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Fathers and Sons in the Works of Arthur Miller and William Faulkner

In five pages this research paper compares Miller's Death of a Salesman and Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' in an examination of relatio...

Love and Death in William Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' and 'A Rose for Emily'

The ways in which Faulkner portrays the themes of death and love in these two short stories are considered in five pages. There a...

John Milton's Paradise Lost and the Themes of Death and Sin

In five pages this paper examines the allegorical representation of death and sin in Paradise Lost, Book Two. There are no other ...

Village of a Million Spirits by Ian MacMillan

In five pages this essay examines the Treblinka Nazi death camp uprising featured in the novel by Ian MacMillan with the Magda Now...

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman on the Stage and on TV

and character. Miller seems to have conceived of Death of a Salesman as a twentieth century tragedy in the tradition of the ancie...

Life and Euthanasia

In five pages this report considers what life is in a discussion of euthanasia with 'brain dead' and concepts of 'death with digni...

Fear of Death and Geoffrey Chaucer

In five pages the fears Chaucer expressed about death particularly in 'The Nun's Priest Tale,' 'The Pardoner's Tale,' and 'The Mil...

SIDS

In six pages this paper presents an overview of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Six sources are listed in the bibliography....

Overview of Legendary Old West Figure Wild Bill Hickok

In seven pages this paper examines the life and legend of James Butler, more famously known as Wilde Bill Hickok with his Union Ar...

Life and Death According to 2 Artistic Interpretations

The Eric Clapton and Will Jennings' song Tears in Heaven is contrasted and compared with Dylan Thomas' poem Do Not Go Gentle Into ...

Death of a Salesman - Willy Loman and the Betrayal of the American Dream

This 6 page paper discusses the concept of true and false values in the play Death of a Salesman. The writer argues that Willy Lom...

Themes in 'To Build a Fire' by Jack London

In five pages this paper discusses the themes of life and death evoked by Jack London in his short story 'To Build a Fire.' Four ...

A Review of Europa, Europa

A 5 page essay exploring the work of the film by Polish writer-director Agnieszka Holland. An eye-opening look at the lengths som...

Death and Covenants

In nine pages student posed questions are examined regarding the status of covenants within the context of death in terms of the d...

17th Century Social History of China and The Death of Woman Wang by Jonathan Spence

In five pages this paper examines how Chinese society of the seventeenth century is presented in The Death of Woman Wang by Jonath...

Ernest Hemingway's 'Death in the Afternoon'

The relationship between ancient sacrifice and bullfighting in Spain is examined in this analysis of 'Death in the Afternoon' by E...

Comparative Analysis of Arthur Miller's Characters Willy Loman and John Proctor

This paper consists of 5 pages and contrasts and compares the protagonists John Proctor and Willy Loman as featured in Arthur Mill...

Short Story 'The Death of Ivan Ilych'

on his knee, leans over him, putting his ear first higher then lower, and performs various gymnastic movements over him with a sig...

Poe's Obsession with Beautiful Young Women Dying and the Influence of His Wife's Premature Death

In six pages this paper discusses how Edgar Allan Poe's obsession with young women dying was due to the premature death of his wif...

John Brown, Abolitionist

In this paper consisting of five pages the life, death, and and radical abolitionism of John Brown is examined. There are four bi...

Themes of Death in Emily Dickinson's Poetry

to immortality" (73). The Civil War was being fought during Dickinsons most fertile period of creativity, and the deaths of many ...

Proposing Texas Abolishment of the Death Penalty

In this paper consisting of five pages the accomplishments of abolishing the Texas death penalty and necessary actions to do so ar...

Bureaucracy and Public Management

In five pages this paper discusses how a woman met a violent death due to a glitch in bureaucratic effectiveness. One source is c...

Poetry and Time

can one accept that time runs out and that everyone will die someday? After all, time is of the essence. How does one love, be hap...

Mann, Gide, Kafka, Woolf, and Modernism

It was realistic, but the writing was complicated and required the reader to become intimately involved with the subject matter. ...

Analysis of Emily Dickinson's Poem 712

wanted the poem to leave a profound impression; for that reason, it is subject to the interpretation of the individual. I...

19th Century Russia, Medicine, and Health

which is before the communists would seize control, how did Russian peasants fare? It should be noted that the years mentioned de...

Capital Punishment History

In five pages this report examines the history of the death penalty in the U.S. in a presentation of background material to be use...

Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms and the Rain Metaphor

In five pages this paper discusses how death and separation are metaphorically represented by rain in Ernest Hemingway's A Farewel...

Family's Need to Earn More Money

trapped. Our era has prompted most to believe that yesterdays luxuries are indeed todays necessities. By way of two acclaimed l...