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'Grim Fairy Tales and Gory Stories' by Aviva Layton

to see if they had a certain picture book, the librarian informed her that the book was in their collection, but was not suitable ...

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...

Scandal and Success of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

In sixteen pages this paper examines J. Edgar Hoover's controversial leadership of the FBI in an overview that considers both its ...

Defining and Measuring Corporate Culture

In three pages corporate culture is defined with six integration stages and Edgar Schein's three culture measurement concepts of E...

Corporate Culture Perspectives

In three pages this paper discusses corporate culture manifestations and the perspectives of Edgar Schein's fragmentation, differe...

Dan Story's Engaging the Closed Mind

always been lovingly evangelistic and compassionate Christians have not always been critically discerning. An apprpriate analaogy...

Two Literary Examples of Colonial Attitudes Towards Natives

An essay comparing and contrasting colonial attitudes towards natives in both Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would be King and Edga...

Influence of 19th Century Japonisme on French Art

of any type of outstanding art, be it painting, sculpture or any other form, is the ability to hold the viewers gaze, to cause the...

Identity and Influences of Culture and Society in the Characters of Heathcliff, Catherine, and Edgar in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

years of heartache and turmoil. With Catherine the daughter of a proud land owner and Heathcliff a rugged but humble lad brought ...

'Sugar and Other Stories' by A.S. Byatt

goes on behind its sheltering walls. The central point to the story deals with making both moral and literary judgements and how t...

Life and Image of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover

In nine pages J. Edgar Hoover's life and negative public image are discussed. Eight sources are cited in the bibliography....

“Everyday Use” - The Importance of the Story’s Title

charming and funny and sad, all at the same time. This paper explains the significance of the title by examining it using the diff...

Conspiracy Theory Underpinnings As They Relate to Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss

In thirty pages this paper examines the factors that led to Alger Hiss's conviction as Russian spy by considering various pertinen...

The Raven

often in possession of the same last word. For example, the fourth stanza ends with "This it is, and nothing more" and then the fi...

Reitz’s Heimat and World War II

mayor. Lucie begins to fulfill her ambitious dreams. Episode 4, "The New Road, 1938" and Episode 5, "Up and Away and Back, 1939," ...

The Concept of Learning

along the details of a high-profile news story that illustrates the person has discovered something he did not previously know. T...

Love in Wuthering Heights

mother and in many ways Catherine is that female figure for him. He cannot bear to let her go, cannot bear to live without her and...

King Philip's War and School Bullying

This paper compares historical revision through theater and other factors to the way the various stories differ in regard to incid...

A Criticism of Hawthorne's, Young Goodman Brown

This paper examines four literary criticisms of Nathaniel Hawthorne's story, Young Goodman Brown. The author also discusses Hawth...

U.S. Minority Literature

In a paper that contains five pages four stories written by women that are representative of the so called minority literature gen...

Four Examples of Minority Literature

This paper examines four stories from the genre, including Bambara's Medley, Kingston's, No Name Woman, Chavez's The Last of the M...

Literary Comparison of Graham Greene's 'The Destructors' and D.H. Lawrence's 'The Rocking Horse Winner'

concerned with the cultural deterioration which was inevitable after the wars catastrophic destruction. Two of these authors most...

Mark Twain's 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg' and Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown'

wronged by the people sets out to uncover just how dishonest they truly are, how they do not possess righteousness and that they a...

Gender Perceptions on Rape and Responsibility

Although she does not discuss this case specifically, Jacobys "Common Decency" allows insight to the Schmid cases and Oates fictio...

Animal References in John Updike's 'A and P' and Colette's 'The Hand'

is described as apelike and lowered its claws, and became a pliant beast (Colette, 197)" (Johnny Boy). This critic indicates that ...

Faulkner's Barn Burning

social factor to which he is excluded, Abners anger is compounded by the fact that the Negro servant does not acknowledge his whit...

Storytelling

upon is the storytellers role in conveying specific point by the end of the tale. This "moral of the story" is a pertinent focal ...

Kelvin Moffett/Tattooizm

and having food passed to her through a slot" (Moffett 146). When Dixon mentions his plan, she resists the impulse to yell and tel...

Bronte’s Jane Eyre/Joyce’s The Dead

because he is married to another woman and she will not compromise her morals or her principles. However, when she is offered a ch...

Soldier’s Home/Krebs and Passivity

to indicate how these experiences had changed his internal landscape, and changed a vibrant young man into someone who is both pas...