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Sylvia Plath's Literary Contributions

bees), and her mother, a former student of Otto Plaths, a high school teacher (Bloom 1). Although Dr. Otto Plath suffered from ca...

Modern Expressionist Painter Georges Rouault

revolution and the advent of World War I. These factors must have had a tremendous impact on the art community. This could, one mi...

Tutorial on J.S. Mill's On Liberty and Utilitarianism

particular truths involved (Mill, 1987). But, in art, individuals must operate from the opposite direction - first there is a gen...

Heroes and Ernest Hemingway

series of misfortunes, but the hero endures, because it is this constant facing of death that defines life. The code hero makes ...

Psychology and Identity Approaches

people and in some way negates the assumption of uniqueness. Yet, psychologists recognize that while people are unique, there are ...

Flannery O'Connor and Comedy

in complete truthfulness, "a man" (OConnor, 1972, p. 255). When the pair become hopelessly lost in Atlanta, they find themselv...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'Fall of the House of Usher,' Art and Literature

walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...

Comparative Analysis of From the Poets in the Kitchen by Paule Marshall and The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

people to associate with one another, even if they are of the same skin color. Indeed, an individuals worth is sometimes based so...

Abstract and Concrete Language in Poetry

own anguish, illustrating the poets "mastery of weaving spontaneously narrative, meditative, and descriptive elements into a seemi...

4 Brief Literature Essays

Pontellier, though she had married a Creole, was not thoroughly at home in the society of Creoles...There were only Creoles that s...

Immigrant Writers on Acculturation and Assimilation

sentimentality but her readership was attracted to such tales of courage, determination and, most important of all, success in Ame...

Ethical Foundations Laid by Confucius and Immanuel Kant

have anticipated the degradation that would take place toward the trees, grass and animals, all of whom are just as integral to th...

Life and Paintings of Paul Gauguin

for which he is most well known. Some of his earlier pieces included Les Alyscamps, Arles 1888; Still Life with Three Puppies 188...

Premier Modern Painter Edouard Manet

the nineteenth century, painting was characterized by "flights of imagination" and "academic glorifications of the heroic past" (F...

Code of Ethics and Accounting Standards of the State of Texas

are still held responsible for conduct as set out by the Government Accounting Standards Board. It is in the best interes...

Issues Regarding Brokers

If we wish to consider new issues and the way that there is a need for a broker, then we need to consider the role of the broker....

Life and Morality

role in this respect. Plato held that the key agent in any sort of behavior but especially ethical or moral behavior (or lack of t...

Nella Larsen's 'Passing'

one is doing so in the early part of the twentieth century. Back during the time Larsen wrote her groundbreaking story Passing, t...

The Daily Lives of Ancient Egyptians

or when (Montet, 1968). There is some historical text which has been deciphered giving some of the details of ancient Egypt. Mon...

Eva Smith's Death in An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley

although he makes it clear that it is not "Ghoul") calls on the Birling family of Yorkshire and although everything appears to be ...

An Analysis of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Novel, A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings

side show exhibit, looking to make money, only to lose interest in the angel. This simple synopsis offers us an incredible arra...

Life of a Georgia Innocent by Harry Crews

is not an observer, he is a participant. In "Life of a Georgia Innocent" he provides an insiders look of what it was like to live...

'A Clean, Well Lighted Place' and 'Hills Like White Elephants' by Ernest Hemingway

two share. They are obviously not really enjoying this moment, or life, for some reason. And, the reason is never clearly spelled ...

Real World Application of Inferential Tests

seventy-nine percent for those who did not work out. This would reduce the inferences to only two possible choices: Exercising in ...

Simile and Metaphor

arms off and place them somewhere, nor did she wage a real battle on the high window. Even the terms high window and shadow can be...

A Review of The Plague

the plague does exist, but never imagine it in their town, affecting their people: "everybody knows that pestilences have a way of...

Censorship and Pornography

Common Definitions One of the earlier definitions of pornography appeared in an 1864 edition of Websters dictionary: "licentious ...

Themes of Good and Evil in Edgar Allan Poe

- Chapter 4 - The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Fiction). Poe seemed to regard society and the Industrial Revolution in particular ...

Concept of Honor in William Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' and 'Much Ado About Nothing'

a boy. Olivia, on the other hand, is given to extravagant gestures that are designed to emphasize the degree of her grief. She pro...

Judith and Her Maidservant with The Head Of Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi

Holofernes reflects the angst so commonly portrayed in Gentileschis work. With the prospect of danger forever just around the cor...