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01 Apr 2010
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The House on Mango Street

Book review - 2 pages - Literature

I chose this book because my aunt recommended me reading it. Although I don't usually read books like this, because it was a book about coming of age, I thought it would be interesting to read. This book was somewhat like The Catcher in the Rye, but instead of taking place in New York, it...

01 Apr 2010
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Daisy Miller: Henry James

Book review - 2 pages - Literature

This book takes place in 1878 and centers around the idea of an extended trip throughout Europe, which was very popular among wealthy Americans at this time. This novel addresses the behavior of the young American girls who visit Europe and due to their new distance from home, become very...

01 Apr 2010
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The Picture of Dorian Gray: Oscar Wilde

Book review - 2 pages - Literature

I chose to read the Picture of Dorian Gray because I was already semi familiar with the story and numerous friends recommended it to me. This famous novel takes place in nineteenth century England and revolves around the high society of that time and place. There is a supernatural aspect to this...

01 Apr 2010
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The Secret Life of Bees: Sue Kidd

Thesis - 2 pages - Literature

I selected this book because I know a lot of people who have read it before. I was expecting this book to be about animals, well more like bees. It turns out to be more about the story of a young white girl living in a time without black rights. This book is fiction; it takes place in a time...

01 Apr 2010
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Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Thesis - 4 pages - Literature

Charles Dickens highlights that facts aren't everything. You can't always rely on them, because they can burn out being untrue and serving you wrong. When Louisa was talking to her father, Mr. Gradgrind about how facts ruined her life and how she didn't know how to rebate and handle her feelings,...

01 Apr 2010
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Fyodor Dostoevsky: Coping with flaws and surviving in society

Thesis - 5 pages - Literature

In Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, the narrator writes from an underground location reflecting on the flaws in man and the society he once lived in. Through examining his days prior to retreating underground the narrator comes to hate the bonds of society and human nature more and...

01 Apr 2010
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Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

Book review - 2 pages - Literature

This book was originally recommended to me by freshman humanities teacher. When I read the book previously, it helped me to make sense of my own beliefs and I recently came to a point in my life where I felt that it was time to read it again. This is really a story of philosophy and religion. It...

01 Apr 2010
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Psychological analysis in the Heart of Darkness

Book review - 1 pages - Literature

Orphaned at the age of twelve, Conrad's writing reflects solidarity. In his most popular novel Heart of Darkness he states, “We live, as we dream- alone.” Common themes in his works are alienation, confusion, and doubt. He wrote not only about physical threats but also about inner...

01 Apr 2010
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Integrated essay on the empire in the West, France and England as powerful states, the medieval period and Black Death in Europe

Thesis - 5 pages - Literature

Charlemagne's coronation as emperor at St. Peter's Basilica heralded a new era for the West and for the Byzantine Empire. Charlemagne became the strong leader at the helm and his missi dominici kept a watchful eye on territories that were far away. The governments of France and England could not...

30 Mar 2010
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T.s. eliot's the hollow men: exploring self-realization - published: 30/03/2010

Thesis - 5 pages - Literature

When reading “The Hollow Men”, by T.S. Eliot, one's immediate response might be to consider it against to context of which it was written. Such context may be purely historical or may revolve around the author's social life. All of these accounts may prove significant in assessing the...

26 Mar 2010
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The history of poetry: A magazine of verse

Thesis - 6 pages - Literature

Harriet Monroe became famous for her magazine, but even more so, her open-door policy. There were many poets that just wouldn't get published, authors listed above, because their works were not accepted in society. T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock was considered...

26 Mar 2010
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Iago and Lady Macbeth: The nature of their evil

Thesis - 4 pages - Literature

The conflict between good and evil is one of the oldest and most consistently fascinating sources of literary drama. It is a primary motor of countless movies and books, just as it has always been one of the most important issues for philosophers and religious scholars. Shakespeare explored the...

26 Mar 2010
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Creative rebels without a cause

Thesis - 4 pages - Literature

Rimbaud once said that creativity is the greatest form of rebellion, a sentiment that I mostly agree with, and can completely understand after having read some of his poetry. There is a strong vitality to his work, an intensity and dissatisfaction that draws the reader in and communicates...

26 Mar 2010
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Ironic patriotism

Thesis - 3 pages - Literature

Someone once said that history is written by the winners, and, as in the case of Shakespeare's history play The Life of King Henry the Fifth, sometimes it is even dramatized by them. Total objectivity is very difficult to achieve when drawing solely from historical documents of either the victor...

26 Mar 2010
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Shakespeare's dark humor

Thesis - 3 pages - Literature

Pinpointing just what exactly makes “good comedy” is one of the most elusive and difficult tasks to undertake. Who can really say why one joke is funny and another one isn't, what subtleties must a stand-up comedian consider to get his audience laughing? Shakespeare could be considered...

26 Mar 2010
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Shylock: A Shakespearian scarface

Thesis - 3 pages - Literature

There's no doubt about it, bad guys are more interesting than good guys. In dramas catering to mass audiences every hero is set within a strict moral rubric. We know what to expect from him. The villains are the wild cards. In the typical Hollywood blockbuster they have meatier lines, they get to...

