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Analysis of a Modern Classic: "The Great Gatsby"

about the characters thoughts and motivations. So we are going to read the story and see what happened through Nicks eyes, which m...

Advertisements and Gender Roles

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at gender roles as they appear in advertisements. Two classic ads for Coke and Pepsi ar...

Samurais, 2 Books

This essay pertains to two texts that relate samurai culture, The Last Samurai by Mark Ravina and Bushido, the Way of the Samurai,...

Characterization and Production Values: Classical Hollywood

This research paper pertains to methods and features of characterization and its associated production values used during the age ...

Evolution of Protagonist Kris Kelvin in Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

When the psychologists lofty expectations come crashing down around him, he tries to wash his anxieties away in a symbolic gesture...

Natural Religion in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d'Ubervilles

Thomas Hardys "Tess of the dUbervilles" was written in 1891. This was a time when the role...

Phyllis and Lola, Double Indemnity

by Billy Wilder) is regarded as a classic example of film noir. The screenplay was adapted from a novel by James M. Cain by Raymon...

Literature's Deeper Meaning

the town of Bisbee. "It is July 20, 1989, early afternoon, monsoon season in the Sonoran Desert, and I am going back to Bisbee. A...

The Twelve Caesars/Suetonius

in presenting the various biographies that make up this text, citing the private documents of the emperors, as well as public sour...

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

stir" as it was the date of a double festival: that of the Festival of the Three Kings and that of the Feast of Fools (Hugo, I, I)...

A Review of the Film, Ocean's Eleven

In some scenes featuring very dark-skinned Bernie Mac, the only thing absolutely visible on the screen was the whites of the actor...

Male and Female Relationships in William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and John Milton's 'Paradise Lost'

Cleopatra is a very sensual woman who is aware of her own passion. This, however, does not detract from her ability to rule...

"The Little Prince" of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in the Fable and in the Reality

some critics believe that "post-colonialism" implies, mistakenly, that "colonialism is over when in fact most of the nations invol...

Fire as a Theme in Virgil's Aeneid

the contest because she bribed Paris by offering him Helen of Troy, the fairest of mortal women, which is the basis for the confli...

Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" And O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" - Evil

4 pages in length. Evil - a self-perpetuating entity of myriad literary tales - presents itself as a force that challenges the ve...

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. ...

De Tocqueville: "Democracy in America"

customs, and morals which was necessary to render such a revolution beneficial" (de Tocqueville, Introduction). The result of this...

Herbert Gans/Urban Villagers

slum" and while its residents had their own problems, these difficulties did not evolve from living in this neighborhood (Gans xiv...

Feminism and Alexander Pope's Poem 'The Rape of the Lock'

he mocks. It is after all a story of a lock of hair stolen while a young woman sleeps. What can be simpler? What can be less impo...

Theme of 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Analyzed 2

well enough to write some thousand words at a stretch. She describes the view from her window quite lucidly, as well as the pretty...

Humanism Themes in Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by William Blake

particular values, and freedom from persecution by authorities for those views. One could say that the roots, as far as it can b...

Films A Place in the Sun, Double Indemnity, Suspicion and the Interaction Between Money, Love, and Murder

these nonverbal cues that reveal more than the spoken dialogue. Alfred Hitchcocks reputation as the cinemas "Master of Suspense" ...

An Analysis of Machiavelli's The Prince

of the government was quick and without "civil commotion." But while Machiavelli praises Agathocles on one hand, he also points ...

An Analysis of Leadership in Machiavelli's The Prince

to use almost any means to achieve his ends that has the most direct appeal to many amoral leaders of today. Some psychologists fi...

Epic Hero Luke Skywalker in Star Wars

given a task to perform and in doing so derives some sort of personal meaning from it. He may meet with a great series of misfortu...

Examining Scenes from Sonny’s Blues

shadow of a doorway, looking just like Sonny ... Then I saw that it wasnt Sonny, but somebody we used to know, a boy from around o...

Greek Philosophy and Literature: A Review of Concepts

ar?te (Hooker 1996). In the works of Homer such as the Iliad, ar?te is used to describe both the Greek and Trojan characters, in o...

Jackson’s Literary Devices

at times the exact opposite of what is being said. The once well-known short stories of O. Henry are masterpieces of irony: in one...

Ethical Decision-making and Vegetarianism

come from the animal such as eggs. Some vegetarians also eat fish. Again, the rules very dependent upon the particular philosophy ...

Protagonist, Antagonist Relationships in Bronte's Wuthering Heights

antagonist to both Heathcliff and Linton that propels the narrative. Bronte creates the foundation for her exploration of psycho...