overrule her inherent independence as a strong, black woman by telling Phoeby she can "tell em what Ah say if you wants to. Dats ...

Book of the Three Virtues by Christine de Pizan

of women in medieval society, De Pizan wrote two of her most significant works, The Book of the City of Ladies and The Book of the...

William Faulkner Biography

Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...