" The university's folklore department explains that folklore is displayed in times "of crisis, celebration, and change"; it is displayed "in hundreds of other forms of expression." And in a similar vein to Wilson's explanation, the Web site reports Continue Reading...
Shipping News In her novel The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx brings to life a Newfoundland fishing town and a small group of its inhabitants - a more-or-less failed journalist and the three women in his life - his two daughters and his aunt. The f Continue Reading...
BofA The Bank of America is one of the country's largest retail banks. It is mid-2009, the recession has been declared to be over but there is still a lot of economic uncertainty, and the Bank must set strategy going forward. Traditionally, the bank Continue Reading...
Los Angeles (compare and contrast two books/Articles) Aesthetic Judgment: "Mildred Pierce" compared to "What Makes Sammy Run" What Makes Sammy Run The tale of Sammy Glick has been told by Al Manheim in the first person narrative. Al Manheim is the Continue Reading...
Popular Culture It is not a popular notion in today's culture that little girls are supposed to love dolls and little boys are supposed to love trucks and other masculine toys (Witt) However, if the toy is packaged in a new way it seems that it may Continue Reading...
Travelling America: The Diaries of John Steinbeck and Jean Baudrillard America has long been considered the "land of opportunity," which makes it in turn, an opportune place to travel and explore. Though vast in geography and rich in culture, Ameri Continue Reading...
1). Oberon and Titania are thus not above the common desires and petty passions that motivate all mortals -- but they know the harms that their jealousies can do, even on a cosmological level, accept that infidelity is a part of life -- and when mov Continue Reading...
He cannot imagine killing his family and friends. Disloyalty haunts him from both directions. He would deceive his family and friends by fighting against them, but he would also deceive the Kurus by refusing to fight for their cause. He is wracked w Continue Reading...
Beauty & the Disney Beast "Beauty and the Beast" was never really about beauty or ugliness. It has always been about admiration; the reaching out and obtaining of a kind of wealth that otherwise seemed beyond comprehension. Not surprisingly, of Continue Reading...
132). Hence the Faerie Folk came to symbolize the De Danann's "earlier sensual and spiritual connection to life and nature that influenced the beliefs of the Druids" until Christianity showed up, Yeoman continues. This analogy dovetails with the con Continue Reading...
Talents aren't things developed. One is born with talent -- a natural propensity for accuracy and efficiency in particular tasks. A knack for a certain intellectual task. Skills, on the other hand, are things learned, practiced, and known; they're th Continue Reading...
We see John making a determined effort to please Elizabeth -- he kisses her perfunctorily, he praises her cooking -- all this being done in a desperate effort to compensate for his guilty feelings. Elizabeth's coldness, however, augments his failure Continue Reading...
mythology is important for both individualistic and collective reasons. On an individual level, mythology could teach moral or human truths, whereas on a collective level mythology could be used to keep people in touch with their origins. Mythologic Continue Reading...
Google Technologies Google Blimp Google has a vast array of different types of technologies under development. One of the more interesting projects is Google Blimp. In rural communities, such as in the ones in many parts of Africa, there is often a Continue Reading...
Sexual freedom and adolescent rebellion in John Updike's "A&P" The story of John Updike's "A&P" is a simple one: three girls in bathing suits walk into a supermarket in a 'shore town' that is largely populated by tourists in the summer. The Continue Reading...
Forests in Children's Lit The Dark Forest of Fairy Tales Fairy tales are rightly seen by many authors and critics from Jung to Bruno Bettelheim as repositories for archetypes and for vital social messages. Additionally, they must be seen as a liter Continue Reading...
With respect to the mythology of the male gods, Zeus, Apollo, and Hephaestus seem to be a combination that matches the dynamism of their female goddess counterparts. These gods represent the good and the bad of males; they also represent the spectr Continue Reading...
Poe and the Imp of the Perverse The Imp of the Perverse Edgar Allan Poe is known for exploring the psychological constructs of horror and terror through his short stories. In Poe's "Imp of the Perverse," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "The Black Cat," Continue Reading...
Christianity claims to be unique and this work in writing will demonstrate the uniqueness in research and show why other religions could not be considered as the way to salvation. The work of J. Hampton Keathley, III discusses the uniqueness of Chris Continue Reading...
