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19th Century US Labor Movement

16). The author goes on to talk about Jacksons Democratic party and the problems it has had. For instance, many policies associate...

Susan Glaspell's Trifles

at Mrs. Wrights kitchen and her home. They are talking about her with deep compassion and empathy, discussing her jarred fruit fre...

Overview of the 'Just War' Theory

to be an an armed attack that is being directed at a peaceful society (Raymond, 2005). The second type is the development of any i...

Overview of Seaquakes

each other until one moves up and the other down and then one slips under another and creates a quake. There are several such plat...

Pros and Cons of Animals Being Used for Medical Research Purposes

such critical components as antibiotics, blood transfusions, dialysis, organ transplantation, vaccinations, chemotherapy, bypass ...

Motivation Questions

justifies the position and explains the actions being taken by the employer. The end of the memo also has the indication of how l...

The Fifth Child, Angela's Ashes, Death of a Salesman and the Theme of Family Disintegration

play, wants this to the exclusion of reality. At the beginning of the play it becomes apparent that Willy is in trouble. Suffering...

Science and Public Relations

Yancey wrote: "Today, the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., opens its Marian Koshland Science Museum. The ...

Hesse & Le Guin/Views on Dichotomy

finds it difficult to escape from his lifetime habit of dichotomous thinking when it comes to gender. Therefore, he tends to think...

New York City/Bonfire of the Vanities

incredibly shallow, supercilious and caught within such a fierce atmosphere of competitiveness that they use the millions at the d...

Anderson's "Feed" - Sinister Possibilities And Prodding

of consumerism - the perpetual wanting of more and more materialistic tangibles until there is nothing left to appreciate - reside...

Reaction to: “The Things They Carried”

early chapters show up again later, as others talk about them. It reminds a reader of those wonderful, wacky conversations that go...

H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine

humanity and all things simply improve, although there is still the belief that time and history will end with the coming of Chris...

Shamanism

a great array of dysfunctional lost souls in a European society. Without their culture, their history, their mystical beliefs, the...

Book Report: “Charlie Bone and the Time Twister”

Bone and Henry Yewbeam, who arrives mysteriously at Bloors via the Time Twister, are related to the legendary Red King. In fact, r...

Elinor in Year of Wonders

of creamy silk. A few fine pearls gleamed in her pale hair. But more than her delicate beauty, Colonel Bradford appreciated her su...

The Morality of Frankenstein

because of the gruesome nature of the experiments, he has to be very circumspect about where he lives-another broad hint that he s...

Afghanistan and America in The Kite Runner

cannot bring himself to intervene (Hosseini). His inability springs not so much from cowardice, though he is badly outnumbered, as...

How the Reader is Positioned in “Cloudstreet”

that trembles and sighs, shakes and stinks. What is a reader supposed to make of all this? First, positioning is the word given t...

Sky Lee’s Disappearing Moon Café/Chinese-Canadians

and her parents. She says that her mother "never attempted to Canadianize her thinking," as she dried fish on the front lawn and v...

Hemingway’s Techniques Described in “Hemingway: In Love and War”

"association of love with life, and the consequent indissolubility and self-sufficiency of the relationship" (Tyler). However, lov...

Protagonists’ Voyages in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby, and The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

own death and running away. Along the way, he meets Jim, a runaway slave who is traveling north in hopes of freeing his family. ...

A Consideration of Gender in “Brown Girl in the Ring”

was all but foreign to them before the citys fall. This makes for an interesting study of how individuals choose their path in li...

Secondary Characters in “Ferdydurke” and “The Stranger”

He notes that old women often have big stomachs, while the men are "thin as rakes, and they all carried sticks" (Camus, 1946, p. 8...

Reaction: “The Bonfire of the Vanities”

(Wolfe 10). But all McCoy wants to do is get out of the place for a few minutes; in fact, he wants to go and see his mistress, and...

Foreman: “Toehold”

16th century Italian artist and sculptor who was famed, among other things, for his goldsmithing. His exquisite work is world-famo...

Significance of Jesus Christ’s Death and Resurrection as Decay and Renewal in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury

and one from their devoted black servant Dilsey Gibson and read like the gospels of the Bible in that observations of actual event...

“The Grand Inquisitor”

promised he would make but did not. The Cardinal also argues that if Christ should have given in when Satan tempted him, and thr...

Herman Melville’s Message in Moby-Dick

whale (55). Naturally, this represents the books climax, but how would Melville fill the huge writing gap between the introductio...

Kurtz in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

central point of the narrative. The company accountant is the first character to refer to Kurtz and he tells Marlow that Kurtz i...