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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards

the audience immediately. Edwards then frames four implications from the verse that begin with the lead-in sentence just quoted an...

Phenomenal Women in Literature

Such is the case, in my experiences in reading the authors noted above. No one can contest the fact that these women have indeed ...

Literary Analysis of Ernest Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants'

to convince her that having the abortion is no big deal. PATTERN OF SYMBOLS ASSOCIATED WITH MODERN WORLD It is an interesti...

Analyzing 'The Train' and 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

that if they go to Florida, where it has been rumored that there is an escaped murderer loose, they will all be killed. The family...

Analysis of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

shining armor since he has redesigned his house to look like a castle. However, he does not bring this kind and generous nature in...

Joseph Conrad's 'The Lagoon'

thinks the woman will die. Arsat is very sad and while he waits out the long night he begins to tell his friend about how he came ...

Readings on Family Reunion Theme

generation, perceiving life and important family relationships very differently. They do not come from the same position, in terms...

Literary Analysis of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The work was going on. The work! And this was the place where some of the helpers had withdrawn to die. They were dying slowly it ...

Jean de la Fontaine's Fables

outward recognition. Why do Fontaines epic fable poems work? Primarily, one could state that they work because they embody unive...

A Comparison between a Classical and a Romantic Symphony

the "almost terrifying" manner in which Beethoven pursues the underlying motif (Machlis, 1970, p. 225). The second movement, And...

An Evaluation and Historiography of the Vietnam Era's Antiwar Movement

but the battle was not a true victory by any means. Of course, one can still construe it as a turning point. Up until then, ther...

Colonial Missions in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone, at the current site of the city of Freetown. The newly-freed slaves did not fare well in Freetown; they suffered fr...

The 1950s

with the wall in the 1990s. Communism, the panacea of the cold war, was something that never materialized as Marx intended. Instea...

Author's Intentions and Objectives in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

as the defining characteristic of an unmarried woman. In other words, according to the cultural definition of femininity a "good" ...

Puritan And Victorian America and Gender

Puritan America is examined as well as the Victorian era. Gender is discussed in this context and the eras are compared and cont...

Jacksonian Era's William Wirt

This paper examines the American historical significance of William Wirt in fifteen pages. Fourteen sources are cited in the bibl...

Repackaging Henry IV for Life in the 1960's

In this eight page paper the writer attempts the intriguing task of creating the The Prodigal Hal, Henry IV in the 1960s. There a...

Colonial Era and How Mental Illness and Retardation Was Treated

Iin six pages this paper examines the colonial era's unfair treatment of individuals suffering from mental illness. Four sources ...

Perfume Ads and the Function of the Supermodel

This research paper examins the role of the supermodel within the context of the perfume industry. The writer considers the histor...

Fashion of the Fifties

provocative clothing was acceptable. For perhaps the first time ever, people dressed to reflect what they were feeling. In doing ...

Modern Era Characterized by the French Revolution

In eight pages this research paper examines why several historians look to the French Revolution as the modern era's starting poin...

Tristan and Isolde and 'Beowulf'

449 (Donaldson 31). The one datable fact mentioned in the poem is a raid on the Franks made by Hygelac, the king of the Geats in 5...

A Critique of Marriage, Gilman's "Yellow Wallpaper"

This essay presents the argument that "The Yellow Walllpaper," a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman should be interpreted as ...

Social Media and Profit from Personal Information

Digitized information has generated a new economic era, the era of a personal information economy. Privacy has been sabotaged by ...

View of Women, Two 1950s Romantic Comedies

This paper presents an overview of "Pillow Talk" and "Desk Set," which are two fifties' era romantic comedies. The writer relates ...

Shaw’s Pygmalion, Euripides’ Medea

expert, Henry Higgins, makes a wager with a friend that he can masquerade a lower-class girl, Eliza, as a member of the upper clas...

John Demos, Joseph Plumb Martin and Wartime Experience

one stroke" (Demos 29). Williams and his five children make it to Montreal alive. Once they arrive in Montreal, the Indians begin ...

Livy's History of Rome/Heroes & Villains

king also ordered killed. They were subsequently left to die of exposure and were discovered by a she-wolf. Discovered by the king...

Development of Literature in the Romantic Era

the "German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" (Romantic era). Rousseau was a man who introduced the notion of a noble savage, of ...

Goya/Executions of the Third of May, 1808

people who were followers of the European Enlightenment who supported the idea of a more "liberal, constitutional government."v Go...