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O. Henry/Gift of the Magi

being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...

Swift and Thoreau, Writing Style

a famous series of protest letters under the name of "M.B. Drapier." While his identity as the letter-writer was known throughout ...

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...

Octavio Paz and Gabriel Garcia Marquez A Comparative Analysis

college (although neither received a degree) and developed an early interest in writing. Although Marquez initially intended to b...

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...

"The Effects Of Television" By William Henry III

activity and increase in food consumption due in great part to highly effective advertising. The authors support for this argumen...

American 'Palefaces' and 'Redskins' in Literature

In five pages this report discusses the 'pale face' or 'redskin' literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth century with the 'pal...

Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' Analysis and Criticism

In seven pages Chopin's work is examined in terms of its criticism and then relates these criticisms to specific portions of the n...

Anton Chekhov's 'Three Sisters'

The theme, plot, and style of this work is considered in 10 pages as well as presenting an examination into Aristotle's theories a...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a Gothic Masterpiece

This paper discusses various elements of Shelley's novel that classify the work as Gothic, one of the nineteenth-century's literar...

Comparative Analysis of Biographies on Henry David Thoreau

comparing Hardings book, Days of Henry Thoreau: A Biography with Finks work, it becomes clear as to how Finks scholarship provides...

Christopher Paul Curtis's Literary Style

use of language on the part of his young characters give a warmth and depth to them that is more reminiscent of Huckleberry Finn t...

A Small Good Thing

This 8 page essay reviews to Raymond Carver's style in this work in relationship to his style in other works. 4 sources are cited...

A Literary Criticism and Analysis of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Reed childrens nurse, Bessie. After an argument with her cousin John, Jane was cruelly punished by being locked into what was ref...

Leadership and Motivation

or under represented in the discussion of the model. The concept of scientific management is well known; Taylor used scie...

Analysis of William Shakespeare’s Sonnets 18, 73, and 130

While he adhered to Petrarchs use of fourteen lines, Shakespeare constructed sonnets containing three quatrains and a couplet. Hi...

Death of Ivan & Faust

child and is sentenced to death. As this indicates, Faust is plot driven. This contrasts sharply with Ivan Ilych, which mostly c...

Controversy and Kudos -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

One of England's foremost poet and philosopher-critic during the Romantic Movement, Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote some of the grea...

Miles' Death in Henry James' The Turn of the Screw

alternates between believing him an angel and, conversely, possessed. Thus, Krieg, in his criticism, suggests: The governesss per...

Frederick Henry in Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms

pictured offering ironic commentaries on sculpture and art, with his conversation peppered with "allusions to Samuel Johnson, Sain...

Henry Giroux/Dangerous Minds

academic as being relevant or meaningful to their lives (Giroux 46). The plot of this movie is obviously the story of a plucky, ca...

Critiquing the Critic: Henry Mackenzie on "Hamlet"

Mackenzie is also correct in attributing his hesitation to an overly sensitive nature; Claudius remarks on this when he says that ...

English Department of Rutgers University

In five pages this paper discusses the history of the English Department of Rutgers University which dates back to the 1760s and c...

HOLES IN MODERN PORTFOLIO THEORY

In his 1952 article, in which he used the mathematics of diversification, he pointed out, through a variety of formulas, that inve...

Homer's Epic Style

return home. They are in morning, for they have lost a son. They pray to the gods for his return, but feel that he is dead. They e...

William Shakespeare's Histories and New Historicist Criticism

which make up the spectrum of everyday life of the period. Spiegel (1997), for instance, makes the point that one can see such tex...

Literary Social Criticism

punishes her by labeling her with the letter "A" and through social ostracism. Thoreaus argument with the state in "Civil Disobe...

William Shakespeare's As You Like It and Aphra Behn's Rover

but she keeps her emotions in check so that she can carry off her masquerade as a man. When Rosalind confronts the Dukes accusat...

Henry Louis Gates Jr's 13 Ways of Looking at a Black Man

In five pages this paper discusses these 'narratives of ascent' in the collection by Henry Louis Gates Jr....

Daisy Miller by James

that he assumes Mrs. Costello is not that fond of Daisy and her mother and Mrs. Costello states, "They are the sort of Americans t...