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Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolff

the bank while there is a line of people waiting for service, but rather than agree with a fellow human being, he is caustic and s...

Iraq War Coverage in UK's The Guardian and The New York Times Compared

condemned The New York Times and The Guardian for liberal content and left-wing sympathies, and their war coverage has come under ...

Hinduism, the Bhagavad Gita and Violence

seem to state that the goal for all initiates is to come to the place where the desires are eliminated, not by ceasing the actions...

Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' and Grandmother's Changes

that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethical values. It is the sheer weight of her social stat...

Satire Modeled After Candide

Herbert felt, were much smarter than himself. In particular, Herbert relied on his political adviser Carl Wanderer and his second-...

John Updike/The Rumor

circle. It soon becomes apparent that everyone with whom Sharon and Frank come into contact know the rumor and believe it. This cr...

Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick

is not often told is how the Pilgrims would have died without the help of the Natives, and how the Pilgrims, the Puritans, felt th...

Comparing Chekhov, Nabokov & Viramontes

that reveals to the reader a great deal about the characters involved. Pelagea is deeply in love with her husband, Yegor Anton Che...

Goethe: “The Sorrows of Young Werther”

sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream" (Goethe). Even if we didnt know that Werther was an a...

Dower's Embracing Defeat

noted that the emperor had announced defeat, which meant surrender (Dower, 2001). Yet, the woman who Dower notes on the first pag...

Section Five of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Symbolism

In five pages this story's 5th section is analyzed in terms of the wallpaper symbolism, what it projects, and how it relates to th...

'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A section from this story is analyzed and then considered within the whole story's context in a paper consisting of five pages. T...

'Platoon' vs. 'Apocalypse Now'

In 5 pages this comparative analysis considers the power of visual images in these films and how war is told through manipulative ...

An Analysis of Twain's, The Story of the Bad Little Boy

This paper analyzes thematic elements of the short story, The Story of the Bad Little Boy by Mark Twain. The author compares this ...

The Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuscinski

writings, one will realize that Kapuscinski was striving for a very comparable abstract with The Soccer War. Indeed, the story wi...

US Civil War Women

In nine pages the stories of Captain Sally and Dr. Mary Walker's spy activities are chronicled in this overview of the US Civil Wa...

Story of the Japanese 'No No Boy' in the U.S. During and Following the Second World War

In five pages this paper examines a young Japanese man's struggles in the United States during and following the Second World War ...

New York Life During the Thirties

In five pages this paper presents a fictitious life story of a Brooklyn, New York woman who lived during the Great Depression and ...

'The Butterfly and the Tank' by Ernest Hemingway

him and a real gun is fired and he is killed. 6) The narrator is...

Storytelling and the Past

In five pages this paper examines how perspectives on the past manifest themselves in the storytelling of 'How to Tell a True War ...

Symbolic Tale of The Milagro Beanfield War

In six pages this paper considers the story of The Milagro Beanfield War and its moving symbolism. There are 2 sources cited in t...

'The Pit and the Pendulum' by Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages the representation of the author in this short story is considered with an analysis of the story's plot, setting, ch...

'To Build a Fire' by Jack London and Literary Style

In five pages the literary style in this short story is analyzed in terms of the story's direct and indirect evidence, deductive o...

'Soldier's Home' by Ernest Hemingway

can readily see how this outlook is what has cast Krebs into the sinking hole from which he only somewhat struggles to get free; r...

A Character Analysis for Jake and Brett in The Sun Also Rises

This ten page report analyzes the characters Jake and Brett, comparing them to the other men in the story. The thesis is presente...

Jamaica Kincaid's 'Seeing England for the First Time' and Columbus in Chains'

Education as it is thematically depicted in these Jamaica Kincaid stories is the focus of this comparative analysis consisting of ...

Chopin's The Story of an Hour

studying the nature outside the window, and begins to allow us to see that she is experiencing something far more profound and far...

Vietnam War and the Policies of President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger

For support, he look towards what he called the "silent majority" believing that they were really supporting his foreign policies,...

Gregor Samsa's Changes in Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis

concerned that he cant get up and go to work to support his family. Even from the start, he does not want to be a burden on his fa...

The Postive and Negative Impacts of the Two World Wars

a battle unlike any before, inasmuch as new war technology had brought with it even more despicable methods of death. As soon as ...