Essays 211 - 240
PG). His father was Philip II, a strong leader in his own right, who had united Macedon, making it the first real nation in the mo...
In five pages this essay considers two artistic images of Alexander the Great a woodcut print from the 16th century, 'The Three Go...
311, Cassander held 13-year-old Alexander IV, Alexander the Greats only surviving heir and his mother captive and he had them both...
advances that were made in transportation are considered the problem in terms of why consumption of goods form the colonies was so...
were possible under the enforced peace in the Empire under Alexander. Philosophy had in Alexander a supporter and it flourished. T...
into began and ended with the Russian court. She did not ascend to power overnight; she had eighteen years to observe how the bus...
hostile public world. Yet, she confesses to a friend that she keeps her business activities a secret from him because it would be ...
Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is compared and contrasted with F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby character. The Ame...
Ambition and a self-made determination, and the freedom to achieve anything that one sets his or her mind to were the basic concep...
went to work on the street early in life, and fell in with a teenage gang from the Lower East Side. Taking advantage of Prohibitio...
as the finest American novel ever written. It retains its power because it is a sort of dual effort: it praises the American Dream...
size," who attacks it nightly (Kennedy xiv). Beowulf, in particular is described in heroic terms: Of living strong men he was the...
own death and running away. Along the way, he meets Jim, a runaway slave who is traveling north in hopes of freeing his family. ...
ensuring that Winterbourne knows that she has plenty of male friends in New York, giving him "lively eyes and...light, slightly mo...
"well aware of the way African American identity had become irreducible to a simple set of criteria" (Favor 28). In The Autobiogr...
is to truly examine our lives. It may seem that living a life of wealth would be easy and would negate the necessity of deeper ex...
and to happiness (Fitzgerald, 1995). The story that unfolds is actually quite sad. Jay is obsessed with recreating the p...
attended but did not graduate from Princeton University. While at Princeton however, Fitzgerald was first exposed to the exceeding...
This sense of optimistic euphoria was forever captured in F. Scott Fitzgeralds 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby. Its featured charact...
In five pages this paper provides a comparative analysis of these two famous American literary works in terms of the acquisition o...
her womanhood, she is one who lives at the mercy of her desires. Not aware -- or at least not caring -- about the havoc she wreak...
In six pages this report compares women's subservient status in each of these literary works. Eight sources are cited in the bibl...
This paper is 5 pages in length and considers the 1962 movie To Kill A Mockingbird in terms of the impact it had on society. Ther...
In twelve pages this paper discusses how racial representations are structured in Hollywood films in a consideration of The Shinin...
This 7 page essay explores female meladrama genre. 6 sources are listed....
Cyberpunk literature focuses on these people, and often on how they turn the systems technological tools to their own ends. This i...
should convey a sense of the strength that is reflected in Nora. The adornments and the furnishings are only accessories to the s...
In classic science fiction style, the common people have no idea that they are nothing more than blips in a global virtual-reality...
way to get a job and keep it. By treating the kids as adults and giving respect, he begins to get it back in turn, along with at...
In five pages this paper discusses the 1992 film adaptation of David Mamet's play in terms of plot and performance....