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Child's Point of View in Susan Hill's I Am the King of the Castle

so that when he dies, it is all the more a shock to the reader. The point of view, though it is told by an omniscient narrator is ...

Life and Writings of Plato

his writings (Levinson x). Socrates would continue to dominate Platos personal and professional lives for years to come, and woul...

Socrates' Thoughts and Influence

Socrates frequently alluded was the basis for his debates with Gorgias, contending that the degree of abstraction pursued by thoug...

Five Case Studies of Various Organizations

and measures may have been taken sooner without the need to apply to the government to restrict trade with the use of trade tariff...

Cogito Argument of Rene Descartes

"by posing the question in terms of relation between thinking subject, deity, and external world, Descartes made a purely epistemo...

Skepticism and Descartes' Cogito

questions that are not answered by the phrase "I think. Therefore I am." What if one does not think? Does that prove that he or sh...

Twentieth Century Literary Icon Ernest Hemingway

Park and published his earliest stories and poems in his high school newspaper. Upon his graduation in 1917 Hemingway worked six m...

The Feminist Literary Works of Mary Wilkins Freeman

are powerfully illustrative of the claim that many female writers of the time used the ghost story as a means of examining, indire...

Gertrude Stein and the Advancement of Women

of men, she was sexually attracted to women and made no attempt to hide her lesbianism, much to the shock of her Victorian contemp...

Yankton Sioux Zitkala Sa and Christianity's Impacts

non-Native culture, Zitkala was forced to leave her home and family at the young age of twelve. She was sent to a Quaker missiona...

1960s America and Pop Art

of the bright lights of consumption" (Vincent 96). The art and artists that characterize the 1960s represented not simply a diver...

Life and Writings of Sherman Alexie

of community and what he can give back to the community, Sherman often can be found in the oddest venues. Sometimes he will turn d...

Women's Influence Upon Edgar Allan Poe

death. Not simply because death equates with grief, but there is also the element of terror, the fear of a small child at the loss...

Case Study of I Am, Inc.

level in a discipline focused on business ethics, sustainability and innovative creativity. * Develop another business that other ...

American Author William Faulkner's Life and Writings

gloried in the proud history of the plantation South that secured a place of honor for the aristocrat, and yet he abhorred the opp...

Life and Writings of Raymond Carver

making a comeback"(Carver 2003). This was the turning point for Carver. Many of his works are shaped by a sense of...

Life and Writings of Stephen Crane

experience" (Owl Eyes). However, he "is best known for The Red Badge of Courage(1895), a realistic look at the Civil War" though h...

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...

Creative Writing and Life Triggers

just get the story out. In fact, many novelists and short story writers are storytellers. They simply tell a story. That is all th...

Life and Works of Katherine Anne Porter

Porter, 2005). Her education was obtained at convent schools and when she was 16 she ran away (Books and Writers, 2005). This i...

Life and Works of Saint Augustine

how evil is nothing tangibly heinous, but instead reflects the "absence of good."ii In other words, man merely makes bad choices ...

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). ...

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...

Women in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and in Boccaccio's Decameron

away from her. She asks him what is the matter. He answers that she is old and ugly and low born. The old woman demonstrates to hi...

Religious Influences on Emily Dickinson

of God resides in all people, thus resulting in fundamental human goodness (Wohlpart, 2004). However, it is important to note tha...

Symbolism in Dickinson's 'I Am Ashamed-I Hide'

be a Bride --/ So late a Dowerless Girl -" (Dickinson 2-3). This indicates that she has nothing to offer, that she is a poor woman...

Irony in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Prologue

a Prioresse/That of hir smiling was ful simple and coy./Hir gretteste ooth was but by saint Loy!/And she was cleped Madam Eglantin...

Life and Writings of Lois Lowry

stories and poems in notebooks" (IPL Kidspace). In this interview she also noted, "My books have varied in content and style. Y...

4 Poems in Billy Collins' Nine Horses

said that, however, this is not a book to simply be shunted off to the used bookstore. For all its problems, Nine Horses is still ...

Hermann Hesse's Life and Writings

In five pages this paper draws comparisons between the life and writings of Hermann Hesse with Demian and Steppenwolf among the wo...