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Scarlet Letter/Sin of A Guilty Heart

its mothers shame has come from the hand of God," and, in so doing, works upon the heart of her mother, both giving her joy and pr...

Developing a Career as a Tourism Director

As business prepares for the 21st century, a sense of "been there, done that" pervades a great deal of the most recent management ...

On the Commonwealth by Cicero

master and ruler of men, namely God, who is the author of this law, its interpreter, and its sponsor. The man who will not obey it...

'Beowulf' and the Grendel Character

In 5 pages this paper presents a character analysis of Grendel as featured in the epic 'Beowulf' and how he is intended to be repr...

Laws of Nature in Billy Budd

In a paper consisting of five pages the ways in which Herman Melville uses the novel to discuss how nature's laws do not always pr...

A Passage Analysis From The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

In five pages this text passage is analyzed in terms of imagery, structure, and content and discusses how the author presents huma...

Wordsworth, Frost, and Nature

Picking is merely a poem about a man picking apples and sleeping. Many have compared it to something deeper, seeing the sleep as r...

Analyzing a Passage from Le Diable au Corps by Radiquet

In five pages a passage near the beginning between Marthe and the narrator is analyzed in terms of how it serves as the author's c...

Human Nature According to Confucius

those often aligned with Eastern thought. Yao & Yao (1998) write: "Here are yang and yin [two cosmic forces]: thus humans have the...

Novel and Film Adaptation of The Perfect Storm

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the book and movie versions of The Perfect Storm and how each portrays man and natu...

The Exorcist and Frankenstein

possesses a girl. She has no control over this possession and there seems to be no character that actively engages in evil. As suc...

Unspeakable in Anna Akhmatova's 'Requiem' and Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares how human nature's 'unspeakable' dark side is portrayed in this poem and play. Fou...

Time, Space, and Sir Isaac Newton

In five pages this report considers the statement 'True, and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably ...

Dark Woods in the Poetry of Robert Frost

the empty wastes of white and black" (On "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"). Prior to putting pen to paper, Frost visu...

'Thanatopsis' by William Cullen Bryant

In six pages this once influential poem is examined in terms of its celebration of nature's solace triumphing over death fears tha...

Goodman Brown 'Dark Side'

In five pages this paper discusses how human nature's dark side is portrayed by Nathaniel Hawthorne in his short story 'Young Good...

Poetry of Robert Frost and Immortality

In five pages the Frost poems 'Design,' 'After Apple Picking' and 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' are analyzed in terms of ...

Summary and Analysis of 'Nature' by Ralph Waldo Emerson

denominator in all of his writings; however, this keen awareness was truly evident within the literary boundaries of Nature. In a...

Figurative Language in Shakespeare and Cavendish

the borders on the grotesque, emphasizing the ugliness of oppression and graphically depicts the "natural" struggle between predat...

Romantic Fiction's Gothic Genre

are generally seen as common to the Gothic novel, including a medieval or pseudo-medieval setting, a solitary protagonist and a se...

Influence of Popular Culture

public mindset, it tends to be regarded as secondary and considerably far down in the cultural hierarchy of the topics that are ge...

Wordsworth/A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal

the deceased woman no longer has voluntary motion or sensory perception, but she is part of nature, which has sweeping grandeur in...

The Environment in Literature: Ecocriticism, Ecofeminism and the Concept of Dwelling

That is, non-ecocritics appear to be uncomfortable with criticism that acknowledges the fact that it is possible the natural world...

Man’s Relationship to Nature in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Along the way, he encounters dangers but somehow manages to survive to reach his island destination, where he will stay for nearly...

Justice Theory of Plato

a humans body. It sought to find pleasure and to find sustenance. "These appetites should not be allowed, to enslave the other ele...

Black American Perspectives on Death and Dying from a Religious View

traditions carried down through the generations (Ruark, 2003). Dr. Ronald K. Barrett has spent many years studying how African Am...

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...

English Romantic Poetry and the Role of Nature

Strung on slender blades of grass; Or a spiders web...

Nature Poems

lingers, then erased, Wisdom grasped and then replaced With new wisdoms, no time for decay. Where is permanence? Useless Next to ...

Organized Crime and Drug Cartels

laundering and counterfeiting and even cybercrimes, all created to fund the organization (Dean, 2012). Drug cartels, like other ...