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Is the Common Law of Posner Common Sense?

waste should be avoided. "And at least an approximation to the answer is in most cases reasonably accessible to intuition and com...

Psychological Stories of Edgar Allan Poe and Henry James

In five pages this essay discusses the supernatural and psychological narratives that are featured in Poe's short story 'The Black...

Renaissance Era Poetry as 'a Speaking Picture' Body of Work

In ten pages this 'speaking picture' approach to poetry during the Renaissance focuses upon the English poetry of Francis Quarles....

'The Cask of Amontillado' Fiction and the Real Life of Edgar Allan Poe

In seven pages this paper discusses how Poe's real life experiences can be connected to the short story 'The Cask of Amontillado.'...

Analyzing Romans 1: 18-32

In fifteen pages the letter St. Paul wrote to the Romans is considered within the context of whether today's society is sinful, if...

Anne Moody's 'Coming of Age in Mississippi'

This is a 5 page book review in which the author relates her own upbringing which is in sharp contrast to most members of American...

The Film 'Titanic' from a Formalist Perspective

heroes (or heroines) epic journey in self-discovery and personal awareness and understanding of the world in which he or she exist...

Birds in Literature

In three pages this paper examines the symbolic meaning of birds in Walt Whitman's poem 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking' and ...

His Work Plus His Life Equal Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages the ways in which Poe's internal struggles and private thoughts are revealed in his writings are examined. Six sour...

Poe, Hawthorne, Irving and Romanticism Considering Romanticism in Literature By Examining Stories By Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Romantic literary tradition is exemplified by Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. This paper examines ...

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Themes of Bondage and Freedom

In 3 pages the limitations of freedom are examined within the context of Hester Prynne's social bondage in Hawthorne's novel The S...

Themes of the Letters Abigail Adams Wrote to Her Husband John

a view of the conflicts that drove men to see out separation from British rule, that influenced the creation of the American Const...

Common Interests, Common Good by Shirley Sagawa and Eli Segal

In four pages this text is reviewed in a consideration of organizational and business cooperative partnerships. There are no othe...

Constructing Knowledge and Feminist Theory

the female spirit. Code implies that the concept of feminism embodies a number of critical theories by which to better address th...

The Works of Charles Dickens and Common People

The theme of common folk and the individual is explored in Charles Dicken's classics. A Tale of Two Cities is discussed in respect...

Novels of Danielle Steel

aspect of family struggle, in that they hobnob with social elite while at the same time tend to their ailing father who appears to...

Commonality of Family Dysfunction in 'Go Tell It On the Mountain' by James Baldwin

In 5 pages the common themes of family dysfunction and religion's 'being saved' are examined within the context of this story by J...

Theme of Romantic Love in the Poetry of Felicia Hemans and William Blake

In 10 pages the ways in which romantic love is expressed by each poet is examined in an analysis of William Blake's 'Marriage of H...

John Steinbeck's Writings

In seven and a half pages this paper discusses common themes in this critical analysis of John Steinbeck's literary works. Six so...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'Fall of the House of Usher,' Art and Literature

walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...

'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe and Setting

The morbid tale of revenge of "The Cask of Amontillado" is carefully depicted with crypt like wine vaults which eventually entomb ...

Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe

of life and death. Poe was considered a pioneer in his quest to ascertain the inner workings of the sinister mind. A good...

Gothic Fascination of Edgar Allan Poe

all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...

A Letter Home from a Soldier in Henry V's Army

country is aware of how, as prince, King Harry caroused. However, it is clear that he has foresworn his former ways. Prior to the ...

William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'Fall of the House of Usher'

of the heart, an unredeemed dreariness"( Seelye, 101). The reader is told that Roderick Usher is the last in a long line of an Ar...

Dreams and the Poetry of John Keats

poem is that while he had read Homer before encountering the Chapman translation, when he read Chapmans Homer, he felt the same th...

Setting in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe

of the protagonist that Poe sets up the terror inherent in the story. The sheer madness of his thought processes are chilling, bu...

An Address of Four Specific Questions in Literature

him an hour just to move his head into the room. The protagonist exclaims, "Ha! Would a madman have been so wise as this?" which i...

'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages 'The Raven' is subjected to a poetic explication and a thesis that Poe's life is reflected in this haunting poem. T...

Lost Children As a Literary Theme

This paper discusses John Edgar Wideman's, Philadelphia Fire, and Shakespeare's, The Tempest as they relate to the common literary...