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Essays 1801 - 1830

An Old-Fashioned Story Reviewed

home for everyone, as everyone has a mother. Even people who do not know who their mothers are perhaps have a gut feeling about he...

Literature from the Heian Period

anthologies until the appearance of renga" (Miyake, 2002). In addition, though looking at Heian literature we find that "Althou...

A Comparison of the Tales of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Beowulf

warrior society that Beowulf invokes derives from these "newcomers" to the British Isles. Abrams, et al also state that in this wa...

The Fall of the Humanists in the Sixteenth Century by Jacob Burckhardt

individual" (Burckhardt, 1878; Mosaic, 2003). Modern historians often dispute some of Burckhardts claims but most concede that in ...

Anita Shreve's The Weight of Water

review of The Weight of Water, "There is so much factual information about the Shoals here -- geographical, historical, nautical, ...

Contemporary Machiavellianism

and "advisors" were, in many ways, far more powerful than the aristocrat holding office. Machiavelli himself was such a creature ...

Fairytales and Their Importance

is true even of the fairy stories that originated with Han Christian Andersen, such as the Ugly Duckling (Zipes, 1985). Th...

Comparative Analysis of 'Where are You Going, Where Have You Been?' by Joyce Carol Oates and 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

a young woman who feels that beauty and frivolity are the most important things in life. She does not see that life is not as simp...

'The Appeal' by David Walker

faced by the black people. It was practically unheard of for a slave to buy his or her freedom in the United States, it was even ...

Man and the Creation of Fear and God

As for mankind, numbered are their days/ Whatever they achieve is but the wind!" (Epic of Gilgamesh 8). When Gilgameshs friend Enk...

Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson, 'Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin, and Freedoms

and as such women did not have these freedoms at the time the Declaration of Independence was written. Interestingly enough, tod...

Thomas Aquinas' Work

the Summa that "St. Thomas, following Aristotle, gives a perfect description and a wonderfully keen analysis of the movements of m...

Stylistic Techniques of Irvine Welsh in Acid House and Trainspotting

these days of infancy and childhood made her squirm with embarrassment. It seemed an essential denial of herself as she was now. ...

Criteria for Performance Appraisal

was - and is - critical that the child receive education appropriate to his condition. One author writes that the EAHCA "was inte...

Connection Between Violence and War

he, dare each other to brave the open battlefield to gain access to a well on the other side. "Thunder! I wisht I had a drink. Ai...

Two Journal Articles on Colic

points out possible remedies, such as swaddling and dillwater, which the health care professional could suggest to the parent....

Summary and Resources on Virginia Woolf

to dehumanize both the invader and the invaded to the extent that the value of human life is lost(Phillips 123). Phillips ...

Joyce Appleby's Inheriting the Revolution

climate of economic freedom that invention was allowed free reign. Joyce Appleby covers this wide arena of growth in other...

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

become aware that something terribly wrong had happened in its sister tower; when the second plane struck the second tower, there ...

Modernist Approaches in 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot

modernist writing was meant as a contrast to the traditional approach in that it could recognize how fast the world was changing a...

Style and Language of The Great Railway Car by Paul Theroux and Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne Compared

the sample passage from Chapter X is a good example of the formal style and language. In regards to formal language, the...

Seeking to be Free in 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin'

was lived during her time. Her work deals a large amount with the oppressiveness women felt within their married lives and their d...

Symbolism in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, 'The Minister's Black Veil,' 'The Birth Mark,' and 'Dr. Heidegger's Experiment'

corruption of politics; Colonel Killigrew (whose name in itself is symbolic) personifies the evils of pleasures of the flesh; and ...

Modernism and Poststructuralism

(2003) of CNN claims: " "The New York Times" plagiarism scandal still in the headlines and still causing shockwaves in journalism ...

Death According to Mitch Albom

he is also far removed from Judaism (Schulweis, 2001). Albom describes Morrie as a "spiritual mutt," having gleaned the makings f...

Role of Educational Philosophy Papers by Kieran Egan, George S. Counts, and John Locke and Classroom Experience by Teachers

upon them. For Egan, the teachers role is to allow the students to learn through abstract thought, previously thought too cognitiv...

Colonial Projects and the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling

such things as "To veil the threat of terror/ And check the show of pride" and "The blame of those ye better/ The hate of those ye...

From Pages to Silver Screen with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Blade Runner

has been a relatively tame comparison of such themes in comparison to what has been said about more recent futuristic movies, most...

Religious Sentiments in the Hebrew Bible's 'Psalm 104' and 'Hymn to the Sun' in Akhenaten Compared

majestic, awesome, bedazzling, exalted" (Mack, 1995, p. 45; Pandit, 1996, p. 179). Similarly, the opening lines of Psalm 104 also ...

Satire of Jonathan Swift

period in time, that logic, reason, and perhaps personal enlightenment regarding society as it involved reason and logic were the ...