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Everyday Life in Literature

in bathing suits is so important. Not only are they attractive young women and fascinating to a 19-year old boy, but they are brea...

An Alien Life Form's Speculation on Mankind

This paper speculates how an alien life form would view earthlings if he or she visited the planet in the year ten-thousand A.D. a...

Victorian Reading Habits: The Thrill of Transgression

"a castle, ruined or intact, haunted or not"; sinister ruins "which arouse a pleasing melancholy"; dungeons, catacombs, crypts and...

The Thrill of Transgression: “Frankenstein” and “Manfred”

is blasphemous. Also, and certainly unknown to himself, he is skittering along the knife edge between madness and sanity. He is a ...

Defiance of Authority in Life and in Literature

In six pages this creative essay examines an event in which a college student had to defend beliefs and this experience is related...

Children's Rights Literature Review

Researchers set out to determine the level of understanding that children truly have regarding their own basic rights, and more ge...

Life of Medieval Author Geoffrey Chaucer

In 5 pages this paper examines the 14th century life, career, and writings of Geoffrey Chaucer that culminated in The Canterbury T...

Conflict, Closeness, and Relationships Between Siblings

In five pages this paper discusses how future lives can be influenced through sibling relationships and communications as this lit...

1950s Women's Roles

to their social and political benefit. Womens portrayal in Theodore Roethkes "I Knew a Woman" reflects the difference betw...

Conflict and Relationships in relation to Self Esteem

Low self-esteem can be a result of a number of factors, including close relationships and conflict. This paper suggests that a cer...

Place and its Negative Impact

such as the Puritan settlements of early America; any individual living in such a place would suffer an extreme negative impact to...

American Realism, An Overview

nations early steel industry. Just as Charles Dickens exposed the underside of industrialization in Great Britain, Davis likewise ...

Significance of Information Literacy

found on the Internet is accurate. As researching a topic using a Web browser is simply a matter of using a handful of keywords, t...

Ancient Egypt, Belief in the Afterlife

of Osiris. Nevertheless, over time, entry to the afterlife was expanded and nobles were given permission from the pharaoh to make ...

The Elderly Population and Substance Abuse

not as healthy as those of younger adults. Metabolism changes and older individuals cannot handle alcohol in he same way as their ...

Reflection on Matthew 18:3-5

that are coping with "status-seeking, scandal, lapses, reconciliation and forgiveness" (Harrington 887). There are two major secti...

Medieval French Literature and Deception

In seven pages this report discusses Middle Ages' French literature in an overview of how deception is thematically developed in T...

Cancer Survival, Role of Attitude, Optimism

This research paper offers an overview description of "Aunt Phyllis," a breast cancer survivor who is experiencing emotional diffi...

Literature Review, Dialysis Study

This paper consists of a literature review for a proposed study that will compare community-based hemodialysis to peritoneal dialy...

Humanities Makes Life Worth Living Through the Study of Literature, Art, and Music

their own various ways of struggling for coherence, for a compelling faith, for social vision, for an ethical position, for a sens...

True Life Stories, Literature, and Issues of Gender, Sex, and Race

end, giving us a young woman who was never able to come to terms with her race, her sexuality, or her gender. She is the character...

Issue of Mortality in Literature and in Life

is common knowledge. Who does not worry about death? Even children, from a very young age, often ask the ultimate question which i...

Pushkin/Moor of Peter the Great

the thirteenth century and a Prussian nobleman who came to Russia that time (Driver 21). Therefore, if the familys claims are corr...

Violence and Obsessive Love

was O.J. Simpson who, although proven innocent in a criminal court of law of his wifes murder, was well known for his jealous rage...

Life and Literary Art of James Joyce

is encapsulated in his writings. Indeed, autobiographical elements are characteristic of much of James Joyces work. This...

Moths, Life, and Death

the life of most humans, it is both mediocre and glorious. Woolf watches this small and ordinary creature fly against the pane of...

Novel Essays by George Lukacs and Virginia Woolf

criticism points toward a different orientation, as she accuses previous writers of materialism, and explains this accusation by ...

Alice Walker's Literature

that is a large part of the appeal of Alice Walker the writer. Biography of Alice Walker "Alice Malsenior Walker...

Herman Melville's Short Stories 'Tartarus of Maids' and 'The Paradise of Bachelors'

the end are shown to have empty, meaningless lives. "It was the very perfection of quiet absorption of good living, good drinking,...

Women's Freedom and the Detriment of Marriage

is exemplified by the nuclear family that leaves women unfulfilled. It is ultimately this missing part of life--or the lack of fre...