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Environmental Sustenance Quest

In twelve pages this paper examines sustaining the future through environmental preservation....

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and Identity

In five pages this paper examines the theme of a personal identity quest as it relates to the novel by Lewis Carroll. There are 6...

Questing in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and D.H. Lawrence's The Virgin and the Gipsy

In five pages this paper analyzes how these two literary works portray the notion of 'the quest.' There are no other sources list...

Home Quest in Ulysses by James Joyce

feminist critics charge that this work frames women in houses that the men in the story avoid. "Throughout Ulysses women often rem...

Idea of Freedom and Things Fall Apart

In four pages Chinua Achebe's novel is considered within the context of freedom and how its quest is represented in protagonist Ok...

Quest Novels Voltaire's Candide and Epic of Gilgamesh

we will discuss two stories involving journeys -- the ancient Babylonian story of Gilgamesh, and Voltaires Candide. Written abou...

Michael Foucault vs. Frantz Fanon on Minorities

French writers Michel Foucault and Frantz Fanon are seminal philosophers in the empowerment of minority populations. This research...

Journey in The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty

In eight pages the journey motif in terms of self discovery quest is examined within the context of this novel by Eudora Welty tha...

Meaning and Teaching a Stone to Talk by Anne Dillard

In seven pages this paper considers the quest to attach meaning to life in a critical analysis of Teaching a Stone to Talk by Anne...

Asia's Continuing Quest for Justice for the Comfort Women

Recent news has focused attention on the abduction into sexual slavery of great numbers of women from various Asian countries duri...

American Blacks and Political and Social Justice

In four pages this research paper chronicles the history of blacks in the United States in a consideration of their quest for soci...

Sciences and the Need to Know

turtle who dove under those waters and brought up the mud which would become the land masses of the world. These people observed ...

Beowulf & Odysseus/Ancient Heroes

peers by acclamation rather than divine right. The thane is spoke of as a "giver of treasure in gladness" (Beowulf 46). In other w...

Beowulf v. Odysseus/Who is the most attractive?

announces to all listeners that this warrior has the skill to battle the monster that has terrorizing Heorot. Beowulf battles Gren...

Garland's "Daily Life Of The Ancient Greeks"

impression made infinitely clearer with truths rather than myths. The evolutionary value of Garlands (2008) research provides a b...

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...

The Iliad: What is the Good Life?

as Achilles, this is the good life. He is not a character who seems to desire times of peace or quiet but rather a man who is happ...

Impressions from the Readings

having given his word, feels that he has no choice but to keep it, even though he fears, rightly, that the boy will end in disaste...

The Odyssey and The Alchemist: Free Will, Determinism, and the Journeys

not something he will believe as he has already made a choice to be a shepherd and not a priest which is what was determined for h...

Athena and Juno in Homer and Virgil

that Aegisthuss death is certainly deserved, "But my heart breaks for Odysseus, / that seasoned veteran cursed by fate so long -- ...

US Artist Winslow Homer

and error, in an artistic career that lasted 50 years and produced some 2,000 known works. Such a large body of work leaves admir...

Hospitality in the Telemachy

(Thorburn 370). This is the custom that plays a prominent role throughout the Telemachy and the Odyssey as a whole. The Telemach...

Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" - Southern Society and the Grotesque

pertinent thematic statement about social conditions in the old South; namely, that the reliance upon a superficial standard of mo...

3 Plays and Societal Influence on Family

societal factors that shape the familial situations in August Strindbergs Miss Julie, George Rygas The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, and Sh...

Analyzing a Visual Text of a Cyclops

his disposal beyond his huge physical size. It would seem no human could be safe against this creature that could easily pierce o...

Rocket Boys by Homer Hickham

(Hickham, 2000, p. 1). That one simple opening sentence tells readers what kind of conflicts the book explores: there is the confl...

Emulating Homer

Cimmerians and their cloudy city at our backs, Turning our faces instead toward life, toward home, Defying the goddess of the is...

Extended Similes of Violence in “The Odyssey”

rested for two days, then sailed on again, but where blown off course once more by the North Wind (Homer). They ended up in the la...

HOMER HICKAM JR.: EXAMPLES OF LEADERSHIP

a national science fair (Homer Hickam Online, 2006). With help from a supportive teacher and inspired by rocket genius Werner von ...

Why Homer Was Murdered by Emily in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled sil...