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Analysis and Study Notes for 'The Excursion' by Wordsworth, The Black Man's Burden by Morel, and The White Man's Burden by Kipling

* Clearly, this poem read today would be interpreted from a different perspective than when it first appeared in 1899. 2. Edward...

J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer, and Journeys

is on his own journey for he too is aware of the murderer Injun Joe. As such their journeys, while different, essentially stem fro...

British Literature of the Seventeenth Century Examined

and women to enjoy each other. The Philosophical Viewpoints We want to relate the conflict and the writings to various philosop...

Literature and Epiphany

drug addict living a life very similar to Sonnys. : "Thats right, he said quickly, aint nothing you can do. Cant much help old Son...

Philip Roth's The Counterlife, William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, and Journeys

that Nathan takes towards his death, traveling to various parts of the world in this journey. But, the opening chapter takes place...

Greek Literature and Blindness Symbolism

other senses. Might the lack of sight signify a heightened sense of smell or taste? The list goes on and on about special attachme...

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Imperialism

who assure the king that Gulliver is merely a trained animal and that the farmer, from which Gulliver was obtained, had trained hi...

Comparison of Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz's The Divine Narcissus and Luis de Gongora's Polyphemus and Galatea

and transform his blood into a river, which flows down the sides of the volcano, Mt. Aetna, into the sea at Catana. De la Cruzs T...

Zora Neale Hurston and the Fiction She Inspired

card ready, as this seemed to impress people and verify that, yes, an African American could be a public accountant. Mentally, Ann...

Plot, Conflict, and Setting of Life of Pi by Yann Martel

comes as no surprise how faith symbolizes a component of mans existence that seeks unyielding reassurance. The problem with meani...

Margaret Laurence's The Loons, Thomas King's The Borders and the Theme of Initiation

in that simple narrative position we know the story is important, even if the boy does not know it yet. The story involves the ...

"Political, Philosophical, Religious, Cultural, Social, Literary and Artistic Value of 'Poem of The Cid"

the field against the three thousand Moors; and such was the valor of him that in a good hour was born, and of his standard bearer...

Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and the Character of Ivan

all-knowing, loving God. In the chapter entitled, "The Brothers Make Friends," Alyosha and Ivan are talking and Ivan goes off on a...

Zadie Smith's White Teeth, Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters, and Themes of Gender and Race

all her fights are useless, futile, for there seems to be no positive movement, no positive gains made for women or blacks. She em...

American Author William Faulkner's Life and Writings

gloried in the proud history of the plantation South that secured a place of honor for the aristocrat, and yet he abhorred the opp...

American Dream Represented in Literature by Homes and Houses

are proud. The main character, however, although she wants to own the house someday, is embarrassed by the house because she feels...

Tragedies Like That of Princess Diana

charities was remarkable. She was coming into her own, moving out of the extremely heavy shadow cast by the royal family (particu...

Comparative Analysis of Hester Prynne and Medea

bound to engage. While mythological women were strong of mind and spirit, they were not allowed to express their inner most being...

Spiritual Journey and Spiritual Growth

to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...

Contemporary Society and Love

become separate" (p.48). An interest point is made as Fromm investigates erotic love. Today, many equate eroticism with romanticis...

Overview of the World's Major Religions

it would be remiss not to include it in an essay such as this. All Christians follow the Holy Bible, the Old Testament and the Ne...

Lion Feuchtwanger's Prophetic Novel, The Oppermanns

reader, who has the benefit of hindsight, to wonder why German Jews, such as the Oppermanns, did not react earlier to the Nazi thr...

Intellectual Development and Don Quixote, The Mali Epic of Son Jara, and The Epic of Gilgamesh

regard to the acceptance of reality, issues of morality and, perhaps above all, the concept of divine judgment and human guilt. I...

Los Angeles Literature

Chandler was famous for his evocative descriptions of L.A.; the heat and light, the flowers, traffic, noise and above all the vivi...

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

This sets the stage for a pessimistic story, despite any optimistic elements. This sense of pessimism is also one that is very u...

Paris Years of Ernest Hemingway and 'Soldier's Home'

writer, personal experience is simply the staring point, as they combine lived experience with created characters in order to pres...

Analysis of 'Everything That Rises Must Converge' by Flannery O'Connor

Race is something everyone must deal with in a multiracial society. No matter what ones color or religion or ethnicity, they at so...

Modernism and Literature

became sculptural" (Make It New: The Rise of Modernism). From another perspective one author notes, "It is usually thought that ...

Mississippi River Journey of Jim and Huckleberry Finn

and telling Huck his story. They both decide to simply hide out on the island together, fishing and getting what they can on the i...