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Human Nature Approach of American Philosopher and Psychologist William James

In six pages this paper examines William James' philosophy of human nature with religion a primary focus. Four sources are cited ...

Perception and Civilization in Golding's Lord of the Flies

This paper examines the formation of the severely dysfunctional society in William Golding's classic novel. This five page paper ...

Victim or Villain Macbeth

In five pages this essay presents William Shakespeare's protagonist as a defendant in a contemporary inquest trial in which prosec...

Sam Shepard and William Faulkner on Family Dysfunction

In twenty pages twentieth century family dysfunction is considered in a comparative analysis of its portrayal in the characterizat...

United States and Catholic Identity

William P. Schoenberg's works are employed in a consideration of Catholic assimilation in the Pacific Northwest in this paper cons...

Classic Literary Poets, Searchers, Lovers, and Heroes

In six pages this paper examines these character genres and how they occasionally have coincided or overlapped throughout literary...

Plot and Character Analysis of 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

no one save an old manservant -- a combined gardener and cook -- had seen in at least ten years" (Faulkner). To the outside wor...

Annotated Bibliography of Literary Young Love

In seven pages this paper examines the literary interpretations of young love featured in The Hero and Leander by Christopher Marl...

Major Themes of Hamlet by William Shakespeare Analyzed

intensity of a hurricane, which dramatically sets the plays tone. Shakespeare recognized the importance of the ghost, which essen...

Roman Polanski's Film Rosemary's Baby

In five pages this paper discusses Ira Levin's original story and how it was depicted by Roman Polanski and producer William Castl...

Shakespeare's Villains

In five pages this paper contrast hero weaknesses with the villains in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Othello, Richard II, and...

William Bradford and Captain John Smith as Examples of American Colonial Writers

to tell its readers of the new lands and enterprises they had acquired and fought for (Bassett: Smith, 2002). The first historian...

David Mamet, Sam Shepard, and the Dramatic Idiom

plight of small-time con-men, dubious real estate salesmen and other marginal types, explore a desperate, obsessed landscape that ...

First 3 Chapters of David A. Karp and William C. Yoels' Sociology in Everyday Life

presents a rationale for the study of everyday behavior. The notion that clear cultural expectations underlie daily activity is il...

France's King Louis the Fourteenth

in Europe. Most of the other countries were busy fighting and maintaining borders, or were battling internal disorder from warring...

Elizabethan Drama, Scriptures, and the Christian Church

In fact, Lewis Wagers 1567 morality play based on biblical teachings, The Life and Repentance of Mary Magdalene, presented a chara...

Playwright and Sonneteer William Shakespeare's Life and Writings

Greek and read the Roman dramatists" (Anonymous William Shakespeare 47123316). However, in all honesty, "Very little is known abou...

Tragic and Comic Aspects of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

In ten pages this paper examines the tragedy and comedy elements that each exist in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespea...

Mexico During the Late 19th Century and Sport

war had ended in 1848 and since that time, American-Mexican relations would change. The latter nineteenth, and early twentieth, ce...

Changes in the Land by William Cronon

non-existent, which meant that the dams these industrious animals built were also. Without dams, several low-lying regions became...

Marital Disintegration in William Shakespeare's Macbeth

In five pages this essay examines what tensions led to the disintegration of the Macbeth marriage within the context of William Sh...

Romantic Essence of 'Tintern Abbey' by William Wordsworth

capturing the experiences of childhood. Wordsworths theories of romantic poetic structure have been both accepted and highly crit...

Blood Circulation Discovery by William Harvey

essence of life is based upon; without Aristotles initial quest into the notion of logic, contemporary society would know nothing ...

Eighteenth Century Analysis of Poems "Little Black Boy" by William Blake, "Holy Willie's Prayer" by Robert Burns, and "We Are Seven" by William Wordsworth

teachings of his devout mother. Through this relationship, he establishes his own identity as an African American, and comes to r...

Elements of Tragedy in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, and Oedipus the King by Sophocles

This paper examines 3 tragic elements in an analysis of Amanda Wingfield, Prince Hamlet of Denmark, and King Oedipus of Thebes fea...

Human Conflict and Faith in William Blake's 'Introduction,' William Wordsworth's 'Tintern Abbey' and Alfred Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'

poetic boundaries; not only does the reader surmise that the author is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the ...

Comparison of Poems 'To the Evening Star' by William Blake and 'It is a Beauteous Evening' by William Wordsworth

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these poems in an analysis of each poet's voice and how it is influenced by imager...

Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, e.e. cummings' 'somewhere i have never traveled' and Fragility

In 4 pages this paper examines the power of fragility as represented in this play and poem. There are 4 sources cited in the bibl...

Illusion and the Staging of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

In 10 pages this paper examines how in each of these plays staging is used to convey the illusions of their characters. Nine sour...

Paternal Influence in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

In five pages this paper examines how the characters of these plays are influenced by their fathers and paternal sins. There are ...