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Christ Symbolism in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

become a better Christian. We learn that Tom manages the Shelby plantation, and he is the epitome of every good virtue Stowe could...

Geoffrey Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales

This essay delves into the man behind The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer. The author utilizes both an in depth reading of the...

Evil as a Theme in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Dante's Divine Comedy

A research paper addressing the portrayal of evil in Dante's Divine Comedy and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The author draws the c...

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

In six pages this paper examines the protagonist in this novel by Joseph Conrad in terms of how he represents man's emotions. Ten...

Visions of Euripides and Sophocles

In four pages this essay contrasts the styles of these Greek playwrights from the classical era within the context of Sophocles'...

Comparing Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde With Shelley's Frankenstein

This paper compares these two literary works and discusses the common theme of man's dual nature. This eight page paper has two s...

Challenging Society's Values and the Works of George Bernard Shaw

In twelve pages this paper discusses how Shaw challenged prevailing social values in his comedies Man and Superman, Pygmalion, The...

Citizenship Responsibilities in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

In ten pages the obligations associated with citizenship are considered in this paper focusing on Achebe's novel with 'Man's Searc...

Irony in Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson

In five pages Robinson's poem is analyzed in terms of the poet's use of irony as a way of revealing how a wealthy man's life can b...

Theories of Personality According to Erik Erikson

In seven pages this paper examines Childhood and Society by Erik Erikson in a consideration of man's 8 ages with contemporary view...

Criminal Justice and a Model Personal Statement Essay

In three pages this paper is a sample of a criminal justice graduate school application's personal statement that features a ficti...

Dave Saunders in 'The Man Who Was Almost A Man' by Richard Wright

all, it appears that the author addresses social stratification by putting the protagonist in this particular setting. What the p...

A Character Analysis for Jake and Brett in The Sun Also Rises

This ten page report analyzes the characters Jake and Brett, comparing them to the other men in the story. The thesis is presente...

God's Existence and the Perspectives of David Hume, William Paley, Rene Descartes, and Augustine of Hippo

In six pages this research paper contrasts and compares these men's philosophical perspectives on God's existence. Four sources a...

Overview of Truth and Content in Stuff Magazine

In five pages this men's magazine is examined in terms of the truth behind its content or lack thereof. Four sources are cited in...

God, Man, and Jean Paul Sartre

In five pages this paper discusses Sartre's existential perceptions regarding man's desire to be God as an exercise in futility. ...

Character Ethics and the Film 'L.A. Confidential'

cost, even when it calls for doing things against his or the departments ethical code. His golden boy status within the police fo...

2 Poems by T.S. Eliot

time she was thirty years old. In Victorian England, it was normal for girls to marry young, and Mary Ann was unusual in that she ...

Violence in 'How to Tell a True War Story' by Tim O'Brien and 'Battle Royal' by Ralph Ellison

attention of the white community and gets him an invitation to deliver the speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citize...

Outline of a Medieval Game Plan

get all ten men around the board and back to their starting positions. Whoever first accomplishes this is the winner of the game....

John McMurtry and Harold Innis on Trade Globalization

the society was able to strike a balance between the two types of communication: Innis also felt that social change tended to come...

Old Age Poetic Portrayals in the Works of Jenny Joseph and Ursula Fanthorpe

Lord once of shed, garage and garden, Each with its proper compliment of tackle"...

Epictetus and Soren Kierkegaard

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these men's concepts regarding personal development, selfhood, despair, and fait...

A Comparison of Two Southern Literary Works by Agee and Hurston

This paper compares and contrasts the views of the rural south as seen in James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, and Zora Neal...

Young Men, Violence, and its Causes

In five pages this paper examines drugs, poverty, and media desensitization as possible causes for young men's violent behavior. ...

Lives of Men and Important Moments

In five pages this paper discusses important moments in men's lives in terms of the socialization of early childhood, gender ident...

Book Review of Black Elk Speaks by John G. Neihardt

In five pages this book review considers the Ogala Sioux holy man's story and the lessons readers can learn from it. One source i...

Human Nature According to Thomas Hobbes and Hsun Tzu

In eight pages this paper discusses man's social role within the contexts of Hsun Tzu and Thomas Hobbes. Six sources are cited in...

Society, Man and Destiny

In ten pages this paper evaluates the extent of man's power over his fate within the literary contexts of 'Epic of Gilgamesh,' 'Th...

Civil Disobedience from the Perspectives of Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King Jr.

as Thoreau gets. If anything Thoreau gives us a warning about excessive public involvement: He who gives himself entirely to hi...