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Africans and Africa in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

that Africa has on the Europeans in the story. His argument, therefore, it that imperialism is wrong, not so much because of what ...

Edith Hamilton's Mythology

Chaos. Gaea, the first Titan, was the earth, itself. After she emerged from the Chaos, she gave birth to her own consort, Uranus, ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson's 'Self Reliance' and 'Nature' Essays

or change as well as "identity or rest...the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may b...

Nature in Deliverance by James Dickey

In six pages this essay examines how both the novel and the film depict nature as a way of showcasing the author's evil concept. ...

Analysis of a Passage/Charles Chestnutt

Circumstance," the author changes the narrative perspective twice, using three perspectives in total. A close reading of this pass...

For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls by Christopher Durang

Durang's satire of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie is considered in this report of five pages in which the author's succes...

Analysis of Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

In nineteen pages this paper analyzes the text in terms of the self identity search of the narrator and the author's notion of inv...

Ain't I A Woman by Bell Hooks

same culture and social constraints that she includes as elements of her perspective on feminism. She was raised in a working cla...

Thomas Malory's 'Every Man' and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Pardoner's Tale'

In an essay consisting of six pages what can be gleaned from these author's respective societies and times based on the stories is...

Terry Williams' Refuge A Story of Adaptation to Disaster

In five pages this paper compares the death of the author's mother to the natural disaster of wildlife refuge flooding. There is ...

Author Michael Crichto

In eleven pages this paper discusses the author's life and the unethical interaction between science and medicine as portrayed in ...

David Carter's Stonewall: Why is it Important?

slice of heaven for the LGBT community in New York City. It was a place to be able to cozy up to a significant (or not-so-signific...

Rights of Women in 'A Jury of Her Peers' by Susan Glaspell

In five pages this story is analyzed in terms of how it reflects the legal and social rights of women during the author's time per...

Revenge in 'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe

In seven pages the theme of revenge as depicted in this short story is analyzed as the author's personal commentary attacking the ...

A Review of Perkins' "With Justice for All"

issue of social injustice. While this is necessarily a broad and multifaceted topic, Perkins does a good job of hitting the key po...

Reflections of the Nineteenth Century in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

In five pages this paper analyzes the author's depiction of marital significance, social class, and women. There are no other sou...

Persuasion by Jane Austen

In eight pages this paper considers the author's life and also discusses how Austen perceives marriage and love within the context...

J.R.R. Tolkien's Imaginary Worlds and Philology

related poems that I never read entitled The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. In my research, I found that other fiction he published ...

India's Temple and the Union of Opposites in A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

In five pages 'Temple,' the final portion of Forster's novel, is examined in a comparison of the author's representation of Britis...

Life and Death Views of Woolf, Eiseley, and Dillard

to shape a justification for death. Recognizing that life and death are so closely linked that the single bit of a water beetle c...

The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoevsky

In five pages the author's Russian atheism and socialism conflict is examined within the context of the novel's 6 characters. The...

Individuality in Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Doestoevsky

In six pages this novel is analyzed in terms of the conflict between conformity and universality and examines how individuality an...

Physical and Moral Evil in Candide by Voltaire

In nine pages this paper discusses the author's use of satire in this analysis of physical and moral evil in Candide. Three sourc...

James Joyce Portrait as a Young Man

In ten pages this paper examines the author's life as it reveals itself in his novel 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' and e...

Parents in the Fiction of Guy de Maupassant

In five pages this paper examines the French author's short stories 'Mademoiselle Fifi' and 'Boule de Suif' in terms of how they r...

Life and Writings of Author Thomas Mann

In seven pages this paper discusses how the writings of Thomas Mann were profoundly influenced by the author's life. Six sources ...

Using Vernacular to Reflect Self Image in Jean Toomer's Cane and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

In eleven pages this paper compares each author's uses of vernacular to reflect African American identity concept in their respect...

Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

In a paper consisting of five pages the therapeutic impact of this novel is considered within the context of adolescents that may ...

Faulkner, Hemingway and Hawthorne's Strategy

Readings are taken from three works, The Sound and the Fury, The House of the Seven Gables and A Farewell to Arms, in this paper w...

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

In four pages this Spanish classic is examined in terms of how this represents the author's commentary regarding the countrymen an...