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A Comparison Between the Lives of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan (1363 words, 2 pages)

Richard Millhouse Nixon, our 37th President of the United States was born on January 9, 1913 on Yorba Linda California. Nixon attended different elementary schools trough out Yorba Linda, Whittier, and Fullerton. In high school Nixon played football, and he also got into debating. After high school Nixon attended Whittier ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life of Richard Nixon (776 words, 2 pages)

Richard Nixon was known as the 37th president that resigned from office. Im going to tell you the whole story. Nixon was born in 1913 in Yorba Linda, California, the second of five sons of Francis Nixon and Hannah Nixon. The Nixons were Scots-Irish and the Milhouses were of Irish ... Read More

An Analysis of the American Progressive Movement in the Failure of Progressivism by Richard Abrams (2174 words, 3 pages)

At the commencement of the twentieth century, a period referred to as progressivism swept through America. Precisely, this era in American history began soon after the Spanish-American War and lasted until the beginning of World War I. At this point in history, America was in turmoil due to internal problems ... Read More

The Significant Contributions of John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon to America (516 words, 1 pages)

John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon have shaped our country in different ways. They each had very separate lives, yet they always seemed to cross each others paths. They both had several similarities and many differences.John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born in Brooklyn, Massachusetts on May 29, 1917 to a ... Read More

The Life and Early Works of Richard Wagner (3854 words, 6 pages)

Richard Wagner Wunderkind or Monster?Richard Wagner remains the most controversial genius in music, perhaps in all the arts. The controversy began during his life - over ten thousand books about him were published before Wagner's death in 1883 - and continues still. The musical world is divided in Wagnerians (sometimes ... Read More

Life and Death in Richard Matheson’s Book “What Dreams May Come” (897 words, 2 pages)

Many of us, people dont believe that there exists live after death. We think that this is not possible. People are just dying and they are living their bodies behind them, and leaving this world. Some of us believe in the reincarnation. We died, but we are born as a ... Read More

An Analysis of War in All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria (2300 words, 3 pages)

Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel set in World War I, based around the changes formed by the war on one young German soldier. During his time in the war, the main character, Paul Baumer, changes from an innocent boy to a hardened veteran. More ... Read More

An Analysis of the Accounts of Paul Bamer in All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (571 words, 1 pages)

"All Quiet on the Western Front" was written in a first person style. The story was told by Paul Bamer, a nineteen year old student, convinced to enlist with the German army by his schoolmaster, Kantorek. Along with many of his friends from school, he is trained under Corporal Himmelstoss, ... Read More

An Analysis of the English and Spanish Languages in Gains and Losses by Richard Rodriguez (882 words, 1 pages)

In Richard Rodriguezs Gains and Losses, we are told the story of how he learned English as a young boy, and, in turn, stopped using his familys language, Spanish. The story is the portrayal of a Latino family that does not speak English very well and are pushed, by American ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Native Son by Richard Wright (1373 words, 8 pages)

The novel Native Son was published by Richard Wright in 1940. The book represents the tragedy of Bigger Thomas, a black boy raised in the Chicago slums during the great depression. Wright uses symbolism extensively in the novel. There is even symbolic meaning behind the titles of each of the ... Read More

Romantic Ideas in the Novel, Watership Down by Richard Adams (990 words, 2 pages)

Romantic Ideas in the Allegory Watership DownThe novel Watership Down by Richard Adams, like Edmund Spencers The Faerie Queene, is an allegory. Watership Down also embodies many romantic ideas. Fiver, a rabbit who sees visions from Frith, represents the turn toward imagination that occurred in the Romantic period. The rabbits ... Read More

A Glimpse at the Life and Literary Works of Richard Adams (5067 words, 9 pages)

Richard Adams was born in Newbury, England in May of 1920. He was the youngest of three children, a sister, Katherine, and a brother, John. (Richard had had another brother but he died at the age of three from influenza.) Richard was his father's favorite. George Adams (his dad), spent ... Read More

The Contradictions of “The People on the Pavement” to Richard Cory (473 words, 1 pages)

Who are "the people on the pavement"? We certainly know what kind of person Richard Cory was. Richard Cory was a true gentleman from head to toe, the epitome of an aristocrat. "The people on the pavement" were a stark contradiction to Richard Cory. They were not schooled, far from ... Read More

An Analysis of the Work by Samuel Richardson on the Preface of Pamela (640 words, 1 pages)

Samuel Richardson writes in the Preface of Pamela Or Virtue Rewarded that the novels main purpose lies in its ability to give practical examples, worthy to be followed in the most critical and affecting cases, by the virgin, the bride, and the wife (Richardson, 31). I would argue that underneath ... Read More

An Analysis of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Book “The Will to Power” (1409 words, 3 pages)

The existential philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche believed that humanity nedded to be overcome. He viewed humans as weak creatures and slaves to the Christian religion. In The Will to Power, Nietzsche asserts the poer of the overman-- a creature beyond Christian good and evil-- to replace the passive man.To understand the ... Read More

