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Case Study Effective CEOs

There have been and are many outstanding leaders, each with his or her own story to tell. This is a case study that gives examples...

A Reading of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

imagine the author mocking him in the following description, "Having quite lost his wits, he fell into one of the strangest conce...

Gilgamesh, Enuma Elish, and Genesis

of creation are vastly different" (Anonymous Selected Portions of the "Enuma Elish" enumaeli.htm). "The six days of creation i...

French Film Boy Meets Girl by Director Leos Carax

real name of "Leos Carax" is actually Alexandre Dupont and that "Leos Carax" is an anagram of the lead characters name, Alex Oscar...

Comparing Rudyard Kipling's Prose with John Huston's Cinematic Narrative in The Man Who Would Be King

In five pages the voices used in these very different ways of telling the same story are compared and contrasted in terms of artis...

Edgar Allan Poe's Stories and the Doppelganger Theme

In 7 pages this paper examines how the 'double' or Doppelganger theme is featured in the Edgar Allan Poe stories William Wilson, '...

An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

This 6 page essay examines author Miguel Leon Portilla's "The Broken Spears : The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico&quo...

Storytelling and the Past

In five pages this paper examines how perspectives on the past manifest themselves in the storytelling of 'How to Tell a True War ...

Realism in Martin Scorsese's Film Raging Bull

In five pages cinematic realism is compared and contrasted with film noir and surrealism with the focus being how in the film Ragi...

Edgar Allan Poe's Writing Style

In five pages this paper discusses Edgar Allan Poe's writing style in this analysis of his 'The Tell Tale Heart' short story. The...

Toni Cade Bambara's 'The Lesson'

In five pages the telling of this short story and the messages contained within are analyzed. One source is listed in the bibliog...

2 Stories by Edgar Allan Poe and Themes of Anxiety, Guilt, Fear, and Confined Space

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how Poe develops these themes in his short stories 'Fall of the House of Usher' an...

Comparison of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne

combination that seemed to be excluded was "gothic romances." According to Alexander (1971), the reasons why Poe should be cons...

The Fortunate Pilgrim by Mario Puzo

reviewer also points out, there is simplicity and beauty to this prose that is not evident in Puzos later work. In the...

Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's Works

In seven pages Poe's works are analyzed within the context of his short stories 'The Tell Tale Heart' and 'The Fall of the House o...

Environmental Factors in Analyzing Schindler's List

This paper examines the importance of geographical and environmental factors that helped to tell the story of the film, Schindler'...

Symbolism in 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this paper examines the importance of symbols to the telling of the short story 'Young Goodman Brown.' There are 7 ...

Men in 'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe

In six pages this short story is analyzed in terms of male bonding and how the relationship between the men changes throughout the...

Four Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe

not something that had occurred to him earlier. The murder appears to stem solely from the fact that the narrator has the power in...

Fried Green Tomatoes Novel and Film Comparison

tidbits that enabled the readers to journey back in time. The film alters this setting somewhat with a present-day Evelyn Couch s...

Edgar Allan Poe's Writing Style Revealed in His Short Stories and Poetry

shows his endeavor in following a specific element of style that was all his own. Mood: for example in "The Fall of...

Fear as a Recurring Theme in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

Themes of Good and Evil in Two Works by Poe and Morrison

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

Postrel & O’Brien/Aesthetics & The True War Story

summarizing the work of both Postrel and OBrien. Aesthetics, according to Postrel, aid people in defining themselves by the "loo...

Storytelling: A Gathering of Old Men" and "The Joy Luck Club"

Communism, many in this new generation of Chinese-Americans wanted nothing more than to distance themselves as far as possible fro...

Analysis: "The Tell Tale Heart"

the murder has no real basis in reality; the old man had never hurt him, and he has no desire to rob him: "Object there was none. ...

Escape From East Berlin

It was intended to be impenetrable and did indeed inflict long-term damage to people and relationships separating families and com...

Satire Modeled After Candide

Herbert felt, were much smarter than himself. In particular, Herbert relied on his political adviser Carl Wanderer and his second-...

Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart

by the narrator was a man that the narrator actually claims to have loved, but yet the narrator is bothered by their eye, an eye t...

Abraham Cahan/Yekl

of antecedents, tastes, habits, inclinations, and speaking all sorts of sub-dialects of the same jargon, thrown pell-mell into one...