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Philosophers, historians, authors, and politicians have spent centuries
pondering the relationship between citizens and their government. It is a
question that has as many considerations as there are forms of government and it
is rarely answered satisfactorily. A relatively modern theorist, author Henry
Thoreau, introduced an idea of man as an individual, rather than a subject, by
thoroughly descr... Full-text essay
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Virginia Woolf creates interesting contrast within the character of Clarissa
Dalloway using stream of consciousness narration in her novel Mrs. Dalloway.
Clarissa’s inner thoughts reveal a contrast between her lack of attraction to
her husband due to her lesbian feelings and her fear of loosing him as a social
stepping stone. These contrasts and many others can be seen throughout the novel
using t... Full-text essay
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A Clean, Well Lighted Place is a story of lights and shadows, of the coexistence
of ''being'' and ''nothingness''. An old man sits outside the cafe, on the
terrace, where all the tables are empty except then one he sits at. He hides
himself in the shadow - the perfect hiding-place, a hide-out for a person who
wants to remain invisible and unnoticed to the people he observes. They - the
observed on... Full-text essay
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Wilson was an English novelist and critic. He was born in a small house in
Harpurhey and was the son of a bookkeeper and part-time pianist. He was found
lying in his cot when he was a baby with his mother and sister dead beside him.
They were said to have been victims of the Spanish Flu. Anthony attended the
Bishop Bilsborrow- Primary School, Moss Side, Xavier College and lastly
Manchester Univers... Full-text essay
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Clovis Sangrail is a character featured in three of the Saki short stories
covered this semester. The three featured short stories are “Tobermory”,
“The Unrest-cure”, and “The She-Wolf”. Clovis is undoubtedly one of
Saki’s preferred individuals because he is a reoccurring character. Since
Saki’s main intention was to mock the aristocracy, he required an antithetical
character that could serve as a... Full-text essay
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It was in the middle of winter on a dark smoggy night, chills were running
through the house in and out of my room like a quiet ghost silently coming and
silently going. As I lie awake in my bed thinking of what the next day should
bring, my eye's start to grow heavy as I doze off. In the distance I hear a
faint booming sound, soon it starts getting louder and louder and still louder
until I could... Full-text essay
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The novel, The Color Purple, is an epistolary novel. In the letterforms, Alice
Walker gives several ideas, such as, friendship, domination, courage &
independence. She impacts readers by looking at the story through the eyes of
Celie and Nettie. The book describes the fateful life of a young lady. It tells
how a 14 year old girl fights through all the steps and finally she is in
command for he... Full-text essay
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The concept of comitatus is important for understanding the actions and
attitudes of a thane and his relationship to his lord. A band of thanes pledged
themselves to a feudal lord who was known for his bravery and generosity. They
swore to defend him to their death, and they considered it shameful to leave the
battlefield if their chief was slain. According to their loyal code, if their
leader was... Full-text essay
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There are many different books, in many different genres. There are horror
novels, love stories, suspenseful books, and detective stories. The detective
story's evolution has been a long and eventful process. The man responsible for
the biggest leap in the detective story was Arthur Conan Doyle. He gave the
world Sherlock Holmes, who could be considered the greatest investigator in
detective story... Full-text essay
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In the three stories To Build a Fire, The Use of Force, and A and P there are
some different conflicts. A conflict is struggle between two or more objects. In
these stories the three different conflicts are man versus nature, man versus
man, and man versus self. The three stories that contain these conflicts are To
Build a Fire by Jack London, The Use of Force by Williams Carlos Williams, and A
an... Full-text essay
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Congo by Michel Crichton was an extraordinary book as well as a movie about a
group of scientists taking a journey into the heart of Africa in search of the
black diamonds, in the lost city of Zinj! While being observed back in the U.S.
over satellite camera, the whole team dies within a matter of seconds by some
unknown being. The scientists back home sent out a second team (Karen as the
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Consitble Warren was the only Constable in town. He was friends with everyone.
He use to just stop by and say hello. Constable Warren always made sure
everything was okay “seein’ if there’s anything I can do to prevent a
flood. Rivers been rising all night”. Pg. 983 Mrs. Gibbs: Mrs. Gibbs is a big
gossiper. She always use to gossip after her husband left the room. She had a
son named George. Georg... Full-text essay
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Fernand Mondego was a simple fisherman who led a dull, monotonous life and was
not very important in the social status. If he had just been content in all of
his circumstances, his life might have been better. However, from the very
beginning of the book, Fernand's goal in life was to obtain things he could not
obtain. He desired power, fame, fortune-- and Mercedes. Most of these could be
obtained... Full-text essay
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The Coyote In The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle, the author
repeatedly draws parallels between the actual coyote and the figurative coyote.
