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American Culture Literary Comparison of Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne

and... evokes that stage of Puritanism when a diminished conviction was beginning to be replaced by a somewhat hypocritical moral ...

The Presidency in the Federal Era

as well as foreign policy issues. For example, Adams signed the Alien and Sedition Acts into law, something that made it difficult...

Taking on Hepatitis B in a Philadelphia High School

programs on Hepatitis B and the risk factors that increase ones susceptibility. The first of these programs will provide an overv...

Influence Peddling: The K Street Project

Public Citizens Congress Project (Chaddock, 2003). According to Clemente, "The revolving door is becoming more comfortably establi...

Fischer/Washington’s Crossing

action, with red gunports open, batteries run out, and huge white battle ensigns streaming in the breeze" (Fischer 31). He then r...

“The Romantic Movement” by Maurice Cranston

said to have been a reaction against classicism. In Germany it was a reaction rather against rationalism, emerging together with a...

George Washington's Experiences in the American Revolution

and in March of 1776 he used a cannon from Henry Knox ("American Revolution - George Washington," 2005). He would make a mistake ...

Edgar Allan Poe’s Creative Uses of Atmosphere and/or Tension in “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and “The Black Cat”

in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...

Analysis of Symbolism in Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'Masque of the Red Death,' and 'The Tell Tale Heart'

significant loss. Examining the examples of The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Fall of the House of Usher,...

Dark Suspense Elements in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado'

Dark suspense elements are the focus of this comparative analysis of two 19th century great American short stories in five pages. ...

Melancholia in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'Fall of the House of Usher'

In five pages this paper compares these stories' similarities in terms of how melancholia or depression is featured in each. Five...

Comparative Analysis of Detective Works Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe and The Second Deadly Sin by Lawrence Sanders

by the brilliance and deductive reasoning that the detective uses. Agatha Christies Hercule Poirot is reminiscent of a brilliant d...

Beethoven's Ninth & The Classical Era

Joy" to music during his early years in Bonn, which would mean that he was considering the basis for the Ninth as early as 1792 (L...

Baroque, Classical and Romantic/Comparing 3 Works

sense of awe and wonder at the complex beauty of the music. The classical music of Beethoven blends the varied textures of the o...

Forecasting for a Fast Food Outlet

and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...

Norma Rae’s Depiction of Labor

sit down, even when "they are having menstrual cramps" (Giroux). In the film, workers also complain about "plant conditions, speed...

Magical Realism and Marquez’s Death Constant Beyond Love

Garcia Marquez seriously or are they an absurdists slanted look at the world? This paper argues that even though they are often co...

Don Quixote, Hamlet and Their View of the World

Gertrude, Claudius, Laertes, Ophelia, Polonius, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern all dead. This is a bleak, tragic world, which is why...

Homosexuality in the Male From a Clinical Perspective

characteristic. Subsequent psychological researchers and theorists were then able to elaborate on such factors in order to determi...

Supernatural and Dreams in The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann and The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

themselves whether or not the writer is referring to the natural or supernatural world as often the storyline it intercepted or ov...

The Importance of Ancestry in 3 Canadian Poets' Works

The Jewish Canadian heritage which figures prominently in the poetic works of A.M. Klein, Miriam Waddington and Irving Layton is t...

The Irving Stone Novel Lust for Life

assumption that a bourgeois young man could move into this environment, sprinkle a little Gospel around like holy water, and grow ...

John Irving's Cider House Rules and the 'Underdog'

was dyslexic before that particular learning disability had been identified by name - took Seabrookes, words as a kind of mantra. ...

Comparative Analysis of the Works of Ueda Akinari and Haruki Murakami

The works of Akinari and Murakami are contrasted and compared in 7 pages with the primary emphasis being on the alienation themes ...

American Identity Development

In three pages the ways in which literature reflects the development of an American identity are examined in the works of such aut...

Comparative Analysis of Homer's 'The Odyssey' and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

out, therefore, that in the Odyssey there is a great deal of action and movement, such as the sea voyages and the way in which Ody...

Supernatural Subtleties in The Shining by Stephen King and Beloved by Toni Morrison

In six pages this report examines the thematic subtleties of the supernatural in these two great works of American fiction. Five ...

The Holy Spirit According to Thomas R. Edgar and Jack Deere

conservative minister and professor teaching at the Dallas Seminary. He recalls that he was very complacent in his beliefs. "The G...