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Male Characters in Emma by Jane Austen

In eight pages this essay assesses the maturation or lack thereof of male characters Elton, Churchill, and Knightley in Emma by Ja...

19th Century Comic Techniques of Oscar Wilde

In five pages this essay compares An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest in a discussion of the comic techniques the...

A Review of Cherokee Women by Theda Perdue

delved further into some cultures and noted that they were matriarchal. Perdue does this when presenting us with the history of th...

3 Selections from The Romance of Arthur

and simultaneously down plays the role of the warrior in medieval narrative (Wilhelm 283). This is evident from the beginning of...

The Magic Barrel of Bernard Malamud

The tension that exists between the student of religion and the marriage broker and the ways in which it moves the country forward...

Analysis of the Poem 'Old Photograph of the Future' by Robert Penn Warren

future in that image of a baby suggests the continuance of generations into the future. These themes are particularly suggested by...

Women in Much Ado About Nothing and Othello by William Shakespeare

my cold blood, I am of your humour for that. I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me" (Much Ado About...

Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh

soldiers virtually disappear. During World War I, German and Allied soldiers both endured the horrors of trench warfare on oppo...

Urban Planning and Development Theories of Paul Peterson

In eight pages this research essay considers Miami in an application of Paul Peterson's urban development and planning theories. ...

A Review of Extinct Humans

A 5 page essay that provides an overview of the book by Tattersall and Schwartz. The focus is evolution as it has been expererien...

Machiavelli's and Boccaccio's Reality Verses Appearance

a man runs into a colleague with a woman half his age. He might assume that this married man is engaged in a clandestine romance, ...

'Michael Robartes and the Dancer' by Irish Poet William Butler Yeats

poem despite the metaphysical airs assumed by Michael Robartes. In this poem, Yeats expresses the concept that can be concisely ...

A Review of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder As Reflected in the Movie Good As It Gets

habits are partially responsible for keeping him at arms length from the rest of the world. Considered for decades to be a diseas...

'Maggie A Girl From the Street' and 'Native Son'

This 8 page essay compares and contrasts Maggie in Stephen Crane's novel with Richard Wright's protagonist of Bigger. There are a...

Character Ethics and the Film 'L.A. Confidential'

cost, even when it calls for doing things against his or the departments ethical code. His golden boy status within the police fo...

Three Poems by William Blake

/ So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep" (lines 3-4 11290). In the next stanza a small boy is upset because all of his hair h...

An Analysis of The Myth of Self Esteem

self-regard, not egotism" (Anonymous The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale Rosenberg.html). But, it is only one aspect of the notion of ...

Journey of King Lear by William Shakespeare

provide an excuse for allotting the largest share of his kingdom to Cordelia, his favorite. Lear states that the test is so that "...

Tutorial on a Vietnamese Woman's Life

In five pages this essay tutorial considers how to reconstruct a young Vietnamese woman's life from her birth in 1956 to the prese...

Bedouin Society, Kinship, and Rights of Women

In five pages this research essay considers Veiled Sentiments by Lila Abu Lughod in a discussion of Bedouin society and the lack o...

An Analysis of A Rose for Emily

common to the Old South. And, it is in this essentially foundation of control that we see who Emily is and see how she is clearly ...

"Coming, Aphrodite!" by Willa Cather

This essay offers analysis of "Coming, Aphrodite!" by Willa Cather, focusing on how each of the major characters define and percei...

Ads, A Good and Bad Example

This research paper/essay offers analysis of two ads, one for Legos and one for McDonald's. The Legos ad is described as adhering ...

'The Importance of Being Earnest' vs. 'While You Were Sleeping'

even a bit further back to Madge Evans and Florence Rice. Most of their films seemed to derive from Colliers Magazine stories that...

Tennessee Williams' Cat On a Hot Tin Roof Play and Film Versions

severity of the Bricks grief at Skippers death causes his relatives to speculate, but this is dispelled in the crucial scene that...

An Analysis of Neil Frude's The Intimate Machine

This paper addresses the history of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from both the perspectives of science-fiction and reality. The au...

What It Means to Be Female in the Brothers' Grimm's Snow White and L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables

that a cultural connection is thereby forged between sex and virtually every aspect of human experience" (Greenbaum 53). ...

Point of View in 'Araby' by James Joyce

according to her relationship to a male, Joyce subtly points to the gender hierarchy that was prevalent throughout the nineteenth ...

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Shipman's Tale'

more, this is obvious. We see the complications arise at a particular party: "This noble marchaunt heeld a worthy hous,/ For which...

Free Will versus Fate in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

heroine in that, even as a child, she rejected the concept of defect within herself. Victorians saw feminine defect, i.e. traditio...