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Compare and Contrast Two Characters in Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

This 4 page paper compares and contrasts the characters of Milkman Dead and his father Macon in Toni Morrison's novel Song of Solo...

The Dead Who Refuse to Die in The Hunter Gracchus by Franz Kafka and 'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

(Silverman, 76). In a surprisingly large number of Poes stories, the revenant theme is coupled with some sense of a double -- two...

Music as a Reflection of Societal Issues

The writer discusses the role of music in society by concentrating on the new band Blues Traveler, which some think will be the ne...

Dead Poets Society and Leadership Styles

In twelve pages this paper discusses the movie Dead Poets Society in a comparison and contrast of the styles of leadership represe...

Night of the Living Dead Science Fiction Film Review

In three pages this essay presents an analysis of Night of the Living Dead in terms of the development of characters, camera angle...

Analysis of the Essenes

In five pages this research paper discusses the Essenes in an analysis that includes the Qumran vision of history, the Dead Sea Sc...

The Impact of the European Black Death

This eight page paer analyzes the social and political impacts of this tragic plague. The bubonic plague not only left thousands ...

3 Readings on Active Education

In six pages the active education experience is celebrated in essays 'The Banking Concept of Education' by Paulo Freire, 'The Loss...

The Film, Dead Man Walking, as it Portrays The Criminal Justice System

This paper focuses on various elements of the criminal justice system as seen in the film, Dead Man Walking. This six page paper ...

'Dia de los Muertos' Traditional Mexican Ceremony

In five pages this research paper examines this 'Day of the Dead' Mexican ceremony in terms of its tradition and the meanings behi...

Overview of Modernism in Literature

In five pages literary modernism is defined and then illustrated in such works as James Joyce's 'The Dead' from Dubliners, 'The G...

The Pyramid Building of Ancient Egypt and the Beginnings of Engineering, Technology, and Cultural Dynamics

machines constructed of short pieces of wood; from the second tier the stones were raised by a similar machine to the third; and s...

Seamus Heaney's Poetry and Ghosts of the Earth

four and five provide additional support for this hypothesis; the boys father, who usually "takes funerals in stride" is "crying"....

The Emotion of Art During Times of War

light - or enlightened. The evil part of humanity - the executioners, are beyond the light - in the literal and spiritual dark. F...

Shakespeare in Cinema

as simplistic because it stars an action hero (Mad Max becomes Mad Hamlet) and cuts several scenes and all long speeches. Of cours...

Duality in 'The Dead' by James Joyce

like Poes "The Casks of Amontillado," Joyces "The Dead" contains many "Gothic themes and motifs" (1). For one thing, the time of t...

World Religion Characteristics

there are two different types of magic as it relates to religions of the world. There is sympathetic magic and contagious magic. "...

Sophia Peabody and Nathaniel Hawthorne's Marriage

"transcendentalist." This was an idealistic philosophy influenced by the German writers Immanuel Kant and F. W. Schelling. It pr...

Friendship in Tom Stoddard's Play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

The friendship of Rosencrantz and Guilderstern in the play Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard is discussed in a...

'Beloved' Daughter in Toni Morrison's Classic Novel

In three pages this paper considers Beloved by Toni Morrison in an argument that the Beloved character represents Sethe's daughter...

Norse God Odin

In two and a half pages this paper examines the Norse god of the dead Odin in a consideration of how his eye was lost and how in t...

Addressing the Dead in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

This paper consists of five pages and analyzes usage of the term dead and the concept of death within the context of Shakespeare's...

American Cinema, Historical and Education Ideology

In seven pages historical comparisons are made between the ways in which education is depicted in such films as Stand and Deliver,...

James Joyce's The Dead and Images of Intellect and Passion

In six pages this paper discusses how Joyce portrays the conflict of Apollonian intellect and Dionysian passion in the imagery emp...

In Search of Our Mother's Gardens by Alice Walker and Re-Vision

In seven pages re-vision is defined in concept and then associated with the womanism concept in an analysis of Alice Walker's In S...

John Whitman's Star Wars Galaxy of Fear City of the Dead

handled with an injection, a concoction, invented by an android. The concoction puts them to death forever. The concoction is also...

'The Dead' and Dubliners by James Joyce

or perhaps the ability to appreciate the verse even if they do not recognize the poet. His insecurity also shows in that this judg...

Comparing poems by Atwood and Smith

also differences in style. Smith, for example, uses less alliteration than Atwood, and his short, clipped lines emphasize and isol...

Theme Treatment in an Example of Creative Writing

screen. He ran his fingers through his hair. At what point was it a sin to work? Perhaps his resultant weight loss was a sign from...

The Dead and the Living by Sharon Olds

suggests, there is often a political context to Olds observations. For example, in "The Death of Marilyn Monroe," Olds suggests ...