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Dealing with the Effects of Child Abuse, Overcoming Obstacles, and Friendship in Barbara Kingsolver's 'The Bean Trees'

life choices. Deciding to leave was easy; figuring out where she was heading proved a more difficult choice, one that would ultim...

Fritz Lang's Films

the audience. In many modern examples, the most creative thing that can be said about a particular movie maker is his or her abili...

Literary Analysis of Existentialism

The first task at hand in our study is the provision of a historical explanation of existentialism. A concise explanation is prov...

Becoming a Man in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

journey from the court to the Green Castle, illustrating how the travels are obviously a metaphor for the journey from childhood t...

Twenty First Century, the Humanities, and the Classics

just beginning his journey, understanding that is a necessity and that it holds danger: "MIDWAY upon the journey of our life I fou...

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf and Symbolic Representations

nurturing and a woman of some magical connection to the earth it would seem. When seen in this perspective we can note the influen...

An Examination of Pocahontas

met John Smith in 1608 and between that time and the time she married another gentleman in 1614, she was kidnapped and raped by th...

Otherworld and Heroes in 'The Odyssey' and 'Epic of Gilgamesh'

in order to acquire knowledge, and to demonstrate bravery or quick-wittedness while they are dealing with unfamiliar situations or...

Two Fathers in Cry, the Beloved Country

of a paltry 14 pounds 6, and with dogged determination, he searches for his family. Once he arrives, the naive Kumalo is immediate...

Maternal Focus of Eugene O'Neill

In ten pages the materal focus that is found in many of O'Neill's plays is examined in a consideration of Moon for the Misbegotten...

Gender, Individuation, and Jungian Theory in Surfacing and Demian

A 7 page analysis of the works by Margaret Atwood and Herman Hesse. The focus is two fold. The journey to individuation is anal...

Francis Ford Coppola's Film Apocalypse Now Analyzed

In eleven pages this paper analyzes the 1979 film in terms of the way Coppola's Vietnam manifesto also represents the subconscious...

4 Voyages in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

traveled to Lilliput, where there was a constant state of war between the Lilliputians and their bitter enemies, the Blefuscudians...

How Eighteenth Century London Society Was Shaped by the Role of Women in 'The Rambler,' 'Evelina' and 'Moll Flanders'

freedom: poverty-stricken women of the eighteenth century England. The product of indigence, Moll learns to manipulate the system...

The Divine Comedy, Man's Search for Understanding and Truth Represented by Dante

also called La Commedia (The Comedy) by Dante. In the poem, the poet Dante, travels to hell (Inferno) then purgatory (Purgatorio) ...

Kurtz as a Universal Conrad Character

making of an immense success" (Conrad Chapter III p. NA). Marlow could not deny such facts he really had no knowledge of, and yet ...

The Quiet Room from a Critical Perspective

sent home with the "flu", Schillers research later in life discovered that her camp records stated that she had a mental breakdown...

'Community' as Understood by Rigoberta Menchu

with the social reform movements of the Catholic Church, Menchu and her family suffered terribly (Welker, 2002; Nichols, 1995). He...

Overview of the 'New South Africa'

comparison of the two works, illustrating what one can learn of South Africa through having two different sources of information, ...

Jules Winnfield's Transformation in Pulp Fiction Film

truths binding on everyone. Postmodernism is most often characterized by power struggles and a lack of objective reality, boundari...

The Immigration of Arabs to the U.S.

this period of time came from Syria, which includes those territories that we know better today as Jordan, Israel, and Lebanon(Naf...

Comedy and Tragedy of William Shakespeare

her husband in their youthful days. She loves Polixenes as a brother because he is the best and oldest friend of her husband. In t...

Hugo Black

States had boundaries over which he was not permitted to cross. This, however, was not immediately evident when Truman "ordered s...

World Music of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

common between music of the world. The student can, for example, quote musicologist Bruno Nettl and his works, that basically stat...

Rhetorical Statement Applied to Growing Up by Russell Baker

book Growing Up. None of us are going to be just like another. When Russell is admonished to do something with his life, to grow...

Penelope, Wife of Odysseus

fathers death, she sets to the task of making a funeral shroud. Every day she spends hours working on it, then when night comes, s...

Odysseus Compared with Genesis' Jacob

son of Odysseus, wearing a disguise and instills in him the courage to challenge the suitors of his mother. Additionally Athena pe...

St. Augustine of Hippo's Confessions

a certain inclination towards laziness. In discussing his childhood, Augustines theories toward education come out. He adamantly r...

The Divergence of Country and Folk Music? ?

music brought to the country by Anglo-Celtic immigrants (Malone, 1968, 1). This music was tremendously influenced, however, by Af...

Tolstoy's Ivan Ilyich and Redemption

This essay pertains to the psychological journey that Tolstoy's protagonist undergoes and how he ultimately comes to the epiphany ...