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Hawthorne's "Birthmark"/Lee's Mockingbird

possible defect" causes him dismay, as it is a "visible mark of earthly imperfection" (Hawthorne 1021). Alymers disdain for the bi...

"Gawain and the Greek Knight"/"Wife of Bath's Tale"

face" (lines 444-445)("Sir Gawain" 229). The head then warns Gawain not to forget their agreement, which is that Gawain will submi...

Johnny Tremain

maturation of the American colonies as they journey toward war and independence. The thematic context demonstrates how it is exper...

Science: The Only Viable Way To Knowledge?

as complementary forces, they are - and have long been - destined to remain at opposite ends of the spectrum. Indeed, there has b...

Ovid's Metamorphoses/Concept of Art, Poet

her sisters husband and how he had cut out her tongue to keep silent and a prisoner (Ovid BkVI:571-619). Those characters who as...

Revolutions in Science and Technology

While it is true that Fleming noted the effect of this substance on bacterial growth, the discovery entirely by chance, as Fleming...

The ‘Bright’ Promise of Communism Contrasted with the ‘Darkness’ of the Great Depression in the Films The Grapes of Wrath and Bound for Glory

supported, they were confronted with harsh realities that caused them to seriously question their sociopolitical ideology. Two fi...

Art Collector Catharine Lorillard Wolfe

Museum of Art (History). In 1887, Wolfe personally began the Mets European painting department by leaving her extensive collection...

Medieval Literature and Portrayal of Political Issues

code of chivalry. This code of chivalry was something seen throughout a kingdom and throughout a society. As such it provides us w...

Cinematic Comparison of 2001 A Space Odyssey and The Matrix

definitely postmodern? In some ways, that appears to be true, but in other ways that may not be the case at all. 2001 began with...

Japan and Traditional Women's Role

This paper discusses Japan's society in terms of the role women have traditionally played such as wife, geisha, and also examines ...

Historic British Literary Heroes

imaginations. In examining the changing role of the hero in English Literature, five British literary periods will be examined. F...

Arms Control and the Cold War

British Prime Minister) in 1946 that required immediate attention. Proposing that atomic energy be placed under international con...

Tsarist Period Russian Peasants and Modern Workers Compared

slowly but surely being cast aside. It can be argued that with the weakening influence of World War I, reason and freedom stood l...

A US Post Civil War History

In this paper of six pages several important historical events such as the growth due to the Industrial Revolution, the twentieth ...

The Slave Mothers of Black Americans

slave Louis Hughes in his autobiography, Thirty Years a Slave (Hughes, 2001). In his account, he discusses how he was separated fr...

Examination of Courtly Love

where a distinct division of power was responsible for the tapering affect that cascaded throughout each districts diversity of au...

Post Bismarck Germany

1992). Such arguments have been made in the past hundred years as people speculate on the past and discuss what might have been. W...

An Inspector Calls

out by the appearance of the supposed inspector. This plot thickens as we note that each individual within the Birling family s...

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century British History and Authors

as one author states, "The medieval church was defeated and the educated classes embraced scientific rationalism. Art, architectu...

Overview of the Romantic Age

In the various paintings, one can see an appreciation of nature figuring more prominently as well as a celebration of the emotiona...

Civil Rights and Law Enforcement

loopholes that allowed law enforcement officials to turn the other way during a white-on-black lynching), stories such as Janes we...

Comparisons of 16th and 19th Century Art El Greco vs. Caillebotte

Reformation, as well as Romes response to the Reformation, the Counter-Reformation (Fleming, 1974, p. 324). During this period, ev...

John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, the Great Dust Bowl, and Families

and set off to search for a way to survive. They were a people, a family, that illustrated how "The movement of people on the Plai...

How Hate is Depicted Through the Ages

were going forth to conquer in Gods name. Most of the early works from the Anglo-Saxon time that have survived are tied heavily wi...

Marriage from a Colonial Perspective

writes in Marriage to a Difficult Man: The Uncommon Union of Jonathan and Sarah Edwards, "The Puritans loved robustly and gave mar...

Police Corruption Selective History

that while the officer at least in America is seen as an individual who should be well respected, he or she is also under scrutiny...

H.G. Wells' 'Time Machine' and Adolf Hitler's Thoughts

feat of time travel, for example, through the wonders of modern science. After years of meticulous work he has managed to create ...

Women, Medieval Attitudes and The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

the passage is a contrast of literal words and actual underlying meanings. Many times what the Wife says is in direct opposition t...

Is Govermental Power Too Great or Insufficient?

entities take liberties and make rules that do not abide by the clear-cut convictions of a democratic system of administration. ...