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'Bartleby the Scrivener' by Herman Melville

Melville: "he was ... a gentleman adventurer in the barbarous outposts of human experience" (147). Melvilles Bartleby the Scriven...

Media and Illusion

are not our leaders, but terrorists, such as the Unabomber and Timothy McVeigh. Within this mass of confusing images and media mes...

'Boy Set on Fire' 2004 Australian Article Sociological Evaluation

The reaction to the incident says much about the people, but it also conveys a clearly human experience. One might expect a cultur...

Analyzing Richard Wilbur's 'The Death of a Toad'

that the simple things in life, those things that really count for more, are drown out by the roar of progress in the form of a la...

Chapter Eight of Bleak House by Charles Dickens

funds have been consumed by legal fees. Esther also learns that Tom Jarndyce, the former owner of Bleak House, after coping with t...

Analysis of 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...

The 'Sir Patrick Spence Poem

implication is that anything signed by the hand of the king carries the weight of law. Sir Spence has to obey. The letter arrives ...

A Poetic Analysis of 'Homecoming' by Lenrie Peters

than they preserve" (Killam and Rowe). The poem "Homecoming" which is among his collection which show the corruptive greed ...

Second World War's Personal Impacts

exceptions, but there were not many. WWII changed all that. As every able-bodied man not involved in defense development o...

War's Effects in Texts of Pat Barker and Sebastian Faulks

mere surface appearances. All this opulent beauty will be hidden with the outbreak of World War I. Having already been inv...

'If You Touched My Heart' by Isabel Allende

human being. Her song on the "blond wood psaltery" produced a "crystalline sound like water purling between stones" (82). As this ...

'Roman Fever' by Edith Wharton

both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...

Epic 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and the Use of Symbolism

of balance. The Knight carries the potential for both peace and war. They are intimately bound to one another, it should be said, ...

'The Fire Last Time' by Nathan Ward

driver fled and the dynamite exploded a few minutes later. Ward (2001) quotes Charles P. Dougherty of the Sun, as saying that the ...

Exploring the Civil War's Causes

determining the direction that this country would ultimately take (McPherson, 1988). There were many individuals in the yea...

US Civil War's Turning Points

argues that "Common sense, the necessities of the war, to say nothing of the dictation of justice and humanity have at last prevai...

Acquisition of Language and Memory Encoding

primary sample population in this study consists of subjects selected from the population of university students in a laboratory c...

Costuming in The Patriot

necessary in order to reconstruct the aspects of needlework, fabric and even the most intricate details not otherwise available th...

African Americans and the Civil War's Effects

Lincoln, and Northerners in general, are popularly seen as advocates for the black race. However, what is less well-known is that ...

Poetic Comparison of John Keats's 'When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be' and William Shakespeare's 'Sonnet 29'

described as an "identity crisis" (Mulrooney 227). They are both seeking solitary solace in nature as they grapple with professio...

Characters of Bolingbroke and Richard II Revealed in the Play by William Shakespeare

the treacherous feet" (III.2.14-16). Rather than action, Richard offers poetic interpretations of his situation. The tone and imag...

War's Realities and Poetry

be born of patriotism and love for their country, as there are few things that would inspire the soldiers to put up with such bad ...

Post World War and Cold War Economic and Political Impacts

(5). Therefore, when the wall dividing East and West Germany was finally torn down, it is clear why this was such a powerful symb...

'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost

certain meanings through word choices. For example, Frost uses the imagery of the forest to illustrate the "snags" we al...

Artistic Mood, Manic Depression and Touched with Fire by Kay Redfield Jamison

one in which her "periods of high enthusiasms, [were] ... short-lived and quickly burned itself out" (PG). In Touched with Fire...

Analysis of the Style of 'Sonnet 130' by William Shakespeare

5 I have seen roses damasked, red and white, 6 But no such roses see I in her cheeks; 7 And in some perfumes...

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Race Construction

helmsman awfully... Perhaps you will think it passing strange, this regret for a savage who was of no more account than a grain of...

'The Great Figure' by William Carlos Williams

Clearly represented in Williams poem are wonder, anticipation, fear and uncertainty, his words providing an avenue for the author ...

Second World War Torturing of US Prisoners of War by Japan

forgive and forget. It does however help to explore what happened in those camps in Japan during World War II. Although by and la...

The Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko and Searching for Self

it is as much a story about the Earth as it is a story about the human characters that strive to seek resolution to the very real ...