Dead Body in War Poetry Analysis of Poets War Poetry War is a brutal reality on the face of history. Thousands of lives have been wasted in the name of battles and millions of people were affected by it. Poet is a rather sensitive part of our soc Continue Reading...
This has been interpreted as overprotective behavior and is directly linked to being a parent. One cannot be overprotective of a child he or she does not have. It is only logical to conclude that the witch is to Rapunzel a sort of a stepmother; also Continue Reading...
Lottery" by Shirley Jackson has come to be considered one of the most representative short stories of the American literature, despite the fact that when initially published in the late 1940s in the "New Yorker" failed to receive positive reviews fr Continue Reading...
Ovid, Giovanni Boccaccio, and the authors of One Thousand and One Nights use frame narratives to add continuity and structure to the literary composition. Framing serves several literary functions. For one, framing establishes an independent narrator Continue Reading...
It should be noted that this risk of becoming simply an "ethnocentric fantasy" is something that not all filmmakers are worried about. Indeed, it might well be argued that the creation of an ethnocentric fantasy might well make an ethnographic film Continue Reading...
Moral Messages in Children's Literature I chose four children's classics: Charlotte's web (1952) by E.B. White, and other three children's fairy tales, two by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm (Cinderella and Snow white and the seven dwarfs) and one by Charle Continue Reading...
Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and DH Lawrence's "The Rocking-Horse Winner," the desire of human beings to gain control over their existence with the use of rituals and 'magic' is in evidence. Use of ritual and superstition in "The Lottery and "Th Continue Reading...
Fiction: Four Stories and their Elements A person reads fiction for many reasons. Often times, as Richard Wright suggests, one chooses to escape one's life, and discover new realities and states of being. Fiction is perhaps the most powerful mediu Continue Reading...
Jackson and Lawrence The Theme of Sacrifice in Jackson's "Lottery" and Lawrence's "Winner" The theme of "sacrifice" is integral to the author's purpose in both "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson and "The Rocking-Horse Winner" by DH Lawrence. While th Continue Reading...
Onetti, Juan Carlos. The Shipyard. Originally Published in 1961. Plot Summary The Shipyard tells the story of a man in his fifties whom once worked as an owner of a brothel and now has cultivated the higher aspiration of becoming the owner of a ba Continue Reading...
The character of Dracula is both evil and corrupt in the extreme but he is also a source of sympathy to a certain extent. This apparent contradiction is due to the fact that his longings and desires are perverted in comparison to the normal, but the Continue Reading...
Academia and Life Through Literacy and Reading Comprehension Literacy and reading comprehension are subjects that have been explored for decades. Through these explorations we have discovered that comprehension is an essential component in the abil Continue Reading...
Italo Calvino's short story "The Distance to the Moon" has as its central theme the idea of attraction: both the scientific idea of gravitational attraction, and the far less scientific idea of sexual attraction that comprises the central love-plot o Continue Reading...
123). Though he is speaking explicitly about detective work and Holmes' general mode of accomplishing things, there is a clear implication that Watson knows how to serve Holms' needs. Again, there is a clear appropriation of the characters of Watso Continue Reading...
" This essay is well-written and well-constructed. The writer refers to the primary source material liberally and provides in-text citations as well as a bibliography. However, the writer could use active voice more often. For example, the sentence Continue Reading...
Flannery O'Connor Writing is an ancient art, used from long ago to convey various aspects, including entertainment, education, recording of history, critiquing and rebuking, writing revelations and many other purposes. There are various forms of wri Continue Reading...
Moonstone," a cornerstone in English literature that marks the birth of detective novels Wilkie Collins published his novel "The Moonstone" in 1868, after a series of novels that had already consecrated him as a genius in the art of sensational fic Continue Reading...
"On the other hand, there was no keen intimacy between the dog and the man. The one was the toil slave of the other, and the only caresses it had ever received were the caresses of the whip lash..." (London 347). The implication is the dog could hav Continue Reading...
Daru is still trying to cling to a sense of morality; yet, the Arab himself shows how this will not work in a world of uncertainty because after he is set free, he goes to the police station himself. James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" Topic 6 James B Continue Reading...
Night That She Lived The narrator of this work gives the indication that the setting of the work is a deathbed, it might be in a hospital as there are reportedly others who will go on living that engender in the dying woman and those who presumably Continue Reading...
