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Dan Rather and the Question of Ethics

start with some of the more egregious commentary, just for fun. For someone who accuses Rather of sleazy journalism, Jonah Goldber...

Text and Illustrations in “Alice in Wonderland”

illustrations in the first chapter: the rabbit with the watch, Alice finding the door, Alice looking after the rabbit as he scurri...

Common Reality in “A Walk in the Night”

where we read that "his thoughts concentrated upon the pustule of rage and humiliation that was continuing to ripen deep down with...

Beloved and Personal Demons

She has attempted to find a place in herself wherein she can survive and go on despite her actions. It is a very cloudy place that...

Book of Esther

no historical value to the Book of Esther and that it is a "work of the imagination, written for the purpose of popularizing the f...

Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ

as director. This Catholic perspective is also quite evident in the fact that Mary, the mother of Jesus, is the most prevalent c...

Ovid & Hesiod/Creation Myths

narratives opening reveals. Hesiod pictures the "Void or Chaos" as primordial environment, then comes Earth (Gaia) and then Ero...

Vulnerability: Chopin and Godwin

A 4 page paper which compares and contrasts the characters in The Story of an Hour by Kate Choping and A Sorrowful Woman by Gail G...

In Admiration of Job

substantiates this position by indicating that the origins of Job can be found in folk poetry, but also believes that the beauty o...

Education and Women in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

and, indeed, inferior in learning only to the parson" (Irving). Interestingly enough, this also brings into play women, for the na...

Science Fiction Shakespeare

possible, but have not been invented yet. This will sound strange, because science itself is just getting started, but really, all...

Sundiata: The Text and the Man

in Africa. The importance of the character in the book is that he becomes a true hero. Conde frames the story of Sundiata "with g...

"Molloy" And "Notes From Underground" - Critical Analysis

Notes From Underground. "We are oppressed at being men--men with a real individual body and blood, we are ashamed of it, we think...

A Romeo and Juliet Sociological Analysis

component. But were they all that different in Shakespeares original version? Many seem to think so and that high schools renditi...

U.S. Dieting Problems

of her life, and was taken by her mother to her first weight-loss center at age 10, when she already weighed 125 pounds (West and ...

Overview of Organizational Change

In nine pages this paper discusses types of corporate change and the impacts of technology and globalization with business success...

Characterizations and Settings of 'Barn Burning' by William Faulkner

This story by William Faulkner is examined in 5 pages in which characterizations and settings are analyzed. There are 5 sources c...

A Review of The Broken Spears The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

arrival of the Spanish using Aztec omens. Chapter 2 provides us with the first impressions of the Spanish presented from Aztec ey...

A Man for the People by Chinua Achebe

In a paper consisting of five pages Achebe's political critique is examined within the context of the novel's story that is eerily...

Gender Issues in 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and 'Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

Ushers ultimate fall. "[The house had] an atmosphere which had no affinity with the air of heaven, but which had reeked up from t...

Life of John Updike in 'A and P' and 'Pigeon Feathers'

In ten pages this paper examines how autobiographical glimpses of author John Updike can be seen in these stories. There are 15 s...

Hiring Practices and Gender Prejudice

not hold these prejudices, it appears that they do. Reverse stereotyping is prevalent in the workplace today. In order to underst...

'Leaf By Niggle,' Tree and Leaf by J.R.R. Tolkien, and Language Meaning

In five pages this paper examines the meaning of the language used in this story and novel by J.R.R. Tolkien. Four sources are ci...

Repression and Restriction in Dubliners by James Joyce

of disguise by existing within a relationship under the illusion of love. Indeed, the Conroys address the issue of marriage in ve...

Floods in the Koran and the Bible

In a paper containing 5 pages the stories of the great flood featured in these religious texts are examined. There are two source...

'A Father' by Bharati Mukherjee and Irony

In five pages this paper examines the importance of irony to Mukherjee's story with other thematic components considered as well. ...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper and Insanity

In six pages this paper examines the theme of insanity as portrayed in Gilman's story. Ten other sources are cited in the bibliog...

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

In five pages this story is examined in a discussion of the importance of identity in American society and its problems with racis...

Once and Forever by Kenji Miyazawa

In five pages these stories as translated by John Bester are analyzed in an overview the concentrates primarily upon 'Kenju's Wood...

The Tenth Man by Graham Greene

In five pages this report considers this story in terms of how it reflects Greene's ironicy writing style. Six sources are cited ...