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An Obligation to Endure: Activists and the Environment

new chemicals, which means we need more powerful ones, on and on in a continuous cycle of destruction (Carson). The final result o...

Faulkner: “The Reivers”

whats wrong, one character yells, "HES SLOW!" But Ned knows a secret: the horse will run through almost anything for a sardine! He...

The 1960s: My Lai, Lt. Calley, Draft Resistance and Change

supposed to simply believe the reasons given for our involvement in Vietnam and put their support behind the war. This type of thi...

Two Views of Love

he will bring the excitement back into her life. When she gives him a cutting from her prized mums to give to another woman (its a...

Barn Burning and Freud

coming of age and seeking an enlightened path, in the Freudian lens the boy is clearly trying to somehow come to terms with himsel...

Loneliness: Faulkner and Hemingway

is also presented in a manner that makes the reader see what a sad and lonely life she has likely led. This is generally inferred ...

How Hamlet's Father Affects the Prince of Denmark's Life

no less) a mere three months later. Hamlet has been shattered by his loss and his mothers betrayal, and plunges into a period of ...

Oedipus Complex and Hamlet: 'Love Thy Mother

were old With which she followed my poor fathers body Like Niobe, all tears;-why she, even she,- O God! a beast that wants discour...

A Rose for Emily

deathly lit environment gives the mention of rose a very sad and lonely tone. While people may, at first, immediately think the ...

Tennessee Williams and His Glass Menagerie

of the American theater; it is also one of the first to combine realism and symbolism successfully. This paper discusses Williamss...

Citizen Kane

seems that Hearst brought in representatives to look and find flaws that would give him power. One article states how, "The lawyer...

Industrial Revolution and Blake

experienced. In A Divine Image the narrator illustrates aspects of human nature that are very clearly connected to the darkest s...

Wordsworth and Pushkin and Romanticism

and how the "friendly rustling murmur" (line 30) of the pine trees always welcomed him home. Another aspect of Romantic verse is...

Huck Finn and Sound and Fury, A Comparison

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. While vastly different in tone, each author addresses the fact that slavery and the le...

Literature and Community

great deal of literature there is a foundation that is laid in relationship to a community. The community is a part of the setting...

William Bratton and Peter Knobler's Turnaround: A Book Review

the cornerstone of his plan to tackle crime in New York City concisely and with great clarity. Shortly after becoming commissione...

Game of Life by Shulman and Bowen

Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values (2002) a study of the athletic programs in 30 colleges and universities that...

A Rose for Emily and the South

had died, the reader recognizes that Emily must always live in that Old South because of her father and his demands. But, at the s...

Influences on the Military: William Mitchell

The influence of William Mitchell on the creation of the U.S. Air Force is explorted in this 3-page paper. There are 6 sources....

Societal Suppression in A Rose for Emily and The Story of an Hour

utterly free. When Emily discovers that her boyfriend is gay, her instant fear of what the community would think of her leads he...

Fire Symbolism in Barn Burning

had been older, he would have wondered why his father, would have witnessed the "waste and extravagance of war" and who "burned ev...

The Host by Heyen

a leech, which is the "host" (Heyen 24). "They would grow together, if the snapper lived" (Heyen 25). In this one can well argue t...

Othello and Gender Roles

fact that her opposition to her father by eloping with the much-older Othello reveals her internal strength, which is comparable t...

"A Rose for Emily": William Faulkner's Elegy for the Old South

literary criticism entitled, The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction, Judith Fetterley described "A Rose for...

Effects of Hubris on Tragic Shakespearean Heroes Brutus, Hamlet, and Othello

my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor, that you may believe. Cen...

Literary Analysis of Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily,' Poe's 'Ligeia,' and Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown'

ironically named Faith) participating in what appears to be satanic rituals, Brown is so psychologically damaged by all he sees he...

Lincoln's Secretary of State, William Seward

power inadvisable (Taylor, 1991, p. x). Lincoln, just prior to this inauguration, remarked to a European diplomat that he did not...

Tanks but No Tanks

Bradley and the M-1 Abrams tank (Feickert & Lucas, 2009). They would also be developing entirely new software consistent with thes...

The Great Commission and William Carey

say that there are people in "our own nation" who are as ignorant of the Gospel as "South Sea savages," Carey grants the validity...

Character Analysis of Emily Grierson in "A Rose for Emily"

that a womans association with a man is what defined women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet, Emily was le...