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This paper explores the text of R.K. Narayan's telling of "The Ramayana" in relation to the human qualities in the characters of Rama and Ravana. Rama is explored as embodying all of the positive human qualities, while the demon-king Ravana exemplifies all negative human qualities.

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This paper is a brief but concise examination of Jane Austen's use of irony in her novel "Pride and Prejudice". Irony in this novel is used as a tool to define and depict the inadequacies between characters in their relationships concerning romance and social class.

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This paper will compare and contrast the movie "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou" and compare the events of the movie with the Homeric epic "The Odyssey", which it is said to be modeled after. By understanding how they made this movie from the ancient Greek fable, we can learn the nature of the direction it takes and how closely it resembles it. It also shows how the modern twist the movie takes can give us an idea of how it is different in this scope.

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This paper will cover the book "Balkan Ghosts" by Robert Kaplan and will discuss the topic of Balkan history that it reveals in this story. The story is a travel guide of sorts to understanding the complex nature of Balkan politics in the region and to see how racial hatred has been accumulating over the years in this region.

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This paper will discuss a reaction to the story by George Orwell called "Shooting of an Elephant". By understanding the reasons for his actually shooting the elephant, we can see how the major themes of the story intermingle with this act. The notions of human waste and hunter/gatherer systems come to mind, as well as the relationship with man and nature.

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This paper will discuss the central themes in the story "A Good Man is Hard to Find", by Flannery O'Connor, and seek to extract what author is trying to have us contemplate. By revealing the underlying themes of the story, the major ideas of this great writer can be brought to the surface in a clearly project analysis.

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This paper will seek to understand the play "Richard the III" by Shakespeare in comparison with Josephine Tey's novel, "Daughter of Time". A making a comparison and contrast between the main characters of each of these stories, we can see how the authors characterize their stories.

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This six-page undergraduate paper examines and analyzes Vincent Bugliosi's persuasion techniques and his efforts to persuade the jury in "And The Sea Will Tell". The author also compares his courtroom strategies to legal theories and concepts.

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This sophomore level paper analyzes a Character In Oedipus The King focusing on a very important character, Jocasta, who plays the role of Oedipus's mother and wife in the play. This paper thoroughly analyzes her personality and her motives. This paper also compares the character of Jocasta with Oedipus and how both end up in a miserable situation in the end, from where there is no turning back. The paper also highlights few quotes from the play, which contribute to the development of important theme. In the end an analysis of Jocasta's complicated character is made.

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This paper discusses Claude Mckay's poem "America". The paper argues that this is one of his best protest poems and since he was one of the very first poets to start the Negro Renaissance of 1920s, his poems voice the feelings of African-Americans vehemently.

Tags: claude, mckay, america

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This paper analyzes the book "The Adventures of Ibn Battuta" by Ross E. Dunn. The author explores whether the world in which Ibn Battuta traveled was a unified civilization, what the similarities and dissimilarities were that he encountered in the various areas he visited and how his background affected his experiences.

Tags: adventures, ibn, battuta

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This three-page undergraduate paper compares the Rochester of "Jane Eyre" to that of "Wide Sargasso Sea". The former story inspired the latter work by Jean Rhys as she tried to explore the possibility of an untold story focusing on the mad woman in the attic.

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This three-page undergraduate paper discusses the positive and negative aspects of immigrant life from the perspective of Slovak immigrants to the Pittsburgh area in Thomas Bell's novel Out of This Furnace

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This three-page undergraduate paper discusses the significance of the letters woven throughout Cristina Garcia's novel Dreaming in Cuban in regard to the novel's central themes.

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This paper shows the difference between older and modern children's literature by comparing the relationship gender plays in each. Historically girls were portrayed as passive and succeed only due to the actions of others, as in "Snow White", and boys succeed because of their mischievous behaviour, as in "Jack and the Beanstalk". More recent children's literature reverses this role by making girls capable of being more active, as diplayed by the protagonist of "The Paper Bag Princess", although boys have remained reliant on mischief, as in "Haroun and the Sea of Stories."

From the Paper
"As is true in society, gender affects how certain characters deal with the obstacles inherent in both life and in children's literature. Bruno Bettelheim argues that "the message that fairy tales get across to the child"[is] that a struggle against severe difficulties in life"is an intrinsic part of human existence but that if one does not shy away, but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships, one masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious" (381). What Bettelheim does not acknowledge is that historically, in much of children's literature girls do not succeed based on their own actions and boys often emerge on top by behaving in a devious manner. This is particularly true of fairy tales. In more recent literature those positions are not necessarily true; girls have become dominant through action, although boys have continued to rely on mischief."

Tags: beanstalk, books, children, english, fairy, gender, haroun, jack, munsche, passive, patterns, snow, success, tales, white