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Discussion of Ways of Knowing

This essay pertains to Margaret Edson's play "Wit," and Alice Walker's short story "Everyday Use." The writer argues that each of ...

The Diary of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America, 1492-1493, Reading Assignment

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the writing of Christopher Columbus on his first discovery of America. This paper includes ...

The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death and America's Dilemma, A Reflection Essay

This 4 page paper gives a reflection of a story concerning two towns separated by their opinions concerning a young man's death. T...

Junot Diaz, "How to Date a Brown Girl..."

This essay pertains to "How to date a brown girl (black girl, white girl, or halfie)" by Junot Diaz. Referring to a description if...

Six Short Stories, Summary and Analyses

This paper presents discussion of "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan, "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, ...

Obama and a Story of Race

In a paper of three pages, the author reflects on the autobiography about Barack Obama's childhood and his development. The autho...

2 Short Stories, Identity

This essay pertains to The short stories "Bible" by Tobias Wolfe and "Virgins" by Danielle Evans. The writer discusses the theme o...

Text and Illustrations in “Alice in Wonderland”

illustrations in the first chapter: the rabbit with the watch, Alice finding the door, Alice looking after the rabbit as he scurri...

Natural Selection and Stories by Bellow and Gold

improved in a corresponding degree with its competitors, it will soon be exterminated" (Darwin). This then is the basic of Darwins...

Conflict in Willa Cather’s Short Story ‘The Sculptor’s Funeral’

(Cather 68). It became readily apparent that these local men were there more out of a sense of civic duty than out of any love fo...

Amy Tan’s Two Kinds: Mothers and Daughters

Mothers and daughters are perhaps, first and foremost, women. And, as women they are often stuck in many social categories as well...

American Dream and Ernest Hemingway's Story 'A Clean Well Lighted Place' and John Ford's Film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

sometimes the only way to achieve peace. Doniphon admires the idealism of Stoddard and the two form an unlikely bond. The movie cl...

Dalai Lama/The Universe in a Single Atom

spiritual enlightenment. The central message of Buddhism is that all creatures, one of great intelligence, and even those that w...

D.H. Lawrence/The Piano

"sex-obsessed," but Frieda argues that Lawrence was "simply pro-human" and that because D.H. Lawrence wrote what he did, "...the y...

Four Views On Hell

one harmonize the concept of a loving, gracious God with a God who is righteous and unforgiving" (Walvoord 11). Walvoord admits th...

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...

Retelling Beowulf in 13th Warrior

In the epic, the threat is supernatural; in the film, the menace is recast as a vicious, cannibalistic tribe who dress in animal s...

Tristan and Isolde and 'Beowulf'

449 (Donaldson 31). The one datable fact mentioned in the poem is a raid on the Franks made by Hygelac, the king of the Geats in 5...

Ecclesiology/Reformation & Great Awakening

writing The Pagan Servitude of the Church, which is also known as The Babylonian Captivity of the Church. Luther states overtly th...

'Gilgamesh,' 'Beowulf,' and Leadership

In 5 pages the leadership concept is examined within the context of these 2 Medieval stories. There are no other sources listed....

'Beowulf' and Christian Beliefs

emphatically Christian as in a tone mildly so" (125). John Niles has written that "Attempts to show a specific correlation betw...

Comparing Translations of Beowulf

In six pages this paper compares Seamus Heaney's and Lucien Dean Pearson's translations of the Medieval epic tale. There are thre...

Theme of Nature The Canterbury Tales and Beowulf

understanding the deeper connections and interpretations of the characters who populate Chaucers work. Those deeper connections cl...

La Morte D'Arthur, Beowulf, and Gender

time, Grendels mother is literally a monster, so one could in fact give Beowulf some slack in that he took on a woman. Can a monst...

'Beowulf' and Its Representation of Heroic and Christian Traditions

a rather powerful enemy. Thus, one sees heroic feats on either end, but also, there is Christian love and the love of a parent tha...

Epic Heroes in 'The Iliad, 'The Odyssey,' 'Beowulf,' 'The Aeneid,' and 'The Ramayana'

than life and serves as a role model for others to follow; they are brave, smart and good in battle; and, the hero embarks upon a ...

Religion in 'Beowulf' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

for his own wants as a man. Sir Gawains virtue is tested against the backdrop of religious implication when Bercilaks wife ...

The Epic 'Beowulf' and Anglo Saxon Culture

the tale. In fact, it seems that one of the general ways in which each character is depicted is a quick rundown of their lineage. ...

Excalibur, Beowulf, and the Concepts of the Chosen and Divine Kingship

protect and guard the warrior, but in this case, it represents the king protecting and guarding the nation against all intruders t...

William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, the Medieval Epic 'Beowulf' and Setting

this case Hrothgar, and his subjects. The Beowulf poet states that "It came to his (Hrothgars) mind that he would command men to c...