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Arthur P. Wolf?s Article, ?Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors?, 2004.
Summary and review of an article on Chinese religious beliefs and practices.
928 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 32.95
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This paper looks at Arthur P. Wolf's article, "Gods, Ghosts and Ancestor's", which discusses the complexities of Chinese religious beliefs and practices, and explains the main thesis of the article. The paper highlights Wolf's thesis, which asserts that the supernatural categories that the Chinese believe in, namely, gods, ghosts, and ancestors, are determined by the social structure of Chinese society. The paper shows how Wolf proves his point through case studies, personal anecdotes, interviews, and observations of ritual, custom, and lifestyle.
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"Ancestors, the second class of supernatural beings that Wolf discusses in his article, are in many ways equally revered. The spirits of the deceased watch over and protect the living members of that family line. Wolf shows that there are strict rules regarding which family members can or must be worshipped. The rank of ancestor spirits closely mirrors the rank of family members. For example, the head patriarch of a family line will be given the most prominent spot on the family altar. Those family members who are not respected as much will also not be revered as diligently during times of worship."
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Ghosts in "The Woman's Warrior", 2002.
An examination of the concept of ghosts in Maxine Hong Kingston's novel "The Woman's Warrior".
1,435 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 47.95
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Chinese-American authors have played a very influential role in highlighting the atrocities of their native culture and in illustrating the problems that immigrants encounter when they move to the United States. The paper looks at the writings of Maxine Hong Kingston who termed all her problems and various cultural, ethnic and cultural obstacles as ?Ghosts? in her novel, ?The Woman Warrior?. This paper delves deeper into the subject of ghosts and explains what ghosts represented in this novel.
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"Immigration can be a painful and to a certain extent puzzling experience for those who leave behind a culture which was starkly different from the one they encountered upon immigration. We have heard and read numerous tales of immigration and related problems but Chinese people have probably been the most vocal about their experience in the United States. There have been numerous books on the subject and some of them have left an indelible impression on reader?s mind. One such book was written by Maxine Hong Kingston in 1976 titled ?The woman warrior?. In this novel, which is part fiction and part autobiography, author has described her experience as an immigrant in the United States with reference to her native culture and its restrictions."
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Parapsychology:Dis-Proving Ghosts, 2006.
An argumentative essay proving that ghosts do not exist.
2,135 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 66.95
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This paper takes a look at the scientific explanations for the appearance of ghosts. The paper disputes the supernatural origins of ghosts and offers reasonable and scientific theories for the well-known phenomenon that occurs at a haunting.
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"One case in particular proves the power of imagination and suggestion in regards to those who are searching for proof that ghosts do exist. Arthur Machen, a journalist and author of paranormal fiction wrote a fictional account of the British Army's retreat from the occupying German forces from Mons, France in 1914. Machen reported in a "fanciful" tale that phantom archers and soldiers from a medieval battle between the English and French from many centuries before. The ghosts, according to Machen, supplied a "rear guard" that allowed the English withdrawal and even caused some casualties within the Germans.
Problem was the fiction quickly became "fact" as reports came in from the soldiers on the field about the "angels" assisting their efforts. Even when Machen decried the whole story as a work of fiction, people kept sending him reports of the Angels. Even after the war, a German officer claimed a horse "rear up" and tossed him off after being startled by the ghostly soldiers. (Didier, 2007)"
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"Ghosts" by Henrik Ibsen, 2005.
This paper analyzes the play "Ghosts" by Henrik Ibsen, which examines the moral faults of "modern" Victorian society.
3,230 words (approx. 12.9 pages), 0 sources, $ 93.95
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This paper explains that Henrik Ibsen is credited with inventing the modern realistic drama of the Independent Theater Movement and that his play "Ghosts" is cited as being most symbolic of this "New Drama". The author points out that all of the characters have a very long shared history; however, the linear, cause-and-effect structure of the plot occurs within 24 hours of the beginning of the play. The paper relates that the "moral" actions within the play lead to tragedy, despair and injustice. The paper suggests that, although Ibsen's dramas are often staged with vividly realistic sets, the author would stage "Ghosts" in a minimalist style to mirror the bleakness of the characters' lives.
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"The pastor Manders condemns all of the following practices: divorce, adultery, premarital sex, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, and lying. His opinions reflect the sexist foundation of the religious environment. He condemns Engstrand for his decision to marry the "fallen" Joanna for money, but sees nothing wrong with Mrs. Alving marrying her husband, a far more reckless young man, because of the financial benefits for herself and her family. He also condemns Mrs. Alving's decision to leave her husband, despite the abominable way he treated her, stating that "it is not a wife's part to be her husband's judge."
