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Their Journeys, Gilgamesh and Beowulf

This essay pertains to the epics of Gilgamesh and Beowulf and their respective life journeys to maturity. Seven pages in length, s...

Ishi, the Last of his Tribe

This paper pertains to Ishi, the last member of the Yahi tribe, who journeyed out of the wild where he had lived alone for 35 year...

St. Augustine of Hippo's Confessions

a certain inclination towards laziness. In discussing his childhood, Augustines theories toward education come out. He adamantly r...

Comedy and Tragedy of William Shakespeare

her husband in their youthful days. She loves Polixenes as a brother because he is the best and oldest friend of her husband. In t...

World Music of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

common between music of the world. The student can, for example, quote musicologist Bruno Nettl and his works, that basically stat...

Rhetorical Statement Applied to Growing Up by Russell Baker

book Growing Up. None of us are going to be just like another. When Russell is admonished to do something with his life, to grow...

Becoming a Man in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

journey from the court to the Green Castle, illustrating how the travels are obviously a metaphor for the journey from childhood t...

The Immigration of Arabs to the U.S.

this period of time came from Syria, which includes those territories that we know better today as Jordan, Israel, and Lebanon(Naf...

Francis Ford Coppola's Film The Godfather, Archetypes and the Hero's Journey

Furthermore, there are certain commonalties that run through the storylines of all epic writing. Examples of such include heroism,...

Jules Winnfield's Transformation in Pulp Fiction Film

truths binding on everyone. Postmodernism is most often characterized by power struggles and a lack of objective reality, boundari...

Hugo Black

States had boundaries over which he was not permitted to cross. This, however, was not immediately evident when Truman "ordered s...

Twenty First Century, the Humanities, and the Classics

just beginning his journey, understanding that is a necessity and that it holds danger: "MIDWAY upon the journey of our life I fou...

Journey in Sembene Ousmane's 'God's Bits of Wood' and Cheikh Hamidou Kane's 'Ambiguous Adventure'

obstacles, the people maintain their stalwart conviction to ultimately seek out a better existence. Kanes Ambiguous Adventu...

Fritz Lang's Films

the audience. In many modern examples, the most creative thing that can be said about a particular movie maker is his or her abili...

The Journey in Apocalypse and Heart of Darkness

bring his Kurtz back to civilization, Willard is instructed from the start to find and kill his Col. Kurtz. This difference is st...

Journey of King Lear by William Shakespeare

provide an excuse for allotting the largest share of his kingdom to Cordelia, his favorite. Lear states that the test is so that "...

Journey from Childhood to Adulthood in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

due to the fact that he is young and inexperienced (Anonymous Sir Gawain and the Green Knight gawain.html). . In the following pap...

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf and Symbolic Representations

nurturing and a woman of some magical connection to the earth it would seem. When seen in this perspective we can note the influen...

An Examination of Pocahontas

met John Smith in 1608 and between that time and the time she married another gentleman in 1614, she was kidnapped and raped by th...

Dante's Purgatory Symbolism

In eight pages this paper focuses upon the Purgatorio section of The Divine Comedy in an analysis of Dante Alighieri's use of symb...

Jesus and Adversarial People

the answers. Moreover, having sent His Son to lead by example, one has only to follow Jesus teachings when it comes to dealing wi...

Christian Marriage Sacraments

In seven pages this research paper discusses the Christian marriage sacraments the spiritual journey of growth it represents. Thr...

Le Pere Goriot by Honore Balzac

In five pages Balzac's novel is analyzed in terms of its themes and also presents a character study of Eugen Rastignac that is int...

Two Fathers in Cry, the Beloved Country

of a paltry 14 pounds 6, and with dogged determination, he searches for his family. Once he arrives, the naive Kumalo is immediate...

Tragic Hero's Journey in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and William Shakespeare's King Lear

In five pages this paper examines how the tragic hero's journey is thematically portrayed in these plays. Three sources are cited...

Francis Ford Coppola's Film Apocalypse Now Analyzed

In eleven pages this paper analyzes the 1979 film in terms of the way Coppola's Vietnam manifesto also represents the subconscious...

The Slavery Journey of Africans in America

In this paper consisting of five pages a book review of Charles Johnson and Patricia Smith's Africans in America America's Journe...

Otherworld and Heroes in 'The Odyssey' and 'Epic of Gilgamesh'

in order to acquire knowledge, and to demonstrate bravery or quick-wittedness while they are dealing with unfamiliar situations or...

Maternal Focus of Eugene O'Neill

In ten pages the materal focus that is found in many of O'Neill's plays is examined in a consideration of Moon for the Misbegotten...

Gender, Individuation, and Jungian Theory in Surfacing and Demian

A 7 page analysis of the works by Margaret Atwood and Herman Hesse. The focus is two fold. The journey to individuation is anal...