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Adult Learning Theories, An Article Summary/Chen

This article summary describes a study, Chen (2014), which pertains to nontraditional adult students and the application of adult ...

Popular American Mythological Hero Forrest Gump

In eight pages this paper examines the popular movie character in terms of the qualities he embodies as a popular mythological her...

Articles on Body Language

Brian Clost seems to provide an overview of the general thinking on body language. Clost says that the eyes are sometimes called t...

Haas Dyson/Writing Superheroes

to explaining how children make use of semiotic resources is how this body of research relates the purposes played by oral languag...

Influence of Popular Culture

public mindset, it tends to be regarded as secondary and considerably far down in the cultural hierarchy of the topics that are ge...

Lessons from “The Sopranos”

can be explained by the growing acceptance in our culture of anything that is off color, illegal, or even immoral. The type of gl...

A Review of A Bronx Tale

A 6 page essay reviewing both the film and print versions of this popular tale. Both the negative and positive aspects of America...

The Use of Songs and Games to Teach English as a Second Language

repetitive and consistent (Schoepp, 2001). 2. Affective reasons: this reason involves the Affective Filter Hypothesis and basicall...

Creative Essay 'I Never Said I Was Martha Stewart'

getting ready to leave. "I cook all the time at home." I simply rolled my eyes at him. He nodded knowingly. "Oh, I get it....

Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, and the Uses of Syntax and Language

cohesive literary glue that holds it all together. One of the ingredients of that glue is the use of language. His particular use ...

Modern Literature and Body Metaphors

such as when an individual describes himself as being "torn in two", "up against a wall", or "hot-blooded" in which individuals ma...

A Look at Chameleons

Chameleons prey primarily on insects but they also take other small animals as the opportunity presents itself. Their tong-like f...

Death and Poetic Attitudes of Davis, Thomas, and Donne

people pity the dead, not Death itself. In the end Donnes message is that there is little reason to fear death and that in the end...

The Bone People by Keri Hulme and Structural Metaphors

only now an even deeper character has been introduced, Daniels, who bloody death Simon has brought into Kerewins tower house. When...

'Oranges and Sweet Sister Boy' by Judy Ruiz and Metaphors

yet durable external shell which can be peeled away to reveal the different sections. While the sections are all different they to...

Poetry and Metaphors

savagery which slavery brought with it. Notice in this passage how the belles traits are given, then immediately juxtaposed with t...

Questions Concerning Five Works of Literature

This 3 page paper gives answers to questions about the works Song of Myself, slave narratives, Bartleby the Scrivener the subtitle...

"A Subaltern's Love Song" - Post-Colonial Symbolism

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "A Subaltern's Love Song" by Betjeman. Symbols of post-colonial significance are de...

"Desiree's Baby" by Kate Chopin

This essay is on Kate Chopin's short story "Desiree's Baby." The writer discusses the plot charter, metaphor and symbolism used by...

Discussion Questions for J. Alfred Prufrock

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". Similarities to "Dubliners" are recounte...

Analysis of Sharon Olds' 'Rite of Passage'

stand around jostling, jockeying for place, small fights...

Poetic Analysis of Robert Frost's 'The Road Not Taken'

a world of what might have been is not healthy. Therefore, he is suggesting that when one determines a course of action, that one ...

"Do Not Expect Again a Phoenix Hour" by C Day Lewis

of recurrence and an admonishment not to expect recurrence immediately draws the reader in. The poet them goes on to describe "the...

Poetic Analysis of 'If We Must Die' by Claude McKay

exploded out of me" (McKay on "If We Must Die"). Somewhat surprisingly, McKay elected to structure his impassioned contemporary p...

'The Flea' by John Donne, Meaning and Metaphor

imagery and emotional intensity alone, but by considering the social context that they grew out of and how they address it, a whol...

Courage is Named Maya Angelou

speaks of breaking free, not only from oppression and prejudice, but also from those things that bind and keep one from achieving ...

Ice Metaphor in 'Sonny's Blues' by James Baldwin

terrible shock and pain of learning about Sonnys arrest, and the fear that the narrator feels for his brothers future. The feeling...

God's Relationship With Israel

(Dearman, 1998) and we often hear that phrase being used to describe the relationship between Israel and God. He was the living Go...

From New York/Paul Morand/A Rhetorical Analysis

in London."2 Morands imagery also addresses the thoughts and feelings that the "battle" for wealth that is the New York Stock Exc...

The Significance of Metaphor

more mundane expressions. Baseball metaphors are very popular with men, and are also extremely common, so much so that they have...