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"Big Two-Hearted River, Parts I and II" by Ernest Hemingway

aching muscles, "Nick felt happy," as he has "left everything behind, the need for thinking, the need to write, other needs" (Hemi...

Medieval Burial Rites and Christian Iconography

In fourteen pages the Middle Ages are considered in terms of iconography and Christian symbolism's influence. Ten sources are cit...

Symboliism in Bartleby, The Scrivener and The Yellow Wallpaper

who flatly refused to accept the mundane. These two characters, both centers of nineteenth century American literature, each made...

First, Second, Does it Matter

In 1874, Francis Galton noted that the first-born sons and only sons were over-represented among British scientists. His observati...

The Two Henry's and Their Relative Impact to History

This paper considers the historical impact of King Henry VII and compares them to that of his son, King Henry VIII. There are six ...

An ACA Ethical Issue

Is it ethical for a counseling supervisor to try to match her student with her son? This is the question investigated in this essa...

Troy and Cory: Wilson's Fences

This essay pertains to "Fences" by August Wilson. The writer focuses on the relationship between protagonist Troy Maxson and his s...

Third Person in Trinity

The Holy Trinity is one of Christianity’s most esoteric mysteries. It is confounding, at best. There is one God but three distinct...

Chapters from Two Apocalyptic Books

This essay focuses on Daniel 7 and 1 Enoch 46 and 48. The Book of Enoch is not part of the canon and, in fact, was lost for centur...

Transamerica, a Film Review

This film review pertains to Transamerica (2005, directed by Duncan Tucker), which is the story of Sabrina "Bree" Osborne, a trans...

Jesus Second Person in Holy Trinity

If we show that Jesus Christ is the Second Person in the Holy Trinity, we also demonstrate that Jesus is the Son of God, which is ...

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich and June Kashpaw's Powerful Influence

ones who live in the woods" (Erdrich 87). June marries Maries son Gordie - one of her childhood tormentors - and enters, not surp...

American Son by Brian Roley

ways. At the beginning of the novel, they follow a Cain and Abel dichotomy. Gabe is the good and obedient child, "the son who is q...

Relationships Between Sons and Their Mothers in "The Glass Menagerie" and "Hamlet"

Young Prince Hamlet of Denmark has been dealt two blows in rapid succession. First, while away at college, he learns his father h...

Circumcision, Pro and Con

This paper focuses on the controversy that surrounds whether or not parents should choose to circumcise their newborn sons. Eight...

Virgil as Dante's Father Figure in the Divine Comedy

This 9 page paper gives an overview of the book The Divine Comedy by Dante. This paper includes examples form the test to explain ...

Barn Burning and Freud

coming of age and seeking an enlightened path, in the Freudian lens the boy is clearly trying to somehow come to terms with himsel...

All My Sons and Death of a Salesman

sons leads him to raise them as privileged beings that deserve having everything handed to them, simply by virtue of who they are....

Laptops and Babies Are Not a Good Combination

way: "Have you called XYZ for technical support before? Ah, you have. And what is your case number?" This was usually followed by ...

King Lear by William Shakespeare and Parent and Child Relationships Between Gloucester and Edgar and Lear and Cordelia

kingdom among his daughters, he based what they received upon their effusive speeches to him. Goneril and Regan played along and ...

Analysis Large Corporation in India

school in the 1880s, 1920s and 1940s (Barnett 2010). This school emphasizes efficiency (Barnett 2010). The behavioral school emerg...

How Hamlet's Father Affects the Prince of Denmark's Life

no less) a mere three months later. Hamlet has been shattered by his loss and his mothers betrayal, and plunges into a period of ...

Willy Loman's Role of Father in "Death of a Salesman"

Willy Loman as Failed Father Figure in Millers "Death of a Salesman" Research Compiled for The Paper Store, Enterprises Inc...

Bias in the Use of the Death Penalty?

of course, is the product of such a home. Marger (4), however, contends that such characteristics "have produced survival strateg...

Haroun and the Sea of Stories/Salman Rushdie

of Stories, by creating a fascinating cast of characters, placing them in a fantastical world, and giving Haroun and his father an...

Broken Promises: The Penns and the Lenni Lenape (Delaware) Indians

is believed to be around 1600. By the end of the seventeenth century, they had become accustomed to European guns, tools, cloth, ...

Cry the Beloved Country

39). He then speaks of how it is not just his son, but his sister and his brother as well, noting how "They go away...Perhaps it d...

Macbeth Questions

rest of the play. Major images in the play (clothes, light/darkness, sleep) Clothes: There are several instances throughout the ...

Father/Son Relationship in Faulkner’s “Barn Burning”

judge asks if he can produce the black man, Harris said no, he was a stranger; then he says "Get that boy up here. He knows" (Faul...

Fathers and Sons - The Relationship Explored in Three Literary Works

times (Faulkner). Fed up with Snopess carelessness and laziness-Harris provides wire for Snopes to repair his hog pen, but the man...