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Pulp Fiction and Human Anxiety

this tension and anxiety. As Fried (1995) illustrates "Pulp Fiction is not simply a sensational stylistic exercise without content...

Kate Chopin's Life and Writings

In five pages this paper examines the Victorian time period that shaped the life and writings of Kate Chopin and analyzes the femi...

Analyzing Three Tales by William Faulkner

In eight pages characters from 'Barn Burning,' 'A Rose for Emily,' and 'Percy Grimm' are contrasted and compared and a discussion ...

Civil War Letters

Alfonso Heep is an educated Kentucky farmboy who, in agreement with his state government, originally wanted nothing to do with the...

Postwar British Fiction and Decline Theme

reality of the war, of its physical wounds were to be seen. This had to have had a psychological impact on the people of the count...

Mind and Body in the Works of Judith Ortiz Cofer and Alice Walker

from thereon, looked different. She was no longer cute, but different. Other people did not seem to care that she looked different...

A Traditional Hawaiian 'Talk' Story

After two days with them, I felt sure I could stay with them forever. I remember the smells of their house, the ginger cookies,...

White Freedom Rider James Peck's Diary

when we get to Birmingham. The freedom ride is certainly a part of it, but not the whole thing. Birmingham is important right now...

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

other nations, acting in commercial or diplomatic positions (The Literature Network). Then in 1385 he apparently lost his job as w...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien as Fact or Fiction

without ever becoming preachy. Tim OBrien wrote Things They Carried, and not so coincidentally, the texts narrator was also named...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich as Tolstoy's Commentary on Materialism

exorbitant fees for consulting them. Thus, Tolstoy is indicating that materialism diverts the true calling of the professional, su...

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway and Alternative Outcomes

gone with him there are several ways in which this could have altered the story. The first example will discuss how the story coul...

Selected Short Stories and Their Representation of Gender Conflict

In five pages the short stories 'The Catbird Seat' and 'The Unicorn in the Garden' by James Thurber and 'Hihlls Like White Elephan...

Literary Crime Fiction

In five pages this paper discusses how the crime fiction literary genre developed throughout the late 19th and early 20th centurie...

Slavery Theme in Dawn by Octavia Butler

power structures and organization are often present in her writing. In fact, it would be more accurate to describe her writing as ...

The Journalist in Combat

The history of reporting in war is the history of telling America's story. This paper explores that history and how the war story ...

Making a Difference Through Storytelling

who finds themself trapped with a, almost willingly, woman going insane. Twains "Huckleberry Finn" takes the reader with him along...

West Side Story, Manhattan Transfer, and Uses of Dialect

In five pages the ways in which ethnic dialects are used in the stories of West Side Story and Manhattan Transfer are considered. ...

Kate Chopin and Marriage Aspects

In ten pages Chopin's stories 'Desiree's Baby,' 'The Story of an Hour,' and 'A Respectable Woman' are examined in terms of their t...

2 Narratives on the Latina Experience

be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...

Irish Literary Themes in 1916 by Morgan Llywelyn

conflict rages within, there are conflicts aplenty without. The passage of time also brings with it change, often initiated throu...

Fact and Fiction in Homer's 'The Odyssey'

of Homers great work are a slew of characters. One of those is Odysseus, an unlikely hero. Odysseus is in some ways an antihero...

Tsitsi Dangarembga's 'Nervous Conditions'

In a paper that is consists of 5 pages the African American woman Timbu is chronicled through parallels, symbolism, themes, and st...

Thomas Keneally's 'Schindler's List'

This is an essay that is 5 pages in length and examines the story's characters, plot, point of view, settings, themes, symbols, an...

'The Snows of Kilimanjaro' by Ernest Hemingway

our morbid curiosity about death continues, and in Hemingways story that curiosity is all too well satisfied. In The Snows of Kil...

The Last Emperor Film by Bernardo Bertolucci

related to this period, and some of the socio-political reasons for wanting Pu Yi to take the throne within the constructs of the ...

The True Voyages of Christopher Columbus

eyes of the world. It would also elevate Spains own social status in the world. Status and wealth were important considerations ...

Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use'

In five pages Walker's short story is analyzed in a focus on quilt symbolism but with a thematic and story synopsis also included....

Kate Chopin's Depiction of Marriage

In five pages this paper examines how Kate Chopin depicts marriage in the short stories 'The Storm,' 'Story of an Hour' and 'Ripe ...

Describing Life in Persia

entitled Gates of Fire, as well as others, one can get a sense of how the Persians lived at the time. In the novel, Pressfield foc...