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'Flying Home' by Ralph Ellison

Home and Other Stories. The story "Flying Home" had actually been published back in 1944, but had received at that time little cr...

Moral History in Dubliners by James Joyce

In five pages this paper discusses how the relationships between society and its members and the moral obligations that resulted f...

'Soldier's Home' by Ernest Hemingway

can readily see how this outlook is what has cast Krebs into the sinking hole from which he only somewhat struggles to get free; r...

Plagiarism, William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, and Robert Greene's Pandosto

Information). Shakespeare certainly changed the characters names - but made few more changes. Greenes Pandosto, King of Bohemia be...

The Second Shepherd's Play and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Miller's Tale'

if John were easily deceived, Nicholas (the clerk) and Alison (his wife) would not have been forced to devise an complicated plan ...

Comparing News Stories in History

job. Though the headlines from these dates varied significantly in terms of their focus, one element was shared by all of the s...

Fear Levels in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

of my being" (Frankenstein). As with any newborn, his sensory impressions of the world are at first indistinct. He began to attemp...

Global Cinderella

exactly how many versions have existed throughout the ages, one would be hard pressed to find a definitive answer, inasmuch as the...

Peter Terson's 'Zigger Zagger' and Patrick McCabe's 'The Butcher Boy'

though not necessarily horribly so. In essence, the boy is neglected and it is not surprising "why parentless Harry was inclined t...

Mass Media and Entertainment

on the futures of children who are currently nurtured on violent images as pleasure. In an equal area of concern, owners of mass m...

Female Protagonists Compared in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

and comparing characters will find issues of subjugation and class privilege clearly define every aspect of the lives of all the c...

Animals in the Fairy Tales of The Brothers Grimm

and upper-class Germans, yet even those tales were traced from India and the Middle East (Schulte-Peevers). They were passed down ...

America and Different Perspectives

a founding principle of America--but she doesnt receive it. In "The Third and Final Continent," a young Indian man moves first to...

Illness and Death in Franz Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis' and Leo Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich'

into death. Both characters are, for the most part, dismissed gradually by their family. They are ignored, and their loved...

Life After Retirement

was in her teens throughout the final years of the Great Depression, 1929 - 1939. Her father was a barber whose business was not ...

Love and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver

love that both lives and dies upon ones overzealous sense of passion. "There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more...

Islam vs. Christianity, a Comparison

sixteenth century when Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk, nailed 95 complaints against the Roman Catholic Church on the church do...

Comparative Analysis of Ernest Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants' and D.H. Lawrence's 'The Rocking Horse Winner'

of passion in their lives, this somber existence. The mood is also set by the tone as it develops along with the plot. In Lawrence...

Analyzing Another Country by Mary Pipher

old-age (Pipher, 2000, ch. 1). Its certainly not what many had imagined, and among the greatest of differences is that they find ...

Raymond Carver's 'Cathedral'

able form a friendship with the blind man over that summer. However, it is interesting to note that he only asks to feel her face ...

Seeking to be Free in 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin'

was lived during her time. Her work deals a large amount with the oppressiveness women felt within their married lives and their d...

Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son Stories

title we need to consider the parallels between the narrator in this story and Jesus, as seen in the bible. It could be argued tha...

An Old-Fashioned Story Reviewed

home for everyone, as everyone has a mother. Even people who do not know who their mothers are perhaps have a gut feeling about he...

The Sun in 'The Stranger' by Albert Camus

sun-drenched countryside. The glare from the sky was unbearable" (Camus). In this first chapter the power and glare of the sun ...

Analyzing the Biblical Eve

the traditional interpretation of Eve as the originator of all sin and death for the human race. However, the student may wish to ...

Pentateuch from 2 Perspectives

predecessors in the eighteenth century, beginning with Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette. Furthermore, Blenkinsopps discussion of ...

Love and Marriage Disappointments

the elements that speak of such disappointments. The paper finishes with a brief discussion of the works discussed. Story of an ...

Followup Ending to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

could have begotten a son like Nwoye, degenerate and effeminate(Achebe 143). In fact, the barbaric way in which the women are bea...

The Ernest J. Gaines Story The Sky is Gray

the conditions of life. If he were a young boy with no responsibilities he would have been focused on his environment in a very im...