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Sexual Mimicry and its Behavioral and Physiological Elements

between gender-specific characteristics and the process by which animals pursued beneficial reproductive dynamics. Theorists have...

Romantic Fiction's Gothic Genre

are generally seen as common to the Gothic novel, including a medieval or pseudo-medieval setting, a solitary protagonist and a se...

Private and Public Space Commercialization

that we have filled the cultural void of popular culture. The effect of media on popular culture is world wide. Often times this...

Sigmund Freud's 'The Uncanny' and Fiction's Messages

In eight pages this paper examines the messages that exist within horror or ghost stories. Eleven sources are cited in the biblio...

Around the World in Eighty Days by Verne

detail as his protagonist, Phileas Fogg. Phileas Fogg is the central character, without whom there would be no novel, and yet o...

Comparative Analysis of Detective Works Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe and The Second Deadly Sin by Lawrence Sanders

by the brilliance and deductive reasoning that the detective uses. Agatha Christies Hercule Poirot is reminiscent of a brilliant d...

Analyzing the 1995 Film Seven by David Fincher

taking his time. He halts, turns to one wall where the current wallpaper is torn away to reveal flowery wallpaper underneath. So...

Women in Works Such as Jane Eyre, The Scarlet Letter, and Lysistrata

This paper contrasts and compares various female characters throughout the history of literature which includes Lysistrata, Jane E...

Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep and Howard Hawks' Film Version

In five pages the many differences between Chandler's detective novel and Howard Hawks' 1946 big screen interpretation are examine...

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

In this paper that contains five pages the examination of a murder mystery that features favorite Christie protagonist Detective H...

Se7en and The Maltese Falcon Film Comparison

it. He disposes of his deceased colleagues desk, nameplate and widow in quick measure. Naturally, since the police are aware of ...

'The Purloined Letter' by Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages this paper examines the detective story as it relates to the life of its author Edgar Allan Poe. Nine sources are c...

Teen Fictional Detective Nancy Drew and How She Evolved

In 7 pages this paper examines the evolution of the teen detective Nancy Drew and considers how young girls were influenced by thi...

Contrasts Between the World Perspectives of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Wf Walter Mosley

In 6 pages this paper examines the contrasting worldviews featured in the detective works White Butterfly by Walter Mosley and The...

Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress and Racism

This research paper/essay examines a detective novel by Walter Mosley and whether or not an African American writer can examine co...

Race, the Murder Case of O.J. Simpson, and the Role of Detective Mark Fuhrman

In ten pages this paper examines the issue of race within the context of this infamous murder case with the focus being on the beh...

'The Purloined Letter' by Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages Poe's detective tale is examined in terms of the protagonist's superior class attitudes that are revealed when he in...

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

In six pages the ways in which this novel reflects the classic detective genre as established by Arthur Conan Doyle are considered...

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett II

In five pages this paper examines the detective literary genre and how this work represents it as well as deviates from it by alwa...

The Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe

a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...

Classical Detectives and Existentialism

the tall gangly Holmes. He was short, bald and sported a rather large mustache. He was a bit of a clothes horse and more than a bi...

Sam Spade and the Film Genre Represented by The Maltese Falcon

role after years as a Warner contract player" (Galloway, 2002; maltesefalcon.shtml). As we can see from this simple description...

Fictional Mystery Tale Detailed Outline

now, that is. While Sgt. Pepper was enjoying his night off at the local tavern, he became a little too friendly with the barmaid ...

Drug Use of Sherlock Holmes

to the use of some narcotic" (A Seven-Percent Solution, 2003). Holmes was, in his private life, a moody individual who had begun ...

The Century of the Detective by Jurgen Thorwald

This book review is on "The Century of the Detective," a classic text by Jurgen Thorwald. The writer presents an overall view of t...

Researchers Writers and Detectives

searching to wade through the junk, the rants, the personal opinions and the outraged screaming from both ends of the political sp...

Three Detectives, Spade, Marlowe and Plum

in first person narration, he sees only what the detective sees, as he or she sees it. Hammett opens his novel with a physical des...

A Woman Outsmarting Sherlock Holmes and Its Significance in Scandal in Bohemia by Arthur Conan Doyle

the details of case - even to the point of coming off as offensive and brash - was construed out of a need for a more meaty type o...

Illegal Tactics y Law Enforcement In Alabama V. Billy Bob

which Friday took his strategy, this case would likely not have ever seen the inside of a courtroom; however, the intricate web of...

Babel

her friends are at a diner of sorts, prior to the scene with her father, where all the kids hang out, she is laughed at by some yo...