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Red Midnight by Mikaelsen

through most novels, there are changes within the characters. Here, the main character or protagonist, is Santiago. At first, he ...

Charles Taylor's The Ethics of Authenticity

concept of disenchantment is related to what Taylor argues as the "the primacy of instrumental reason" (5). Essentially, Taylor i...

Voltaire's Candide and its Criticism of the Ancient Regime

exaggeration. Voltaire (1947) is in fact sarcastic and while the author is indirect in the way in which he writes, it seems that t...

James Joyce's Portrayal of Alienation in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

through the trauma he suffers when he is forbidden to play with Eileen Vance because she is a Protestant. Stephens mother, who is ...

Emma Lazarus' Life and Times

rejection highly influenced Lazaruss "Spagnoletto," which provided Lazarus with the "literary props" to effectively represent the ...

Gringos by Charles Portis

disliked these anticipo payments. Much better that I should get behind in the rent, like everybody else, and be beholden to him" (...

Utopia by Thomas More an its Intention

the meantime poor labourers...should yet get so hard and poor a living and live so wretched and miserable a life, that the state a...

Erich Maria Remarque's Representation of War in All Quiet on the Western Front

and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy" (Remarque 11). T...

Enlightenment Representation in Candide by Voltaire

and war, which he portrays as contrary to all reason. In the eighteenth century, war was presented to the ordinary citizens as an ...

Article on Violence, Terrorism, and Justice

will consider for even a moment. The authors begin by trying to separate the characteristics of terrorism from the idea of the ri...

Literature, Identity and Character Revelations

And, yet, it has been many years. She wars with her reason which offers her the explanation that she just wants this stranger to b...

Symbols Used in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

of symbolism can be seen in Melvilles "great white whale in Moby Dick; Dantes journey into the underworld in The Inferno" and many...

Kingdom and Sowell's Views on America

into two very obviously distinct groups. These groups of citizens may not have the same political party affiliation or the same ec...

'Ball of Fat' and 'The Necklace' by Guy de Maupassant

meant to be - mixing with society people and being decorated with fine jewelry. However, she ends up losing the necklace...

The Courage to Be by Paul Tillich

an Egyptian princess, heir to one of the most powerful dynasties in the world. More than likely Moses destiny was determined as fa...

Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' and Grandmother's Changes

that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethical values. It is the sheer weight of her social stat...

Critique of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility

as a first attempt one can see the underlying brilliance that will shine through in later novel attempts. As has been said, "Auste...

Imagery Comparison in Alice Walker's 'The Flowers' and Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an Hour'

Myop finds herself in a "gloomy" little cove. This striking change in imagery foreshadows Myops discovery of a decomposing body. ...

Learning Organizations and The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge

institutions where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured and the collective aspirations of those involved are encour...

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and the Use of Moral Satire

reason, and his virtue is merely appearance" (Galloway). In relationship to the Lilliputians we note that a great deal of pride...

Chicano Author Sergio Troncoso

can be different for different people with the interpretation being subjectvie. By looking at this work there is a reflection of...

Article on Teen Birth Rates Analyzed and Critiqued

they posit that in order to reduce teen birth rates, it is imperative that there should be further comprehension regarding the sig...

American Culture Literary Comparison of Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne

and... evokes that stage of Puritanism when a diminished conviction was beginning to be replaced by a somewhat hypocritical moral ...

Richard Bruce Winder's Mr. Polk's Army

much of that time was spent training them. By the time the training was completed, there was little time left to use the militia o...

An Examination of Eastward to Tartary by Robert D. Kaplan

is difficult to imagine from the confines of our own democratic country. And yet, clearly these are truths the world...

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 ...

Crack in the Box, A Critical Perspective

every single time she went to the library it would rain, but there can never be a cause and effect relationship. Similarly, there ...

What Schools Are For by John I. Goodlad

administrators and staff; and effective/efficient operation. "...All aspects of [teacher] preparation programs, from mission to e...

Analyzing The Caribbean World and the United States - Mixing Rum and Coca Cola by Robert Freeman Smith

security, but also this relationship was a source of stability politically. This event then had a great deal to do with the postw...

A Food Supply Issues Analysis

those who actually suffer because of this every-changing system. By learning about the poor farmers and families suffering in Ind...