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Ghosts in "The Member of the Wedding", 2002.
An analysis of how the theme of ghosts is included in Carson McCullers's "The Member of the Wedding".
2,476 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 75.95
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This paper analyzes the role of ghosts in the plot, themes, and language of Carson McCullers's novel, "The Member of the Wedding." Using Judith Butler's theories on kinship and queer relationality in "Antigone's Claim," the paper argues that ghosts help the novel to present an expanded vision of the field of human love.
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Carson McCullers? The Member of the Wedding is, essentially, the story of a twelve-yeard-old girl named Frankie Addams searching for love and connection in a lonely world. Frankie?s world is frightening, even nightmarish at times, and it is filled with the ghosts that inhabit her imagination and described in the textually ghostly terms of the unknown, the secret, and the unnameable. The figure of the ?ghost? ? as imagined by Frankie and as a primary descriptive device in McCullers? prose ? quite literally haunts the novel, complicating its conceptions of human relationality and connection. The ghosts enable the novel to posit a tenuous definition of what it is to be a living human being; every living figure in the novel is not only deeply aware of the presence of non-living figures but is in constant danger of falling out of the realm of the living, of becoming a ghost, and every relationship between the living is negotiated over the presence of the dead. Ultimately, the novel?s ? and its characters ? ghosts allow for the at once terrifying and redemptive possibility of relationships and identities that transgress not only normative societal boundaries but the boundaries between the living and the dead.
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Review of "Ghosts in the Nursery", 2004.
A review and discussion of the issues presented in an article entitled "Ghosts in the Nursery".
904 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 31.95
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This paper discusses an article about the mother-infant bonding process entitled "Ghosts in the Nursery: A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Problems of Impaired Infant-Mother Relationships". The paper discusses the issues presented in the article including mother-infant bonding, impaired relationships, childhood trauma, parental disengagement and resistance to therapy. The paper also discusses treatment for these problems as well as how important to the mother/child-bonding process it is to break negative patterns brought on by the past.
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"The ghosts referred to in "Ghosts in the Nursery: A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Problems of Impaired Infant-Mother Relationships" are the uninvited guests or intruders who interfere with the establishment of mother-infant bonding. As phrased by the authors in every nursery there are ghosts. They are the visitors from the unremembered past of the parents. The problem is that these intruders from the past can often hamper, even cripple, the security and development of infants. This paper will discuss issues presented in the article including parental disengagement, parental motivation..."
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"Ghosts", 2002.
Discusses human relationships in Paul Auster's "Ghosts".
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This paper explores Paul Auster's novella "Ghosts" and describes why the thesis of this story is how human beings can never truly get close to each other.
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"The Wild Duck" and "Ghosts", 2002.
Examines illusions and realities in Henrik Ibsen's plays "The Wild Duck" and "Ghosts".
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 26.95
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In this essay, Ibsen's plays, "The Wild Duck" and "Ghosts" are considered in relation to themes of illusions and realities. In both plays, families are held together by illusions and torn apart by truths that have been concealed to protect the children. Ibsen's use of artistic realism is an ironic art form here, where illusions and realisms are contradicted to reveal the deeper conflicts of ordinary lives. Ibsen is representing the complicated realities of ordinary lives and emphasizes there are always many realities, just as there are many illusions.
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"Girlhood Among Ghosts", 2002.
An analysis of the Maxine Hong Kingston's "Girlhood Among Ghosts".
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This study will be completed by analyzing Maxine Hong Kingston's short story Girlhood Among Ghosts, and seek to understand the elements of cultural diversity I two culture society. By understanding the themes, setting, and the imagery that comes up within this short story, we can see the how this author creates her characters in this format.
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Jasper Becker's "Hungry Ghosts", 2006.
An analysis of Jasper Becker's book, "Hungry Ghosts" and the points he makes about Mao Zedong's responsibility for the famine of 1958-1962.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 1 source, $ 71.95
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This paper reviews Jasper Becker's "Hungry Ghosts", a book detailing the Chinese famine that occurred during the Great Leap Forward. The paper considers four main points made by Becker concerning Mao's responsibility for the famine: a reliance on pseudoscience, a faulty industrial policy, fear and intimidation that inhibited truth telling and failure to act once the truth was known. Each of these is considered in turn and Becker's argument regarding each is critiqued.
