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'The Purloined Letter' by Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages this paper examines the detective story as it relates to the life of its author Edgar Allan Poe. Nine sources are c...

A Character Study of Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby

This paper analyzes characterization and the theme of abandoned ethics seen in Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby. The a...

Romantic 'Perfection' in Literature

In 3 pages this paper considers how a few Romantic authors managed to offer a glimpse that life and men were flawed in their writi...

Social Communication

along with such aspects of our interaction with others as our verbal exchanges and body language form our self image. Each indiv...

An Analysis of Robert Frost's Stopping By Woods

This paper analyzes one of Frost's most famous works, which many critics interpret as Frost's own longing for death. However the ...

17th Century Puritan Clergyman Ralph Josselin and His Family Life

In five pages this paper discusses the family life of Puritan moderate minister Ralph Josselin as chronicled in his diaries....

The Rule of St. Benedict

routine tasks we do every day. Suetonius lived in the late first and early second centuries. His father was wealthy and belonged...

Maya Deren and the Shadow Self

on the table with a knife still perched within it, a telephone off the hook on the stairs, as if someone is on hold. Her mind imme...

Elizabeth Costello's Views on Animal Rights

Despite her poor reception by those that disagree with her philosophically, Costello makes many valid points about animal rights. ...

How My Life Was Changed by Buddhism

because of the construct of human nature, and the constant conflict caused by physical needs, sexual urges, and the desires for lo...

Socialist Feminism: Past and Present

a branch of feminism created in the early 1970s to get women to win reforms that will improve their lives, give them a sense of po...

An Affirmation of Who I Am

was a new teacher. Im not sure where she was from but she was very different from teachers I had had before. Im sure a lot of of...

Earthquakes A Catastrophic Emergency

The USGS provides a list of the most destructive earthquakes that have ever been recorded. The most recent earthquakes...

Research and Intervention for the Elderly

As our world continues to evolve we are faced with a greater and greater percentage of...

Literature and Film Related to Rural Life

the Grapes of Wrath the family is mobile, that is really not by choice and even when they face such a hardship, they remain close....

The Jewish 'Father' Abraham

Michalowski explains, "Each person also had an additional, personal god" (Szulc, 2001, p. 90). A close interaction with this pers...

Biography of William Faulkner

This was only the first of many contradictions that would emerge in William Faulkner that would make his life more difficult than ...

Life of Zora Neale Hurston in Their Eyes Were Watching God and Dust Tracks on a Road

be rash and foolish for awhile. If writers, were too wise, perhaps no books would be written at all. Anyway, the force from somewh...

British Fashion Photographer David Bailey

prospect of becoming a photographer became less remote, perhaps even attainable" (Kodak, 2003). Bailey then finished with his n...

Faulkner, Poe, and Chopin Bringing Characters to Life

did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...

Ralph Ellison's Life and Literary Career

However, any hope for a middle-class life died in 1917 with the death of Lewis Ellison (Rogers 12). Nevertheless, the...

Life's Big Questions

that further illustrated many of his theories concerning men and their mothers, which is not a far cry from theories of Jung, sinc...

David Handler and Lemony Snicket The Unauthorized Autobiography

authenticity of which always must be questioned (Giorgis and Johnson 408). The autobiography is subdivided into thirteen (not coi...

The Personal and Professional Life of Louis L'Amour

Louis LAmour was born in Jamestown, ND. He left home at age 15 and worked his way around the world. He worked as a...

Islamic Women's Lives

Women had been treated as possessions of their husbands; Islamic law made the education of girls a sacred duty and gave women the ...

An analysis from Chapter 4 of the Autobiography of Carl Jung

to that of a man and saw womens role in society as being purely to serve men. When they were "no longer willing to fill that role,...

Living By A Code, Ethics, Liberty, and Morality

things, some of which were not the original intent of Jeffersons vision. Having money has come to be equated with a sense of free...

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...

Biography of D.H. Lawrence

"was a former schoolteacher, greatly superior in education to her husband. Lawrences childhood was dominated by poverty and fricti...

Philosophy Defined by Philosphers

explain why this is so. Descartes also questioned the ability of a dreamer to know whether or not he is dreaming. Many people do a...