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A Comparison of The Story The Most Dangerous Game and The Child by Tiger (373 words, 1 pages)

The story The Most Dangerous Game it was a physical conflict between two persons representing good and evil. It was a conflict against the desecration of human life done by General Zaroff. General Zaroff was a vicious and barbaric antagonist who hunts and kills human life for the thrill of ... Read More

Review of poem Pontiac and My 48 Pontiac (331 words, 1 pages)

The poems Pontiac and My 48 Pontiac contained a numerous amount of fascinating parallels between each other. Each Poem involves a man who uses their Pontiac as a source, were they could reflect upon their issues. Alone with their car they could feel free to criticize. Unable to come to ... Read More

Comparison and Contrast of Beowulf and Gilgamesh (1626 words, 5 pages)

Beowulf and Gilgamesh There are many differences and critical comparisons that can be drawn between the epics of Beowulf and Gilgamesh. Both are historical poems which shape their respected culture and both have major social, cultural, and political impacts on the development of western civilization literature and writing. Before any ... Read More

Paul Auster's "Portrait of an Invisible Man" and Carolyn Kay Steedman's "Exiles" present the family histories of two very different people, the former - an American poet and the latter - a British cultural historian, but nevertheless these essays have many things in common, both in terms of style and ... Read More

Comparison Between Gilgamesh and Genesis There are many similarities between the epic Gilgamesh and the biblical story of Genesis. Some similarities between the two stories are the creation of man, the similarity between the relationships of Enkidu and Shamhat and Adam and Eve, and the story of the great flood. ... Read More

Metaphors and Symbolism in William Faulkner’s Short Stories A Rose for Emily and Barn Burning (1103 words, 2 pages)

Symbolism If we compare William Faulkners two short stories, A Rose for Emily and Barn Burning, he structures the plots of these two stories differently. However, both of the stories note the effect of a fathers teaching, and in both the protagonists Miss Emily and Sarty make their own decisions ... Read More

Differences and Similarities between Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1564 words, 3 pages)

Appreciating The Equivalence Ironically, although Coppola wanted to draw the greatness of the film from the greatness of the novel, the section most like Heart of Darkness is the weakest because he makes the rather romantic assumption...(Hagen,301) Francis Ford Coppola, the screenwriter of the film Apocalypse Now, made the film ... Read More

Comparison between the Beliefs and Ideas of Plato, Freud and Hinduism (1055 words, 2 pages)

Since the earliest civilizations such as The Indus Valley Civilization or the Ancient Greeks, humans created wonderful cities, cultures and made huge steps in science, technology, and thought. One of the oldest, if not the oldest civilization, is the Hindu civilization that offered its account of life, society, individuals and ... Read More

Comparison between the Main Characters in the Crucible by Arthur Miller and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1967 words, 3 pages)

John Proctor of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, is a highly respected man in Salem. "In Proctor's presence a fool felt his foolisheness instantly....Proctor respected and even feared in Salem", the narrator adds (Miller 20). He was a powerful man who disliked hipocrites and the presence of sin. Before the play ... Read More

Philadelphia Inquire, a Newspaper and Channel 6 Action, a Television Channel – Information and Manipulation (1381 words, 2 pages)

With terror threats looming over us, and an economy still unstable, we look to mass media for up to the minute news and an in-depth look into situation of grave concerns. Most of the time we think of mass media as a form of entertainment, but we must know that ... Read More

Comparison between the Views of Adam Smith and Karl Marx, between Søren Kierkegaard and Fyodor Dostoevski (642 words, 1 pages)

Man VS. God(Man) In the modern era, one of the primary issues that has plagued our society is the idea of ethics versus faith. Simplistically put, shall man live for himself or for a higher being? Man is bestowed with a free will which presents the dilemma of choosing either ... Read More

An Analysis of His Talk Her Talk by Joyce Maynard (650 words, 2 pages)

Their Talk, Person to Person Communication between the sexes is an age old problem that has been construed over the years to be the result of many factors. I believe the central problem between male and female communication is that men are direct and to the point, while women like ... Read More

A Biography of James Joyce (965 words, 2 pages)

James Joyce, a most prestigious author of many titles, has incorporated into his works many different thoughts, life experiences, as well as themes. Those three things that he used in his works I believe are what made him the awesome author he is today. The main focus of this paper ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem of Cid (1716 words, 3 pages)

Chris Irwin Commentary on Poem of the Cid Poetry played a vital role in the dissemination of information during the Crusade period. It provided a compact, easily memorized way of spreading news in a time bereft of the benefit of mass printing. According to Michael Routledge, who penned a chapter ... Read More

Time Travel,Fact or Fiction (2161 words, 5 pages)

Time travel stories are the stories in which people get lost in the dimension of time (and space). Time travel stories seem to have more with the fantasy writing, but they, in fact, may present us with a very realistic depiction of contemporary society and men. Authors of this kind ... Read More

