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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...

Literary Elements in Poems "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson and "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost and William Faulkner's Short Story "A Rose for Emily"

each. An allegory, while closely associated with symbols or symbolism, is a unique literary element in that everything within the...

Anthropomorphic representation in the works of three artists

artifacts cannot be successfully manipulated by "clumsy, inward-curling monkey fingers" (1), although this view does not seem to t...

Short Stories

friend have many things they are experiencing, one of the most important being the changes they are facing in junior high school w...

The Cave and The Divided Line

student sees in relationship to what the image can present: "but of the ideas which they resemble; not of the figures which they d...

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...

Allegory and Exemplum in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

are knit by Chaucer into a complex tapestry in this allegorical tale, illustrating the instability of lifes joys, but also the sam...

Albert Einstein: Life and Works

anything. When he was six, his father gave him a compass. He was fascinated by the way the needle always pointed north. This exper...

The Benefits of a Shrinking Globe

to mean that "anyone can be linked to anyone else on Earth through only six links" (Andreas). This is incorrect; instead, what Mil...

Albert Einstein: Life and Accomplishments

patent office located in Bern ("Albert Einstein"). It was during his employment here that Einstein began to write about theoretica...

Overview and Analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

hit-and-run death of Toms mistress, the married Myrtle Wilson. Her widower is deceived into thinking Gatsby caused the accident, ...

Play and Children's Development

In six pages child development and the significance of play is examined through psychological theories with the emphasis on the so...

John Dryden's 'Absalom and Achitophel' and John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress

In five pages this paper discusses the human nature representation in allegories featured in each of these works in a contrast and...

Time Travel and its Implausibility

In nine pages this paper discusses the implausibility of time travel in an examination of various theories including those of Albe...

Spiritual Journey of Dante's 'Inferno'

The development of the journey motif throughout the poem and how it serves as an allegory for spiritual growth are discussed in a ...

Psychic Hotline Television Commercials and Persuasive Communication

In six pages this paper discusses the underlying persuasive communications methods employed by psychic hotline TV commercials with...

Motivation Theories

In six pages various motivation theories are applied to management in an overview of those developed by Albert Bandura, Douglas Mc...

Society and the Individual

In nine pages this paper discusses society and the individual in a consideration of theories by Hegel, Veblen, Thoreau, Kant, Talc...

Historical Overview of the 'Big Bang' Theory

The Big Bang Theory is the focus of this historical overview consisting of five pages in which black holes, curved space, theories...

Nuclear Power and Views of Albert Einstein

In five pages nuclear power as regarded by Albert Einstein is examined within the context of contemporary thought with an analysis...

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,...

Jane Campion's Film The Piano from a Psychological Perspective

In five pages a cinematic analysis of The Piano is presented from the psychological perspectives of Lawrence Kohlberg, Abraham Mas...

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....

Information Science, Cognitive Learning or Social Learning Theory

is represented by mass media. Television influences children greatly. "Knowledge about many settings is based on a symbolic fict...

'Allegory of the Cave' and the Persuasive Rhetoric of Plato

In six pages this report discusses how Plato uses rhetoric persuasively in his 'Allegory of the Cave' featured in The Republic. T...

Human Nature and Ethical Relationships

should also make note of how "King Rat" calls attention to the limits of administration and the influence of the political realm w...

Nationalism and its Evils According to Albert Einstein

In five pages Albert Einstein's observation 'Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind' is assessed. Five...

Isaac Newton to Albert Einstein Theoretical Paradigm Shift

In five pages this paper examines shifting theoretical paradigms from Sir Isaac Newton to Albert Einstein. Five sources are cited...

Bernard Ramm's Protestant Biblical Interpretation

In five pages this paper discusses how to understand the Christian Bible in an analysis of Ramm's text that focuses upon typology,...

Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

In eight pages this essay analyzes the text's complexity in terms of Bunyan's uses of setting, allegory, and characterization with...