Persona Essays and Term Papers

Gullivers Travels 2

Houyhnhnms and Yahoos Animal Rationale or Rationis Capax What do the Yahoos and the Houynhnmns stand for? What moral was Swift drawing from them? The answer to the second question depends on the solution of the first. One solution could be that the Yahoos represent man has he actually is, ...

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Great Gatsby

"Our great cities and our mighty buildings will avail us not if we lack spiritual strength to subdue mere objects to the higher purposes of humanity" (Harnsberger 14), is what Lyndon B. Johnson had to say about materialism. He knew the value of money, and he realized the power and effect of ...

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Lincoln And His Generals

Book Report: Harry T. Williams was born on May 19, 1909. When in college, he was encouraged by a professor to study history. This professors main interest was the Civil War era and had a great effect on Williams. He attended Platteville State Teachers College (later Wisconsin State University ...

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Kosovo 3

“Mi deseo es que las Naciones Unidas, impulsadas tras la posguerra, tengan éxito y prosperen. Y mi esperanza es que la Declaración de los Derechos Humanos, cuyo aniversario celebramos, no se limite al deseo de dónde la humanidad debiera llegar, sino que gradualmente se convierta en una realidad en ...

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Spy Games - Creative Essay

Being an international spy is no walk in the park. Death can be waiting for you around the corner or around the world. However when you're only 17 years old, death is the furthest thing from your mind. So here we were on a hot summers day playing international espionage. Of course to six of us ...

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John Lennon

Lennon was born in 1940 during the Nazi bombing of Britain and given the middle name Winston, after Prime Minister Churchill. Knowing firsthand the horror of a world at war and living through the era of Vietnam\'s senseless carnage as well, Lennon came to embrace and embody pacifism via such ...

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The Tragedies Of Shakespeare

"Your noble son is mad — ‘Mad' call I it, for to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad?" (Wells and Taylor, 665) In Act two, scene two of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Polonius uses these words to inform Hamlet's parents of their son's insanity. He then continues on, ...

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Emily Dickinson 3

Not anything is stale so long as yesterday’s surprise - How important is the idea of riddling in Emily Dickinson’s poetry? Cover a range of poems in your answer, and discuss at least four of them in close detail. During the late nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) ...

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John Updike AandP

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives forever. -John Updike (b. 1932), U.S. author, critic. Self-Consciousness: Memoirs, ch. 1 (1989)- Innocence is a quality that is often taken for granted and abused. We never know when we lose it and it is ...

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Song Of Myself: Individuality And Free Verse

Forged in the fire of revolution and defined by manifest destiny, America has always been the land of the individual. Although the American dream has not always been consistent, (married with 2.5 kids, 2 cars, a dog and a satisfying job), the spirit of innovation, individuality and progress ...

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Herman Melville: An Anti-Transcendentalist Or Not

Melville, Herman (1819-91), American novelist, a major literary figure whose exploration of psychological and metaphysical themes foreshadowed 20th-century literary concerns but whose works remained in obscurity until the 1920s, when his genius was finally recognized. Melville was born August 1, ...

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Jack Londons Apparent Conflict

In history, many extraordinary authors have written about struggles among two or more forces. Even in the earliest times, Homer, one of history’s greatest writer and philosophers, has written such pieces as The Odyssey, the fable of a common man who challenges elements he has no control ...

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Herman Melville

Melville, Herman (1819-91), an American Novelist, is widely regarded as one of America's greatest and most influential novelists; known primarily as the author of Moby Dick. He belonged to a group of eminent pre-Civil War writers-American Romantics or members of the American Renaissance-who ...

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In The Lake Of The Woods

John Wade is by far the most intricate and perplexing character examined throughout the novel . His character hinges on the brink of order and chaos; on one hand, he is defined as a man who is obsessed with controlling the events and people around him. It is this obsession with control and order ...

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Cixous/Kristeva

Focus on 1227 and 1232-1245 only. What does Cixous identify as the main problematic for women's writing? (1227) How does she characterize women, women's bodies and women's writing in response to the Freudian/Lacanian essentialization of women? Why is it important, according to Cixous, for ...

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Herman Melville

: An anti- transcendentalist or not Melville, Herman (1819-91), American novelist, a major literary figure whose exploration of psychological and metaphysical themes foreshadowed 20th-century literary concerns but whose works remained in obscurity until the 1920s, when his genius was finally ...

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Oliver Cromwell

was born on April 25, 1599 at Huntingdon. He was born into a political family who gave contributions to parliament. After forty-years of being an outspoken politician, he was chosen by his peers to represent Cambridge in the Long Parliament. During this time England was in turmoil with Civil ...

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The Great Gatsby 16

In his novel The Great Gatsby (1925) F. S. Fitzgerald introduces the reader to a set of characters that stand on the different levels of socioeconomic ladder and by destiny’s will share each other’s lives. Reading the novel one can see that Fitzgerald puts a huge emphasis on money: its ...

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The Invisible Man A Mask For A

As readers of "The Invisible Man," we can all see some part of ourselves reflected in Ellison's character. Throughout the novel, the Invisible man searches for his identity, and for what he can believe in. He goes through many steps, and at each point in his journey, he seems to be wearing a ...

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Eye Deep In Hell: Book Review

This book, “Eye Deep in Hell”, was written by John Ellis. It deals with the way in which trench warfare was conducted on the “Western Front” during World War I. He not only talks about the tactics used in this type of warfare, but he also goes into the ins and outs of what life in the trenches ...

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