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The War in Iraq and Economic Ramifications

The beginning of the war marked a time that the federal government became far more active in gathering its supplies partially with...

Derek Walcott's 'Omeros' Theoretically Studied

spiritual awakening. CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EPIC POEM: Epic poems all share similar characteristics which define them as such. Fo...

A World War II Submarines History

crushing power of the round balls had no match in the newly designed projectile typesii, the rapid revolution in this area could b...

Lovers Voices in 'Porphyria's Lover' and 'To His Coy Mistress'

he presents. Essentially, he wants his mistress to accept his advances not because she has been mentally or physically bludgeoned ...

Three Poems by Gary Soto, Nikki Giovanni, and William Blake

focus of the poem is on how the anger of the narrator as a corruptive influence that turns him into a murderer. As this illustrate...

Nature Imagery in the Works of Zora Neale Hurston and William Wordsworth

are not representative of nature and he finds refreshment and nourishment in his memories, and now in his seeing nature again. ...

The Legitimacy of the War in Iraq

is hard to know exactly what occurred. Still, troops continue to try to effect peace in a nation ravaged by war. II. The War in ...

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Comparison/Contrast

the condition of oppression and restrictive realities. This is the symbolic premise of the poem. From this perspective the African...

Perillo/Dangerous Life

beginning of this stanza creates an image that says to the reader that the nature is hard; it "mows" you down. Society tries to im...

Browning and Spera

various admirers which she held in just as much regard as anything she received from him-including the title. Furthermore, she fli...

Poems: Hughes and Eliot

powerful and intense poem, in relationship to the struggles of the African American people, that it has been adapted into song (Af...

War: Civil War, Iraq, Yugoslavia

the conflict in Yugoslavia, what he calls "ethnic cleansing, American-style" (Bovard, 1999). He says that "President Clinton and ...

Athens and the Peloponnesian War

relationship to one complaint and event prior to the war: "the complaint of Corinth was that her colony of Potidaea, and Corinthia...

The Wife of Bath and the Love Poems of Sappho and Catullus

While the couple is not married in the legal sense to each other (their bonds of matrimony are with others), it becomes obvious th...

Death in Korn's Song 'Alone I Break' and Robert Frost's Poem 'After Apple Picking'

like a walk in the park. The poem describes how tired a person can feel while working hard, and laboring at ones love. Though a mu...

Death in 2 Poems by Seamus Heaney

(line 5). As this illustrates, the second stanza builds the tension even further as this comment intimates that this death is par...

Love in Andrew Marvell's 'The Definition of Love' and in Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey's 'Love, That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought'

survive, the most poignant works were his love sonnets. Surrey was considered to be quite the ladies man, even though he was marr...

The Specific Causes of the Two World Wars

fueled by a rising tide of nationalism. The traditions and problems dated back so many years that it would be nearly impossible to...

U.S. Wars and Artillery Uses

materiel that were used during each war. The first war to be fought by Americans, and on American soil was the American...

War and Escalation of Violence Such as Rape

committed with the intent to destroy a particular group, in this case the Tutsi. The Akayesu is interesting as well because it ha...

The Causes of the Second World War

was a large-scale economic collapse throughout the world following World War I, which led to the rise of fascism throughout Europe...

Comparative Analysis of the Poems 'My Last Duchess' and 'Portrait of a Lady'

this woman is not pushy, but rather has very definite feelings for this man. She feels a connection with him that his self-possess...

Ancient Writings Like Epic of Gilgamesh and Ideology

purposes of taming Enkidu, the wild man (Radcliffe, 2001). Enkidu is important to the story as he exemplifies the average man in s...

2 Poems by T.S. Eliot

time she was thirty years old. In Victorian England, it was normal for girls to marry young, and Mary Ann was unusual in that she ...

Comparative Analysis of the Poetry of Sharon Olds and Short Fiction of Raymond Carver

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the Sharon Olds' poem 'Sex Without Love' with Raymond Carver's short story 'What W...

Comparing Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai with Homer's 'The Iliad'

heroic ideal of the young and noble combatant who appears to be destined to die at an early age on the battlefield. Achilleus is ...

The Postive and Negative Impacts of the Two World Wars

a battle unlike any before, inasmuch as new war technology had brought with it even more despicable methods of death. As soon as ...

Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Dante's 'Inferno'

hes writing" (Steinberg inferno.htm). It is the Canto which presents us with the innocent and frightened Dante. He is just beginni...

Yusef Komunyakaa's Poetry

loss and redemption. If one were to move deeper into the meanings of both poems, or on an emotional, cognitive tour of the poem, ...

Whitman and Hughes’ Poetry

Whitmans, just that the ones being examined do not examine that same sort of subject matter. In Whitmans The Ox-Tamer the poet s...