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Killer Angels by Michael Shaara and the Depiction of Civil War Generals Longstreet and Lee

South possessed a code of honor that would see it through, the honor and commitment in the face of which no Yankee could stand. Ro...

Review of The Media Monopoly by Ben Bagdikian

states that "Aided by the digital revolution and the acquisition of subsidiaries that operate at every step in the mass communicat...

Sueann Caulfield's In Defense of Honor

An additional catalyst to change, Caulfield reports, was the impending visit from the Royal Couple. As a result of the impending v...

Lewis Mumford, A Life by Donald Miller

gave the commencement speech at his daughters graduation from Radcliffe, he concisely summed up the essence of what he found to be...

Thomas Nagel's 'What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

that conscious experience is common at many levels of animal life, and Nagel (1974) uses the assumption that non-human animal form...

Informational Literature and Language

In five pages this paper examines authors' language in three organizational culture articles. Three sources are cited in the bibl...

Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery Critically Reviewed

1963). A few decades later he would write his book, Up from Slavery. The book, itself, is autobiographical in nature, chroniclin...

Shusaku Endo's Deep River

just like their travel mates. As the plot unfolds, however, we find that these four have much more in common than they would care...

Analysis of Frank Conroy's Stop Time

that night, or of what they would be doing at school the next day. They are only thinking about the moment at hand. Frank speaks...

Text Chapter 'Continuing Professional Education' by Donna Queeney

knowledge required and they may even be able to demonstrate an ability to apply the knowledge in their jobs but competence is anot...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in an Historical Context

could neither read nor write. Most were still slaves and white Southerners viewed Douglass as somewhat of an anomaly. An educated ...

Strong Women in Ellen Glasgow's Barrow Ground and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

In six pages this essay compares and contrasts these two female authors' depiction of strong women protagonists in their respectiv...

The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris

In five pages this parenting text is summarized and analyzes with the writer expressing agreement or disagreement with the author'...

The Short Fiction of Kurt Vonnegut and Conformity and Appearance

IN ten pages the author's contention that conformity interferes with self understanding is examined within the context of three st...

The Use of Allegory and Symbolism in the Epic Poem Beowulf

Goldsmith, who sees Beowulf as being addressed to the "powerful" and designed to "warn them of the dangers attendant upon power" (...

Women and Gender in Islam by Leila Ahmed

veil to designate between "respectable" and "disreputable" women. However, Ahmed emphasizes the fact that "Mesopotamian, Persian...

Rick Porrello's The History of the Cleveland Mafia

In 10 pages this memoir considers the author's family's organized crime activities during the Prohibition era. One source is cite...

Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, Albert Camus' The Stranger, and Heroism

In five pages these heroic protagonists are compared in terms of their differences and how they reflect the authors' quite differe...

Methods of Exegesis

In five pages this paper considers the definition of exegesis and includes a consideration of original author's intent and other r...

Bruce J. Schulman's Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism

advantageous; otherwise, his liberalism perhaps was not so strong, such as in voting against labor in Taft-Hartley in the 1940s, s...

15th Century The Second Shepherd's Play

high caliber for semitone to come out of the medieval era and it may best be understood within the environment in which it was wri...

Kenneth M. Stampp's The Peculiar Institution

In five pages this paper discusses the author's acknowledgment of the profit motive associated with slavery. One source is cited ...

Surprise and Structure in An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce

In 8 pages this short story considers the element of surprise and presents a structural analysis of the author's employment of sty...

Crime and Punishment in American History by Lawrence Meir Friedman

In five pages this comprehensive American history text is examined in terms of the author's detailed consideration of the U.S. cri...

Judith S. Wallerstein and Sandra Blakeslee's The Good Marriage

In five pages a textual overview includes the authors' explanation of 4 marriage types. There are no other sources listed....

Dialect in Anzia Yezierska's How I Found America and Pietro Di Donato's Christ In Concrete A Novel

entertaining of all ethnicities, for they are extremely vocal and animated at the same time. In a crowd or at a family gathering,...

Contrasting Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

In five pages this paper compares and contrasts what each author's intentions are in their respective works along with the sense o...

The Nurture Assumption by Harris

In five pages this paper examines this controversial text from both points of view in an argument that supports the notion that th...

Mosca and Volpone's Relationship in Volpone by Ben Jonson

In 5 pages this analysis of Volpone by Ben Jonson focuses upon the interaction between Mosca and Volpone as well as the author's u...

Jean Genet/Querelle

This discussion of Jean Genet's Querelle offers an overview of the text and addresses the author's theme, which pertain to society...