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1 Peter

Passion at a distance (Atlantic Baptist University). This author suggests that Peter refers to himself as an eyewitness because "h...

Theme of Revenge in Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, 'The Inferno' by Dante, Oedipus the King and Antigone by Sophocles, 'The Odyssey' by Homer

short temper gets him into trouble. In Book IX, Polyphemus, the son of the sea god Poseidon, decides to dine on a few Greeks who ...

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and Immorality

won the Nobel Prize for Literature (The National Steinbeck Center, 2002). John Steinbeck was very talented at creating s...

Book Review: "Understanding Leadership" By Gayle C. Avery

culture, processes and changing systems. Averys (2004) attempt to define leadership in its broadest terms can readily be interpre...

Close Reading and Analysis: “Blues Spiritual for Mammy Prater”

a fa?ade that represents him at his best. But Mammy Prater apparently did none of this. Instead, "she waited until the technique...

Analysis: “The Master Builder”

colorless and so the arrival of Hilda is compared to the arrival of a "radiant apparition" (Herford, 1909, p. 283). Hilda, says He...

“Field Notes from a Catastrophe”

continued pollution, clear cutting activities and other industrial and agricultural activities which are adversely impacting our e...

Analysis: “The Sun Also Rises”

to those who fight it but everyone who is touched by it. We begin with gender, because of the persona Hemingway created, and with...

Alice Walker/Everyday Use

Johnson muses about the past and, in so doing, tells the reader a great deal about both herself and her daughters. Mrs. Johnson ...

Quotations from Frankenstein

of all, the book begins as a series of letters by one "R. Walton" to "Mrs. Saville"; these letters comprise the first four chapter...

The Promotion of Different Products and Services

and the attitude or values of the company. By looking at four different products in the way they are promoted different aspects of...

About "Macbeth"

is "at once his greatest strength and his destructive weakness" (Bloom). Despite this, readers and playgoers dont respond with amb...

Literary Critique: Letter from the Birmingham Jail

to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town" (King). One of the most poignant parts of the speech is Dr. Kings examina...

Orwell's 1984

free is to have the ability to tell the truth. Two plus two does equal four. His problem is that he cannot tell the truth or he wi...

Frost and Williams and Death

is generally understood that when a child dies a strain sets in upon marriages, often leading to divorce. In essence, men and wome...

Religion in Robinson Crusoe

essentially ignored the will of God, or denied seeking out what the will of God may be, and left without approval. A good Christia...

Hospitality in Homer’s The Odyssey

home, as though they own everything. One would perhaps expect Penelope, or Telemachus (the man of the house so to speak), to ins...

Wit & Palliative Care

also a former student of Vivians is now in the rather awkward position of also being one of her doctors, as he is an intern and re...

Cultural Practices Reflecting the Unity Between the Spritual and Material World Among the Indigenenous Cultures of Africa and the Americas

however, a rich oral tradition. Many who study this oral tradition, unfortunately, tend to lump all of these cultures stories und...

Le Guin/Left Hand of Darkness

eyes," but finds this awkward as he "self-consciously" sees a Gethenian "first as a man, then as a woman, forcing him into those c...

Poe/Annabel Lee

a child and she was a child/In this kingdom by the sea" (lines 7-8). These lines, as do the opening lines of the poem, establish a...

Scene Analysis/The Island

this key scene This movie is very relevant to todays issues as it causes the viewer to ponder the possible ramifications of cloni...

Savagery and Christian Symbolism in "Lord of the Flies"

from the Garden of Eden. The novel is "structured in two parts, each beginning with an air battle followed by an exploration of th...

The Evil in Humanity: Jackson’s The Lottery

a coveted prize! However, the prize is anything but coveted. The Lottery begins in a simple community, a little town that ...

Racism in The Bluest Eye

read. Morrison presents these excerpts, and the distorted excerpts, to illustrate a nation that has long held racism out for all t...

Hans Christian Andersen/The Nightingale

begins by describing the elaborate, beautiful and impractical nature of the Chinese Emperors palace, which is so delicate that you...

John Wesley's Sermon 43: The Scripture Way of Salvation

poses some significant questions, including the question of what is salvation, the role that faith plays in salvation and how fait...

Saving Sourdi” by May-Lee Chai

a world now in America, a woman is basically in the hands of the world of men. They have little or no control over their destinies...

Classic Animation/Disney's Little Mermaid

mans face. The fish slips from his fingers and manages to make it over the side. The perspective follows the fish. The fish turn...

Spielberg/Amistad

of his story, as his capture is told in flashback, which emphasizes the personal tragedy of this event for him. Cinques story of h...