Boyle uses the actual coyote to show how the animal actually is. In this novel
the coyote acts as a symbol for many things. Boyle parallels the figurative
coyote with Jose Navidad who is portrayed as the bad character in the novel.
Boyle also uses t... Full-text essay
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To summarize the essay, Crack in the Box, you have to understand the writer and
what he is saying, or the point he is trying to make. In the article Crack in
the Box The writer Pete Hammil compares the difference between Television and
the common street drug known as Crack Cocaine. The essay starts with a story of
a young lady hooked on drugs and living in poverty with a couple of children.
The ch... Full-text essay
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Creative writing is used to help regular expository writing become more
interesting. You can use creative writing to do many tasks to help compose your
paper. For instance, use this technique to select and narrow down your chose of
topic. You can also generate and ideas, research ideas, and organize the ideas
into a thesis. Use creative writing to develop examples, specific details,
analogies and ... Full-text essay
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At the crossroads two separate worlds meet. Each opposing world examines the
other. Both worlds use different customs and different languages. One world uses
a belief system based on monotheism and exercises a democratic-like government.
The other possesses a belief system based on polytheism and operates their
government in complete anarchy. Neither worlds can understand or comprehend how
the oth... Full-text essay
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Exploring thermodynamic entropy and information theory clarifies the ambiguous
relationship between Oedipa Maas, Maxwell's Demon and the Tristero System in The
Crying of Lot 49. Through a convoluted, chaotic adventure leading to disorder,
Oedipa searches for the truth about Tristero, hoping it will save her from her
tower of imprisonment (Pynchon, 11). Pynchon dangles this elusive message over
Oed... Full-text essay
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“A cultural revolution ignited” In the late nineteenth-century and early
twentieth-century the country was experiencing a boom time in the economy, but
it came at the expense of the average poor immigrant. As long as business men
were making a buck they didn’t care or who what they exploited in order to do
so. Also, there were no limitations on what any industry can and can not do. The
United Stat... Full-text essay
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In an effort to attract the audience of today, the producers of the movie Roxane
retold the play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rustond in a way that is
appropriate and at the same time appealing. In order to give the audience of
today a story that they can understand and relate to, the producers have
adjusted and manipulated the play itself. As a result, several similarities and
differences exist b... Full-text essay
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Plath’s poem "Daddy" describes her feelings of oppression from her
childhood and conjures the struggle many women face in a male-dominated society.
The conflict of this poem is male authority versus the right of a female to
control her own life and be free of male domination. Plath’s conflicts begin
with her father and continue into the relationship between her and her husband.
This conf... Full-text essay
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James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a novel of complex
themes developed through frequent allusions to classical mythology. The myth of
Daedalus and Icarus serves as a structuring element in the novel, uniting the
central themes of individual rebellion and discovery, producing a work of
literature that illuminates the motivations of an artist, and the development of
his individ... Full-text essay
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The real issues in the damnation of Theron ware are not issues of religion, but
rather cultural issues. Although the book is outwardly a novel about religion,
the question becomes not whether god exists, but how we should live. Theron
becomes damned in the novel because of what he is. Theron cannot be anymore than
what he is, a simple Methodist minister, yet when he is shown another way of
life, h... Full-text essay
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It is clearly evident that many fairy tales of childhood tend to shape the
reader. Certain moral codes and ideals are tightly woven into the text of many
fairy tales, promoting or denoting a character’s actions. In the Grimm’s
fairy tales Cinderella, Brier Rose, and Rapunzel, the heroines of these tales
exhibit strong behavioral codes, thus providing opportunity for the young female
reader to rela... Full-text essay
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Dante's The Divine Comedy section of Purgatory is a depiction of Dante and his
struggle to reach paradise. He is a character as well as a narrator. The
purgatory section deals with the seven deadly sins and Dante's task of cleansing
himself on his journey to heaven. He confronts many different people on his
journey to self-righteousness, which help and guide him to his destiny.
