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A Review of the San Fermin Festival and the Running of the Bulls (1297 words, 2 pages)

The San Fermin Festival and the Running of the Bulls The San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain, has been celebrated for centuries. The festival honors San Fermin. The festival itself is exciting, however, the focal point of the festival is the running of the bulls. San Fermin was the son ... Read More

A Review of the Book, The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (1173 words, 2 pages)

FINAL ESSAY The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane is a completely unromantic and realistic story about a boy's psychological turmoil as he experiences warfare. Stephen Crane's attitude towards war is a distraught understanding of the irrational effects war has on ... Read More

A Review of The Rape of Nanking (595 words, 1 pages)

The Rape of Nanking Most American schoolchildren have been taught of the gas chambers at Auschwitz and have read at least part of The Diary of Anne Frank. Many are taught about the atomic bombs that the United States dropped on the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But ask them ... Read More

A Review of the Book The Outsiders (539 words, 1 pages)

The book I chose for my report was The Outsiders. Also, when survey the book the main characters name was Ponyboy, which is a very interesting name. This book was very interesting to me. Ponyboy is a young fourteen-year-old boy, who is not sure about a lot of things in ... Read More

A Review of the Movie The Mirror Has Two Faces (535 words, 2 pages)

THE MIRROR HAS TWO FACES A MOVIE REVIEW The movie stares Barbara Streisand as Rose Morgan a lonely, single, low self esteemed woman who lives with her domineering mother Hannah Morgan played by Lauren Becall in New York. Jeff Bridges who plays Gregory Larkin a math instructor at Columbia University ... Read More

An Analysis of the Book Review of Robert Laceys “The Life and Times of Henry VIII” (1016 words, 2 pages)

Book Review Robert Laceys The Life and Times of Henry VIII was first published and copyrighted in 1972 by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. This most recent edition was published by Welcome Rain in 1998, though Weidenfeld and Nicolson still hold copyright privileges. Lacey, a former scholar at Bristol Grammar School and ... Read More

A Review of Barbara Ascher’s Article on The Box Man (338 words, 1 pages)

Barbara Ascher takes a usually ignored subject and displays it in a way that most of us have probably never thought of. Her essay answers the who, what, where, and when about a homeless man, known to her as The Box Man. She uses the rest of the essay to ... Read More

A Review of the Book of Judges (451 words, 1 pages)

The book of Judges is the sequel to Joshua. It is the seventh book of the Old Testament. It recounts stories and events from the death of the hebrew leader and prophet Joshua to the birth of the hebrew Samuel. That is roughly, from the end of the Israelite conquest ... Read More

A Review of the 12th Amendment (1132 words, 2 pages)

The 12th Amendment The 12th Amendment states "The electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and Vice President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves they shall name in their ballots the person voted for ... Read More

A Review of the Play, Whispering Blossoms by Yang Chiang (706 words, 1 pages)

Wasted Blossoms Every morning when I drove to work I seen a blossom tree that reminded me of the play "Whispering Blossoms" by Yang Chiang and could not wait to see it performed at the Carlson Center at Johnson County Community College. I knew nothing about the play and I ... Read More

A Review of the Administration of Theodore Roosevelt (3849 words, 12 pages)

The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt The turn of the century has always been a big deal for modern civilizations. One hundred years of life is quite large compared with the average 70 or so given to most. Because of that, people tend to look in trends of decades, rather than ... Read More

A Review of the Book, The Art of War by Sun Tzu (1959 words, 3 pages)

A BOOK REVIEW OF SUN TZU THE ART OF WAR Translated by SAMUEL B GRIFFITH 2001-09-14 The Art of War' was written by Sun Tzu and translated by Samuel B. Griffith. The authorship and date of this book has been closely scrutinized since the eleventh century in prolonged and protracted ... Read More

A Review of the Novel, Eragon by Christopher Paolini (676 words, 1 pages)

The novel takes place in a land known as Alaga, which is ruled by the evil king, Galbatorix, once a dragon rider who became corrupted upon denial of a second dragon. It begins with a 15 year old boy, Eragon, who is hunting in the Spine, a range of mountains ... Read More

A Review of the Mysterious Stonehenge (2447 words, 4 pages)

Mysterious Stonehenge Stonehenge holds many mysteries and secrets that have drawn countless tourists to visit it over the years. These mysteries and secrets have also resulted in several stories written including Stonehenge in them. The construction and building of this ancient masterpiece is extremely puzzling and complicated. However, the effects ... Read More

A Review of Cloning and It’s Benefits for Mankind (824 words, 2 pages)

Should Cloning be Banned? What ever happened to that magical word cloning that dazzled everyones mind. This one word has produced pride, anger, and amazement all at one. Pride, basically because humans have finally mastered the idea of producing a complete replica of a mammal. Anger, because the idea of ... Read More

