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Symbolism of Plants in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Literature Essay
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Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote this novel with rebellious ideas about love and romance but just the way ordinary eyes see things would not have done justice to express the gravity of betraying social norms and limiting beliefs. Without the use of symbolism, there would be no colors in his book. It will not be able to touch the heart and soul of the readers.
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Death of a salesman Act 2 response paper Literature Essay
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As the play progresses, the characters move erratically towards a true insight into their lives. Biff is the one who first acknowledges, “We never told the truth for ten minutes in this house” (1327). Biff realizes that the outdoor life
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The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Concepts, & Cultures Literature Book Report/Review
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Frans Johansson, in this book, presents himself as one of the leading innovators and entrepreneurs of all times. To prove this, his book was listed among the top ten best-selling books by Amazon.com. In this book, he comprehensively indicates how innovation and best ideas result from collaboration between people with diverse skills.
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Dr. Faustus version by Christopher Marlowe Literature Essay
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The author states that Faustus through the play sells his soul and strikes a deal with Lucifer to offer him protection in every aspect of his earthly life as well as his family. This deal is later sealed in the blood of through blood and the devil agrees to award him protection for about twenty-four year’s protection on earth as his loyal servant.
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How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie): An Analysis of the Literary Devices Literature Essay
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The most important feature of the short story is the excellent use of irony in various situations. In most of the instances, irony arises when what the advisor says with absolute authority is mere misconception or prejudice. Firstly, the well-experienced narrator is a mere teenager whose nuts are in danger of getting squeezed
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Necklace by Guy de Maupassant Literature Essay
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They seem not to be contented with their possessions. Instead they keep fantasize about extreme wealth. The necklace for instance, weaves a tale about Madame Mathilde Loisel, a character who is not contented with her secure lifestyle of the middle class. She is extremely obsessed with wealth
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POEM The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe Literature Essay
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Thesis statement: In the poem named as The Raven, the versifier (Edgar Allan Poe) makes use of imagery/images and figurative/metaphorical language to communicate/share the meaning of the verse with the readers. The literary work is rich in imagery because
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The Use of Setting in Fiction Stories and Movies Literature Essay
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In fiction stories and movies, the use of setting can be used as a style to criticize society. This is evident as a number of authors have applied its use in their works. For instance, Fitzgerald and McCarthy have not been left behind (Mullan 67). Through their works, we get to understand the nature of society at the time that their stories were written. 
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Analysis of Legacies Poem by Nikki Giovanni Literature Essay
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It really does not matter what age the other person in a family is, all they have to do is care from the core of their heart. Also, sometimes in a family people do say things which they don’t actually mean and the actual meaning is hidden behind their feelings which are needed to be looked for and this would obviously avoid any misunderstandings.
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Relationship Between Dreams and Reality Literature Essay
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The author focuses on the relationship between dreams and waking up so as to make it interesting and lively. Dreams are representations of real-life events because of their connection with ideas that were in a person’s mind before and the immediate past real experiences. Dreams lead one back into the realities of daily life.
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The Damned Human Race Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that it is not surprising that such a character of Twain’s works is nothing less than a reflection of his views and opinions on one or another stage of life. Just so in his essays written in the late years of the 19th century, the writer occupies a critical position on all key issues.
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Critical Analysis: Stone Butch Blues Literature Essay
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We are brought into the bars of Tifka's in Niagara Falls where it is not just a watering hole of gender outcasts but also a place where official abuse against homosexuals takes place.  Leslie Feinburg also revealed the pain that her kind endured beginning from their own homes to their workplace to the point that it already became uncomfortable to read.
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Richard Wrights Black Boy Literature Essay
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Richard Wrights “Black Boy,” tells the story of his personal struggle as a black boy growing up in 20s America in Jim Crow South. However, it is also a social and political commentary on the historical position of black people in the United States at that time and as such the book offers a wider commentary beyond the personal experience of one boy.
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Huckleberry Finn and Slavery Literature Research Paper
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 Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835 in Florida, Missouri, the author is widely known as Mark Twain has been one of America’s most famous authors for more than one hundred years. ‘Forced’ to leave school at the age of 12 following his father’s death, Clemens supported himself in the newspaper industry until he fell in love with Mississippi riverboats. 
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Property, Hierarchy, and Authority Literature Essay
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The Bible preaches the oneness of God and how He is the sole owner of everything. Thus, in the same way, despite the various differences that man may have undergone in the recent past, it must be understood that property, authority, and hierarchy belong to God and cannot be torn apart by different men.
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The Lottery by: Shirley Jackson Literature Research Paper
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They children seem to feel as if they dont deserve to be free. The children demonstrate a restraint which is uncharacteristic of children. The story demonstrates that their minds are preoccupied with the effects of work and reproof that they receive
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Comparing A Bend in the River and Heart of Darkness Literature Thesis Proposal
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It may engender hot debates because of a reader’s naïve failure to debunk the manifold meanings that are kept hidden beneath the ambiguous structural layers of the text. Whether Marlowe represents the “bloody racist” or he appears to be the introspectively criticizing voice, of the European conscience, against the colonizers’ vicious racism.
