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Canada and the Cold War

neighbor of the US, "one of the two superpowers defining the post-war world," the Canadian government chose to move "closer to the...

Wife of Bath’s Tale and Wedding of Sir Gawain

together and makes possible the fraternal and hierarchic bonds of chivalric solidarity" (Hahn). This contrasts sharply with the fo...

Faulkner's Rose for Emily/Time Imagery

the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman/The Yellow Wallpaper

A 6 page essay that discusses Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," which continues to capture and fasci...

The Vietnam Wars

The Vietnam war did not just happen. The French had been fighting in Indonesia since the early 1950s. The actual conflicts in Viet...

Olsen & Tyler On Being a Parent

mother into "trembling" and her breasts, as she nursed Emily, were swollen with milk, she steadfastly stuck to the feeding schedul...

Chinua Achebe/Dead Men's Path

"Dead Mens Path." It seems at first glance to be a very straightforward tale. However, as one critic points out, "In the post-Fouc...

Dona Sebastiana

which "comprises a stunning class-conscious critique of Christian hypocrisy and the Churchs complicity with the rich" (Padilla 150...

How Americans Were Also at War on the Homefront During the Second World War and the War in Vietnam

In five pages this report discusses how conflicting ideologies were responsible for soldiers to continue to fight overseas' wars a...

Violence in 'How to Tell a True War Story' by Tim O'Brien and 'Battle Royal' by Ralph Ellison

attention of the white community and gets him an invitation to deliver the speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citize...

A Synthesis of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Short Stories' The Birth-Mark', 'Lady Eleanore's Mantle,' 'The Minister's Black Veil,' and 'Young Goodman Brown'

him and them" (Barna 324). The true source of the authors inner torment was never revealed, but there was little doubt that "evil...

Tim O'Brien's 'How to Tell a True War Story,' Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and the Importance of Setting

a sense of apprehension. As he looks back to see her watching him as he rounds the corner by the meeting house he vows that thing...

Effects of PTSD on Louise Erdrich’s ‘The Red Convertible,’ Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Soldier’s Home,’ and Tim O’Brien’s ‘How to Tell a True War Story’

are particularly harrowing in soldiers that were at some point POWs (Dikel et al 69). Furthermore, the age of the traumatized per...

Teaching the Bible’s Stories to Young Children

most accepted frameworks of cognitive child development is the one formulated by Swiss child psychologist Jean Piaget. Based on hi...

Irony in Shirley Jackson’s Short Story, ‘The Lottery’

careful selection of names and how they reflect the personalities of the characters, and in the hypocritical nature of the charact...

Speech and Silence in Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

is beneficial for those hoping to grasp a larger understanding of the work. In particular, it can be argued that the use of parti...

Story of The Tempest by William Shakespeare

In four pages the plot of the story The Tempest and perceptions of it are analyzed. There are no other sources listed....

'True Story of Ah Q' by Lu Xun

In twelve pages this paper discusses Lu Xun's texts and the issues resulting in the early twentieth century Chinese society collap...

Analysis: “Haroun and the Sea of Stories” and “The Hours”

happy: "Except that one day Haroun asked one question too many, and then all hell broke loose" (Rusdie, 1990, p. 8). The question ...

Short Story Analysis: Three Literary Works

way his eyes move continually to the fact that he cannot stand to be touched: "Once, when he had been making a synopsis of a parag...

Cinderella Stories

a mission of finding out who the slipper belongs to. In the end he finds her, she is happy with her prince and she lives happily e...

Retelling the Story of 'Bambi'

the spring, Bambi is surprised by his own reflection in the water. He has become a buck with antlers?like his father. The conflict...

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle and The Neverending Story by Michael Ende Compared

The endings of these fantasy novels are compared in five pages in an evaluation of effectiveness or ineffectiveness. Two sources ...

Feminist Perspectives on Guy de Maupassant's Short Story 'The Necklace'

In six pages this paper presents a feminist critical analysis of this famous 19th century short story. Two sources are cited in t...

Content and Structure of Kenneth H. Jackson's Translation of The Story of Deirdre

It can be argued that this connection provided significant insight to the concepts about which the writer wrote. When one conside...

Ernest Hemingway's Life Reflected in the Short Story 'Hills Like White Elephants'

driver, and at last he made it to the front in Europe during the height of World War I (Roth, 450). He was seriously wounded in It...

Joseph and Julia Quinlan's Karen Ann The Quinlans Tell Their Story

In five pages this paper presents a book review that features a parents' firsthand perspective on the 'right to die' ethical contr...

John Cheever's 'The Swimmer' Short Story and Frank Perry's Film Adaptation

This paper consists of 5 pages and discusses the film's inability to transfer Cheever's internal monologue visually on the big scr...

19th Century Literature A Comparison of Heroines from Two Stories

This paper compares Charlotte Bronte's heroine of Villette with Jane Austen's heroine of Persuasion. It discusses the roles of the...

Short Stories by Jack London and Edgar Allan Poe on Death

In seven pages this paper examines how the theme of death is handled in London's short stories 'The Law of Life' and 'To Build a F...