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Common Themes in "The Purloined Letter" and Poe's Poetry

to start a disturbance in the street when he visits the thief the second time. When the man goes to the window, Dupin grabs the le...

The War in Iraq and The Iliad

deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...

Modernist and Confessional Poets and the Place of "Personality" in Poetry

of dealing with this new and frightening situation (Modernism, 2002). The modernist poets had a much more disillusioned worldview ...

Violence and War in Michael Cimino's Film The Deer Hunter

there are individuals who either remember it or have hand one reason or another to study it. Americans themselves, in fact, held ...

An Analysis of the Graphic Portrayals of Violence in 'Saving Private Ryan'

period between September 1, 1939 (the date of Germanys invasion of Poland) and September 2, 1945 (the date of the Japanese surrend...

Poetry, Art, and Music Creativity

conceptions of himself, his fellowmen and his universe" (Fleming, 1974, p. 1). The visages that art can take are many and varied, ...

Analyzing World Wars I and II

the first of the two great wars where Europe all but destroyed itself began in 1914. And in some sense one can begin to see the si...

Cultural Influences Exerted by the Life and Art of Robert Frost

other poets of the time by rejecting modernism. As this poem demonstrates, Frost frequently drew his imagery from nature. While m...

U.S. Cities Growth

moved to the cities (War and prosperity, p. 231). "By 1950, 64 percent of the countrys total population lived in urban areas..." (...

Vietnam War and the Themes of Change and Endurance

Kevin Sims "Four Hours in My Lai." A Rumor of War In Caputos work he states, in the beginning, "In a general sense, it is simply...

Buddhism and the Impact of War

a Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Nhah Hanh, "whether he would rather have peace under a communist regime that would mean the end o...

Poetry, Social Change, and Business

Tom Ehrenfield (author of Poetry & Business) states that entrepreneurs have a lot in common with poet, as they both "invent new wa...

Armor Development

broke down and even when they were working, "were not capable of performing on a real battlefield" (Tank history, 2004). French ...

Second World War Crimes and Japan

things. Resulting in 200,000 deaths, "The Nanjing Massacre is one of the best documented of Japanese atrocities because independen...

Modern Technology and the U.S. Civil War

new technology. With these elements in mind, the following paper examines railroads, weaponry, and ironclads as it relates to the ...

Symbolism in the Love Poetry of William Butler Yeats

in form and lessened in abstraction. Yeatss once short, rhyming poems transformed into more lengthy poems that were less concerne...

The Sadness of Thomas Hardy

the poem did not deviate from this perspective it would become something of a pointless poem that was only possessed of sadness. T...

Vietnam War and the Agency Concept

can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...

Literary Tools Used by Emily Dickinson

61). Symbolism is the use of one thing to stand for or suggest another; a falling leaf to symbolize death, for example. And langua...

Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore as Descendants of Emily Dickinson?

however, this relationship can also be shown by examining three representative poems: specifically, "The Wind begun to knead the ...

The Poetry of Wheatley and Hughes

experiences were good ones, and quite unique when compared to slaves in the south. As such "racial equality is not a theme to be f...

The Causes of War; Nationalism and Social Darwinism

that brought the political tensions to a head was the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne; Archduke Francis Ferdinand...

"The Cold War Blinders And The Tragedy Of Vietnam" - Critical Essay

about much of its own global discord by virtue of its imperialistic mindset. While opinions about why Vietnam occurred are as vas...

Robert McNamara and Sun Tzu

and dodged the most important matters, continually laying the blame for the killing of millions at the feet of others (Cockburn, 2...

'Women Poets of the Italian Renaissance'

is the goddess of earthly love; she goes back at least to the Greeks, who called her Aphrodite. In the second poem, the "King" ref...

American Civil War: Just or Unjust?

Orend points out that the mere threat of war, or mutual dislike and disdain, are not necessarily indicators of war. "The conflict ...

A Memo on the War on Terror

military action in the province if the tribal leaders would promise not to give shelter to foreign elements or allow border attack...

Born on the Fourth of July

person that John F. Kennedy was addressing when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your co...

All Quiet on the Western Front & Iraq

by the reality of war. Their psyches have been reduced to the common denominator that is dictated by whatever has to be done in or...

The Paraguyan War (The War of the Triple Alliance)

Triple Alliance. Slavery was abolished as a result of the war but the military took greater and greater predominance in Brazil. ...