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Definitive Characteristics of an Author of the Twentieth Century

In eight pages this paper discusses how poet Elizabeth Bishop's work adheres to the Norton Anthology's definition of how an author...

Gangraena by Thomas Edwards is a Window into 17th Century Life

This essay explores this famous work from the perspective of what it reveals to the reader about the seventeenth century. Edwards...

"The Story of an Hour," Effect of Patriarchy

This essay pertains to "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. The writer presents the argument that the principal point that Chopi...

Self Through the Ages

This essay offers evaluation of how conceptualization of the self changed over the centuries, using the works of Vergil, Hobbes an...

Twentieth Century British Experimental Literature

Two significant examples of writers who broke away from traditional forms well before the end of the millennium are Virginia Woolf...

Lessons From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and The Awakening

slave, she was not fortunate enough to belong to the middle class and to have the social connections that come along with that cla...

Fiction of the 20th Century and the City

the city may appear attractive and it certainly attracted Nick, it is hollow. He expresses this by returning home to the midwest. ...

Motherhood According to Caryl Churchill's Top Girls and Kate Chopin's The Awakening

and traumatic childhood (Taylor and Fineman 35). Edna longs for some sort of meaning and transcendence in her life. In Mademoise...

Hosea Easton's Legacy

In 5 pages this paper discusses the achievements of Hosea Easton, an African American abolitionist author in a consideration of su...

Neuroses and Biology

The writer examines the work of 20th century psychology Hans Eysenck and his suggestion that it is possible to inherit neurotic be...

20th Century Latin American Artistic Theme

In five pages this paper examines the importance of Latin American themed art during the 20th century in a consideration of the wo...

Seventeenth Century Cavalier and Metaphysical Poetry

In twelve pages this paper contrasts and compares the cavalier and metaphysical approaches to seventeenth century poetry in a cons...

Davis' Celluloid Mirrors

This book review of a work by Ronald Davis is the subject of focus. Celluloid Mirrors examines Hollywood during the twentieth cent...

Seventeenth Century Works of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

no father to pay a dowry, few choices were available to her. Juana could be the wife of a poor man, the mistress of a rich man, or...

Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Cultural Reorganization from a Woman's Perspective

reader is able to reconsider a number of suppositions as related to the era and the characters that inhabit it. Details, Details, ...

God's Second Son by Jonathan D. Spence

In 6 pages this paper examines the 19th century Chinese rebel peasant Hong Xiuquan who contended he was Jesus Christ's brother as ...

Utopia by Thomas More, Pearl by the Gawain Poet, and the City

In 4 pages these 14th and 16th century works are examined in terms of how each depicted the city of their respective time periods....

New Atalantis by Mary Delariviere Manley and Fantomina by Eliza Fowler Haywood

In 5 pages these two female authors of the 18th century are examined in terms of their popular works and the feminist social criti...

Comparative Analysis of Posters During World War I and World War II

armed forces volunteer recruitment, and raising much-needed funds for the Red Cross (Inge 1989). Although World War I is believed...

Muslim History: Damascus and Cairo

and the Christian Jerusalem comprised the major powers within Syria at the time.3 In relationship to Cairo, several years ...

Ibsen's "A Doll's House" - Masculinity And Marriage

are no different in this regard, inasmuch as they are inherently diverse by nature yet are also further divided by social dictates...

Hebrew, Greek and Roman Values in Ancient and Medieval Literary Works

of specific interest, and which concern morality in the context of war, are those that argue for and against putting the Mitylene ...

Children And Literature: Learning About Themselves In A Book

are learning that every living being sometime, somehow, some way ultimately dies. Fairy tales have long utilized this concept as ...

Cervantes' Don Quixote, Proust's Remembrance of Things Past and Modernism

In 3 pages this paper examines modernism in terms of definition and how it applies to these works of world literature. There is 1...

Poetry, Literature: Influence of Victorian Society, World War I

This essay pertains to T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontent, as well as the influence t...

The Way in Which Technology and Telecommunications Have Transformed Urban Spaces

This 14 page paper discusses the way in which technology and telecommunications have transformed the urban environment, which is w...

Chapter Summaries of a Text on Youth Gangs

The third point turns to scholarship on youth gangs and the fact that there is no consensus as to the definition of what precisely...

Imagination and Love in On Love by Alain de Botton and Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

In twenty four pages this report contrasts and compares the themes of love and imagination as depicted in these works and also com...

Natural World Relationships in La Maravilla by Alfredo Vea Jr. and Fools Crow by James Welch

for those such as Beto and his grandparents who are still willing to see that it is still there. In "La Maravilla," unlike "Fools...

Envy and Virtue in Volpone by Ben Jonson

An ethical analysis of Jonson's satirical work is presened in a paper consisting of a six page discussion that the world is driven...