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Dante makes many references to Homer and the Iliad throughout the Inferno. The
fates of favorite characters are described during the course of Dante’s
travels. Beginning with his vision of Homer in Limbo, continuing through
increasingly gory levels of Hell until Dante reaches the eighth bolgia where he
meets Ulysses who is engulfed in fire. Dante’s infatuation with the Iliad is
clearly illustrated... Full-text essay
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Dante’s Inferno is one of the three parts of his Divine Comedy. The Inferno is
divided into thirty-four cantos, each containing a description of a specific
region of hell. Sinners in each area are punished for different sins. Sinners of
lust suffer in upper hell, sinners of violence in middle hell, and the sinners
of fraud in the lowest part of hell. The sufferings of these people are
portrayed th... Full-text essay
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In David Mamet’s essay “The Rake: A Few Scenes from My Childhood” and Amy
Tan’s story “Jing-Mei Woo: Two Kinds,” the authors describe their personal
experiences. The essay and story are based upon the authors’ childhood
memories. There are many similarities and differences in Mamet’s and Tan’s
works. Both authors describe a childhood conflict; however, Mamet does not
resolve his conflict whereas T... Full-text essay
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James Joyce’s “The Dead” begins at the annual 1904 Christmas party given
by the Misses Morkans, Miss Kate and Miss Julia. This is also considered a
yearly reunion. The party consists of many family members and friends many of
whom dislike one another, particularly Gabriel. It is at the party that we are
introduced to Gabriel, and our initial impression is that he is self-centered
and selfish. As t... Full-text essay
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Sometimes in life people can come along and touch our lives in unexpected ways.
This was the case with Mr. Keating and the boys in the movie "Dead Poets
Society". He taught the boys so many lessons that they would have never
learned from any other teacher. By looking at scenes from the movie, and lines
from the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman, we can see just how
important ... Full-text essay
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The Polanski film Death and the Maiden is a wonderful and intelligent
interpretation of Ariel Dorfman’s human rights problem play. Polanski has
produced, in this film, an exceptional piece of direction, in which his own
personal, emotional input is evident. The main theme of the play is an extremely
personal one for both playwright (and scriptwriter) and director. Both Dorfman
and Polanski have ha... Full-text essay
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Death has been portrayed in many ways in literature, from a dark mysterious
stalker to a celebration of eternal life. Every person has their own view of
death, which means that death has no boundaries as to what form it takes. Some
of the more widely used views are as a feared being, a humorous clown, and as a
continuance of life. In the short story "Idiots First"(1223) death is
portraye... Full-text essay
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Leo Tolstoi the author of the short story "The Death of Ivan Ilych"
was born into wealthy family in Russia. Tolstoi became tired of going to school
and bettering himself so he dropped out of Kazan University. Despite societies
pressures he opened up a school for lower class children. Leo Tolstoi became
very successful in his profession as a novelist but was for some reason unhappy
with h... Full-text essay
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The short story, "The Death of Ivan Ilych", written by Leo Tolstoy, is
about the reactions of a man and his friends to his suffering and death.
Everyone who knows Ivan including Ivan himself has led a life of total
disconcern for the feelings and sufferings of others. They all lead shallow
lives not daring to probe into the feelings deep down inside for fear of
stepping outside the lines... Full-text essay
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Leo Tolstoy, born in Russia in 1828, wrote The Death of Ivan Ilych. The story
was written eight years after Tolstoy’s spiritual conversion and was inspired
by his own brother’s death. The Death of Ivan Ilych has several ironies
expressed in the story. Ilych expressed his denial, anger, depression and
acceptance towards dying very visibly. Ilych expressed denial of his condition
when he laughed abo... Full-text essay
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The short story, "The Death of Ivan Ilych", written by Leo Tolstoy, is
about the reactions of a man and his friends to his suffering and death.
Everyone who knows Ivan including Ivan himself has led a life of total
disconcern for the feelings and sufferings of others. They all lead shallow
lives not daring to probe into the feelings deep down inside for fear of
stepping outside the lines... Full-text essay
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Realism can be defined as an attempt to reproduce the surface appearance of the
life of normal people in everyday situations (Kennedy 1410). Basically realism
is a situation that normal people can relate to based on their own experiences.
