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Lion Feuchtwanger's Prophetic Novel, The Oppermanns

reader, who has the benefit of hindsight, to wonder why German Jews, such as the Oppermanns, did not react earlier to the Nazi thr...

A contemporary Julius Caesar

was up."3 As Shakespeare tells the tale, there were warnings everywhere, from a lion running through the streets to a soothsayer ...

A Doll's House Examined Critically

an absent father. Although it is not obvious, her fathers absence lies at the bottom of her plight. To support her sick mother and...

Wolfflin and Friedlander and Anti-Mannerism

painters of the Italian Renaissance "strove to achieve the image of perfection at rest within itself. Every form developed to self...

Who does the World Trade Organisation Protect?

Globalisation and international trade offers a great deal of potential the both developed and developing countries; facilitating t...

Analysis and Critique: “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe

is the result of the selective way in which African affairs have been reported in the West over a long period (Bacon). Since Afr...

Homeland Security: Adequate Facility Security?

within the United States, reduce Americas vulnerability to terrorism and minimize the damage and recover from any terrorist attack...

Roland Bathes and S/Z

the reader is the consumer. A writerly text is at the other end of this spectrum, as in these texts the reader is also a co-produc...

THE EMPLOYEE FREE CHOICE ACT AND IMPACT ON THE ECONOMY AND LABOR MOVEMENT

Act impact labor in the U.S. today? Will it help raise the standard of living? Or will it simply put another layer of bureaucracy ...

Arnheim and Bazin: Film Theory

is simply the record captured by a filmmaker who sets up a camera somewhere and lets it run, then even a documentary is not truly ...

Nadia Comaneci and Her Life as a Gymnast

Accounts from Nadia's own book and website claim that her childhood was a desirable one. Yet, critics claim that her coach was to...

Late Spring, Directed by Yasujiro Ozu

from Japanese director Yasujiro Ozus 1949 masterpiece Late Spring, there are two cutaway shots that feature a beautiful vase. Thes...

Condoleezza v. Barack Obama World View

America In the wake of 9/11 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Rice begins her speech by summarizing the current dynamic...

Don Quixote as an Effective Pessimist

almost as tough a life as his creation Don Quixote; certainly his experiences are likely to have left him pessimistic about it. Th...

Film Review/Toy Story 3

as "jolly, slapstick comedy," but also criticizes it for lacking the "almost eerie humanity that infused" the earlier movies, writ...

Critiquing 2 Articles

similar to the UK, and 77% of the respondents stated that they agreed that there was a need to reduce waste, but this was an answe...

Walt Whitman's Influence on D.H. Lawrence

1918, but there are no existent early drafts until the 1919 version, which was published at this time in a Cambridge edition of La...

Fitzgerald and Hemingway

Fitzgerald was seeking in his style and the forms that were emerging in relationship to the 20s. Berman notes how many of his stor...

Candida and Arms and the Man and Romantic versus Real Love

business without impertinence" (Shaw). He has never exhausted his store of "spiritual enthusiasm and sympathetic emotion," qualiti...

Ernest Jones on Hamlet’s Inability to Act

It would seem that the fact the Ghost appears and Hamlet is able to speak to it is proof enough of the reality of the vision. In t...

Junot Diaz, "How to Date a Brown Girl..."

This essay pertains to "How to date a brown girl (black girl, white girl, or halfie)" by Junot Diaz. Referring to a description if...

Letter to Brunstein

This 3 page paper gives an example of a letter from the perspective of W.E.B. Du Bois and August Wilson sent to the critic Bruntei...

Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County

have held a job, had a hobby, read a book, or expressed an opinion since the Korean War. Still, this hunk from National Geographic...

The Thesis of Henri Pirenne

In five pages Pirenne's thesis that the European economic decline of the Middle Ages began with the seventh century rise of Islam ...

Literary Treatment of Darwinism

In ten pages this paper examines how the theories of Charles Darwin have been represented in literature in a consideration of crit...

Arnold Bennett's Anna of the Five Towns

In a five page paper the influence of capitalism in the characters of this novel are examined. There are no other sources listed ...

Arnold J. Toynbee and Pitirim Sorokin

In four pages these sociological theorists are contrasted and compared in terms of their views on human civilization's future and ...

The Thesis of Henri Pirenne

In an essay consisting of five pages Pirenne's thesis that the European economic decline that began in the Middle Ages commenced w...

Inferior Film Sequel Scream 2

In five pages this paper examines the reviews of critics regarding this inferior first sequel to the blockbuster and acclaimed hor...

Maturity in Legacy, a Novel by James A. Michener

with methodical, journeyman style. As he told a radio interviewer in 1992: "My job is to be a hard-working man who sits at a moder...