SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Where I Lived amp What I Lived For by Henry David Thoreau

Essays 631 - 660

Life, Meaning, and Meursault in Alfred Camus' The Stranger

In six pages this paper assesses whether or not Camus' character Meursault lived a meaningful life with criteria contained within ...

Short Story Mimetics and Verisimilitude

By the time we reach mid story, and the speech of Stella-Rondo, we have suspended disbelief, as we might in good theater, and bel...

A Book Review of Anna Quindlen's 'One True Thing'

This review consists of 5 pages and describes how this journalist used to living in the fast lane took a detour to care for her te...

Ida B. Wells, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Women of the Gilded Age

This paper examines the lives of Gilded Age women Ida B. Wells and Laura Ingalls Wilder in five pages. Four sources are cited in ...

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy and Character Comparison of Levin and Anna

In six pages Konstantin 'Kostya' and Anna Levin as featured in Anna Karenina are contrasted and compared in terms of their moral p...

The 'Rights' and 'Wrongs' of Animal Testing

In an argumentative essay consisting of three pages this issue is evaluated in terms of its pros and cons and serves to debunk any...

Goethe and Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder

In five pages this paper examines the novel by Jostein Gaarder within the context of German novelist Johann von Goethe's observati...

The Similarities in Thinking of Bonhoeffer, Luther, and Augustine

In a paper consisting of six pages the writer argues that despite living in different times these men's concepts and thoughts were...

Civil War Civilian Life

In ten pages some insights into what it was like for civilians including children and housewives to live during the Civil War of t...

The Robber Barons of the Civil War

This research report looks at the robber barons who lived during the time of the American Civil War. Who were they? What did they ...

Civil Rights and Abraham Lincoln

In five pages this paper imagines what might have been had President Abraham Lincoln lived and directed the U.S. Reconstruction ef...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt in No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin

In five pages this paper examines this biography by Kearns Goodwin as it explores the love between FDR and his wife Eleanor and al...

American Life During the Second World War

alike as the U.S. sought to avenge the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Most Americans who waited out the war at home detested th...

Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, and Civil Rights

In three pages this essay examines what may have been in terms of civil rights and the Vietnam War had JFK lived and also discusse...

Life and Works of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King

In three pages this paper that is based upon documentaries compares and contrasts Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. in terms of...

'Good Life' and Personal Ethics

not to take action. Self-defense is one defense of murder that has not only moral acceptability in our culture, but also excuses ...

Comparing Elie Wiesel and Kurt Vonnegut's and Their Works about the Holocaust

outrage and sorrow. However, Vonneguts protagonist, Howard Campbell, is not precisely a victim in the Holocaust at all. He stress...

An Evaluation of The Chosen

Potok's well known novel is discussed. This work evaluates a Jewish community and the lives of teens are discussed in the context ...

Death, God, and Holocaust Survivors' Attitudes

bear. For example, most of those survivors interviewed by Schindler, Spiegel, and Malachi (1992) expressed their almost desperate...

Russia After the Collapse of the Soviet Union

In twelve pages this paper examines women's status, living standards, the economy, and increased crime as each pertains to Russia ...

US Latino Children and the Effects of Salsa Music

In two pages this paper contrasts and compares the effects of salsa music on Latin American children and on Latino children living...

Speech and Property Issues

In fifteen pages this paper discusses intellectual property rights issues and free speech with Two Live Crew rap group and Dustin ...

Historical and Literary Significance of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

This paper analyzes Shelley's novel with an emphasis on how Shelley's own life and the society she lived in impact various element...

Communication Lacking in the Fiction of Eudora Welty

son, but upon closer examination he realizes the woman is not as old as he first thought, and Sonny is her husband. In fact, the w...

A Feminist Perspective on Beloved by Toni Morrison

This 5 page paper examines Toni Morrison's novel Beloved from a feminist perspective. The writer analyzes Beloved herself, who app...

America of the Past and Future in the Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph Waldo Emerson

In five pages the American legacies of Emerson and Hawthorne are considered in a contrast of their lives and writings. Four sourc...

Gurov's Dilemma in The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov

In three pages this paper considers Gurov's change in attitude and his discovery that with love comes responsibility and that this...

The character of St John as portrayed in Jane Eyre

This paper looks at the role of the mysterious St John in Bronte's Jane Eyre. The two characters are presented as having lives whi...

Analysis of The Native by Thomas Hardy

This 2 page paper discusses Thomas Hardy's novel The Native. The writer argues that Hardy sees man as living in a universe that is...

Factual or Fictitious King Arthur Legends?

In eight pages this essay assesses whether or not King Arthur was an actual living figure or if he was a fictitious creation by au...