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American West and Frontier Perceptions

of reference, then one will never know, in any given case, what really happened" (Tompkins, Indians, 60; Cochran 69). In this case...

Fiction Writing and Philosophy of the Romantic Era

truly fulfilled, and in fact he likens this fulfillment to a nearly spiritual ideal. On the other hand, there was...

Harriet Jacobs, Maya Angelou, and Their Memoirs

a very large life. In the end, both of these women have shown by example, that the struggles which life presents can...

Podcasting Article Review

built in, with the argument that it is a new technology and teacher will need to be taught how to use it and that associated techn...

Ideal Class in Writing

In three pages this paper discusses what a perfect class in writing might entail. One source is cited in the bibliography....

Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards

on that he believes in the Presbyterian concept of Predestination -- "From my childhood up, my mind had been wont to be full of ob...

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...

Political Ideals and 'Politics and the English Language' by George Orwell

concomitant of transitional periods" (Orwell). Orwell looks behind the rhetoric to the true meaning of this sentence and offers ...

Hamilton's Blessing and John Steel Gordon's Open Style of Writing

always depended upon the existence of the national debt. While this may stick in the craw of many economists and no doubt the poli...

European Revolutions and 'The Communist Manifesto'

is still strong within the unions of today. During the 19th century substantial working class movements began to emerge aro...

Lasting Legacy of Leo Tolstoy That Goes Beyond Literature

into the dissipations of Moscows high society, which he candidly recorded in his diary with vows to reform" (Anonymous About Leo T...

Style of 'The Metamorphosis' by Franz Kafka

but not from his condition. Rather, his melancholy is because of the "raindrops beating on the window gutter" (Kafka, 2002). Rathe...

Literary Modernism in the Works of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce

the most important elements of modernist literature is that which involves perspective. With modernist literature this involves "t...

Lives and Learning by Plato and Augustine

text in which he is painstakingly honest, demonstrates that his spiritual path was not easy. It is clear from the beginning that t...

'Magical Realism' Creative Writing Sample

at the on-site school for the city orphanage, Jessie stood out in my history classroom as if a spotlight were on her. Naturally, s...

Comparing Margaret Atwood Novels Alias Grace and The Handmaid's Tale

that there is always a tidy or satisfactory resolution to the womens dilemmas. In fact, in the case of the intentionally ambiguou...

Life and Art of Franz Kafka

feels that it was his fathers rough treatment of his employees that first propelled young Kafka toward the cause of workers rights...

Knowledge of God According to Teresa of Avila and John Calvin

natural instinct, an awareness of divinity," that "God himself has implanted in all men a certain understanding of his divine maje...

J.D. Salinger, Raymond Carver, and Ernest Hemingway

write about" (Anonymous Brainstorm Page IV-A, 2002; iv-a.htm). Also as mentioned, his stories were not always, if ever, truly h...

American Literature's Romantic Movement

in the goodness of man and the mans natural state is in nature and is burdened by civilization (Campbell). The doctrine of sensibi...

Emily Dickinson's Private Affairs and Their Influence on Her Poetry

born (The Life of Emily Dickinson). Although her childhood was typical of most, by the time she was a young adult she had retreat...

Russian Revolution Historiography

the outside influence of World War One came along, he had managed to isolate him from all available venues who might have at one t...

Writing Style and Protagonist of The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

from the text. However, the traumatic experiences that torture him do come out, but, they do so slowly, in bits and pieces. Somet...

Stephen Ambrose's Nothing Like it in the World The Transcontinental Railroad

people and the reader often finds himself shaking his head in amazement at what these people had to endure in order for this proje...

Times Reflected in the Writings of John Keats, Moliere, and Niccolo Machiavelli

and was able to study their political tactics, particularly those of the ecclesiastic and soldier Cesare Borgia, who was at that t...

Mark's Gospel

was neither a hearer nor a companion of the Lord; but afterwards, as I said, he accompanied Peter, who adapted his teachings as ne...

Eighteenth Century Writers' Spiritual and Worldly Interests

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them ...

Writing Instruction and TESOL

is paid to speaking and writing the language. English classes, on the other hand, are taught differently. English teachers will as...

Comparing a Child's Viewpoint from an Adult's in A Caribbean Childhood

To children, the game is a simplistic as is their perception of the world around them, which they view with innocence, truth and i...

Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe

of life and death. Poe was considered a pioneer in his quest to ascertain the inner workings of the sinister mind. A good...