The Villainous Side of Christopher Columbus (359 words, 1 pages)

Columbus the Villain In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue. And, when he reached his destination he killed, raped and enslaved innocent natives. Was Columbus a villain? The answer to that question, in my opinion, would be yes. Christopher Columbus was a cruel, self-centered, delusional man who does not deserve ... Read More

An Essay on the Neo-Impressionists Seurat and Signac (2258 words, 3 pages)

Seurat and Signac. These are the names of the founding father of neo-impressionism and of its earliest follower. Others would imitate their example, but few would adopt it as their primary style. The primary goal of Neo-Impressionism was, according to Seurat, to go beyond impressionism and apply scientific research in ... Read More

Christopher Columbus, an Explorer or an Exploiter? (872 words, 2 pages)

In 1492 Christopher Columbus landed on the shores of the Caribbean and claimed the new land in the name of Spain and God. From then on the world was changed forever in the sense that there was a whole New World to conquer. Conquistadors like Cortez and Pizarro then followed ... Read More

The Evolution of the Coca-Cola Company (2068 words, 7 pages)

Coca-Cola and its Evolution The Coca-Cola company started out as an insignificant one man business and over the last one hundred and ten years it has grown into one of the largest companies in the world. The first operator of the company was Dr. John Pemberton and the current operator ... Read More

A Paper on Christine de Pizan and The Book of the City of Ladies (1102 words, 2 pages)

Christine de Pizan An unlikely candidate to dispute the unfair, misogynistic treatment of women by men and society, Christine de Pizan successfully challenged the accepted negative views that were being expressed about women by the all-male literary world of her era. Part of Christines uniqueness stems from the time in ... Read More

A Paper on Orson Welles’s Movie Citizen Kane (448 words, 1 pages)

Citizen Kane Citizen Kane is a film that was produced in 1941 by Orson Wells. The film has one of the best camera uses and lighting. They show the viewers Kane's raise and fall from power. Citizen Kane has very complex narrative structure. Throughout the movie film explains viewers social ... Read More

A Review of John Steinbeck’s Story The Chrysanthemums (829 words, 1 pages)

Women are more than emotional! In John Steinbecks short story The Chrysanthemums, the chrysanthemums represent the soul of every woman. Elisa Allen represents the feminine ideal of equality and its inevitable defeat from a males perspective. Together the chrysanthemums and Elisa Allen convey the Woman Rights Movement just as Elisa ... Read More

Dedicated Christians Should Not Have Wealth (488 words, 1 pages)

If Christians "love God with all their heart, soul, mind and strength" (Matt. 2237), then they cannot love money at the same time. This is the love of ultimate priority and total attachment and should not allow for a divided mind because "no man can serve two masters he will ... Read More

The Concept of Sin in Various Christian Groups (999 words, 2 pages)

A sinful act is one, which breaks a set of rules. Christianity, this is Gods law. To Christians a sin is an act that falls short of Gods intention or disobeys his word. In this essay I will discuss how various Christian groups judge sin and decide which acts are ... Read More

A Review of the Novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (628 words, 1 pages)

What makes a tragedy so tragic is that the tragic hero, frequently because of his hamartia, falls a great distance from the high point where he is above many of us to the lowest point possible. In addition, they tend to be conductors of suffering as critic Northrop Frye says. ... Read More

A Review of the Book Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (399 words, 1 pages)

In the book Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes, a retarded man named Charlie Gordon was given a chance to become a genius through an operation. Charlie Gordon was the subject of an experiment that increases the intelligence. The experiment worked and Charlie Gordon became a genius. But he had ... Read More

A Paper on Life and Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (613 words, 1 pages)

The great author Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in Hartford, Connecticut, whom was the daughter of both Mary Westcott Perkins and Frederick Beecher Perkins. Gilman had a hard life her father left the family after his child died in 1866. Mary Perkins, Gilman's mother lived alone with her children on ... Read More

The Class Culture War in Charles Dickens’ Hard Times (1867 words, 3 pages)

Hard Times by Charles Dickens is a very dismal tale of Victorian England at the period of industrialization. In the novel, Dickens controversially depicts various injustices he sees happening within England during the Victorian Era and places them in Hard Times. The imaginary town in which the book takes place ... Read More

A Paper on Charles Manson (1863 words, 5 pages)

On the morning of August 9, 1969, three LAPD officers arrived at 10050 Cielo Drive (Bugliosi 7). The scene that awaited them was horrendous. In the driveway, in a parked car, the body of Steven Parent was found. He was shot four times and stabbed once. Laying about eighteen or ... Read More

A Paper on the Life of Charles Dickens (1037 words, 2 pages)

Many people have heard of the world-renowned English novelist Charles Dickens. Throughout his life, he wrote many novels, such as Oliver Twist and A Tale of Two Cities, but they didn't die with him. Instead, they still thrive in popularity today, as does his name. Dickens is a marvelous man ... Read More

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Published: Friday 25th of January 2013