SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Founding of Virginia Captain John Smith and the American Genesis

Essays 241 - 270

Cherokee Influences on Colonial Settlers

This paper addresses Native American Culture and its impact on colonial American society. The author discusses various ways in wh...

Capitalism Fuels Colonial Expansion

the scene may seem sublime, it can be interpreted as a depiction of contrast between cultures. In the foreground stands the Europ...

Virtue Critiques in Billy Budd, Sailor and 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' by Herman Melville

- he refuses to take nourishment or leave his place of business. Instead of taking a sympathetic view of his employee, the narrat...

Explorer Captain Cook

not only new, but incredibly accurate and are still even used today (Captain Cook, 2005). His journeys covered over 8 years wherei...

Male Protagonists in The Rover by Aphra Behn and The Life of Henry the Fifth by William Shakespeare

deck our kings, / Carry them here and there, jumping oer times, / Turning th accomplishment of many years / Into an hour-glass" (2...

A Review of the Edward Boykin Book Ghost Ship of the Confederacy

record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...

Herman Melville's Billy Budd

Claggarts psychological make-up, because he himself has never had to struggle between good and evil as personal motivators. Billy ...

Alcohol and Changing Attitudes

Quite clear in the first of three representations, the macaw is blurred in the second appearance and completely distorted in the t...

Frans Hals and Rembrandt

(His own work 96). This produces a velvety-look to the players tunic, yet the instrument distinctly has the high gloss of polished...

Society of the US Army and From Here to Eternity by James Jones

person is only one part of a greater whole. And, Captain Holmes symbolizes this, for the army is his society, his life, his spirit...

Metaphors and Themes in Works of Louis De Bernieres and Primo Levi

make an appearance in the book until nearly mid-way through. However, it is quickly understood, once he appears, that he and his m...

Leggatt and Captain in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer

Although "The Secret Sharer" was not written until 1909, some thirteen years after his last sea voyage, it is considered one of Co...

Louis de Bernieres' Captain Corelli's Mandolin and Human Goodness

they must do the unthinkable, or they find themselves blindly doing something which would seem impossible to them prior to the war...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville and Ahab's Character

the whales as evil, or the one particular whale as evil, has infiltrated the beliefs of the men on board as well: "The whalemen be...

Military Ethics, Haiti, and Captain Rockwood

The weight of a mans conscience can be unbearable, as was made quite obvious by Rockwoods entanglement with direct military orders...

Biblical Imagery in Moby Dick by Herman Melville

journey. Immediately, the reader is shocked by Ahabs assertion and assumption that he is like God, that he holds the ultimate po...

Billy Budd by Herman Melville and the Character Captain Vere

worthy. With the ideals of Enlightenment we are given a much more complex train of thought as one must also examine the good of a ...

Comparative Analysis of Five Personages in Terms of Leadership Qualities

system that had failed (Keppler Associates, nd). Had the men become over-anxious, they would use more oxygen, thereby shortening t...

Positions of Billy Budd and Captain Vere in Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor

integrity of the individual that makes man worthy. With the ideals of Enlightenment we are given a much more complex train of thou...

Representation of Captain Ahab as Evil, Good, Death, and Life All At the Same Time

In twenty five pages this paper discusses how Captain Ahab in Moby Dick by Herman Melville embodies all the dualities of the life ...

Characterization in Moby Dick by Herman Melville

story. To be sure, Melville possessed a definite sense of the dramatic, which can be witnessed merely by engaging in the rhetoric...

Crimson Tide Film Problem Solving and Personalities

Inn five pages this report examines the characters of First Officer Ron Hunter and Captain Frank Ramsey featured in the film Crims...

Captain Cook's Journals

In five pages 3 of Captain Cook's voyages are examined in an overview of his personal journals and that recorded by crew members d...

Is Veblen Still Socially Relevant?

Veblen's The Industrial System and the Captains of Industry and whether or not it remains socially relevant are discussed in six p...

Saturday Morning Television Marketing and Gender Studies

In eight pages the gender views presented in Saturday morning television cartoons Muppet Babies, Captain Planet and Looney Tunes' ...

A Story by a Slave Trader

book appears to be a candid recollection by someone who was not troubled enough by what he was doing to stop it. Theodore Conneau...

Captain Vere in Billy Budd by Herman Melville

In eight pages a psychological character analysis of Captain Vere is presented in order to determine the underlying reasons for hi...

Captain Ahab Character in Moby Dick by Herman Melville

appears on the scene, he is an imposing figure of a man whose scars tell the tale of his battles with nature and with God. "Threa...

Comparison of Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Moby Dick by Herman Melville

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the vengeance and madness of Shakespeare's Hamlet and Melville's Captain Ahab. Sev...

Benito Cereno by Herman Melville

In five pages this paper analyzes Captain Delano in terms of his abilities to reason and his denial in a consideration of the igno...