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This paper presents a review of George Anne Potter's "Deeper Than Debt". It notes the problems with the structure and organization of the book as a 'reader' or compendium. It also emphasizes the solutions and alternatives that Potter proposes to the current debt/financial crisis.

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Essay on Elizabeth Bishop with works cited from her poems "The Moose" and "The Unbeliever". The author examines her writing style and technique and her use of imagery.

From the Paper
"Lesbian, artist, poet, teacher, traveler, and translator are all words that can be used to describe Elizabeth Bishop. The aspect of her life that she is best known for is her poetry. In many of her works, Bishop uses complex symbolism to inspire the reader to think deeply, and experiences from her own life in detailed imagery so the reader can picture what she is thinking. Two poems are prime example of this, "The Moose" and ?The Unbeliever.?

Tags:english, feminism

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This essay is concerned with understanding Los Angeles on a deeper level. It addresses the nature of the American dream, and the mythology of instant success that surrounds Los Angeles. It explores the effects of the American dream and the Los Angeles myth on the people who have immigrated to the city, and also on the people who grew up here and watched the dream dissipate in front of them.

From the Paper
"Like so much of America, Los Angeles is a city of immigrants. Throughout its history, people have come from near and far on just a promise. It is the same promise that helped the rest of America spread and grow. It is the promise of peace, great fortune and having everything you could want. It is the promise that springs from the stories and songs of the American dream. So people came from all over the world and clear across the country riding on that promise of the American dream - the most enticing myth, the one we all want to believe is true. But below the lofty promise of the American dream, there is the reality of Los Angeles, an urban nexus that is bustling with millions of people from all walks of life. This reality..."

Tags:immigration, riots, america

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This paper analyzes three poems by Emily Dickinson reflecting the symbolic bird as a vehicle for hope, despair, and the single unwed. The paper explains that this relationship between bird and human emotion are common, because they suggest a deeper way for Dickinson to free her soul. By transforming gender roles in marriage, issues of hope and faith, and the problems of despair and depression in the creative process, Dickinson soars with bird symbols as a process and tool for her complex works.

From the Paper
"Emily Dickinson and the Symbolism of Birds In this study, the symbolic theme of birds will be analyzed three of Emily Dickinson's poems. By creating a three-tiered analysis of each of these poems, one can realize how birds represent the human emotions of despair/ depression, the life of the single unwed, and the feeling of hope that arises within the text. By taking these three poems, one can begin to understand how the bird symbolically represents different emotions within the writings of Emily Dickinson. In the first poem analyzed here "To Hear an Oriole Sing" one can understand the prototypical reflection of how Dickinson relates her narrative within the poem. The basis of the single unwed lifestyle is presented here through the symbolic Oriole that sings alone, and not for the general publics gender stereotypes."

Tags:birds, dickinson, poetry

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This paper analyzes the poem "Singapore" by Mary Oliver. The paper reports that on a superficial level, the poem is about a woman that the author spots scrubbing toilets in an airport in Singapore. However, deeper analysis reveals that the poem is also about writing poetry. It considers the ways in which poets must look beyond the mundane reality of the world to find poetic inspiration in the most ordinary of situations.

From the Paper
"On the surface, Mary Oliver's "Singapore" is just a poem about an incident in which the author comes across a woman scrubbing a toilet in an airport in Singapore. In fact, for many, that is probably as complex as this poem will ever be. However, there is much more to "Singapore" than a custodian on her knees, arms wrapped around a porcelain bowl. A closer, critical analysis of the poem reveals that this poem is, interestingly enough, a poem about writing poetry. Oliver expertly examines the tension that exists for poets in resolving the supposed beauty that should make up a poem and the reality of the world upon which all poetry must be constructed."

Tags:mary, oliver, singapore

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While striving for something that will appeal to audiences, Hollywood often romanticizes pieces of literature, loosing touch with the deeper meaning within a novel. This paper shows how Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" was made more visually appealing for audiences through manipulation of character, plo, and setting.

