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Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls and the Narrator's Role

In five pages this paper examines the role the narrator plays in Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls. There are no other sources listed....

James Joyce's Writings and the Concept of Paralysis

he illustrated and the language he used in presenting the reader with images that denoted paralysis. And, considering that we are ...

Dead Mother's Presence and Influence in Nancy Miller's 'Prologue: Writing a Parent's Death' and the Film The Joy Luck Club

In six pages this paper discusses the profound influence exerted by dead mothers upon their daughters in these examples. Two sour...

Dead Sea Scrolls Arguments

In five pages this paper discusses the Dead Sea Scrolls that contain documents regarding a radical sect of Judaism that opposed th...

Modern Day Print and Film, Cultural Clashes, Chaos or Conformity

two of the popular films that marked the 1980s, James Camerons Terminator, released in 1984, and Michael Lehmanns 1989 Heathers, a...

Chapter Eleven of John

In fifteen pages this research paper examines Chapter Eleven of the Book of John in which Lazarus is raised from the dead by Jesus...

'The Dead' by James Joyce

In five pages this essay analyzes James Joyce's short story and the meaning of 'dead' within the characterization of Gabriel. The...

All About Necrophilia

has not been limited to only sociopaths, psychos, and serial killers. In fact, killing for the sake of sex after death, while sens...

Dead Sea Scrolls and 'Hellenistic Roman Palestine'

In nine pages this paper discusses how many historical questions could be answered through the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jewish his...

Overview of Modernism in Literature

In five pages literary modernism is defined and then illustrated in such works as James Joyce's 'The Dead' from Dubliners, 'The G...

The Emotion of Art During Times of War

light - or enlightened. The evil part of humanity - the executioners, are beyond the light - in the literal and spiritual dark. F...

Suicide as a Result of Betrayal and Loss of Trust

In seven pages this paper is written from the point of view of a person who attempted suicide despite family members' belligerance...

Addressing the Dead in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

This paper consists of five pages and analyzes usage of the term dead and the concept of death within the context of Shakespeare's...

American Cinema, Historical and Education Ideology

In seven pages historical comparisons are made between the ways in which education is depicted in such films as Stand and Deliver,...

Friendship in Tom Stoddard's Play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

The friendship of Rosencrantz and Guilderstern in the play Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard is discussed in a...

'Beloved' Daughter in Toni Morrison's Classic Novel

In three pages this paper considers Beloved by Toni Morrison in an argument that the Beloved character represents Sethe's daughter...

The Pyramid Building of Ancient Egypt and the Beginnings of Engineering, Technology, and Cultural Dynamics

machines constructed of short pieces of wood; from the second tier the stones were raised by a similar machine to the third; and s...

Shakespeare in Cinema

as simplistic because it stars an action hero (Mad Max becomes Mad Hamlet) and cuts several scenes and all long speeches. Of cours...

Duality in 'The Dead' by James Joyce

like Poes "The Casks of Amontillado," Joyces "The Dead" contains many "Gothic themes and motifs" (1). For one thing, the time of t...

Ansel Adams' Photography

It is not water, but a less defined vision of clouds with another less visible or definite secondary focal point at the back , whe...

How Circumstances Influenced Gus McCray, Dr. Jekyll, and Hamlet

seek vengeance for the father. Hamlet goes through many different changes because of the realities he has been told, and becaus...

Epiphany and Moment of Being in the Works of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf

"what she loved was this, here, now, in front of her, the fat lady in the cab . . . Did it matter that she must inevitably cease c...

World Religion Characteristics

there are two different types of magic as it relates to religions of the world. There is sympathetic magic and contagious magic. "...

Literature, Poetry, and Self Reliance

many ways Emersons views of self-reliance can be seen in the following excerpt from the work: "There is a time in every mans educa...

2 Narratives on the Latina Experience

be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...

Essays and Poetry on Racial Diversity

and might even change the future history for succeeding generations. He states that he remembers the Trail of Tears, yet qualifies...

'The Dead' and James Joyce's Attack on Ireland

Twelfth Night, the eve of Epiphany which is defined by Joyce as a sudden shining down of reason and awareness, a "sudden spiritual...

The Transformation of Cairo into its Modern Counterpart

20 pages and 10 sources. This paper provides an overview of modern Cairo, a city that is completely modern in so many ways, but h...

Visions and Dialogues of the Dead in Works by Virgil, Plato, and Homer

In six pages this paper examines 'The Aeneid' in terms of the dialogue with the dead featured by Virgil and its difference with 'T...

Belief and Disbelief in an 'Accidental Century'

and the use of technology in the form of the atomic bomb laid waste to the concept of an egalitarian Utopia. The postwar world us...