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An Analysis of The Rise of Silas Lapham

economic and social world of the Laphams. It is also important to note that the Laphams are people from wealth that was earned thr...

William Dean Howell's Silas Lapham

In five pages this paper discusses William Dean Howells' The Rise and Fall of Silas Lapham in an analysis of the protagonist. The...

Naturalism and Realism in the Literature of the Nineteenth Century

is often an important feature. The individuals portrayed are not depicted as standing outside of their own historical background a...

Literary Realism and Social Problems

a very unexpected place: her fears. She is so terrified that life is simply going to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyze...

19th Century Naturalism and Realism

In twenty pages this paper examines naturalism and realism of the 19th century in a consideration of Edith Wharton's The House of ...

Industrialization Problems and Coping Strategies

In seven pages this paper considers how theorists of the nineteenth century proposed to cope with industrialization problems and i...

The Antiwar Stances of Red Badge of Courage and Editha

A five page essay that compares and contrasts the works by Stephen Crane and William Dean Howells. The antiwar stances of these a...

Moral Crises in “Huckleberry Finn” and “Silas Lapham”

We learn that he forced his partner, Mr. Rogers, out of the business just as it was becoming successful; Lapham and his wife run i...

Questions and Answers on New York Authors

respectively. He did perhaps change his ideology over time and student writing on this subject might say that he had softened his ...

William Blake, George Eliot, and Children

In five pages this report considers how children are used in the poetry of William Blake and in George Eliot's Silas Marner. Ther...

Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and Narrator Nelly Dean's Role

In six pages the storyteller narrative role played by Nelly Dean in Wuthering Heights is analyzed. Three sources are listed in th...

Antiwar Sentiments of Crane, Twain, and Howells

In five pages the reactions against war and imperialism that began materializing at the turn of the 20th century are examined in a...

Common Themes in Jane Eyre, Silas Marner, and Wuthering Heights

sway over the human condition. She sees the futility of forging an alliance with Linton, while at the same time knowing that she a...

'The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality' by Bernard Williams

almost visceral, level. Whether or not the student agrees or not will generally be based on a personal belief system, ideology, re...

For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls by Christopher Durang

Durang's satire of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie is considered in this report of five pages in which the author's succes...

Star Wars by John Williams

This essay offers an overview of the melody and harmony used in John William's main theme from Star Wars. The writer compares Will...

Major Themes in "A Hazard of New Fortunes" and "The House of Mirth

opportunity to exercise their intellects--they went away to college, and if they were not encouraged to enter business or a profes...

Velocity by Dean Koontz/Book Review

wedding. This mundane existence is shattered when Billy finds a note on the windshield of his car, which indicates that his acti...

Community College Dean Application Essay

choose the community college for a variety of reasons, and the applicant using this work needs to consider that the community coll...

Faith & Science/Human Need for Religion

note that he differentiates between "religion" and "spirituality." Hamer maintains that "spirituality is genetic, while religion i...

Eat, Drink, and Be Merry by Edell and Schrieberg

truth is that as a population, we seem less able to tolerate even slight discomforts. In fact, we view such discomforts as real pa...

Self Quests of the Protagonists in On the Road by Jack Kerouac and The Awakening by Kate Chopin

In six pages this paper considers the protagonists Dean Moriarty, Sal Paradise, and Edna Pontillier's self quests in On the Road a...

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx and Silas Marner by George Eliot

one way or another, and men who perhaps want something more out of life. With Quoyle we have a man who moves to Newfoundland an...

What Would Life Without Illegal Immigrants Be Like?

could be catastrophic for many of the larger states in the nation. The fact that there are only fifteen of fifty states that emplo...

Children's Book Author Walter Dean Myers

hard streets of Harlem learning many of lifes lessons. Taken under the wing of one of his teachers, the former Marine Irwin Lashe...

Silas Marner's Didactic Nature

In five pages this paper analyzes George Eliot's protagonist in terms of his didactic nature. There are no other sources cited....

Changing Our Schools by Louise Stoll and Dean Fink

the authors address the topic of school effectiveness studies and the ways in which this topic has been regarded has changed over ...

Silas Marner by George Eliot and Idealism

In five pages this paper discusses how within the novel Eliot depicts idealism. There are 2 sources cited in the bibliography....

Homosexuality and Genetics

a genetic propensity toward homosexuality in some people. II. ANCIENT HISTORY OF HOMOSEXUALITY There are many early texts on an...

A Review of Monster

A 5 page discussion of the novel by Walter Dean Myers. This book recaps the problems encountered by a sixteen year old black yout...