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'Inferno' by Dante Alighieri and Gender

involving gender or related themes like romance and marriage. Yet, sex and love are highlights in the Inferno. Dante also writes o...

Roald Dahl's Lamb to the Slaughter

countertop. Still reeling from Patricks announcement, Mary finds herself with the leg of lamb in her hand and without much contemp...

Gothic Fascination of Edgar Allan Poe

all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia by Samuel Johnson and Obsession

the individuals lot in life. On their journey there are numerous arguments for the adoption for rejection of the different...

Obsessions of Dunstan Ramsay

bullet for him. Of course, in general, snowballs are rather harmless but ice and snow can be deadly for pregnant women, particular...

Beauty, Consumption and Habits of Thought

If we look at the way that conspicuous consumption today and in the past there is still an element of class differentiation in the...

William Shakespeare's Use of Sexuality in the Plays Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, and Othello

In twelve pages this paper examines how sexuality is thematically portrayed in these plays in terms of obsession, interracial love...

Stereotypes and the Media

The social ramifications of this process can be devastating. In an era when some long-term criminals are being found innocent of ...

Jay Gatsby's Desire for Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In seven pages this essay analyzes the motivation behind the title character's obsession with Daisy Buchanan and what she represen...

Edgar Allan Poe's Fiction and Theme of Death

In eight pages the ways in which Poe's death obsession manifests itself in ten of his short stories are examined. There are 4 bi...

Social Class Status and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

In five pages this paper examines the protagonist's obsession with changing her social class throughout the course of Flaubert's n...

Relationship Between Tazio and Gustav von Aschenbach in Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

In five pages this paper discusses Aschenbach's obsession with Tadzio in this analysis of Death in Venice by Thomas Mann. There a...

Appetites in Sonnet 118 by William Shakespeare

Shakespeares poetry demands nothing of his readers, the poetry is diminished in proportion to how much less the reader asks of him...

Poe's Obsession with Beautiful Young Women Dying and the Influence of His Wife's Premature Death

In six pages this paper discusses how Edgar Allan Poe's obsession with young women dying was due to the premature death of his wif...

Clint Eastwood's Film Play Misty for Me and Obsession

In five pages this report considers the depiction of obsession in 1971's Play Misty for Me, a film which is directed by and stars ...

The Relationship Between Mother and Child in As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

In five pages the relationship between Addie and her children before and after her passing is considered in terms of such themes a...

Society and Sexual Repression According to Foucault

In five pages this paper examines sexuality and the repression that is caused by sexual obsession according to social theorist Mic...

Comparative Marketing Analysis of Sheetz and Wawa Gasoline and Retail Chains

in different ways, albeit in similar locations. In evaluating these two retail chains, one should recognize each of the firms stre...

Capitalism Fuels Colonial Expansion

the scene may seem sublime, it can be interpreted as a depiction of contrast between cultures. In the foreground stands the Europ...

Cherokee Influences on Colonial Settlers

This paper addresses Native American Culture and its impact on colonial American society. The author discusses various ways in wh...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and the Obsession of Love

In five pages The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is examined with the focus being upon the obsessive love Jay Gatsby had for ...

The Cosmetics Industry and the Cultural Obsession with Beauty

body dysmorphic disorder, a psychological condition in which one becomes fixated on the notion that there is some grave flaw in on...

Modern Americans' and Native Americans' Rites of Passage

In seven pages this paper compares the contemporary American teenager with Tukuna, Okrika, and Okiek Native American counterparts ...

Reviewing Closing of the American Mind Closing of the American Mind / Book Review

In The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom decries the lapse of teaching of traditional American values in American universi...

The History of California Native Americans Prior to 1900

of peoples in the area, as settlements were logically more concentrated around water. Members of all groups were particularly dev...

Comparative Analysis of Chinese American, Black American, and Native American Experiences

This paper consists of five pages and contrasts and compares the socioeconomic, historical, and ideological factors associated wit...

Early 1900s' South to North African American Migration Compared with European Americans' Movement

laborers, domestic servants, families - all made the monumental decision to search out a better life. Regardless of the quest for ...

Post Revolutionary American and the Roles Played by Native Americans and African Americans

extent of freedom. With more and more populations becoming indigenous by virtue of their longevity in America, a blending of cult...

1st Generation Indian Americans, Chinese Americans, and Japanese Americans

traditions and societies" (Said, 1979, pp. 45-6). Nakashima (2001) touches upon an issue that has long eluded multicultural...

African Americans' Involvement in the American Revolution

This essay uses research to discuss the experiences of African Americans who enlisted in the British army in order to obtain their...