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Analysis of Main Line v. Basinger Court Case

value, Sherilyn Fenn, a B-movie actress who had starred in David Lynchs television series Twin Peaks (Thompson, 1992). As a resul...

Pop Art: Art and Popular Culture

includes paintings," which contrasts sharply with the fact that considerable critical "attention has been given to popular music a...

Society's Obsession With Celebrity

reported elsewhere, or the writer personally knows the content is true based on news broadcasts or other knowledge the writer has....

Comparing Film Versions of Twelfth Night

which is at the "heart of this piece, cannot stand such a strong dose of reality" (Brode 98). There is artificiality in abundanc...

Argument: Blaise Pascal’s Statement about Religion and Evil is Wrong

..., 2008). Blair sharply differentiated religious faith and extremism, noting that in the past decade, we have seen numerous "ac...

Summary and Review of Lynne Curry’s The DeShaney Case: Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Dilemma of State Intervention

After putting a name and a face on the social issue of child abuse, and considering the dilemma of the social worker who seeks to ...

Shaw’s Pygmalion, Euripides’ Medea

expert, Henry Higgins, makes a wager with a friend that he can masquerade a lower-class girl, Eliza, as a member of the upper clas...

Edgar Allan Poe, Suicidal Tendencies, and ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’

at 4 a.m., his guilty conscience elicits the narrators confession. Is this an example of another Poe murder mystery or does it re...

Romantic Themes in William Wordsworth’s Poem ‘Tintern Abbey’

beauty of nature and the insights it provides can unite the two. The primary focus of Tintern Abbey is the temporal or physical w...

David Bailey, Photographer

as one of the principal influences and inspirations on him as an artist ("David Bailey, Biography"). According to Bailey, "The fir...

Literary Analysis: “Dubliners” by James Joyce

Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...

"I'm Nobody! Who Are You?": An Analysis of a Poem by Emily Dickinson

To an admiring Bog! (846). The subject matter features a person who feels inwardly lonely who does not wish to advertise h...

Physical Geography and Common Misconceptions

In five pages physical geography is considered in a student supplied scenario of three common misconceptions of the writer, the wr...

Ansel Adams

As a child he was shy, did not really fit in and later would claim he was likely a boy who suffered from hyperactivity (Turnage). ...

Stephen Crane's "Open Boat" and setting

with human emotions, as the sea is described as being "nervously anxious." This conveys to the reader the way in which the men per...

Duchamp's Fountain

death of the Great War. As art historian Leah Dickerman of the National Gallery explains, "Dada wished to replace the logical no...

Franklin’s Inner Conflict and Resolution in Judy Troy’s Short Story, “Ten Miles West of Venus”

May, Rev. Sanders decides to take a drive to her house to check on her. Mrs. Lyle has been keeping a very low profile since the s...

Analyzing Poet Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art”

practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaste...

Theme of Death in William Faulkner’s ‘A Rose for Emily’

she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...

Late Spring, Directed by Yasujiro Ozu

from Japanese director Yasujiro Ozus 1949 masterpiece Late Spring, there are two cutaway shots that feature a beautiful vase. Thes...

"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King

This essay offers summation and analysis of Dr. King's famous letter. Three pages in length, no other sources are cited. ...

Hamlet and the Attractive Prospect of Suicide

his mother Queen Gertrude announces she eloped with Claudius, her brother-in-law who will now succeed Hamlet Sr. as King. The Pri...

The Raven, 1963 Film and Poe's Poem

of its first publication in 1845, Edgar Allan Poes poem "The Raven" has been an element in American cultural influencing the publi...

"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner

reader with an insiders view on the Southern culture of the era because narrator frequently describes the reactions of the townspe...

Music of Mississippi John Hurt

December 21, 1928, was by far the most productive, as Hurt cut three spirituals and five blues works during this session (Obrecht)...

The Wild West and Wyatt Earp

Born in the middle of the nineteenth century, on March 19, 1848, Wyatt Earp is one of the most remembered names in American histor...

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" - Kesey's Use of Gender and Race

Chief Bromdens mother, whom he remembers as continuously emotionally abusing his father, "emasculating" him (Kesey 1963). This had...

Act 5 Soliloquy/Macbeth

famous soliloquy, in Act 5, scene 5, which begins "To-morrow, and to-morrow and to-morrow,/ Creeps in this petty pace from day to ...

Salvation in Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilych

of the regimen of behavior that is required to obtain and maintain a position on the upper rungs of the social ladder. Ivan does n...

Tennessee Williams' Style of Writing

Within these tragedies, the unfortunate fate of the hero or heroine is usually determined by some type of sexual desire. The them...