Realism is extremely prevalent in the play Death of a Salesman. The characters
in the play all have real world problems. Lack of money is one of the problems,
wh... Full-text essay
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The depression was an era of extremes. A person was more than likely extremely
poor, or in the lucky upper 1% that was extremely wealthy. The middle class was
virtually not existent. All of these income groups, including those
characterized in our three stories, wanted money because it supposedly brought
happiness, but were actually struggling to cling to the intangible, unreachable
feeling of lov... Full-text essay
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In the movie and the short story, “The Devil and Daniel Webster”, written by
Stephen Vincent Benet, there is illustrated the battle between the forces of
good and evil. Although the story allows the reader to mentally picture the
scenes and the movie does the depicting for the viewer, there are several
similarities in each script. Some of these similarities are the way the
characters are depicted ... Full-text essay
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We should look at the differences of the world and try to learn from them. All
people have their good points and bad points. We live in a world that is not all
white, all black, or not even all yellow. We live in a world where all races
interact among themselves. The university in the United States is where this is
easily seen. At the university, we see people of all color and ethnicity from
our n... Full-text essay
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The divorce is a legal ending of a marriage. It occurs when two spouses feel
that a legal separation is the only way to put an end to their problems such as,
differences in goals, financial difficulties, or poor sexual relationships.
However, most people, when thinking about divorce, worry about the impact that
it has on their children that are involved. Besides, a reason that at least half
of our... Full-text essay
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Doctor Faustus is a significant and masterful play written by Christopher
Marlow. It is a unique play that it written during the beginnings of the
renaissance period and therefore neither solely Renaissance nor Medieval in
style. It is instead a great story of a man torn between the differences of the
outgoing Medieval Period and the incoming Renaissance told in a brilliant style
composed of the t... Full-text essay
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Tales of Faustian-like episodes are not limited to the past couple of centuries.
Accounts of men signing deals with the devil have been recounted since before
the Reformation. Most of the time, the party accused of associating with the
devil was forgiven by God and not sentenced to fulfill his contract. It was
believed by some, that to conjure up a demon that could be controlled through
Jesus was ... Full-text essay
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The short story written by David Michael Kaplan, “Doe Season” is what I have
chosen to analyze. “Doe Season” is about a young, innocent girl, named
“Andy” who goes hunting with her father, his friend “Charlie Spreun” and
his 11 year-old son “Mac.” At the beginning of the story she is praying that
they will get a deer. Throughout the story, the narrator tells of Andy’s past
experienes, like when sh... Full-text essay
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Many of our choices and the things one does in a lifetime can be directly based
on what society perceives to be proper. The choices one makes based on
society’s views, may sometimes have no logic to support them. These choices
are sometimes chosen because society would look down upon the person making the
“wrong” decision. The values and morals upheld by a society may directly
affect how one acts.... Full-text essay
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A play serves as the author's tool for critiquing society. One rarely encounters
the ability to transcend accepted social beliefs. The play reflects
controversial issues that the audience can relate to because they interact in
the same situations every day. As late nineteenth century playwright, Henrick
Ibsen points out the flaws of mankind and also provides an answer to the
controversy. Unknowing... Full-text essay
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Helmer is a successful bank lawyer in the drama “A Doll House” written by
Henrik Ibsen. His wife’s name is Nora. She is a housewife with three children
and gets help raising them from her maid Helen. Nora and Helmer are both busy
people within their lives. Little do they know that their marriage is not safe
due to the fact that it is not given first priority in the lives they led. The
action takes... Full-text essay
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Nora Helmer and Kristine Linde are two totally different women. First of all,
Kristine is a widow, but doesn’t suffer of the loss of her husband. “ …
Not even a broken heart to grief over” p.8 The only thing she suffers from is
the fact of being all alone. She’s a very calm and wise woman. Nora on the
other side is like a little child in the beginning. She wants to do whatever she
wants; for insta... Full-text essay
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Today a reader might find it hard to imagine how daring Nora Helmer was a
hundred years ago. The theme of women’s liberation makes this story seem
almost contemporary. This was considered a controversial play featuring a woman
seeking individuality. “A Doll’s House” was the play that made Ibsen world
famous. It was written well ahead of its time. In Ibsen’s time it was
considered an outrage for a ... Full-text essay
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This short story, "The Doll" is about poor out of work okies back in
the early 1930's looking for any type of job they can find, so they can get paid
or something to eat. Mrs. Hollis and the two okies are the main characters in
the story. The story tells about these okies asking for work from a well off
woman, Mrs. Hollis, and how she treats them. In spite of her will to help them,
she ... Full-text essay
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