Essays 1981 - 2010
his own money, earned from doing odd jobs. With trepidation, Gregory describes waiting for his change to give, but the teacher doe...
Monster, who is Frankensteins technological "son." While having the stature of a full-grown adult. Shelley makes it clear that the...
leg only" (Plato). If this were true, if there were only one process in regards to life-death, then everything would ultimately co...
an unthinking adherence to ritual. Analect 9.3 reads: The Master said, According to ritual, the ceremonial cap should be made of ...
by the same name and so was translated to the silver screen. When this is done it is always a touchy business. Much of the motivat...
that WWI started because "a lunatic murdered a man of feathers and uniforms who had no real importance whatsoever" (p. 81). Gordon...
banks of a "black and lurid tarn" (Poe Usher). As the narrator in both stories is fully aware of who he is, he never bothers to in...
encounter between the young heroine and the dream-image of a young scholar. In similar scenes throughout the production, the lack...
has Oedipus whipped by his driver and driven from the road. Oedipus retaliates and fights back. "With this right hand I struck hi...
the old and sick. There was always room in the safety and warmth of la familia for one more person, be that person stranger or fri...
She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces through the room, She saw the water-lily bloom, She saw the helmet an...
for social control and the exercise of power, on the other. All government, indeed, all institutions of society, exist along this ...
the second quatrain and then the third, on her own (Downing 126). In so doing, she overturns the Petrarchan convention wherein th...
that will be addressed on the following pages. Possible Causes of Homosexuality When exploring a subject as controversial and vo...
few sentences. This is very helpful to the reader because the "plot" for this nonsensical work is easily lost and shows that there...
that the other poppy "I gave to you" (line 8). In the third stanza, Rosenberg writes that the "sandbags narrowed" (line 9). The t...
original composition, rather than critiquing others, their time would be much better employed. Wordsworth said that "A false or ma...
student researching this topic has indicated that no additional sources should be used. In writing your own paper, drawing upon th...
student prefers to cite a movie. Additionally, as this writer/tutor knows nothing of the students background, for this assignment,...
driver fled and the dynamite exploded a few minutes later. Ward (2001) quotes Charles P. Dougherty of the Sun, as saying that the ...
Road Not Taken" can be viewed as an evaluation of his decisions that the poet takes at midlife. Frost describes standing in a "ye...
do with anything. The popular theory of mind to some extent broaches the concept of personhood. There must be a person associated ...
(I.iii.118). Banquo replies with a warning. He tells Macbeth that "instruments of darkness" frequently tell the truth in order to ...
In four pages four brief essays regarding Europe since 1870 include issues of human rights, Fascism of Benito Mussolini, hypotheti...
In three pages this essay uses the example of Bosnia in a consideration of why sanctions fail in nondemocratic states with inalien...
In eight pages this essay considers the 1912 Titanic sinking in a consideration of its controversy, the unexpected nature of the t...
A treaty with Austria was signed on Sept. 10, 1919, at St-Germain. Treaties were signed with Bulgaria at Neuilly Nov. 27, 1919, an...
In six pages this essay discusses Russia after the collapse of Communism and problematic efforts to initiate a free market economy...
In twelve pages this research essay examines Israel during the lifetime of David and includes a consideration of his reign. Seven...
When viewed from a Cold War vantage point and the fact that thousands of U.S. veterans who returned from the First Gulf War are sp...