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and the technology in Star Trek has evolved, its primary premise has not. The fundamental concept holds that peace must be mainta...

In nine pages Melville's message in Billy Budd is analyzed and then the novel is compared to the works by Arthur Miller and Toni M...

This man, stranded on an island, also living there for 4 years, like Selkirk, and also managing to survive on what he could find a...

In six pages this essay compares and contrasts the styles of writing featured in Native Son, a novel by Richard Wright, and A Rais...

age when a womans reputation was crucial to her welfare and future) on the slim chance that she can free herself from subservience...

some contrasting views of Englishness and attitudes about colonialism in their respective uses of the occult/supernatural. One te...

can have genuine depth. Both while their relationship is still comparatively superficial, and later when it becomes truly meaningf...

objective to amass a fortune while at the same time rule with an iron fist, author Adam Hochschild (1999) illustrates how one of t...

washed ira up jes lak he wuz gold (3). John is determined to be a good husband; he spurns Mehaleys romantic advances, saying he an...

by the reality of war. Their psyches have been reduced to the common denominator that is dictated by whatever has to be done in or...

as will be seen, the Mossbachers have more than enough so they can afford to feed their pets well. The Rincons are a family from...

need for all women, especially of color, to assert themselves and claim their individual identity. This narrative adds texture to...

the story told by a self-admitted liar be accepted as the truth, no matter how fantastic it might sound? Ensign Campuzano, an art...

spirits" (Brown, 2001, p. 49). The things we learn about Haitian culture can be disturbing (for instance, children go to work e...

her to school in Nashville when she was 15; finally, when she was 16, her mother told her "to make her own way in the world" (Sull...

away from her. She asks him what is the matter. He answers that she is old and ugly and low born. The old woman demonstrates to hi...

ensuring that Winterbourne knows that she has plenty of male friends in New York, giving him "lively eyes and...light, slightly mo...

the favor of the spirit world, of the gods, and yet they both approach it differently. Fast Horse is presumptuous and arrogant whi...

you wants to. Dats just de same as me cause mah tongue is in mah friends mouf" (Hurston, 1999, p. 6). Reaching out through the i...

are not representative of nature and he finds refreshment and nourishment in his memories, and now in his seeing nature again. ...

no more than family consists solely on bloodlines. After Dara hopefully remarks, "I heard a cowbell" (Ho 3) that to her means som...

of the Compson family, the offspring of the pioneer Jason Lycurgus Compson" (Classicnotes [1]). Within the family we see a very Fa...

journeys, "After leaving his ruined home in a galaxy far, far away, Luke Skywalker began a journey taken by countless other heroes...

pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...

situation that is changing at that time. Bono asserts that times have changed and Troy just came along "too early." To which, Troy...

the mid-80s, and concentrates on the chaotic Seventies, in which martial law was firmly in place. Perhaps the books most memorabl...

and have fail to have a clear cut goal. Todays present situation in Iraq typifies this Bell Jar Effect. The goals were specific wh...

to death, do nothing, or enter into a profession of prostitution. With these as her choices she makes the decision to work in the ...

part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography (as the New York Times described it), The Book of Laughter and Forge...

matches, books and pens and become known as a man more powerful than the great Merlin (A Connecticut Yankee, 2002; Twain, 1979). T...