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“Frankenstein” and the Idea of Responsibility for One’s Actions

abrogated his personal responsibility on two levels. First, he has given up his responsibility to educate, nurture and care for th...

“Up the Down Staircase”: An American Classic

or "Do you have home room all year?" Kaufman throws the reader in at the deep end by not using quotation marks, or telling us whos...

“Martin Eden” by Jack London

the table that are unfamiliar to him, and he begins reading the poetry of Swinburne, "forgetful of where he was, his face glowing"...

Ancient Greek Society and Steven Pressfield’s Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermoplyae

the novel, the term city is used interchangeably with the term citizen to reinforce this unity: "Our city, my city... Without a ci...

Is America or Mexico a Better Example of a “Melting Pot”?

arrived there; there are hundreds of sources describing these groups. The study of American history is fascinating, since it revea...

Man’s Relationship to Nature in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Along the way, he encounters dangers but somehow manages to survive to reach his island destination, where he will stay for nearly...

Analysis and Critique: “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe

is the result of the selective way in which African affairs have been reported in the West over a long period (Bacon). Since Afr...

Overview and Analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

hit-and-run death of Toms mistress, the married Myrtle Wilson. Her widower is deceived into thinking Gatsby caused the accident, ...

Walden Two, A Behaviorist Utopia

A 12 page research paper/essay that, first of all, discusses behaviorism, what it is and how it started and then moves on to discu...

Thomas King/Medicine River and Canadian Literature

the bearer of Native Canadian culture. For example, the novel opens with Harlen inviting Will to lunch at 10 a.m. and talking abou...

Commen Themes in As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

the student rewrites this research for inclusion in his or her own paper, the student can , of course, reorganize the material in ...

'The Bluest Eye' by Toni Morrison and the Issues of Self Hatred and Beauty

was dictated by the fact that they were not white, and according to Katherine McKittricks literary criticism, they accepted their ...

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

the worst storm to batter England in recorded history in late November through early December, 1703 (De Wire 34). One DeFoe schola...

Linguistics Analysis of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Pavlovna is having a party where Prince Vasily, Prince Andrei, Pierre and others are gathered to enjoy the evenings festivities. H...

Heinrich Mann's Man of Straw

ever spent money on another human being" (Mann 15). Next, the student will want to comment on the economical ways in which Mann p...

To Kill a Mockingbird Content Analysis

he was kept as a virtual prisoner of his house by his brother. Nathan, and out of public view as much as possible. For the childr...

Ernest Hemingway's Primary Literary Themes

he presents. There is pain and violence and death in Hemingways world, and he struggles to show his readers this aspect of life....

Sibling Relationship of Raymond and Charlie Babbitt in Rain Man

Charlie Babbitt The character of Charlie Babbitt is established early in Fleischers novel and Bass and Morrows screenplay of the ...

Pressfield: “Gates of Fire”

"device" through which he tells not only the story of the battle, but the story of Spartan life as well. Pressfield structures the...

Los Premios by Julio Cortazar

Lucio and Nora, and so forth until all of the players in the drama have been introduced. In addition to the teachers, there is Med...

Bram Stoker's Dracula, Charlotte Bronte's Villette, and the Theme of Domesticity

woman likes her surroundings and it is clear that she likes them orderly. A young woman who was not immersed somehow in the idea o...

Steinbeck's Use of Foreshadowing in, Of Mice and Men

of the most blatant uses of foreshadowing is when Candy has to shoot his dog because it bit the Boss. Candy says that a man should...

The Street by Ann Petry

financially running a vegetable store. Lutie ponder their situation, "Who would have thought that this old Italian couple...would ...

Tar Baby by Toni Morrison

Jadine and Sons respective interpretations of race and social stature represent. That each conflict intertwines with one another ...

The Secret History by Donna Tartt, Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and Education

who do not know how to live life and are brainwashed by books and academia" (Chan). In essence, the professor understands the more...

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver and Applicatioins of Erik Erikson and Lawrence Kohlberg's Theories

for their ethical behavior. He identified six stages which were classified in three levels: pre-conventional, conventional and pos...

Analysis of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

shining armor since he has redesigned his house to look like a castle. However, he does not bring this kind and generous nature in...

Jazz Age Lifestyle in Tender is the Night, This Side of Paradise, and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

attended but did not graduate from Princeton University. While at Princeton however, Fitzgerald was first exposed to the exceeding...

Comparison of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Emma by Jane Austen

social restrictions she found particularly repugnant. First published in 1816, Emma "criticizes the manners and values of the upp...

Anita Shreve's The Weight of Water

review of The Weight of Water, "There is so much factual information about the Shoals here -- geographical, historical, nautical, ...