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Comparative Analysis of the Film Versions of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In eight pages this paper contrasts and compares Laurence Olivier's 1948 Hamlet adaptation with Franco Zeffirelli's 1990 interpret...

Gawain and Lancelot Heroic Comparison

of Lancelot and Gawain. The hero The publisher of Malorys work, William Caxton (1485), wrote in the preface: I...enprynte....

Lies My Teacher Told Me by Loewen and A People's History of the US by Zinn

by such elements as patriotism and mindless optimism rather than a desire to set out the facts and analyse them with any degree of...

Meso American Civilizations of the Aztec, Maya, and Inca

In six pages this essay contrasts and compares these early Meso American civilizations in terms of organizational, agricultural, r...

Comparative Analysis of the Vietnamese and U.S. Declarations of Independence

In one page these 2 countries respective independence declarations are contrasted and compared....

Characters of Helen and Annie in Ironweed by William Kennedy

This paper contrasts and compares these female characters and their life experiences described by William Kennedy in Ironweed in t...

James Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues,' Joyce Carol Oates' 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' and Maturity

In three pages this paper contrasts and compares how the maturity theme is featured in each of these stories....

Martin Scorsese Cinematic Comparison

In nine pages Bringing Out the Dead and Taxi Driver are contrasted and compared in terms of themes, characterization, and cinemati...

Comparative Thematic Analysis of Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye and T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land'

and all through the power of words. Eliot doesnt start slowly as his first four lines parody the first four lines of Chaucers fif...

Research Methodologies in Elijah Anderson's Code of the Streets and Margerie DeVault's Feeding the Family

nurturing as caring work. DeVaults contention from the start is that feeding a family (which again, is primarily gendered work, as...

The Godfather Part I by Mario Puzo and The Client by John Grisham

Power -- and all the ill will it attracts -- is key to Grishams novel and how it directly relates to the image of Italian Mafia ac...

Economists Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, and Adam Smith

laissez faire held sway. In short, Smiths thought was that if the market and economy were basically left alone, that theyd functio...

Reviews of Declarations

of the American Revolution. The list goes on and on when it comes to the kings faults - Jefferson notes that "The history of the p...

The Heroism of Beowulf

turbulent in respect to British history ("Angelcynn" PG). It was a time when England was first created, and the time of King Arth...

Forecasting for a Fast Food Outlet

and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...

Beowulf & Odysseus/Ancient Heroes

peers by acclamation rather than divine right. The thane is spoke of as a "giver of treasure in gladness" (Beowulf 46). In other w...

A Modern Viewpoint on Beowulf

The writer considers how we might learn about Beowulf's society by considering what sort of society might have developed if it had...

The Epic “Beowulf”

present Beowulf as a young hero, who is called upon by his fathers old friend King Hrothgar of Geatland, to defend his subjects ag...

Achilles and Socrates

ghost, a phantom-true, but no real breath of life" (23.122-23). This minimal survival apparently depends on the appropriate funera...

Comparative Analysis of Heroes Hector and Achilles in 'The Iliad' by Homer

In five pages this paper presents a contrast and comparison of the heroes Hector and Achilles as featured in the epic poem 'The Il...

Song of Roland, 'The Iliad,' and Heroism

In five pages these epic war tales are examined in a heroic contrast and comparison of Roland and Achilles. Three sources are cit...

Odysseus and Achilles

In this paper of five pages two classical heroes are contrasted in terms of the older and noble Odysseus and the young and volatil...

English Versification Development

In five pages this research paper offers a brief English versification history beginning with Beowulf's Old English and continuing...

The Heroism of Beowulf

The writer argues that Beowulf can be seen as an archetype of the ideal hero, and that his deeds have come to be considered as a m...

Beowulf's Epic Poetry

In five pages this paper examines such events as the Dane's nation rise, attack of Heorot, hero's arrival in Heorot, Heorot feast,...

Christian Dogma in Beowulf

one true God. As this suggests, biblical allusions are plentiful in the Old English epic, particularly in regards to the Old Test...

Heroic Comparison of Hector and Achilles in 'The Iliad' by Homer

In five pages this paper compares the heroes Hector and Achilles as presented in Homer's epic in an evaluation of whose heroism wa...

The Hero's Journey of Achilles and Odysseus

Magician, and Warrior. During those times when we may not be able to relate to the character of a story, we can usually react to ...

Beowulf - The Translations of Heaney and Raffel

swords" (Heaney 2; Raffel 2). 2.) Comment on the differences in Heanys and Raffels translations and the authors of literary/rhet...

John Gardner's Grendel and Epic Beowulf

oo well that here was the last of...