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Broken Promises: The Penns and the Lenni Lenape (Delaware) Indians

is believed to be around 1600. By the end of the seventeenth century, they had become accustomed to European guns, tools, cloth, ...

John Cage, “Winter Music” (1957)

to perform Cages works based on the composers "idiosyncratic but functional notations," such as the notations that accompany "Wint...

John Keats Deserves His Place in the Literary Canon

he was struck by the "ways in which evil and beauty, love and pain, aspiration and finitude, are not so much balanced as interwove...

Criminal Behavior: John Wilkes Booth

and Bernstein, 2007, p. 78). While Eysenck apparently did not develop his theory of behavior specifically with regard to crime, la...

Updike’s A&P

day to trip me up" (Updike). This is a line that also suggests he may be judgmental as well. But, in essence, he is very much symb...

Ode to a Nightingale and Dead Man’s Path

for home,/ She stood in tears amid the alien corn" (Keats 65-67). In contrast Achebes story is about a man who has just obtained...

John Proctor, a Tragic Hero

complete madness, until at last Elizabeth Proctor, who is completely innocent, is charged with being a witch (Miller, 1952). Not s...

“The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow”

and vision. The problem that immediately presents itself, as might be expected, is that many of these concepts are less than self...

President John F. Kennedy’s Leadership

as being led into making decisions by events and circumstances rather than meeting them head-on. An example of this might be the ...

Writers and Their Times: John Steinbeck and Susan Glaspell

Mr. Henderson; Sheriff Peters and his wife and Mr. Hale and his wife Martha. The five of them go to the Wright place the morning a...

The Obama and McCain Health Care Reform Plans

remainder in expanded Health Savings Accounts" (Straight talk, 2008). As for the currently uninsured, McCains plan is to work with...

Presidential Nominees Barack Obama and John McCain: Similarities and Differences on the Important Issues of Election 2008

W. Bush). In a May 2008 interview with David Brooks of The New York Times, Obama explained, "Its an argument between ideology and...

Oates, Updike & Kafka

the police, will not protect her or her family from this predator. As this suggests, this writer/tutor disagrees with the interpr...

Token Whites in the Works of Zora Neale Hurston

begin to take on the vestiges of their prior identity to African-Americans. They were the providers of work, that work being very...

The American Dream: Harper Lee and John Steinbeck

who is noble, honest, and humble. He fights for the rights of an African American accused of raping a white woman even though the ...

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...

The Tempest by William Shakespeare and The Collector by John Fowles

In seven pages these two works are contrasted and compared with the focus being on Clegg's terror reign depicted by John Fowles an...

Nicholas's Reeducation in The Magus by John Fowles

In six pages this paper examines how motifs and symbolism represent the reeducation of the protagonist in The Magus by John Fowles...

Puritan Dilemma of John Winthrop

In six pages this essay discusses John Winthrop's story as presented by Edmund Morgan in a consideration of the Puritan dilemma an...

The Search for Jon Winthrop in The Puritan Dilemma

than with the individual. England regarded the Puritans as near-heretics in their abandonment of tradition as they sought to live...

British Literature and the Theme of Sin

In fifteen pages this paper discusses how sin is depicted in the Books of Genesis and Romans as well as how it is thematically dev...

The Japanese Quince by John Galsworthy

In four pages the story adaptation relating to The Japanese Quince by John Galsworthy is discussed. There are no other sources li...

Heroic Characterization of Satan in 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton

In six pages this paper argues that Satan is heroically depicted in 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton. There are no other sources li...

Lake of the Woods Novel by Tim O'Brien

pinned all his hopes and dreams. So, with the aid of a friend, as his tour of duty ended, he removed his name from the company ro...

Contemporary Relevance of A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

In ten pages this paper discusses the continuing relevance of A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole in a consideration of ...

U.S. Society and 'the Creative Outsider'

In five pages this paper examines the influence of the creative outsider in America in a consideration of the texts My Antonia by ...

Humanity's Fall in Paradise Lost by John Milton

In five pages this paper evaluates whether or not there was a Fall in the biblical interpretation presented by John Milton in his ...

Pain of Satan in Paradise Lost by John Milton

In eight pages this essay considers Satan's physical pain as described in Paradise Lost by John Milton. There are no other source...

Role of Satan in Paradise Lost by John Milton

In five pages this paper examines the human intrigue regarding sin in a consideration of Satan's role in Paradise Lost by John Mil...

Satan in Paradise Lost by John Milton

In five pages this paper analyzes the characterization as Satan in the epic poem Paradise Lost as a reflection of the righteous co...