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A Comparison of Film and Print for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...

Historical Literary Periods and Transporting Readers to Another Time

In eight pages the importance of setting historical setting in order to take readers back to an earlier period is considered in an...

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving and Humor

In five pages the ways Washington Irving employed humor in his famous story are examined. Six sources are cited in the bibliograp...

Vincent van Gogh's The Night Cafe in Arles

pure. But, the red is introduced halfway up the walls and carries up to the ceiling, where the vivid green is present. The red and...

Definition of Satire

science using comic motifs borrowed from writer such as Rabelais, Shakespeare, and Swift (Cook, 1995). The student researching thi...

Worldview of Washington Irving in 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'

But Ichabod has a problem, in the form of "Brom Bones," the nickname the locals have given to Abraham ("Brom" Van Brunt, a strong ...

Supernatural and the Romantic in Works by Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe

before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers, of my sagacity. I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph" (Poe). ...

From the Revolution to the Civil War: The Long Sleep of Carleton Wankybucket

at that and he turned and ran, only to fall flat on his face. The jolt startled him and woke him up completely. He heaved a sigh ...

Fischer/Washington’s Crossing

action, with red gunports open, batteries run out, and huge white battle ensigns streaming in the breeze" (Fischer 31). He then r...

George Washington's Experiences in the American Revolution

and in March of 1776 he used a cannon from Henry Knox ("American Revolution - George Washington," 2005). He would make a mistake ...

Profiling Booker T. Washington

Washington and Realistic Hope For many individuals it is one thing to have ideals and to struggle for those ideals their entire l...

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving and the Character of Dan Needham

In five pages the relationship between Dan Needham and his stepson Johnny is examined as presented in Irving's novel. Three sourc...

Booker T. Washington According to W.E.B. Du Bois

book The Souls of Black Folk, in which he presented his own sociological theories concerning race relations. It was with the publi...

Taking on Hepatitis B in a Philadelphia High School

programs on Hepatitis B and the risk factors that increase ones susceptibility. The first of these programs will provide an overv...

The Presidency in the Federal Era

as well as foreign policy issues. For example, Adams signed the Alien and Sedition Acts into law, something that made it difficult...

Influence Peddling: The K Street Project

Public Citizens Congress Project (Chaddock, 2003). According to Clemente, "The revolving door is becoming more comfortably establi...

A Reply to van den Haag

is not to abolish the death penalty but to "abolish the discrimination (which, he adds, favor murderers of blacks and therefore fa...

Van Gogh and the Theories of Jung Adler and Freud

This paper is a psychoanalysis of Vincent Van Gogh. Using the theories of prominent psychoanalyst, the author attempts to provide...

Flanders' Fifteenth Century Renaissance Art

In ten pages the profound influence this area had on Renaissance art is discussed in a consideration of Flemish painters Rogier va...

Painting During the Renaissance of Northern Europe

In four pages this paper discusses the paintings of Rogier van der Weyden, Pietr Brueghel the Elder, and Jan van Eyck in terms of ...

Ichabod Crane vs. Brom van Brunt

also beautiful, fruitful, and peaceful, and that more than the ghost is what we think of when we read about the lush farms, the ri...

John Irving's Cider House Rules and the 'Underdog'

was dyslexic before that particular learning disability had been identified by name - took Seabrookes, words as a kind of mantra. ...

Examining the Critiques of The Quiet American by Greene

The Viking Critical Library version of Graham Greene's The Quiet American, edited by John Clark Pratt, contains a wide variety of ...

The Quiet American from a Critical Standpoint

much more concerned with relating the circumstances under which he read the novel rather then addressing the characteristics of th...

Example Case, Application of Critical Thinking, EBP

This research paper offers an overview of a case study described by Lunney (2010). The analysis provided by Lunney demonstrates th...

Food Imports

The FDA has several critical regulations in place in regard to food imports into the US. These included Hazard Analysis and Criti...

Dr. Josef Breuer's Character

international field (Sharp PG). Born in Pecs, Hungary in 1902, Breuer studied at Allami Foreaiskola, at Pecs, and at the Bauhaus...

Absentee Parents in Kaplan and Irving

The phenomenon of absentee parents has increased in relevance in the 21st century. This analysis is a comparison and contrast of L...

Intellectuals and the Use of Critical Thinking

The role of critical thinking in American society has taken on greater importance in the 21st century. This paper relates the conc...

Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media

In eight pages this text is critically reviewed in terms of the theories McLuhan presented and critical points are argued....