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Music as a Reflection of Societal Issues

The writer discusses the role of music in society by concentrating on the new band Blues Traveler, which some think will be the ne...

Italian Renaissance and Humanism

In five pages the Italian Renaissance is examined in a consideration of how humanism affected Medieval thinking, religion, and soc...

Pontiac Indian Conspiracy

The history of the Indian wars is laid out by Francis Parkman in Conspiracy of Pontiac. This essay examines his use of theme, lite...

Contemporary Christian Thinking and the Forms Theory of Plato

In ten pages this paper compares contemporary Christianity and the writings of Alan Jones and Paul Tillich with the Theory of Form...

An Overview of Aristotle

The contributions of Aristotle to contemporary thought is presented in this overview consisting of four pages. Seven sources are ...

A Comparison of Marx's and Rousseau's Views on Alienation

In five pages this report examines how alienation determines political thought as it relates to the concepts of Jean Jacques Rouss...

Uniqueness of the Human Brain

In twelve pages this research paper examines studies on the human brain to determine whether or not there is any uniqueness in tho...

Transcendentalist Emily Dickinson

her mid-twenties Dickinson was on her way to becoming a total recluse. Although she did not discourage visitors, she literally nev...

'The Soul Selects Her Own Society' by Emily Dickinson

just a few words (McConnell). The first stanza shows the thesis. The soul or the individual person is sovereign in deciding who ...

Robert Frost's Poetic Themes

In five pages this research paper considers how farming and nature are favorite themes of poet Robert Frosts. There are 5 sources...

Comparing Four John Keats' Poems as 'A Thing of Beauty'

Agnes). While Keats has been described as one of the most commonly recognized creators of Romanticism, he should also be no...

Critical Evaluations of Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley

In six pages this paper examines changing critical assessments of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poetry from past to present in a consider...

Critical Reception to Alice Adams's Fiction

In eight pages the varied critical responses to Adams's fiction particularly as it portrayed class is discussed with reference mad...

The Summer After the Dark by Doris Lessing and Culture

In twelve pages Western society and cultural roles of women are discussed within the context of Lessing's novel with other critica...

Feminist Criticism and Literature

theory. The author has a long history of reaching out and inviting her audience to experience with her the sometimes intense and ...

Opposing Critical Perspectives on As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

In six pages this paper examines the opposing critical perspectives of Adams and Eldridge on William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. F...

Historical Objectivity Myth and Peter Novick's That Noble Dream

In sixteen pages this paper analyzes the text and then reviews the issues the author addresses within the context of contemporary ...

Meaning and Teaching a Stone to Talk by Anne Dillard

In seven pages this paper considers the quest to attach meaning to life in a critical analysis of Teaching a Stone to Talk by Anne...

Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

In eleven pages this Mark Twain novel is examined in terms of synopsis and favorable critical response which is in sharp contrast ...

Critical Analysis of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

In ten pages this research paper presents a critical analysis of this 1896 novel by Mark Twain. Two sources are cited in the bibl...

Explication of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

In five pages a critical analysis of the novel by Claude Clayton Smith in which The Sun Also Rises is linked with The Crystal Tren...

Literary Critique Review Considering The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

In five pages Hemingway's characterization of Robert Cohn is examined within the context of a critical article by Robert Meyerson ...

Analysis of 'Solder's Home' by Ernest Hemingway

Kansas City Star, Hemingway himself "left Kansas City in the spring of 1918 and did not return for 10 years, [becoming] the first ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's Respected Literary Reputation

In five pages this paper examines F. Scott Fitzgerald's work in a consideration of how despite his lone critical success The Great...

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

in his imagination as an "experimental novel, written like a play" (Hadella 5), dramatizing the working people and their striving ...

E.B. White, John Cheever, and Existentialism

In four pages this paper discusses how existentialist thought manifests itself in the short stories 'The Door' by E.B. White and '...

Catcher in the Rye from a Critical Perspective

Seminal works like J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye spawn reams of critical opinion. This paper presents three views on this...

Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress and the Detective Fiction Genre

In six pages this paper examines the detective genre as represented in this critical assessment of Walter Mosley's novel. There a...

Scientific Knowledge and Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

In six pages this report analyzes Verne's text in terms of how scientific knowledge influences plot, character, and subplots. Fou...

Writing the Future and the Accurate Jules Verne

In four pages this paper examines the accuracy of Jules Verne's technological predictions in such works as Paris in the Twenty Fir...