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History Mirrored in Literature

In five pages this research paper discusses how history is mirrored in literature as reflected in such works as 'Beowulf' and play...

Journeys and Their Philosophical Meaning in 'Inferno' by Dante Alighieri and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

student who is writing about this topic should consider the ways in which the each author develops the philosophical journey of ea...

Early American Working People and Soldiers

In eight pages Revolutionary War soldiers such as Joseph Plumb Martin are examined along with working men and women which include ...

Poetry and the Reflection of Women's Status

rather than reality. This conclusion was probably made through the poets use of the repetition of the word "if." Any piece of lit...

The Body Project by J.J. Brumberg

counterparts. Rather than a lack of information about their bodies and sex, a situation that was common in the nineteenth century,...

Literary and Poetic Examples of True Love

even to the edge of doom" (Shakespeare 9-12). In the end he claims that if he is wrong then he never wrote and no man ever loved. ...

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man, Nella Larsen's Passing, and Lynching

married to a very successful doctor who wishes to leave the country and find a place where they are not oppressed. Irene, however,...

Postcolonial Literature in Morocco and Kenya

and cultural domination by a foreign entity affects the colonized nation and its native people. Many of those changes appear to b...

The Necessity for Labor Unions and Women's Place in Them

a woman named, Mother Jones, who was well into her sixties when she embraced the cause, continued to fight for womens rights in th...

Creative Depiction of Women

In six pages this paper examines how women are portrayed in the works of Gustave Courbet, Charles Darwin, Franz Kafka, and Virgini...

Stephen Crane's Maggie A Girl of the Streets and Women's Opportunities

time period. Maggie When we first see Maggie as a young girl we immediately see the environment she lives in, the environment s...

Captivity of Women in A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson and The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Coopers 1826 novel "The Last of the Mohicans" he portrays the captivity of two sisters, Alice and Cora Munro during...

Male and Female Relationships in William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and John Milton's 'Paradise Lost'

Cleopatra is a very sensual woman who is aware of her own passion. This, however, does not detract from her ability to rule...

Past Five Decades of Important Familial Social Changes

there is not enough information available which truly indicates the affects of working parents on children. While many studies are...

Life and Literary Art of James Joyce

is encapsulated in his writings. Indeed, autobiographical elements are characteristic of much of James Joyces work. This...

Women's Aspects Concerning Marriage and Equality in Excerpts from Wollstonecraft, Ibsen, Mill, Chopin, and de Pizan

is considered a step in the right direction for women of the era who were trapped in unhealthy and unequal marriages. Regardless o...

Depiction of Women the Story of Kenreimon'in, 'The Wife of Bath's Tale,' and Antigone

still powerfully under the control of a patriarchal society. "For Antigone, there could never be any laws that could stand in t...

Survival, Religious Faith, and Family in 'Go Tell It on the Mountain' by James Baldwin and 'Black Boy' by Richard Wright

to be a human being. These representations illustrate how and why a person acts the way he or she does, how moods, feelings and e...

Classical Literature and Common Theme of Perseverance in Overcoming Obstacles

fire, his roar is the roar/of the floodwater; he breathes and there is death (lines 128-129). Gilgamesh perseveres despite the ad...

United Kingdom's Labor Market and British Women's Position

the home, with the same percentage of non-married women also working (Dex, Joshi and Macran, 1996). When married women first beg...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Gender Relationships

In five pages this paper discusses the portrayal of men and women within the context of this work as it has been presented in the ...

The Legend of Good Women, Dante Alighieri, and Geoffrey Chaucer

In eight pages correlation between The Legend of Good Women and the works of Dante and Chaucer is established through textual clue...

Comparative Analysis of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

In five pages this essay contrasts and compares these works in terms of such issues as liberation for women and sexual equality. ...

Women's Educational Views in Juan Vives' The Education of a Christian Woman and Moderata Fonte's The Worth of Women

This paper contrasts and compares these works in terms of how they depict the education of women in 5 pages. There are 2 sources ...

Women as Viewed by D.H. Lawrence

In five pages women's status during the time of D.H. Lawrence is considered in an exploration of his view of them as reflected in ...

American Identity Development

In three pages the ways in which literature reflects the development of an American identity are examined in the works of such aut...

Demonstration of the Epic Qualities Imitated by Aristotle in 'The Odyssey,' 'The Epic of Gilgamesh, 'Beowulf,' and 'Romeo And Juliet'

previous approached, inasmuch as the components of courage, strength, power and physical prowess have as much to do with social im...

Females as Morality Agents

In six pages this paper discusses the morality of women and how females have throughout the history of patriarchal society served ...

Reviewing Charles T. Davis's Black Is the Color of the Cosmos Essays on Afro-American Literature and Culture

In a five page review black literature during the 1960s and '70s is discussed and comparisons are made with slave narratives and t...

Comparison of Alexander Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock' and Jane Austen's Mansfield Park

In five pages this essay presents a comparative literary analysis of these works in terms of how women's social behavior is portra...