A Review of Letter from Mrs. Hutchinson to the Council of the Village (986 words, 3 pages)

Letter from Mrs. Hutchinson to The Council of the Village Rogerian Paper To the Village Council, I am writing to you about the lottery which we hold every year. In this lottery which a person is chosen at random and is stoned to death. I understand that you believe that ... Read More

A Review of the Facts About Rock Creek Golf Club (897 words, 2 pages)

REVIEW OF FACTS Rock Creek Golf Club is a public golf course owned by a private company and managed by Lee Jeffries. The case entails a debate about the golf carts used to take players around the course instead of walking around. The carts they already owned were old and ... Read More

A Review of a Documentary on Abusive Parenting (321 words, 1 pages)

This was a very sad documentary. It's sad that a child ever goes through something like that. It's sad that because of abuse from someone else, they feel they need to abuse others. It's sad that they don't know how to love or let others love them. I wish that ... Read More

A Review of a Classic Hollywood Film (374 words, 1 pages)

I first off did not care for this film. I know I should be more open minded when it comes to classical films that are in black and white but I just did not get interested into this selection. The film tried to have some intentional artifice with the whole ... Read More

A Review of the Crucible by Arthur Miller (1205 words, 3 pages)

THE CRUCIBLE IN REVIEW I t's the spring of 1692. The whole village of Salem is in an uproar. The Reverend Samuel Parris' daughter Betty won't wake up, and the Putnams' little Ruth is walking around like a zombie. The night before, Reverend Parris had heard a funny noise in ... Read More

A Review of Ernest Hemingway’s “A Farewell to Arms” (507 words, 1 pages)

A Farewell to Arms By Ernest Hemingway Write a character sketch of the character you feel is the most important to the book. The character that I feel is the most important to the book is Catherine Barkley. She was a constant character in the novel. Hemingway uses Catherine as ... Read More

A Review of William Shakespeare’s Play “Othello” (1150 words, 2 pages)

The play 'Othello', by William Shakespeare is a classic Shakespearian tragedy as it follows the conventions that the hero's downfall is caused by a character flaw. It is also seen as a classic Shakespearian tragedy as the hero's flaw is exposed by an external influence. Although despite having a flawed ... Read More

A Review of the Story of Christian Army (384 words, 1 pages)

Orlando, the bravest knight in Christian army, is in love with the beautiful Angelica the princess of Catai. The duke saves the girl and quarrels with his cousin Rinaldo because of her love. However, Angelica runs away from him wandering in the forest. From that moment on a lot of ... Read More

A Brief Review of the Story “Orestes” (236 words, 1 pages)

Orestes was driven by the natural impulses, and desire to avenge his father's death. In the Eumenides he becomes merely the passive instrument of fate, all freedom of action being transferred to the gods. He mourned his fathers death and asked the king of the gods to give him ability ... Read More

A Review of Sophocles’ “Antigone” (621 words, 1 pages)

Antigone The story of Antigone is a well-written play by Sophocles. Most of the writing in the strophe, and the antistrophe is metaphoric and quite poetic. These parts are a bit hard to conceive what is intended but the thought process is what makes the understanding worth all of the ... Read More

A Review of the Story “One Hundred Years of Solitude” (1632 words, 5 pages)

One Hundred Years of Solitude- Since the beginning of time, man has clung to the notion that there exists some external force that determines his destiny. In Grecian times, the epic poet Hesoid wrote of a triumvirate of mythological Fates that supposedly gave "to men at birth evil and good ... Read More

A Review of Graham Greene’s Story “Jubilee” (1113 words, 2 pages)

Old Vs. New in Jubilee Graham Greenes Jubilee is a short story about an ageing male prostitute, Mr Chalfont, and his encounter with Amy another ageing prostitute in a Mayfair bar. The story is set on the aftermath of the Jubilee celebrations of King George Vs 25 years of reign ... Read More

A Review of Samuel Beckett’s “Krapp’s Last Tape” (839 words, 3 pages)

Oh the Sorrow... During the 20th century, there was an evident disillusion and disintegration in religious views and human nature due to the horrific and appalling events and improvements in technology of this time, such as the Holocaust and the creation of the atom bomb. This has left people with ... Read More

A Review of John Steinbeck’s Story “Of Mice and Men” (359 words, 1 pages)

Being the only woman on a ranch is a very lonely life. In John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, although many people on the ranch are lonely, the author uses Curley's wife to portray special loneliness. Curley's wife's values of wanting companionship, wanting to be approved by others, and wanting ... Read More

A Review of Robert Fitzgerald’s Translation of The Odyssey (1516 words, 3 pages)

July 7, 2000 Odysseus Unmasks In Robert Fitzgerald's translation of the Odyssey, many scenes exist that parallel, predict, and contrast each other in various ways. For example, the self-revelation scene in book IX from line 548 to line 592 where Odysseus announces his name to the Kyklopes, and also in ... Read More