SHORT STORY "Come on Gramps, you old steam train!" Yelled a voice. "Calm down you 'rat-bag,' I'm old you know" replied another from within the brush. A head popped out, slightly wind-beaten and worn, "where ya to?" he asked. There was a small ru...

Flannery O'Connor's short story collection A Good Man is Hard to Find has many elements of a southern gothic work. Images of ancient castles with sliding panels create suspicious themes and settings that lead the readers into the dark and gloomy world of the southern United States. With all of the...

James Agee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1909, the son of a postal worker who was killed in an automobile accident. The loss of his father marked James Agee both short term and long term(James Agee p.30). Thirty years later it would form the basis of the novel which is the cornerstone of his f...

Research Paper: Life and work of Ernest Hemingway The affecting history of life of one the greatest American writers of all times, Ernest Hemingway, reflects in his immortal works. A novelist, two of whose works ended up in the list of top 100 of novels of all times, describes his life and the worl...

What does a reading of 'Of Mice and Men' reveal about the culture and experience of migrant workers in the 1930s America? Of Mice and Men is a novel set on a ranch in the Salinas Valley in California during the Great Depression of the 1930s. By reading it, the reader learns a lot a...

Crane's Use of Companionship, Through the Effects of Nature, in The Open Boat and Red Badge of Courage In both of these stories, The Open Boat and The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane uses the theme of companionship. The way in which he uses this theme differs in some ways but...

John, Paul, George, and Ringo formed a group known as the Beatles. They were one the first British rock group of consequence to influence not only American culture but Western culture as well. "Me- I'm conservative. I feel I need to check things. I was the last to try pot and LSD and flo...

"March On! Even after the Parade!" ILL. It was Palm Sunday and Jesus was coming into Jerusalem. He was riding on a blazing white stallion and kicking up a cloud of dust as he rode along. He was looking for trouble. The people that he passed on his way were in awe of such a bea...

The Sport of the Gods, Dunbar's final novel, presents a far more critical and disturbing portrait of black America. The work centers on butler Berry Hamilton and his family. After Berry is wrongly charged with theft by his white employers, he is sentenced to ten years of prison labor. His remaining ...

The Reformation was a great 16th-century religious revolution in the Christian Church, which had political, economic and social effects. It ended the ecclesiastical supremacy of the pope, led to the separation of many European nations from the Church of Rome and became the basis for the founding of ...

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, or Lenin, was born on April 22, 1870, in the sleepy little town of Simbrisk, Russia. Childhood in Simbrisk was serene and pleasant for Lenin, and his father, Ilya Nikolaievich, was highly respected by many of the nobles in this province. Vladimir took just as much intere...

Innate Ideas Descartes vs Locke In this paper I will discuss the Descartes vs Locke debate on innate ideas, also giving insight on what an innate idea means. Each philosopher takes a very different stand on the issue and each point of view will be thoroughly examined. The main question at han...

The Evolutionary Philosophy of Chauncey WrightIntroductionIn the recent bestseller, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Daniel C. Dennett argues that the truly "dangerous" aspect of the Darwinian revolution was not the notion that species evolve: Lamarck, Owen, and Darwin's grandfather Era...

Thesis Statement: Daniel Defoe perfected the art of giving his fiction the appearance of truth, thus making his works come alive and appear to be a matter of personal recollection. I. Introduction II. Early years A. Childho...

Jesus Christ,A Critical View of His "Conquering" of the Cross By taking an in depth view of the exact points of the story concerning Jesus Christ's crucifixion, by examining the physical evidence before and after his crucifixion, and by exploring the differences between the preparation for Jesus' cr...

The play, 'The Crucible', illustrates how people react to mass hysteria created by a person or group of people, as people did during the Salem witch hunts of 1962.Many innocent life's were taken because someone had started to point fingers at people based on the fact that they didn't like them....

Of Mice and Men by Nobel Prize winner, John Steinbeck, is a globally famous novel, capturing its audience by encompassing universal themes that are truthfully realistic in depicting human existence. The director, Gary Sinise, modified the text to accommodate the cinema without losing the essence an...

Sigmund Freud¡¯s Beyond the Pleasure Principle introduces trauma as something that defines the individual rather than the common perception that the person who falls victim to the event shapes the trauma. Trauma is not something that can be easily defined. Thus, artists and writers in the twentiet...

Ophelia Fights Back:Women and Their Role In Updike's Rabbit, RunSeveral common stereotypes of women are put forth in Updike's Rabbit, Run. Utilizing the characters of Ruth Leonard, Janice, Lucy Eccles, Mrs. Springer, and Mrs.Angstrom, Updike illustrates many different, classic, stereotypical views ...

Ophelia Fights Back:Women and Their Role In Updike's Rabbit, RunSeveral common stereotypes of women are put forth in Updike's Rabbit, Run. Utilizing the characters of Ruth Leonard, Janice, Lucy Eccles, Mrs. Springer, and Mrs.Angstrom, Updike illustrates many different, classic, stereotypical views ...

BUDDHISMGautama Buddha, previously known as Prince Siddhartha (before his enlightenment) founded the religion of Buddhism. Gautama Buddha was born to Queen Maha-Maya at Kapilavastu, Nepal, Indian. Buddha taught and organized the Sangha, monastic orders, until his death at Kusinagara, at the age of...

The Role of the Mask in King LearWhat is a mask? The dictionary defines a mask as "anything that disguises or conceals." Characters in King Lear use masks throughout the play. The masks are used for two main functions: to conceal one's true plans and actions and to provide a ...

With his views of societies, social change, and critique of capitalism, Karl Marx established new theories about quality of life and man's role in the political and social agenda. Because his writings bared new and plausible conclusions, many modern thinkers, humanists, and moralists quickly embrac...

In the midst of war, a transport plane carrying a group of English boys is shot down, crashing in a thick jungle on a deserted island. Scattered by the wreck, the surviving boys lose each other. One of the older boys, Ralph, meets Piggy, a chubby, intellectual boy, on the beach. They discover a larg...

The Rise of Communism in Russia Unless we accept the claim that Lenin's coup that gave birth to an entirely new state, and indeed to a new era in the history of mankind, we must recognize in today's Soviet Union the old empire of the Russians -- the only empire that survived into the mid 1980s (Lutt...