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'Snake' by D.H. Lawrence

In five pages this poem of D.H. Lawrence's is compared with a reader's first reaction as compared to second and third readings tha...

How to Write a College Paper

Writing is a critical requirement in college curricula today. This essay examines how to maintain a reader's interest while keepin...

A Bedroom Descriptive Essay

foot of my bed and perhaps four more feet to its left. Its brown wooden finish appears to be randomly-stained with an assortment ...

Color Symbolism in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

In ten pages this paper examines how the author employs color symbolism in order to enhance the reader's understanding of his nove...

Opening the Mind's Door in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

In six pages this research paper presents the argument that in Heart of Darkness, Conrad sought to open reader's minds to the impe...

Perspectives on Radical Social Consciousness

searing, heartbreaking book, who, indeed, were the savages." * William McPherson, The Washington Post Bury My Heart at Wounded K...

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and 'Four Turns'

In five pages this paper examines how the reader's perceptions are changed in the 4 sudden literary turns Tolkien incorporated int...

The Character of Count Vronsky in Anna Karenina

enjoys with any other friends and social acquaintances. Yet in virtually every social circumstance, Vronsky is there. He begins ...

Thomas More - Utopia

why it has that affect. In this paper we will consider the last two paragraphs of Mores work giving an opinion on the affect it...

How the Tale Fits the Teller in 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

back" (Norton 85). The Tales themselves have a General Prologue and also a Prologue which precedes each individual tale. The Prolo...

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

"beetle" and the "moping owl." The narrator walks beneath "rugged elms," where the turf is rounded into "many a moldering heap" (...

Poetic Devices in Emily Dickinson's Works

sun, "a ribbon at a time" (35). By displaying one "ribbon" after another, Dickinson presented not just a story, but a complete cov...

Creative Essay 'I Never Said I Was Martha Stewart'

getting ready to leave. "I cook all the time at home." I simply rolled my eyes at him. He nodded knowingly. "Oh, I get it....

Reaction Essay/Pedophiles & Priests

abusers" (Jenkins 133). This use of language paints Church officials as innocent victims of social change, rather than being knowi...

Reader Response to Kurt Vonnegut’s Short Story ‘Welcome to the Monkey House’

agendas with propaganda and information misrepresentation reportedly in the name of national security. In this story, the governm...

Goethe: “The Sorrows of Young Werther”

sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream" (Goethe). Even if we didnt know that Werther was an a...

The Shipman in The Canterbury Tales

way down the social ladder. The Shipman, i.e., the "sailor," is placed between Chaucers description of the Cook and the "Doctor of...

Chaucer/Merchant's & Franklin's Tales

French fabliaux, which provide the source material on which many of the tales are based. Essentially, Chaucer use of gardens sugge...

A Summary of "Science Matters"

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Hazen and Trefil's "Science Matters". The reader's own impression of the work is give...

Book Report on Arthur C. Clarke’s 2061: Odyssey Three

the Great Wall. There, Heywood Floyds monolith is happily reunited with astronaut and scientist David Bowman and the supercompute...

Description in Part 4 of Gulliver's Travels

can bring himself to sit at the same table with his wife. Swift sets the stage for making this reaction from Gulliver believable ...

John Demos, Joseph Plumb Martin and Wartime Experience

one stroke" (Demos 29). Williams and his five children make it to Montreal alive. Once they arrive in Montreal, the Indians begin ...

Austen and Trollope/A Comparison

A 5 page comparison between Jane Austen's Emma and in Anthony Trollope's Can You Forgive Her? The writer argues that each novel il...

Journey to Self-Awareness in Emma, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and My Name is Asher Lev

her better judgment, but she was initially dismissive. Emma prefers living through others instead of living for herself, and her ...

Ahmed, Satrapi/Growing up Female in the Islamic World

through her father that Ahmed first becomes aware of the conflicting political forces that shape her world, as he is hemmed in on ...

Greek Virtue

the foot of power!/Nothing care I for Zeus" (Aeschylus). In other words, Prometheus will not succumb to tyranny and a power that r...

Revenge and the Law in Beowulf and Njal’s Saga

his murderous attacks upon Hrothgars sleeping warriors. Hrothgar makes it clear that Beowulfs obligation is based not on ties of ...

McWhorter/Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

Another feature that is unique to English is the way in which English uses the that "-ing thing" (McWhorter 2). In English, the pr...

Trimbur's Call to Write/Narrative of Frederick Douglass

the chapter that addresses writing profiles of specific people, Trimbur writes, "This impulse to describe, to analyze, and to unde...

“The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow”

and vision. The problem that immediately presents itself, as might be expected, is that many of these concepts are less than self...