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Comparing Novel and Film Versions of The Silence of the Lambs

seriously short-handed, and in desperation, he enlists Starlings services. In the novel, Starling is portrayed as an ambitious an...

Jonathan Swift's Satire in A Tale of the Tub, The Battle of the Books, A Modest Proposal, and Gulliver's Travel

In a discussion of these texts consisting of eight pages this paper analyzes the satire of Jonathan Swift. Four sources are cited...

Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol

In five pages this paper provides answers to various questions regarding this educational text by Jonathan Kozol. Three sources a...

17th Century Social History of China and The Death of Woman Wang by Jonathan Spence

In five pages this paper examines how Chinese society of the seventeenth century is presented in The Death of Woman Wang by Jonath...

Comparing The Rainmaker Novel and Film

legal contemporaries, has grandiose dreams of landing for his firm "a client worth at least twenty million [and becoming] an insta...

Slavery Reflected in the Works of Henrik Ibsen, Frederick Douglass, and Jonathan Swift

In six pages this research paper discusses how slavery manifests itself in one form or another in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Trav...

How Women Are Treated in the Writings of Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares how the social irony of women's treatment shine through in 'A Modest Proposal' by J...

Colonial to Romantic Period American Literature

In five pages this paper examines how American literature evolved from he colonial times of Jonathan Edwards, John Winthrop, Benja...

Societal Criticism, Browning and Swift

This essay pertains to Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," published in 1729, and Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess, Ferra...

Madness in Gulliver's Travels, Part IV

This essay describes the evolution of Gulliver's rejection of humanity in preference for the society of a race of intelligent hors...

The Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift

In five pages this research paper examines the 1704 text The Tale of a Tub, a religious satire by Jonathan Swift. Four sources ar...

Nationalism in Canada

In eleven pages the ways in which the First World War contributed to Canada's nationalist stance are examined through the theses p...

Prejudice Against Gulliver in Lilliput

This essay focuses on the prejudice displayed toward Gulliver by the people of Lilliput in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Th...

The Nature of Happiness, Jonathan Haidt

This research paper/essay provides a comprehensive overview and critique of Jonathan Haidt's book The Happiness Hypothesis. Four p...

Education Issues Related to Three Essays

to intimidation over rental agrees, not being able to pay bills by mail, and being intimidated by virtually everyone else in socie...

The Crusades by Riley-Smith

of crusaders, demonstrating that it was religious zeal and absolute devotion to the Roman Catholic Church, which was associated an...

Enlightenment and the Literature of Voltaire, Moliere, and Jonathan Swift

In two pages this research paper discusses how the Age of Reason is reflected in Candide by Voltaire, Tartuffe by Moliere, and Gul...

Book Summary//Future of Primary Care

in the first half of the twentieth century, as compared with the realities of the second half. Previously the main deliver of prim...

Jonathan Swift/Gulliver's Voyage to Lilliput

is ale to jump "the highest," succeeding to high office (Swift). As this suggests, Swift was lampooning the machinations require...

Analysis: Grandfather in “Everything is Illuminated”

any muscles (Foer). Grandfather worked all his life, mostly at farming, but now "he is retarded and lives on our street" (Foer 4)....

Dignity of Difference by Jonathan Sacks

baffling questions, questions that are not answered with power or with wealth. He further indicates "Religion does" offer hope for...

Jonathan Swift/A Modest Proposal

"voluntary abortions and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children" (Swift 1641). At this point, Swifts narra...

Analysis of Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal

people to propose a number of ill-conceived schemes that would "fix" social and economic ills with miraculous ease (Wittkowsky 85)...

Literary Analysis of A Modest Proposal and Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

various and sundry obscurities that represent such a supposedly functional society to realize that this was yet another of the aut...

The Use of Satire by Jonathan Swift and George Orwell

the animals story follows exactly that of the two men: At first Snowball is Napoleons trusted companion; soon he becomes a rival; ...

The Emperor of China by Jonathan D. Spence

In five pages this leadership evaluation of Chinese Emperor K'ang-hsi as presented in Professor Spence's text also assesses his mo...

The Surprise Ending of Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal"

This 3 page paper gives an analysis of the surprise ending of “A Modest Proposal”. This paper includes a history and summary of th...

Storytellers the Knight in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and Gulliver in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

In five pages these tellers of tales are compared. There are no other sources listed....

Jonathan Harr's A Civil Action

This 14 page essay reviews Harr's popular book examining his narrative style and outlining the main points that are covered. An e...

Distortions and Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

In five pages this paper examines how Swift employs distortions in this satirical work in terms of offering deeper insights into t...