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Essays 1891 - 1920

The 'Sir Patrick Spence Poem

implication is that anything signed by the hand of the king carries the weight of law. Sir Spence has to obey. The letter arrives ...

Elizabeth Ashbridge and a Letter From Her Husband

I know that my treatment of you was unforgivable and added to your other burdens of sorrow: although a man has the right to discip...

A Letter to My Descendants Based on Petrarch and Machiavelli

a riper age brought me to my senses and taught me by experience the truth I had long before read in books, that youth and pleasure...

The Peloponnesian War as Described by Thucydides

At the beginning of this extended speech, the representative from Corcyra prefaces his narrative of events with an appeal that is ...

Social Problems in Hard Times

Plant nothing else, and root out everything else... Stick to Facts" (Dickens 1). For Dickens, this was an atrocity of monumental ...

Professional Life and Challenging Experiences

recognizing talents or steering an individual in a certain direction. A student writing on this subject may want to focus on one t...

Early American Poetry

would end without seeing "half my days thats due" (line 13). This suggests that Bradstreet is giving birth in middle age, which s...

Anger of Black Writers Towards Northern Whites

North, in Baltimore, seeing that people in the North, the whites, could be bitter ignorant people as well: "The watchwords of the ...

Comparing William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Richard III and Themes of Justice and Destiny

especially apparent when critically examining Shakespeares historical play, Richard III and his final work, the dark comedy, The T...

Slavery in Beloved by Toni Morrison and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

and be taken care of. She does not look off longingly to a freedom without such realities, but she looks to the power of mothering...

Don Quixote and Gender

society that Don Quixote escapes, and in books of chivalry, women are honorable for what they refrain from doing. The use of force...

Cyril Connelley on F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction

family that was better off than his own. In order to make something of himself he began to write articles for various magazines. H...

A Examination of Oliver Twist

work in a factory. "Charles was deeply marked by these experiences. He rarely spoke of this time of his life" (Charles Dickens: Hi...

Museums and How Ancient Artifacts Are Uncovered

been able to gather enough information so as to understand the complexities surrounding a collection of semi-preserved writing imp...

Works of Angelina Grimke and Garland Anderson Compared and Contrasted

up and begins to see how hard life is for an African American in society, she decides to never bring a child into the world. This ...

Practices of Discrimination

and it just so happens that more black than white young criminals are shot in police actions. It is often the case that the office...

The Marshall Plan by Michael Hogan

United States."2 American leaders who were at the center of this "New Deal synthesis" envisioned an integrated economy for Western...

Philosophical Works of J.S. Mill

contradictory, which is why he is so controversial. One can take the meaning of Mills writings to suggest that individuality rules...

Willilam Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway

discuss the men. In the article concerning Hemingway the author notes that "Description so vivid that it enables one to be there i...

Superconductivity and Superconductors

In eleven pages this paper written in a science magazine's article style, explores the science of superconductivity and supercondu...

Upper and Lower Egypt in Ancient Times

king, Menes; from this point forward, thirty dynasties would continue this arrangement of unification. One of the critical factor...

Voodoo Symbolism and Its Problems

means than prose, being as diverse a means of communication as any medium. Identifying the inherent problems associated with comp...

The Upanishads and the Atman

same in his "Heart Sura" (Upanishads). The term "Atman" refers to the immortal aspect of mortal existence (Atman-the Soul Eterna...

A Review of Berkes' Perspectives on Ecology

very essence of what it means to be a human being. These representations illustrate how and why a person acts the way he or she d...

An Analysis of Neil Frude's The Intimate Machine

This paper addresses the history of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from both the perspectives of science-fiction and reality. The au...

Children's Literature and Authentic Voices

writer, is even more emphatic in warning against reading books about cultures written by those outside the culture, in particular ...

Dying and Death Readings

he defends himself well, Socrates is still found guilty and stoically accepts his fate, indicating that since only the gods are aw...

Comparing the Text of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood with the 2005 Film Capote

the nonfiction novel, he appears nowhere in the text, despite the fact that all of the information contained within is based on hi...

Gender Relations in the Work of Katherine Anne Porter

crown buttoned on a narrow brim" (Porter 322). As this indicates, Porter skillfully builds a detailed picture of Sophia Janes ch...

Interpreting 'A Worn Path' by Eudora Welty

path reaches a dead end a new one begins. By choosing a poor elderly African-American woman as her tales protagonist, Welty is ab...