Essays 781 - 810
in the series, which is continually adding new entries to this day. The first "Hammering Man" was built in 1979 out of plywood, de...
because they are swimming on a white persons property they find trouble, and violence. Big Boy and Bobo backed away, their eyes fa...
"Les Liaisons Dangereuses" in 1782, a number of years before the French Revolution, and it stands to this day as a masterwork of p...
Robert Frost is highly regarded as a master poet. His ability to explore complex social and cultural issues by using rural everyda...
these lines, the poet shows not only the ability to create order from chaos, but also to minimize chaos to practically nothing. S...
also differences in style. Smith, for example, uses less alliteration than Atwood, and his short, clipped lines emphasize and isol...
of Stories, by creating a fascinating cast of characters, placing them in a fantastical world, and giving Haroun and his father an...
some level, the shows impact society by questioning values that are currently held. For instance, Jersey Shore has created a lot o...
for its wealth of atmospheric detail and rich symbolism. This makes them attractive to literary critics because there is a great d...
Pushkin was a Russian poet who eventually began writing prose. This essay examines and analyzes a very successful work of prose en...
This 3 page paper gives an overview of the novel Fahrenheit 451. This paper includes a discussion of social control as an element ...
This 3 page paper gives an overview of the story The Scarlet Letter. This paper includes how the theme and parts of the novel refl...
This 6 page paper gives an overview of the story Gulliver's Travels. This paper includes human nature and corruption as theme with...
This essay focuses of the theme of solipsism in Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. Eight pages in length, three sources are cited. ...
This paper focuses on how death is treated in "Peter Pan" by J.M. Barrie, and then compares with the same theme in "Jim " and "Mat...
This essay pertains to Achebe's landmark novel "Things Fall Apart." The writer focuses on the theme of colonialism and its effects...
This essay pertains to The short stories "Bible" by Tobias Wolfe and "Virgins" by Danielle Evans. The writer discusses the theme o...
This essay offers a summary and discussion of themes and characters in "Winter Dreams," a short story by Fitzgerald. Three pages i...
This essay pertains to "Possessing the Secret of Joy" by Alice Walker. A summary of the plot is given and the writer also discusse...
This 9 page paper gives an explanation of how the timeless ideal of marriage is not real and how The Dead and The Story of an Hour...
to a twentieth-century Existentialist philosopher, Ford opines, "Emily Dickinson felt great anxiety about death... She apparently...
writers overall mystique, utilizing such literary techniques as dialogue, imagery, figurative language and interpretation. ...
continued in their Roman role, but in a much less organised manner. The names the taverns would receive reflected the role and tra...
is forced to live in darkness. The child, the reader is told, is about nine or ten years old, lives on a half bowl of cornmeal a...
There are four central themes in Kafka's Metamorphosis: the absurdity of life, the disconnect between mind and body, the limits of...
This essay pertains to "Saints and Soldiers," a 2003 film directed by Ryan Little. The writer provides a brief summary of the plot...
and imprison-ment in the stocks. But there is something that excites in us a stronger feeling than all this-it is Violas confessio...
those demons in his closet that he thought securely battened down. His mother will not stop with the accusations and insinuations ...
This essay offers an overview of the melody and harmony used in John William's main theme from Star Wars. The writer compares Will...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The theme of love is examined through looking at the f...