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Slave Owners in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Tom rescues his daughter (Little Eva) from a drowning death. St. Clare is one who believes in paying his debts and, in fact, promi...

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and the Characters of Bernard and Biff

who has always studied hard and done what is right in order to get ahead. He has gone to college and is a successful lawyer. In es...

Leadership and Character

self and applies a moral message to his way of being in the world. Others may not agree with this moral message, but a man of cha...

Comparisons Between A Hero of Our Times by Lermontov and Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky

tries to conceal his guilt before hes forced to acknowledge it or go insane (fortunately for him, the love of a good woman "saves"...

Twenty Chapters of Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo

and finds that his father has not eaten much in the past three months. His father confesses that Dantes had left a debt when he l...

Chaim Potok's The Chosen

we meet the main characters, Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders, two boys with similar backgrounds who meet at a baseball game. Dan...

Children's Language Development

This paper reviews and offers conclusions on empirical literature that pertains to young children's language development. Seven pa...

Nature of Siva in Hindu Myth

This paper is in outline form and pertains to literature promoting understanding of the nature of the god Siva in Hinduism. ...

Examination of Supporting Characters in Ozma of Oz and Charlotte's Web

or knowledge which is essential to him if he is to complete his tasks and become a true hero....

Jonathan Swift/A Modest Proposal

"voluntary abortions and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children" (Swift 1641). At this point, Swifts narra...

Eight Factors Of Irony And Complexity: Influence Upon Cycles In Mexican History

establishing Mexicans as "people of corn." There are a number of issues associated with corn and its historical influence over th...

O. Henry/Gift of the Magi

being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...

Taming of the Shrew & Trope of Irony

then Ill tell her plain She sings as sweetly as the nightingale: Say that she frown: Ill say she looks as clear As morning roses ...

Jedidiah Smith’s fate, Irony and Immigration

a nineteenth century war that the U.S. initiated with Mexico. Teacher Bill Bigelow describes how a traditional history textbook c...

Irony in Shirley Jackson’s Short Story, ‘The Lottery’

careful selection of names and how they reflect the personalities of the characters, and in the hypocritical nature of the charact...

Irony, Tone, and Style of Othello by William Shakespeare

fears he shall be poor" (Shakespeare III iii). In this we can see that "The word content is used to represent Othello s current si...

Shakespeare's Comedy No Error

for supper. Meanwhile her REAL husband returns home, but is denied entry by Antipholus slave. During the course of the meal, Antip...

'The Rocking Horse Winner' by D.H. Lawrence

everywhere, and therefore no one spoke it" (Lawrence). And, when money appeared, through the efforts of the boy, brining relief it...

Los Vendidos by Luis Valdez and Satirical Elements

the political intimidation regarding the grape growers and farmers toward their Chicano field workers in Delano, California. Not o...

'Desiree's Baby' by Kate Chopin

story is that Chopin also begins to set up the ending. The reader sees the Aubigny estate, LAbri, through the eyes of Madame Valmo...

Literary Analysis of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The work was going on. The work! And this was the place where some of the helpers had withdrawn to die. They were dying slowly it ...

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane and Irony

parents who were drunks and irresponsible, their children have grown up to live lives that are fraught with insecurities, hardship...

Critiquing Part 4, Chapter 5 of 'Gulliver's Travels' by Jonathan Swift

is based upon Lemuel Gulliver, who was a ships surgeon and he tells of being shipwrecked on the island of Lilliput (Summary of Gul...

'The Black Cat' by Edgar Allan Poe and Dramatic Irony

the other until, in the end, exhaustion overcomes it. We see this not only in Maggie herself, but in Skipper and Brick, and the in...

Literary Tools in Jack London's Short Stories

life is at stake as the narrator expresses the fact that a man will actually freeze to death if he cannot get a fire going. The ...

Directions for a Birth Day Song by Jonathan Swift and Irony

Laureate whose job it was to provide annual New Years and birthday poems. It was considered to be a competition, and obviously a c...

Luis Valdez's 'Los Vendidos'

large degree. As such, the feminist qualities are vague and incredibly subtle. The only woman in the play is Miss Jimenez. She is ...

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift and Shock, Satire, and Irony

In five pages this paper examines the author's masterful uses of irony, satire, and shock in his criticism of British greed and Ir...

How Women Are Treated in the Writings of Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares how the social irony of women's treatment shine through in 'A Modest Proposal' by J...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey and Minor Characters' Significance

this unusual technique sets up interesting prospects for the reader. The experience of Nurse Ratched, for example, gives one a sen...