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An Analysis of the Films, Bowling for Columbine and, The Decay of Fiction

physical state that supports the distinguishing characteristics of film noir. Though the term "film noir" is French, the st...

Crow Nation and a Review of Frederick Hoxie's Parading Through History

is the fact that he does not cry foul on behalf of the beleaguered Native American. In fact, this has been overdone and now serves...

'The Wedding Knell' by Nathaniel Hawthorne and its Themes

his studies had no definite object, either of public advantage or personal ambition; a gentleman, high bred and fastidiously delic...

Education in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

they are adults who can understand issues at his level. By the time Scout attends her first day of school she is highly literate,...

How the Divine Was Represented in The Epic of Gilgamesh and Homer's 'The Odyssey'

with not only Odysseus but with the other characters as well" (Athena, the Goddess). For example, "At the opening of the book, Ath...

Fried Green Tomatoes Novel and Film Comparison

tidbits that enabled the readers to journey back in time. The film alters this setting somewhat with a present-day Evelyn Couch s...

Christine in Michael Dorris' A Yellow Raft in Blue Water

tribal office. She is still close with her brother in many ways, but is very distant from the rest of the world, even those men wh...

Love Themes in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

the position of the wound. He has been wounded in a way that precludes his ability to have sex and this seems to serve as the trag...

Analyzing Another Country by Mary Pipher

old-age (Pipher, 2000, ch. 1). Its certainly not what many had imagined, and among the greatest of differences is that they find ...

Princess Medea and King Gilgamesh

until finally, the creation goddesses intervene and create a primitive alter-ego for him that would keep his own in check. Only w...

Jeanie Duck's The Change Monster

company uses its available funds directly impacts all other facets of the organization, whether they are non profit, governmental,...

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Kurtz Character Analysis

and his lack of desire for monetary gain at their expense. What the student may wish to expound upon at this point is that man is ...

Standing Up for Something Theme in 'A and P' by John Updike

has no drive in his life. This individual is not unlike Paul, another young man who has just left the safety of his home life and ...

'Rocket Boys' by Homer Hickam

of resignation which sent young mind after young mind into the coal mines, but there were a few who hoped to change that statistic...

Loss of Paradise in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton

Lennie talk of their plans for a farm, he immediately feels the pull of this dream. He asks, "Spose I went with you guys...I aint ...

Injustice and Vengeance in William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Euripides' Electra

story of Agamemnon we are presented with a man who sacrifices his daughter, at the request or command, of the gods, in order that ...

Rebirth, Renewal, and Redemption in The Tempest by William Shakespeare

Caliban, son of the witch Sycorax. Miranda retains a childlike innocence as a result of her idyllic existence, but at the same ti...

Theme of Success in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

he wants more from life, he begins to have great expectations. Later in the story he is given the opportunity to become educated...

'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin and its Themes

one dies alone is something that is realized here. In the end, Edna commits the ultimate act. No one can die with another human be...

A Case of Need by Crichton

novel. He would go on to not only write other, more compelling best selling novels, but he would also become involved in televisio...

Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire

the importance of such things in their society. The reader is presented with infantry battle that denotes honor and valiant beha...

Illness and Death in Franz Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis' and Leo Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich'

into death. Both characters are, for the most part, dismissed gradually by their family. They are ignored, and their loved...

Themes and Criticism of 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

Iin four pages this combination research paper and essay discusses the critical thematic interpretation of this famous short story...

An evaluation of the film Gattaca

boring, routine job he despises because he might develop heart problems. Its likely that he will, but there is no guarantee of tha...

Madness Theme in Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

servants. She physically attacks him and bites his arm. Convinced of her madness, he takes her back to England where she is locked...

Analyzing 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg' by Mark Twain

was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation uns...

2001 A Space Odyssey Film by Director Stanley Kubrick

opening sequence has been found buried beneath the surface of the moon. While Floyd and his colleagues are standing in front of th...

Time and the Poetry of Emily Dickinson

beyond the confines of her era to see how future generations might view it. Her poetry speaks to many topics such as, love, loss,...

James McBride's The Color of Water and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

a woman with a very strong sense of the Chinese culture. It is, in these respects, a novel that speaks of searching for identity a...

Linda Gordon's 'The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction'

they packed up the children and set off on a very long trip out West. Consider that in 1904 the only mode of transportation woul...