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The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot and Its Conclusion

In five pages this paper argues in support of the inevitability of the novel's conclusion because of the emphasis on Maggie and To...

Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain and Discipline

In seven pages this paper considers how discipline is depicted in the novle with Tom's Aunt Pol appearing to be very harsh but who...

Slavery as Presented in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

many ways, this novel is the quintessential slave narrative. The character of Uncle Tom has come to epitomize the racial st...

Identity and Politics in An African-Nicaraguan Community

A 6 page review of the book by Edmund Gordon. The focus is on the downfall of the Sandinista regime. A brief history of Nicaragu...

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Miss Ophelia's 'Yankee Mind'

In 5 pages Miss Ophelia's 'Yankee mind' characteristics are examined in this analysis of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin...

Gender Issues Involved in Freedom from Slavery

In five pages the gender differences regarding freedom and slavery issues are considered within the context of the writings Uncle ...

The Theme of Violence in The Prince Of Tides

episode at some point in life. Depression often hits the elderly more than any other age group; however, with each passing ...

A Review of the Novel World's End

The writer reviews the novel World's End by T.C. Boyle, which is set in the Hudson River Valley and spans many generations. The pa...

A Fictional Conversation With Author Tom Peters

This paper provides a conversation between a professor Ralph Stacey and author Tom Peters. The author pays particular attention t...

Chapter X of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

In five pages this chapter is examined in a structural analysis that discusses the conflict between death and fear imagery and Tom...

Qantas Early Development

Arthur Baird joined the pair - McMaster as a source of funding and a link to wealthy potential investors, Baird as aircraft mechan...

Pharr/Losing Face, Status Politics in Japan

cultural heritage of Confucianism (Pharr xiii). In Confucianism, supreme emphasis is placed on maintaining harmony, which is seen ...

'A Prisoner Who Wore Glasses' and Bessie Head

In a paper consisting of five pages this short story is considered in terms of its message, style, symbolism, and power struggle c...

Film Review of Robert Zemeckis' Forrest Gump

is picked to become part of a US Ping-Pong team that plays in newly opened Communist China. After his discharge from the army, For...

Glass Fragility in Tennessee Williams' Play The Glass Menagerie

"real" (insofar as theater can ever be said to be real) happenings, but a carefully selected group of scenes that illustrate the i...

Tom Shroder's Old Souls

researcher Dr. Ian Stevenson to investigate the validity of past lives, or reincarnation, as it appears in very young children. Th...

The End of the Victory Culture by Tom Engelhardt

the United States was proved wrong. Engelhardt argues that through these two things, combined with the threat of nuclear war, the ...

D.W. Griffith's Film Birth of a Nation and its Political Impact

artistic advancements, including a color sequence at the end" (Review of The Birth of a Nation, 2002). Furthermore, this film gre...

The Buddha, the Prophet, and the Christ by F.H. Hilliard

heaven by his own choice (26). Although has the section on Islam next, chronologically, Christianity came next with Christs birt...

Emergence The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson

in the dark, far underground, and has nothing to do with the foraging and fighting that is part of the colonys existence. A ant co...

The Alchemist by Coehlo

kill him; but most of all he fears that he will not find his treasure-this might all be for nothing (Coehlo, 1995, p. 130). The A...

Shona Brown and Kathleen Eisenhardt's Competing on the Edge Analyzed

In this paper consisting of 10 pages this text is analyzed in a discussion of the ever changing business world, various strategies...

The Cultural Eccentricity and Allure of the United States

This paper makes the assertion that the US has so much to offer people from around the world, that the image created by the US bre...

SWOT Analysis Measurement of Amazon.com's Current Position

In five pages SWOT analysis is applied to determine the current position of the world's leading seller of books online. There are...

Comparative Analysis of the Narratives in Henry Fielding's History of Tom Jones and Samuel Richardson's Clarissa

In eight pages this paper contrasts and compares how narrative techniques are utilized in these literary works. There are no othe...

The Wilding of America by Charles Derber

and this becomes a motivation that people pursue over and above everything else. Derber asserts that we distance ourselves from s...

Henry Fielding's The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling and Sophia's Characterization

In five pages this paper examines the duality of Sophia's character as both a position and an independent female in this novel by ...

Kindleberger on the World Economy

the overall health of a nations citizens can be used as an indicator of economic primacy is certainly debatable; however, the Worl...

The World Bank as an Investment Opporunity

This 3 page paper considers the World Bank as an investment opportunity as discussed in the book, World Bank Investments. The writ...

Greensboro Sit-Ins

turned into many as the protest continued for almost 6 months.5 In addition, it sparked many other protests throughout the South a...