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"In his ground-breaking study, "Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine", British journalist Jasper Becker depicts what is clearly one of the most tragic events in all of human history: the heretofore little known and misunderstood Chinese famine that resulted from Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward from 1958-1962. He outlines the events which led to the massive starvation of an estimated 30 million people as Mao's government pursued an agricultural-industrial revolution based on pseudo-scientific fantasies about manufacturing and production, and backed by state-sponsored violence and intimidation designed to fabricate for official records what was not and could not be realized in actual practice."
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Ghosts in Literature, 2002.
A study of the ghost characters in literary works of "The Spanish Tragedy ? and ?Hamlet?.
3,090 words (approx. 12.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 90.95
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This extensive paper presents a detailed exploration of ghosts in the stories of "The Spanish Tragedy" by Thomas Kyd and Shakespeare?s ?Hamlet?. It demonstrates how the writers use the ghosts as the pivotal character that guides and drives the action of the story. The paper describes that plots of each story revolves around the death of someone who comes back as a ghost, and seeks revenge for their murder.
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"Throughout history writers have used unusual methods to illustrate points if their work that they want the reader to understand. In two classic works of literature a ghost was used to provide many of the needed details to the story that would have been unknown otherwise. In ?The Spanish Tragedy ?and in ?Hamlet? there were ghosts to provide the foundation for many of the stories actions. Without the ghosts much of the things that occurred would not make any sense to the reader. While they each uses a ghost for the purpose of information provision the ghosts and the use of the ghosts have differences as well as similarities."
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Ibsen's "Ghosts" and "The Wild Duck", 1991.
This paper discusses the major themes and characters illustrating realism in Ibsen's "Ghosts" and "The Wild Duck"
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"Ibsen introduced realism to the modern stage and established its conventions so powerfully that his is still the dominant stage technique. He substituted middle-class protagonists for kings and queens and wrote prose dialogue rather than poetry. He said, "My plays . . . are not tragedies in the old meaning of the word; what I have wanted to portray is human beings and that is just why I did not want them to speak the language of the gods.". Two such plays during his realism period are Ghosts and The Wild Duck. Ghosts, written in 1881, and The Wild Duck, written in 1884, represent the breadth of Ibsen's realism.
"The Wild Duck "and "Ghosts" are typical of Ibsen's dominant themes: the presentness of the past; people's search for their place in life; the effects of idealism as a social force; and the problem of people's ultimate freedom. The presentness of the ... "
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Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts" and Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "The Grand Inquisitor",, 1994.
This paper describes and compares conflict between society and the individual in Henrik Ibsen's play "Ghosts" and section from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel "The Grand Inquisitor", .
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, $ 47.95
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"One of the major themes in world literature is the conflict between society and the individual, with society poised to enforce its requirements and its proscriptions on individuals to enforce conformity, while the individual feels constrained and would break out to a life of greater self-expression if he or she could. Different writers have portrayed this conflict in different ways, and those who have offered solutions to this conflict have also offered varying answers. This theme is depicted in Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts" and Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "The Grand Inquisitor", and both writers create a clear-cut choice in the situation without "solving" the problem. Ibsen hints that the proper answer for society would be to encourage the individual and that to do otherwise will in the long run be a detriment to society itself, while Dostoyevsky leaves the choice ... "
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The Ghosts of the "Turn of the Screw", 2006.
A review of the Henry James novel "Turn of the Screw."
3,500 words (approx. 14.0 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 98.95
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This paper examines the themes of repressed sexuality in the novel "Turn of the Screw" by Henry James. The author analyzes James's slowly unfolding plot and his often criticized habit of withholding information from the reader. As the paper explains, the story, which is full of unnamed allusions to improper behavior, is actually an allegory for Victorian reluctance to openly discuss sexual matters, particularly female sexuality. The plot of the novel revolves around the ability of the main character -- a governess -- to allegedly see ghosts. This paper looks at each of the ghosts and discusses their symbolic significance. The paper concludes with the author's opinions about the governess and why she claimed to see the ghosts.
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"Many people think Henry James was homosexual. He lived in an era and society that was particularly unforgiving of deviation from the sexual norms. It was Oscar Wilde who called homosexuality "the love that dare not speak its name." Although, he had to be extremely circumspect about his sexuality, James was able to conduct a metaphorical discussion of homosexuality in Turn of the Screw. The "unmentionable" in his story inevitably carries sexual connotations, but homosexuality truly occupies the "sin" that cannot be named. Rather than supporting conventional Victorian attitudes about sexuality like most gothic fiction, Turn of the Screw actually critiques them."
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