From the Paper
"Finally, the exaggeration moves into the area of setting, and more specifically, Victor's lab. The movie portrays the lab as being an entire attic length of a building, and attributed with many sophisticated and ornate devices. The novel described Victor's workplace as being "a solitary chamber, or rather a cell, at the top of the house... separated from all other apartments by a gallery and a staircase" (Shelley, p. 53), and never delves deeper into the equipment used then calling them "the instruments of life" (Shelley, p. 56). The liberties taken by the filmmakers with the lab are obviously done to make it much more appealing to the viewers. The large and ornate lab, with all of its great mechanical devices, and moving parts paints a much more terrifying scene then a lone man with a candle in a cell at the top of his house with nothing more then a collection of dead body parts on a table."

Tags:Elizabeth, Victor, Caroline

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This paper discusses that both humans and animals have strong psychological needs that modify attitudes and behaviors. The author states that cognitive processes, including thinking, feeling, memorizing and perceiving, strongly influence the entire welfare of animals and humans. The paper concludes that there are acute differences between the humans and animals in their psychological processes that mutate their behavior.

From the Paper
"Research demonstrates that learning about psychological and behavioral processes of both animals and humans can greatly assist psychologists, physiologists, biologists and most of all general public in ameliorating human/animal interaction and in the successful management of all animals. Over the years, physiological processes have been studied thoroughly and paid much attention to, however, psychological needs and behavioral processes associated to them have neither been examined nor researched, thereby neglecting the most cardinal facet of both animal and human behavior for exploration of the same proves that animals like humans have strong psychological needs that modify and determine their behavior."

Tags:attitudes, behaviors, cognitive, thinking, feeling, memorizing, welfare, wellbeing, drugs, environment

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"William Shakespeare's The Tempest is categorized along with other plays written near the end of the playwright's life, plays that are considered difficult to classify so that they are called tragicomedies, showing that there is a mixture of both comedy and tragedy inherent in their structure and characterizations. Ferdinand and Miranda are the lovers in this play, but they represent more than merely youthful desire and serve as pawns in a larger game being played by Miranda's father, Prospero. At the same time, Prospero always protects his daughter, and his encouragement of their romance should be seen in the context of a doting father wanting the best for his daughter in spite of his dedication to exacting revenge and regaining his place in the outside world.
Prospero has been given considerable power as a magician..."

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The author of the paper shows Shakespeare's skillful use of imagery in developing the character of Macbeth in the play. The paper shows that although imagery is used throughout the play, it is most dominant in appearances with clothing, light and darkness imagery, and blood imagery.

From the Paper
"Using clothing imagery, Shakespeare develops Macbeth's character. This is evident, as, imagery of clothing shows us Macbeth's ambition, and the consequences thereof. We see this ambition, through Banquo, when he says, "New honors come upon him, / Like our strange garments, cleave not to the / mould" (144-146), meaning that new clothes do not fit our bodies, until we are accustomed to them. Throughout the entire play, Macbeth is constantly wearing new clothes, that are not his, and do not fit. "

Tags:Banquo, Thane, of, Caldor, King, Duncan, Macduff

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The following paper examines how Charles Darwin's discoveries had a substantial effect on the writers of his age. This paper discusses literature of the Victorian age focusing on the importance of the senses, when reading books from this era. The writer discusses the ways in which important authors of this era were fascinated by the ways in which their characters and themselves were linked to the world through the use of their senses and that sensory information could be counted upon to be reliable in a way that few other things might be in a world in so much flux.

From the Paper
"The world of Victorian writers and readers was one whose epistemological and physical borders were each day being pushed further back. For those living in such times the choices were to sink into a reactionary railing against such change or to embrace it and the most direct way to embrace it whether in science or art of simply in life was to walk through the world with one's senses entirely and absolutely engaged, George Eliot's 1859 Adam Bede is very much a work of Realism and in it we see the author's warning that while fuzzy Romantic writers might think that could discern the true nature of a person simply through the act of observation, the Realist novelist and reader were not so easily fooled."

Tags:Western, civilization, 19th, England, traditional, certainties, ancestors, generations, Victorian, era, Age, of, Exploration