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Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel and Death

death into her fictional drama. "The Stone Angel" is particularly interesting in regard to the contemporary way that we vie...

Biography of St. Augustine

but Augustine lacked "the sincere desire of being heard," so that when he got to Carthage the city seduced him (Portalie, 2004). ...

Teaching English As A Foreign Language Using Neurolinguistic Programming

in teaching (Baker, 2005). Using NLP "will enable us to uncover the basis of our perceptions and so teach us how we think and lear...

Police, Writing Tasks, and the Management of Time

becomes a major irritant and stress-producer (Sewell 11). The same time-management practices that have been applied to the telepho...

Leslie Marmon Silko

notes, "Silko reveals that living in Laguna society as a mixed blood from a prominent family caused her a lot of pain. It meant b...

Creative Essay on Virginia Woolf's 'Death of a Moth

I had two cats that had already voiced their opinion on the matter. No Dogs allowed was the agreement. And, Im certain that they f...

Literary Criticisms of the Style and Works of O. Henry

does so in a most subtle way. It is as if O. Henry plays on the expectation of a terrible demise, then, at the last moment, as a s...

Life and Works of George Orwell

Blair family was not very wealthy - Orwell later described them ironically as lower-upper-middle class" and "They owned no propert...

Burkean Cluster Analysis of the Writings of Virginia Woolf

both in regard to the societal events and circumstances in which Virginia Woolf was embroiled and in regard to contemporary societ...

Herman Melville's Narrative Voice

critic notes that, "Whether in a brief novella or in an epic tome, one common technique utilized by many writers is a framing of a...

Student Writing on Being a Learner

a very poor way of teaching and learning. As a child I remember how flashcards were quite prominent in the classroom. From math...

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's HIstory Writing

providing a complete description of the village, its geography, demography, religious beliefs, social beliefs, families, sex, food...

Contemporary Western Culture and Humanities

deal of power into one ruler (or, at the very least, a collection of rulers who wont end up fighting among themselves)....

People Who Are Sloppy and Neat

glance in the co-workers car affirmed the assessment of sloppiness, as the floor boards in all passenger areas were engulfed at le...

Writing and Language in Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck

that Steinbeck models the paisanos after. This status came to Danny quite randomly...Though everyone in the group shares everythin...

Psyche of Franz Kafka and His Relationship with His Father

In twelve pages this essay discusses Kafka's 'The Judgment,' 'Metamorphosis,' and 'The Hunger Artist' in terms of how the author's...

Hobsbaum and Scot on Bureaucracy, Prosperity, and Peace

them. But the threat of nuclear annihilation itself was enough of a deterrence on both sides of the ocean. But Hobsbaum po...

Writing Style of One Minute Manager

In three pages the positives and negatives of this text are evaluated in this discussion of the style of writing featured in the b...

Robert Brock's Criticism of Albert Camus' Stranger

in order to emphasize his points concerning capital punishment. Brock is particularly persuasive when he argues that Camus places ...

Writing Style of John McPhee

oranges fascinating is the way in which he describes customs. He does so lyrically, briefly, but in perfect context with the cultu...

Content and Gender in Feminist Literature

Throughout history, until very recently, women have been little more than property, things men could do with as they pleased. But...

Successful Grant Writing

the grant at a time to work on will allow you to break the job into manageable chunks. Make sure, of course, that you address eac...

Virtue Critiques in Billy Budd, Sailor and 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' by Herman Melville

- he refuses to take nourishment or leave his place of business. Instead of taking a sympathetic view of his employee, the narrat...

Visionary Theorist W.E.B. Du Bois

works is quite appropriate. The Souls of Black Folk provides an overview of how the black man is seen in American culture. At lea...

Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and the Feminist Movement

of debt, or to make it possible for the younger children of the family to go to school"( Cather 172)...

Spirituality, Cultural Identities, and Alienation Themes in Castillo, Morrison, and Silko

forced to give up many of their stories which reminded them of who they were as a people and as individuals. As a...

Law, Power, and Politics According to Saint Thomas Aquinas

belief at the time (The Radical Academy, 2004). God gives this power to the people as a whole, not to individuals (The Radical Aca...

Deception and English Criminal Law

was brought under section 15 and not section 16, where workman told a householder work needed to be undertaken when it did not, a...

'Bad Cat' Creative Writing Assignment Sample

live on the outskirts of town an all, sometimes theres stuff that comes in. But dont you worry," Rowan said slapping me on the bac...

Analysis of an Effective Sales Letter

attention firstly by the use of a personal address, but this is not sufficient. There has to be a reason to carry on reading, so t...