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John Dryden's 'Absalom and Achitophel' and John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress

In five pages this paper discusses the human nature representation in allegories featured in each of these works in a contrast and...

Comparative Analysis of Short Stories by John Cheever and John Steinbeck

In five pages Steinbeck's 'The Chrysanthemums' is compared with Cheever's 'Country Husband' in an argument that each are about aba...

Author's Style and Insight Revealed in A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce

which is a feat not always easily accomplished. The fact that Joyce is completely able to represent his characters in such a fash...

'A and P' by John Updike and 'The Man Who Was Almost a Man' by Richard Wright Compared

aftah he done worked hard all day" (Wright 860). As the author wastes no time in revealing, Dave "is frustrated by social control...

What Drives Author Tim O’Brien to Write?

demonstrations and anti-Vietnam War protests. Majoring in political science at St. Paul, Minnesotas Macalester College, writing a...

The Memoir of Author Nahid Rachlin

she was nine years old, her father went to bring her back home in a forceful manner (Bender). She was taken from the only mother s...

Momaday and Alexie: Variations in the Ways Native American Authors Depict Their Culture

Americans are in actuality much more oppressed by government regulations and society as a whole than they were in this earlier tim...

Luigi Pirandello, Madness, and the Plays Six Characters in Search of an Author and Henry IV

another prosperous sulfur merchant, culminated in their marriage and the birth of a daughter (Coppolillo 73). But whatever domest...

Illegal Immigration as Seen Through the Eyes of Ted Author Conover

of the total U.S. population (Larsen, 2003). While many of these immigrants unquestionably play a positive role in U.S. society a...

Same-Sex Behavior And Pederastic Relationships In Athens: Not All Ancient Authors Approved

and Socrates meander along the countryside, they talk about the various facets love harbors like heavenly passion all-important fr...

Quoting the Author - Julie Bettie on Young Women

Pipher was too narrow in its scope (Bettie). Pipher argues that Hamlet "shows the destructive forces that affect young women. As a...

No Climate Crisis According to Author Michael Crichton

most entertaining books ever written, including Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain and The Lost World among others. His 2004 "tec...

Italian American Authors and Three of Their Works

section, the reader comes to know Rimanelli as "a lover of words" (Tamburri 473) and also as a "free collector of paper joy and pa...

ColdFusion, Dreamweaver, and FrontPage Tools for Web Authoring

and comments; and even on-line diaries known as blogs; people became more interested in developing their own personal website. As...

3 African American Authors on Class and Race in the U.S.

liberals and conservatives traditionally take with regard to black issues, that isnt the focus of the piece: West is really discu...

Authors look at Bartleby

kind of man would have dismissed Bartleby at once. Melville allows the narrator to be aware of this fact, which raises him in the...

Shakespeare as the Author of His Works

poems "by several well-known theatrical poets. One of these poems (untitled in the volume, but now known as "The Phoenix and the T...

Aphra Behn, Restoration Author

or her audiences perceptions of those locales. This discussion will demonstrate that the father Apha Behns work moves from her Lon...

American Author William Faulkner's Life and Writings

gloried in the proud history of the plantation South that secured a place of honor for the aristocrat, and yet he abhorred the opp...

Declaration of Independence Authors and Slaveholding

the text of the U.S. Constitution (DSouza, 1995). Perhaps the founding fathers did not regard African Americans as men or slaves....

Los Angeles for Authors

for their stories. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West provides one with a sense of the cultural geography of Los Angeles in ...

3 American Authors and Perspectives on Forced Cultural Assimilation

family depicted in this book after all represents a rather blas? view of America. On closer consideration, however, it becomes ap...

African American Author Lorene Cary's Atypical Success

of course, is a predominantly white school and only just before she arrived it was not only all white but it was all male. Cary w...

American Horror Writing and the Influence of British Authors

fantasy), horror has generated the most serious study. Fright master Stephen King credits this to the acclaimed literary trilogy...

Author Virginia Woolf

The Voyage Out would be published, followed by Night and Day, and Jacobs Room, which was based in part on the life of her beloved ...

Questions and Answers on New York Authors

respectively. He did perhaps change his ideology over time and student writing on this subject might say that he had softened his ...

Great American Author Ernest Hemingway

first publish Three Stories & Ten Poems in 1923 in Paris ("A Chronology" PG). In 1926 , the well known work The Sun Also Rises wou...

Literature of Canada and Authors Atwood, O'Hagan, and Davies

in the first section of the novel, while "Evidence" leads to no final truths or understanding. Born as he is between the worlds ...

Nineteenth Century Authors James, Davis, and Twain

Smiley, knowing full-well that this would set the old gentleman off on a rant about Jim Smiley and the celebrated jumping frog. Th...

Publishing, First Time Authors, and the Difficulties and Problems They Face

One notable hurdle for first-time authors has nothing to do with what they know, but who they know (Smith, 2002). The same applie...