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Rules of the Game by Amy Tan

In three pages this essay discusses the symbolism of the novel's title and considers how it relates to the human experience. The ...

Characters of Marlow and Lord Jim in Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim

In five pages this paper examines the effectiveness of the novel's third person narrative and examines the relationship between Ma...

Structure and Struggle in Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

In four pages this 'nightmare' tale examines the protagonist's struggles and also analyzes the novel's structure. Three sources a...

Characters of Robert Cohn in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

now wealthy and has achieved all he set out to do. In this chapter we see many different things which tell us that Jay is nothing ...

Chapter Overview of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn

of Hucks and Huck and Tom are often compared and contrasted. While Huck is intelligent and introspective, Tom is adventurous and ...

Chaim Potok's The Chosen

we meet the main characters, Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders, two boys with similar backgrounds who meet at a baseball game. Dan...

Use of the Vernacular in

of the bible belt that anyone who is connected to the clergy are inherently good people when in fact clergy are human beings, subj...

An Analysis of Orwell's 1984

member of the Thought Police, and his role is to discover individuals going against the society and bring them out. Mr. Carringto...

Review: “The Sun Also Rises”

and Barnes are the same person. What is clear is that Hemingways experiences make Barnes seem very real. So does Hemingways famou...

Gulliver’s Travels by Swift

readers. However, if my own ignorance in sea affairs shall have led me to commit some mistakes, I alone am answerable for them" (S...

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

there. He has grown up in a society that talks about the World State and so he is curious. He is a reader of Shakespeare and a man...

American Popular Culture of 1951 Represented in James Jones’ Best-Selling Novel From Here to Eternity and George Stevens’ Film A Place in the Sun

in explicit language and vivid descriptions of sexuality that were shocking within the conservative cultural context of the period...

The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart

"a perfect bell, with a perfect pitch" calling worshipers to mass (11). On arriving in Canada, Father Gstir simply changes the loc...

Goodman: “Kaaterskill Falls”

is, its probably Elizabeth, a young mother of six who, more than most, seems to have one foot in the strict Kirshner sect and the ...

Analysis: “In the Name of the Rose”

but throughout the novel in its structure and in the references Eco brings in. The reader thus becomes aware that the novel is wor...

Cyberpunk Lit: “Neuromancer”

movement, and the technical developments of the 1980s" (Neuromancer, William Gibson). The word "neuromancer" is a compound: "neuro...

Gore Vidal: “Creation”

Herodotus (Vidal). Herodotus was an actual historical figure, known as both the "father of history" and the "father of lies." Here...

Herbal Medicine and the World Wide Web

This paper reviews two popular web sites and comments on the information they include about the use of the rose in traditional med...

The Economic Barriers to the Increased Adoption of Peritoneal Dialysis

A number of studies have argued that peritoneal dialysis has the potential to benefit end stage renal disease patients medically a...

Popular vs. Scholarly Resources

This essay offers a comparison between a popular article on account management versus a scholarly article on the same topic. This ...

Foreshadowing in “A Tale of Two Cities”

or around the bend. In Two Cities, Dickens uses a great deal of foreshadowing, and it starts with the very first line. "It was th...

Silko: “Ceremony”

it, because he cannot really define who and what he is. Like many Native Americans, his world has clashed headlong into the world ...

Current Fashions in Risk Management

Risk management takes place organizations with the use of different tools and approaches. This six page paper looks at three appro...

Guilt and Grief in The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

how to save her legs and he and Buckley become almost inseparable. However, in the background, Jack makes it clear that he still c...

Mama Day by Gloria Naylor

is clearly separated from the white world or the modern world. In Cocoas remarks she is illustrating that the "whole story...

Virginia Woolf's 'To the Lighthouse'

of the First World War. The first war of the modern era represents a vast social issue and a great change in all human affairs. ...

Edgar Allan Poe's Works and the Themes of Evil, Insanity, and Guilt

been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...

Legacy by James A. Michener

In eight pages this paper compares Michener's 1987 novel with his earlier writings....

Past and Present Hercules

In five pages this essay considers Hercules in an overview of his mythological life and compares the Greek version to the popular ...

The City of Glass by Paul Auster Critically Analyzed

In five pages Auster's complex mystery novel is critically analyzed. There are no other sources listed....