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Symbolism in Macbeth Literature Essay
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The symbols are present throughout the paper, and they help in representing the different concepts that Shakespeare wishes to discus. One of the symbols that appear throughout the play is that of blood. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth can be seen to embark on their murderous missions. Blood comes to be a symbol of guilt.
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AP Literature paper about As I Lay Dying Literature Essay
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Despite their age, they had me in their care and did it to the best of their ability. Although all of them seemed struck by my sickness, I noticed that my eldest son was more affected than the others were. Whenever we talked, one could
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Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Emily Dickinson Literature Essay
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I think I am too busy with death. I have focused my attention and plans on achieving specific objectives without remembering, that death is an obstacle in attaining all these objectives. Despite the fact that children are playing, which should be an indication that they are enjoying life, Dickinson is emotional on the aspect of learning.   
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Analysis of Rudyard Kipling Poem Recessional Literature Book Report/Review
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The two drinks that had been talked about are gin and beer. Aldershot is the military camp the soldiers and narrator are at when the poem begins. The actual drink the soldiers are to say to crave when they actually experience warfare is water. India is where the narrator spent service in time past. Gunga Din is the water and drinks person in the army.
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Chaucers Canterbury Tales Literature Essay
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Liminality is brought into the text by Chaucer’s description of the Canon. The Canon is a secretive, striking, and outlying figure. He is nearly silent, and hitherto his silence is from coyness or high-status. From the tale, it is hard to ascertain whether the Yeoman’s tale is about this Canon about another Canon.
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Thematic Comparison between Death of a Salesman and Fences Literature Research Paper
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American Drama is a genre of English Literature that deals with a variety of thematic concerns where the dramatists incorporate and subtly depict human problems. Moreover it is interesting to note that this field of literature also provided the dramatists with an opportunity to bring into light the life stories of the Blacks
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A short analytical response to Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy Literature Essay
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This is seen from his desire to buy a certain grove from a neighboring proprietor despite a series of challenges that present in his journey. With all the risks involved, he does not want to be accompanied by
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Perspectives in literature Literature Essay
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Her sexual desire serves as a speedy catalyst for her social end. Her dependence on men and great need for security is very evident. She is not safe without men. In the play, the conflict
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Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare Literature Essay
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The play is categorized as a historical tragedy; this suggests that there is conflict, fight, and struggle involved. As a consequence of any war, there must be bloodshed. Blood imagery is typically associated with the theme of love. In this play, the audience can note that the whole play is built around the use of blood imagery.
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Doctors Also Make Mistakes Literature Research Paper
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The problem arises when the miscalculations are not accepted by doctors. Furthermore, the problem, at times, becomes fatal.  Everyone including the patients has a right to know these miscalculations. And this can only happen when they are provided with such an environment where medical errors can be discussed openly. This would lead to a lesser number of errors.
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Momaday: Introduction Literature Assignment
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the cluster of trees and animals is a manifestation of the new start that Kiowa people are waiting to expand and according them everlasting hope (Momaday 7). This is notable with the description of the sun when the writer reveals it as following a longer course during the day.
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Exhibition Design in a Museum Context: Portrait Miniatures Gallery Literature Essay
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The displays gradually move from Hillard, Hilliard’s followers Samuel Cooper and Isaac Oliver, and entertainingly forward to the 19th century. The advent of photography has rapidly displaced the miniature in the lockets of those people who wish to carry the images of their loved ones anywhere they went.
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Analysis of The Professor's House Novel Written by Willa Cather Literature Book Report/Review
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Drawing upon the Peter/rock comic story and the incomprehensible Christian fundamental that "the Church" is all the while symbolic and simultaneously literal, a physical building and a set of convictions, Cather has the ability to prescribe that the professor comes to understand that he must manufacture his own "Church".
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The Use of Symbolic Language in Ibsen's A Doll House Literature Essay
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Norah Helmer is the wife of a lawyer who has been given a top position in the bank. She has there children. She is a caring and responsible mother and wife. She takes care of the home and does not fear taking risks in order to protect those that she loves. This is evident by how she took a loan in order to treat her husband.  
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Why Shakespeares Villains Are the True Heroes Literature Essay
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While most of the villains are considered as being evil, it is interesting that the villains in many of Shakespeare's plays are not necessarily evil. This author created many fascinating characters many of who are regarded as “villains”. However, the villains in his plays have remained to be the famous bad men and girls, which the world of literature and theatre has ever known.
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Literature and Its Social Relevance Literature Research Paper
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This paper tells that literature is often written to express issues and events that are taking part in society and when analyzing literature one is bound to see the similarities of the events in a literary text with those in one’s own society. Although society has transformed over the years, human behavior still remains the same and the old literary works still remain relevant to modern society.
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The Wound Dresser Literature Assignment
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As a nurse or wound dresser, part of the job of the old man is to help them transition to death. Perhaps by this point, the young men no longer see the old man but only the image of the woman that they love. So they end up kissing the old man, a death kiss from a young man to the woman he loved and will never be able to return to.