The Childhood, Education and Achievements of Richard Wright (1249 words, 3 pages)

The Childhood, Education and Achievements of Richard WrightRichard Wright was the son of an illiterate sharecropper. He was brought up in a dysfunctional home where he suffered poverty and abandonment. He became an essential figure in the development of African American literature, and has been called one of the most ... Read More

An Analysis of Jonathan Livingston Seagull By Richard Bach (1275 words, 3 pages)

Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach is basically about the story of an adventurous seagull's life. It looks like a book for a grade school reading level. After you scratch beneath the surface, however, I found the book is filled with things many fourth graders probably wouldn't grasp. Such as ... Read More

A Review of William Shakespeare’s Richard III (967 words, 2 pages)

Shakespeare Richard III was a traitor, a murderer, a tyrant, and a hypocrite. The leading characteristics of his mind are scorn, sarcasm, and an overwhelming contempt. It appears that the contempt for his victims rather than active hatred or cruelty was the motive for murdering them. Upon meeting him he ... Read More

A Discussion on the Works of Michael Crichton (1909 words, 3 pages)

For almost three decades, Michael Crichton has written novels that appeal to his readers imagination and take a firm hold of their pocketbooks. Crichtons writing stands out as much as his 69 frame. He has become one of the most widely read and bought science fiction authors of the past ... Read More

The War’s Effects on the Human Spirit in the Novel, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (796 words, 2 pages)

Views On Changes of the Human Spirit During WarAll Quiet on the Western Front shows the change in attitudes of the men before and during the war. This novel is able to portray the overwhelming effects and power war has to deteriorate the human spirit. Starting out leaving youre home ... Read More

The Destruction of an Entire Generation of Men in All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (1208 words, 2 pages)

"I am young, I am twenty years old yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how people are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another. I see that the ... Read More

An Analysis of the Characters and Battles in All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (6496 words, 10 pages)

The chapter begins with German soldiers at rest after fourteen days of fierce battle on the Western Front. A double ration of food has been prepared so the soldiers are eating their fill. Paul Baumer, the protagonist and narrator of the novel, watches in amazement as his friends, Tjaden and ... Read More

An Analysis of the Essay When We Dead Awaken by Adrienne Rich (1408 words, 2 pages)

In Adrienne Rich's essay "When We Dead Awaken Writing as Re-vision", the author writes about her personal experience as a woman writer in a male dominated society. Her essay consists of poems, which she had written throughout different times in her life, to demonstrate the transformation in her writing. As ... Read More

A Comparison of Themes in Different Poems by Adrienne Rich (1323 words, 3 pages)

Adrienne Rich Comparing and Contrasting Poems."From where does your strength come, you southern jew split at the root, raised in a castle of air". This is a quote from Adrienne Rich's 1982 essay, "Sources". Adrienne Rich is a southern jew who grew up in the forties. As she grew up, ... Read More

Richard Morin’s Explanations of the Problems Plaguing Polls Across in America (263 words, 1 pages)

Choice Words If You Cant Understand Our Poll Questions, Then How Can We Understand Your Answers? Core Issue Richard Morin writes about a problem plaguing polls across the nation. Morin states that many Americans polled do not understand the poll questions, yet they seem to always have an opinion on ... Read More

An Analysis of Richard and His Family After their Grandmother’s House Catches Fire (1474 words, 3 pages)

At Richards' grandmother's house. He sets some curtains on fire, which leads to the house catching on fire. The family moves to Memphis. Richard hangs a cat after his father tells him to (sarcastically) Richard's mother punishes him. At six while hanging out at a saloon he becomes a drunkard. ... Read More

A Plot Summary of Richard Adams’ “Watership Down” (743 words, 2 pages)

AUTHORWatership Down was written by Richard Adams, who was born May 9, 1920, in Berkshire, England. He won two awards for this novel. He is still living.Hazel became the leader of the rabbits once they left their original warren. He was a very smart and tricky rabbit who won the ... Read More

A Plot Summary of Richard Connell’s Short Story “The Most Dangerous Game” (613 words, 3 pages)

The short story The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell is about the hunter and the hunted but later in the story it becomes ironic because it turns into a game were the hunter becomes the hunted. It turns into a chase of competition and of survival. Two sailors Rainsford ... Read More

Character Analysis of Bigger Thomas in the Native Son by Richard Wright (525 words, 1 pages)

The novel Native Son, written by Richard Wright, is a book that deals with a poor, black man named Bigger Thomas growing up in a rat-infested one-bedroom apartment on the South Side in Chicago during the Depression. It deals with the racism between blacks and whites, the poor and the ... Read More

Character Analysis of Dave in Richard Wright’s the Man Who Was Almost a Man (449 words, 1 pages)

The Man Who Was Almost a Man In The Man Who Was Almost a Man by Richard Wright, the main character Dave expresses his needs to be acknowledged as an adult. Yet he also exhibits his immaturity and the fact that he is not yet an adult and can not ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013