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Essays 181 - 210

Administration of Ronald Reagan and Its Latin American Foreign Policy

In four pages this paper discusses Reagan's foreign policy on Latin America as depicted in an article by Carothers....

The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox and Cecilia by Frances Burney

In four pages this paper compares how inheritance is thematically depicted in each of these works....

Death in Aeschylus's Agamemnon 'Oresteia' and Flannery O'Connor's 'Wise Blood' 2

In two pages this essay examines how the theme of death is depicted in these two literary works....

Rembrandt's Self Portrait, William Shakespeare's King Lear and Their Portrayals of Old Age

In five pages this paper discusses how two different art forms depict the same topic - old age....

Concept of Hero in Fatal Light by Richard Currey and The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

This paper examines how heroism is conceptualized within the context of the Vietnam War in a comparative analysis of these texts c...

Jamaica Kincaid's 'Seeing England for the First Time' and Columbus in Chains'

Education as it is thematically depicted in these Jamaica Kincaid stories is the focus of this comparative analysis consisting of ...

1587, A Year of No Significance by Ray Huang

In five pages this paper examines the 1587 collapse of China's Ming dynasty as depicted in Ray Huang's text....

Environment and For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

In six pages this paper examines the socioeconomic and physical environments depicted in For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingw...

Common Ground, A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas

of a city and the vastly different social universes of its neighborhoods. Eventually the turmoil surrounding the desegregation eff...

Wireless Technology In The Classroom

he would ask if there were any questions at the end of each lesson but he knew there were students who did not understand but who ...

The Politics/Administration Dichotomy and the War in Iraq

problem arises when people try to reduce an "enormously complex situation" to a "specious mathematical neatness" (Vile, 2004). It ...

Chamber of Blood Stories by Angela Carter

that many writers have used familiar themes and offered a new way of seeing the traditional elements of plot and character; howeve...

Lawrence Durrell's Bitter Lemons

Parkins (2001), this marked a period of growth and prosperity for the country. It is true that the colonial administrati...

Macbeth by William Shakespeare and Subversiveness

student researching "Macbeth" should understand that there is virtually no relationships in the play in which people or a group of...

Strategies to Survive and 'The Open Boat' by Stephen Crane

this situation held certain peril for these men. Second, the omniscient view has allowed Crane to describe, in a birds eye...

The Fifth Child, Angela's Ashes, Death of a Salesman and the Theme of Family Disintegration

play, wants this to the exclusion of reality. At the beginning of the play it becomes apparent that Willy is in trouble. Suffering...

Howard Fast's April Morning

alive to confirm conversations nor recording equipment to verify accuracy. However, an author writing historic fiction must do a g...

Fiction and Non-Fiction Narrative

literature, for he is only telling his story. For example, he states such things as "I began thinking about my friend the other da...

War and Propaganda

rather is a decision that is based on some principle such as self defense or an initial defensive action to prevent an attack. War...

War and Its Futility as Conveyed by Poetry

In five pages this paper analyzes war's futility in a comparative poetic analysis of 'Poor Man' and 'WPA.'...

Fiction and the Depiction of Women

of winning her own way in the larger society and from the beginning, the character generally takes herself very lightly (19). She ...

Politics and Sorcery in In the Lake in the Woods by Tim O'Brien

In five pages this novel analysis of In the Lake in the Woods by Tim O'Brien focuses upon the uses of politics and sorcery. There...

The Holocaust and Creative Writing

of ways, including its formal structure. Though the text is routinely considered to be historical in nature, it is not exactly an ...

Hemingway, O'Brien, and the Nature of Truth

In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at the works of Ernest Hemingway and Tim O'Brien. The treatment of "truth" in a fictio...

The Concept and Use of Web 2.0

platform players, which sees the ideas developed from the second layer and move to the first or top layer where they are widely us...

Impact of the Great War on Western Literature

would be sent to war in just a few years, underscores the awful waste of youth, of life, of promise. The final stanza, in particu...

How the Reader is Positioned in “Cloudstreet”

that trembles and sighs, shakes and stinks. What is a reader supposed to make of all this? First, positioning is the word given t...

Science Fiction Shakespeare

possible, but have not been invented yet. This will sound strange, because science itself is just getting started, but really, all...

If Shakespeare Wrote Science Fiction, Ariel Would Use a Transporter

machine, and cannot understand why his mother doesnt really seem to love him. Among the science fiction elements are the followi...

Apocalypse Now and the Vietnam War

but be of a military mind and take such realities as par for the course in warfare. There may be others who used the war to make t...