26 Mar 2010
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Donne's Angel and Marvell's Mistress

Thesis - 2 pages - Literature

Donne's song “Air and Angels” and Marvell's “To His Coy Mistress” are both love poems. However, they are poles apart in their definitions of love. Donne sees his beloved as a mysterious presence whose body merely gives shape to the love he has felt before. Marvell sees the...

26 Mar 2010
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Meatball and Callisto: Two responses to entropy

Thesis - 2 pages - Literature

Pynchon's “Entropy” begins at a party that has lasted 40 hours. Everyone knows parties don't last that long - or at least, they shouldn't. Meatball's party has continued far too long and is about to disintegrate. This deterioration is linked explicitly to the law of entropy, which is...

26 Mar 2010
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Sheep's guts and the vernacular of the human soul: Music as a dramatic force in the works of William Shakespeare

Thesis - 6 pages - Literature

This paper will provide a brief exploration into: the different types, styles and musical “conventions” that were utilized in Shakespeare's plays; the different ways that music was used as a dramatic force in the plays; and finally, Shakespeare's influence on the development of...

25 Mar 2010
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The duality of the "New Woman"

Thesis - 6 pages - Literature

F. Scott Fitzgerald's life is a tragic example of both sides of the American Dream—the joys of young love, wealth and success, and the tragedies associated with excess and failure. By 1925 he was known primarily as the historian of the Jazz Age (which he named) and chronicler in slick...

25 Mar 2010
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William Blake: The divine image

Thesis - 3 pages - Literature

“For all must love the human form. ” William Blake simply, but beautifully, claims as fact in his poem A Divine Image, taken from his Songs on Innocence. Poetry, elicits emotion. The beauty of poetry is that it can be interpreted; the meaning is held entirely by the reader. Here, a...

25 Mar 2010
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Magic and enchantment as a tool of love in Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream

Thesis - 3 pages - Literature

“The course of true love never did run smooth. ” This, one of the most famous lines from Shakespeare's romantic comedy, A Mid Summer Night's Dream, no truer words have been spoken as Shakespeare leads the audience through a story of fantasies and misunderstandings. The story follows...

25 Mar 2010
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David J. Francis, Uniting Africa: Building regional peace and security systems

Book review - 3 pages - Literature

“Africa today is faced with a stark choice, either unite or perish. ” So opens David J. Francis' intriguing study on the state of African nations in relation to one another. Frances spends a great deal of attention outlining the serious social and economic problems facing the African...

25 Mar 2010
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Jenny and the patriarchal voice in Rossetti's poem

Thesis - 2 pages - Literature

“Asleep, poor jenny, hard and fast,--/So young and soft and tired. ” Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Jenny is smooth and flowered poetry. Lines such as the selected portion above are sprinkled throughout each stanza. The poem is widely recognized as a classic. Questions regarding the speakers'...

25 Mar 2010
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Rose and Flo

Thesis - 2 pages - Literature

“Rose thought of her own family as straddling the river, belonging nowhere, but that was not true. ” Throughout the stories, throughout her entire life, Alice Munro's main character, Rose, in Who Do You Think You Are? struggles to grasp her identity. In many ways, Rose defines herself...

25 Mar 2010
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Comparison and differences between two selections from Lermontov's a hero of our time and Gogol's dead souls

Thesis - 3 pages - Literature

Mihail Lermontov and Nikolai Gogol were two of the premier Russian novelists of the nineteenth century. Both helped to expose and shape how the outer world understands the vast and historically intriguing Russian continent. Lermontov's creation of the character Pechorin is widely read as a...

25 Mar 2010
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Catcher in the Rye and dead poets

Thesis - 2 pages - Literature

The Dead Poets Society, at its very core, transcends the message that art is meant to be lived and is meant to inspire. While the back-story of The Catcher in the Rye speaks more to the place of art in society, than the story itself does. In the Dead Poets Society, students willingly choose to...

25 Mar 2010
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Old stories of love and tragedy

Thesis - 3 pages - Literature

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet largely pulls from a traditional tale, written and copied for decades before Shakespeare took his pen with an effort to adapt. Shakespeare's version, unquestionably the most famous, tells the story of love but, more, it tells of the tragedies to which that love...

25 Mar 2010
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A special education, learning to teach a disabled student

Book review - 2 pages - Literature

A Special Education: One Family's Journey Through the Maze of Learning Disabilities is the author, Dana Buchman's explanation about how her family coped with having a child who suffered from severe learning and developmental disorders. It is a tremendously interesting look at the topic because...

25 Mar 2010
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Culture and order: all sweetness and light - published: 25/03/2010

Thesis - 2 pages - Literature

“Culture and Anarchy,” Matthew Arnold's series of essays comment on the status of culture throughout the late nineteenth century. Arnold saw culture as the “pursuit of total perfection. ” It was then, he believed, the practice of all to accept that perfection and further...