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Life in Harmony with Nature Literature Essay
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Nature is an essence unchanged by man. Nature refers to space, air, leaf, rivers, landscape and animals. Nature is the vehicle of thought. Words are signs of natural facts. Natural history aids in giving us supernatural history. This implies that the outer creation gives us a language for beings and changes the inward creation. We also say the heart expresses emotion and the head denotes thought.
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Critical theory applied to A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner Literature Research Paper
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However, her eminence in society as elite conceals her sin and ensures her dignified status as a lonely woman. These critical theories in the play depict how Faulkner
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Influence of Odyssey, Oedipus the King, and Metamorphoses on Modern Literature Literature Essay
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The development of tragic plots and transformation plots such as the Metamorphoses is the inclusion of past poems and mythical books. The development of other stories with similar plots was witnessed later. These poems and play influenced other authors and artists such as Shakespeare, Dante, and Boccaccio.
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Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer Literature Term Paper
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In ‘Brownies’, the author wants to show that anger and hatred that developed in the black and white races had no origin rather each of them did not even know why they hate others. They just show the world what they see. In the story ‘Speaking in Tongues’, the author has shown how the main character lost her innocence due to the pressurized sexual experience.
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How each text helps define national identity or solidarity Literature Essay
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People living in the two different periods believed in different things and these two art works represent different themes from the periods. This paper is a comparison between the two art works in terms of what they
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Role of Shame and Guilt on Achilles and Oedipus Literature Essay
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Actually, Oedipus was not overwhelmed by the guilt of murdering his father as he was overwhelmed by the shame of being inherently ignorant and blinded to the truth. On the other hand, Achilles did not succumb to the guilt of letting his friend impersonate him in the fateful offensive as he did to the shame of being self-centered and boastfully disrespectful to norms of the Athenian society.
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Response paper for Snow Falling in Spring by Moying Li Literature Essay
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The narration follows the life of the young Moying as she comes of age. As such, the author narrates begins the story from the character’s point of view. At the age of twelve, Moying describes
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The Racial and Cultural Superiority of Colonizers Over the Colonized Literature Research Paper
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The western civilization has created a ‘we versus you‘ mindset which delineated the cultural gap between the two societies. Several studies by scholars examined the various kinds of discrimination based on race, religion or gender in the literary works of both past and present as well as in the attitudes of the writers themselves.
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The Curse and the Red Convertible Literature Literature review
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One night, five bikers walk into his bar; high on drugs, they rape a young girl who has walked in to get change for cigarettes. Hayes cannot do anything to stop the men. He calls the police when they leave, causing the men to be arrested and the woman to be taken to the hospital. Everyone commends him on doing the right thing.
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White Mans Burden, Black Mans Sorrow Literature Assignment
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The author states that this burden must be taken up because of a moral responsibility to help people. In reality, this morality was often distorted and led to negative consequences for everyone involved. Morel sees things differently. The black man's burden is the so-called help that people in Africa were receiving from Europeans.
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Poem Analysis: Dove, Komunyakaa, Sanchez and Collins Literature Essay
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The 20th century in the US witnessed more awareness regarding racial equity which was also reflected in poems by a new genre of African-American poets. Also, many barriers to women poets because of “masculinity complex” were removed. Dove, Sanchez, and Komunyakaa also write about aspirations of Blacks and racial slur they often faced.
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From your perspective: What do you consider good and what do you consider view as evil Literature Essay
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In my opinion, I consider virtues like merciful, caring, considerate, sympathetic, loving, hospitable and generous as good, while each and every vice that leads to behaviors or actions that are contrary to these as evil. Such vices include rude, unruly, disrespectful,
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Contrast Kings in Beowulf and Sir Gawain Literature Essay
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The leadership exhibited by Hrothgar is idealized by Beowulf. Hrothgar is a noble king who is concerned about the peace and safety of his people. The character of Hrothgar remains relatively static throughout the play. He serves as a stable
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The Relation between Cruelty and Passion Literature Essay
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She argues that it is invalid because pain makes the nerves more excited than joy, which awakens the thrill. The nature of man in Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther comes out from Young Werther when he is trying and, at the same time, happy when he sees the nature of some art pieces where he dabbles with painting and poetry.
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The Gattaca and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Literature Essay
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Being the masterpiece of the same person, The Gattaca and Brave New World share certain similarities and other contradicting differences. (Wilson 01) The main character in Gattaca, Vincent has inner strength compared to John and Bernard who are the main characters in the book The Brave New World. These two characters had once never been happy with themselves for not being perfect.
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The Gods of Hospitality in Homers Iliad and Odyssey Literature Essay
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Odyssey is a detailed narrative of the encounters and experiences of Odysseus in the journey back from Ithaca. Generally, in both the narratives, hospitality is portrayed as a norm, and a tradition demanded by gods, as alliances are formed, relationships are recounted and strengthened, as well as several cases where instigators are protected.
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