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Life as Seen Through the Classics

to the role of an international statesman; through his efforts, he ultimately ended up as a role model for many American youths wh...

Henry James' Daisy Miller and J.D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield as Social Outcasts

In seven pages this paper examines how social outcasts can take different forms in a comparative analysis of Daisy Miller and Catc...

The Jolly Corner by Henry James

In five pages this paper examines the protagonist's doppelganger searches and the emotions that are experienced as a result. Ther...

Nineteenth Century Childhood in the Works of Henry James

In eight pages this paper examines how 19th century childhood is reflected in James's What Maisie Knew and The Turn of the Screw. ...

Four Commencement Speakers from American History

Americas historical experience with race, ethnicity, and/or gender. Who could be more appropriate for this task than one of our c...

'The Beast in the Jungle' by Henry James

dynamic. The couple was reunited after a period of ten years, but John is too preoccupied with what he perceives to be his ultima...

Psychological Stories of Edgar Allan Poe and Henry James

In five pages this essay discusses the supernatural and psychological narratives that are featured in Poe's short story 'The Black...

The Antebellum Economy of the United States

until the outbreak of the War Between the States during the middle of the century), the country almost seemed to be two polar oppo...

Model A’s, Model T’s, and the Changing Face of America

few weeks later, the company sold its first automobile, to a doctor in Detroit (Davis). As noted above, the company produced 1,700...

Daisy Miller by Henry James and Dramatic Intensity

Daisy and the Miller family and is informed that they are not a good family to know. Winterbournes aunt tells him "They are very ...

Comparative Analysis of Henry James' Portrait of a Lady and Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie

show business, and also very well liked in this particular field. As such she does better than make a living yet does not tell Hur...

Isabel, Rejection, and The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

explore and make her own path instead of taking the predictable and traditional route (Summary of "Portrait of a Lady", 2004)....

Women's Studies and 'In Defence of Elitism' by William A. Henry

and every person. To say that women had to fight for their existence within a patriarchal world would be a gross understate...

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, and Individuality

In 12 pages the naivete of individuality as it is thematically developed in both novels is examined. There are no additional sour...

Gender Relationships in The Awakening by Kate Chopin and Daisy Miller by Henry James

courted by Frederick Forsyth Winterbourne. Winterbourne is also an American. Daisy has a friendship with an Italian man. Becaus...

Self Portrait of Henry James in The Portrait of a Lady

In ten pages this report discusses how the characterizations within the novel The Portrait of a Lady actually represents a portrai...

Literature and Music Expressed in the Nationalist Culture of African Americans

In six pages this paper discusses the expression of cultural nationalism in African American literature and music as depicted in t...

The Commandant of the Andersonville Confederate Prison Camp Henry Wirz

Henry Wirz, an American Civil War criminal, is evaluated as to the truth of his criminality. Was he a scapegoat? Many details are ...

Short Story Writer O. Henry

In five pages this paper examines the life of William Sydney Porter, a famous American writer of short stories who became more com...

Thoreau/Civil Disobedience

American people, Thoreau argues that the government "does not settle the West. It does no educate" that it is the American people...

Transcendental Abstracts

that is, rather than a creature called "Man" who had to do everything, Man became priest, scholar, farmer, and so on (Emerson). Th...

Private Sector Elite and the U.S. Constitution

In six pages this paper discusses how a private sector elite was created by American Founding Fathers George Washington, Thomas Je...

Major Characterizations in Daisy Miller by Henry James

In five pages this paper examines the characters of Frederick Winterbourne and Daisy Miller as they are presented in James's novel...

Conflicted Relationships in Daisy Miller by Henry James and McTeague by Frank Norris

In five pages this paper examines the relationship conflicts between Daisy and Winterbourne in Daisy Miller and McTeague and Trina...

Hesitant Love in Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton and Daisy Miller by Henry James

for reasons that he cannot fathom. "Daisys beauty is to be apprehended and judged, then, according to its degree of artifice. It...

Issues in Asian American Literature

This paper offers ten brief essays, with each essay roughly one-page in length and pertaining to issues that addressed in Asian Am...

Evil According to Mark Twain, Flannery O'Connor, and Henry James

battling with his conscious for some time, Huck writes a letter to Miss Watson, who is Jims owner that tell where Jim is. Afterwar...

Daisy and Her Financial Status in Daisy Miller by Henry James

an open and unsuspecting young woman and places her in the context of a closed and suspicious world of condemnation and value judg...

Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House and Henry James' The Turn of the Screw

In eight pages these two supernatural tales are analyzed in a comparison and contrast of similarities and differences. There are ...

Thoreau/Importance of Wilderness

requirements of the wilderness can be defined as the "difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony" ...