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Punishment and Poetry

The bright-eyed Mariner"(Coleridge, 2002). The sailor (or Mariner) says that though they started on calm enough seas, the wind p...

Things Fall Apart by Achebe and Heart of Darkness by Conrad

with this great solitude" (73). Kurtz allows all of his most primitive desires to run rampant. The experience of being away from a...

Analysis of a Page from E.M. Forster's Book Howard's End

any ideas borrowed from this research in his or her own words and to cite the Paper Store as one source for their own paper. If th...

Oakes's Becoming Good American Schools

tradition, particularly the tension between the very powerful concept of and drive for individualism and the ideals of civic virtu...

Alexander Hamilton, American by Richard Brookhiser

review, said that he felt like a candle "beside the sun at noonday" when comparing his career to that of Hamilton (11). It is fr...

Biblical Counseling

seek professional psychological help from trained professionals. Tossed Salad approach advocates believe Scripture and psycholog...

My Kinsman, Major Molineux by Nathaniel Hawthorne

of a mother or a sister; and on his head was a three-cornered hat, which in its better days had perhaps sheltered the graver brow ...

2 Corinthians 5:11-6:2 Exegesis

speaking against him were false apostles. There is some question as to exactly who these false apostles are. Some scholars suggest...

Dead Poet's Society and the Motif of Carpe Diem

to his students. He gives them no time to "adjust," but leaps right in with both feet on the first day by having the class read Ro...

Comments on a Book About Prayer

of gems to learn or remember. Strong believers pray and praise God no matter what although when life gets tough, it is hard for ev...

'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin

In six pages this paper compares this short story's major themes with the life of Kate Chopin. Nine sources are cited in the bibl...

Sexual Orientation and Race Relations in Greer's Story of Marriage

Holland was a shell of a soldier, sitting on a bench at the beach in San Francisco when Pearlie saw him and recognized him instant...

One of the Themes Throughout the Bible

the laws regarding the firstborn, substituting something for an animal or a person (New International Version, Exod. 113:13; 34:20...

African Underclass by Andrew Burton, a Book Review

objectives: In African Underclass: Urbanization, Crime and Colonial Order in Dar es Salaam, 1919-61, author Andrew Burton provides...

The Peloponnesian War According to Thucydides

This 5 page paper summarizes the major themes of Thucydides' accounts of the Peloponnesian War. The bibliography lists the primary...

Desai and Achebe A Comparison of Clear Light of Day and Things Fall Apart

5 pages 0 outside sources. This paper relates the major themes in Desai's Clear Light of Day and Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Thi...

Gustave Flaubert's A Simple Heart and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

In four pages these works are compared in an analysis of the themes, plots, and major characters of each. There are no other sour...

Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow

In five pages the major themes of this 1975 novel by E.L. Doctorow are presented with an emphasis upon the linkage between culture...

Comparing Salinger's Catcher with Lee's Mockingbird

This essay contrasts and compares J.D. Salinger's coming of age novel Catcher in the Rye with Harper Lee's account of a Southern c...

Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Theme of Guilt

In five pages this paper examines the presentation of the theme of guilt in a consideration of the short stories 'My Kinsman, Majo...

Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited

by his effort to reject the constructs that hope to define him. "At Oxford, he carries a teddy bear named Aloysius, whom he scold...

Sharon Pollock's Plays Earnest and Blood Relations

In five pages the primary elements of Walter Dale's interpretation of Sharon Pollock's Blood Relations is compared with recent ada...

John Milton/Paradise Lost

of the monarchy due to his support of the Commonwealth (John Milton). Married three times, he spent his later years dictating to h...

The Role of the Gods in "Medea"

they were interested in seeing this story play out once again, and that they found meaning in it. It seems logical to assume that ...

Gatsby & The American Dream

her well-loved eyes" (Fitzgerald 111). As this suggests, Gatsbys many possessions and signs of extreme wealth are not important ...

A Comparison of Two Major Characters in Literature, Sophocles' Antigone and Shakespeare's Hamlet

the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...

Overview of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

the townspeople, although they dont agree with him being Tom Robinsons legal counsel, respect his integrity and honesty. He repre...

Antigone and Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

that should be born to him by me" (Sophocles). This tragic portent would surely have put most couples who believed in fate off of...

Chapter Analysis of Eliyahu Goldratt's The Goal

1984, p. 238). In the meantime, Alex is concerned that costs appear to actually be going up, since accounting procedures m...

A New Kind of Psychology

disseminating positive psychology interventions to communities and organizations; and establishing schools and families who focus ...