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Bill Martin, Jr.'s Children's Books

wonder how he does it. In other words, it is rather unique when someone is successful at something that so many fail at. What is B...

Poetic Analysis of 'The Wood Pile' by Robert Frost

stresses and also spondaic emphasis on the phrase "this years snow." Still other lines mix and match rhythm patterns so that the o...

Stephen Jay Gould's Bully for Brontosaurus

books, and view the publishing arm of their diversified empire as but one more item for the ultimate balance"(Gould 157). Apparent...

Religion in Beloved by Toni Morrison and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

on a culture. Indeed, to mask such somber episodes as Umuofias abrupt European colonization as being an important part of global ...

'The Merchant's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

and hoor; /Thanne is a wife the fruit of his tresor" (Chaucer 55-58). At this point, it is not certain that Januarie sees, as ce...

William Wordsworth and William Blake's Childhood Themes

this particular poem the first four lines seem to offer us a great deal of foundation for understanding the symbolic nature of you...

Immigrant Experiences and Angel Island

Before actually describing the art and poetry that came out of detainees from Angel Island, a look at the locations history would ...

Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist

of this, more than likely, was due to the influence of modern industrialized society and the move from rural to urban settings, bu...

Comparing Flannery O'Connor and Anton Chekov

His narratives, rather than having a climax and resolution, are a thematic arrangement of impressions and ideas" (Anonymous Anton ...

Comparative Analysis of Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo and Jose Donoso's El Lugar Sin Limites

determined to find identity. La Manuela lives there with her daughter la Japonesita. We see a powerful sense of hope, as well as...

'Trial by Combat' by Shirley Jackson

In five pages this short story examines the theme of identity within the context of this short story. Four sources are cited in t...

Mordecai Richler and Margaret Atwood on Self Victimization

"moves slowly, but surely into a plotline filled with many serious topics: abuse, rape, the inability to love, the immediate reper...

Revenge Theme of Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. / But this eternal blazon must not be / To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list! ...

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...

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

at a bar before moving on and a Native American woman deposits a three-year-old girl in her car and begs her to keep the child. ...

Identity Search and Death of Fathers

not been there for his two sons. In this respect both of the sons have had to grow up without their father, or with essentially an...

Poetry and Carpe Diem

the end, ones heart may win over ones intellect. In Diane Ackermans poem, which may very well be a modern retelling of...

'Annabel Lee' by Edgar Allan Poe

of similar words and create definitive alliteration that supports the flow of the work. Alliteration of the words "love" and "li...

Robert Frost's Poetic Themes

In five pages this research paper considers how farming and nature are favorite themes of poet Robert Frosts. There are 5 sources...

Personal Journey Undertaken in 'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost

have been unaware of the fact that the poems secondary meaning was particularly germane to his own life. Frost, as narrator, notes...

'Desert Place' by Robert Frost

This paper consists of five pages and analyzes the figures of speech, imagery, voice, tone, figurative language, and theme feature...

Explication of 'Mending Wall' by Robert Frost

In five pages this paper presents an explication of the poem 'Mending Wall' that focuses upon its primary themes. Eight sources a...

'The Bishop Orders His Tomb At St. Praxed's Church' by Robert Browning

In five pages this poetic analyzes what makes the poem Victorian in a consideration of style, tone, allegory, and theme. Three so...

Porphyria's Lover and My Last Duchess/Browning

This essay discusses Browning's exper use of dramatic monologue in Porphyria's Lover and My Last Duchess. Through the use of this...

Elia Kazan's 1947 Film Gentleman's Agreement and the Concept of Jewish 'Otherness'

In five pages this film is examined in terms of how it portrays the theme of Jewish 'otherness' in regards to the treatment of Jew...

Poetry, Recreation, Cinema, and Ethnicity

In five pages social and cultural ethnic representations in a Johnson short story, Divakaruni and Clifton poetic themes are discus...

Comparative Analysis of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Cool Hand Luke

In five pages the themes featured in each of these films such as questioning authority are contrasted and compared. There are no ...

How I'm Not Rappaport Defies Ageism

In five pages this paper explores how Herb Gardner's 1985 play defies ageism through its characterizations and themes. There is d...

The Voyage of Cabeza de Vaca Three Themes Assessment

deceitful attack that ensued, the Spaniards had no other choice but to flee for their lives in makeshift boats. Only after forty-...

Pontiac Indian Conspiracy

The history of the Indian wars is laid out by Francis Parkman in Conspiracy of Pontiac. This essay examines his use of theme, lite...