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The Yellow Wallpaper and Laughter and Tears

believe I am sick! And what can one do? If a physician of high standing, and ones own husband, assures friends and relatives that ...

Beckett's "Endgame" - Theatrical Passage

as audience members question the correctness of snickering at something so obviously bleak. Still, they are hard pressed to avoid...

Therapeutic Uses of Laughter and Humor

that this may not be far from the truth (Provine, 2000). There are clearly two parts to the view of laughter as a therapeutic t...

Lysistrata and Laughter According to Bergsonian Criteria

representation did not lack a more serious undercurrent, it was the manner in which it was approached that, according to Bergson, ...

Civil Rights Movement and Civil Disobedience

being obedient. As the key Civil Rights moments mentioned above illustrate, civil disobedience is characterized by an abs...

Literature and Laughter

away in the most inaccessible part of the abbeys labyrinthine library, where it remained for decades" (Essay on The Name of the Ro...

Anne Moody's 'Coming of Age in Mississippi'

This is a 5 page book review in which the author relates her own upbringing which is in sharp contrast to most members of American...

Khalil Gibran and Love

In 5 pages this paper discusses how the Lebanese poet expresses love in terms of oneness and harmony in such works as 'Song of the...

Laughter and Its Power in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

In six pages this paper discusses how throughout One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest the author thematically portrays the power laught...

Laughter as Therapy

In eight pages this paper discusses the psychological and physical therapeutic value of laughter and humor. Nine sources are cite...

Judaism in the Works of Franz Kafka

In five pages the ways in which Judaism ins represented in Franz Kafka's works are examined with an emphasis upon his story 'Metam...

Organized Crime Syndicates and Commercial Burglaries

but commercial burglaries are up (Star Tribune 02B). For many reasons, burglars find commercial establishments a better target th...

Antitrust Issues and Internet Explorer of Microsoft

In five pages this paper examines the Department of Justice's antitrust case against Microsoft and issues regarding the Internet E...

Martin and Nabokov in Glory

In five pages this essay compares and contrasts the character of Martin in Glory with the life of author Nabokov in a consideratio...

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett and the Two Halves of One Identity Represented by Didi and Gogo

In five pages this paper discusses the complementary aspects of protagonists Vladimir and Estragon in a consideration of how they ...

New Russia and 2 Perspectives

In seven pages this paper compares the historiography of Vladimir Andrle and the anthology of Gail W. Lapidus and the two perspect...

Influence of the Bolsheviks on the Russian Revolution

This paper of six pages examines how the Bolsheviks under the inspired leadership of Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin resulted in t...

Russian Revolution and the Influence of Marxism

In five pages this paper examines how Marxist principles, most notably those featured in The Communist Manifesto influenced the be...

Perspectives of Ideology, Postmodernism, and Existentialism

the distinction between good and evil that is recognizable and notable. In order to understand the link between Nietzsches prem...

Russian Politics and the New Cabinet of Vladimir Putin

his second term (Bush and Brady, 2004). This is because the move swept away the last vestiges of the Boris Yeltsin administration...

Waiting of Vladimir in Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Vladimir is unable to tell the story because he is continually interrupted by Estragon. He never finishes the story. In other word...

Vladimir Zelezy and TV Nova

have helped him stay in touch with what audiences really wanted, it also gave him a platform as a face of TV Nova that facilitated...

1917's Russian Revolution

In seven pages this report discusses the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the events that inspired it with Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevi...

Analyzing Characters and Setting in Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes

living in a small Kansas town (Not Without Laughter). Its a sad story and tells of his rather slow and sad awakening to the reali...

Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes

In ten pages this paper discusses Langston Hughes' 1930 novel debut and analyzes the author's use of speech to convey 'black humor...

Lack of Conclusion in Short Story Mysteries by V. Nabokov and M. Atwood

ended as they could have logically ended. So, too, it must be stated that this spelling out of the ending of the mysteries is a ...

Political Legacy of Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin

Lenin saw in Russias expanding working class - the proletariat - the seeds of revolution" (Anonymous The Road to Revolution, 1997;...

Comparing the Main Characters and Dark Themes of Hawthorne's The Minister's Black Veil and Young Goodman Brown.

concealed his frame and face from onlookers by wearing a black cloak, as a symbol of a fearful secret between him and them" (Barna...

Soviet Experiment by Suny, the Leadership of Vladimir Lenin and the Dictatorship of Joseph Stalin

methods were condemned after his death. The year of 1917 was a very tumultuous one in Russia as it not...

Power Shift from Vladimir Lenin to Josef Stalin in the Soviet Union

business, as well as tend to a number of domestic and foreign policy issues. However, others assert that as Lenin neared the end,...