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Cecilia Grierson, 2004.
An examination of the life and work of Cecilia Grierson, one of the first women to study medicine in Argentina.
4,897 words (approx. 19.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 124.95
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This paper looks at the humble beginnings of Cecilia Grierson and sees how the turn of history's events pushed her into the position to be one of the first women in South America to graduate with a medical degree. It looks at her contributions in the field of medicine, especially epidemiology. It looks at how women, in particular, have benefited from her research and discoveries.
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"The roles which women perform in society are varied and these roles are usually not being considered influential or remain unnoticed. Particularly those roles which are inclined towards religion remain not been put to question. For a long duration of the Argentinean history, religion has been having an undue influence. An optimistic effect on the outlook and ethics of the community of Argentina, realized over several decades was through the arrival of foreign ideas through immigration. Main significance of women is even now her responsibility as wife and mother. Genuine contributions of educated feminists of the early generation are for ascertaining Argentina?s place among the international society of feminists and making a gauge of educational liberty for women. When one studies the proceedings in totality, there is certainly a fulfillment that women of Argentina have achieved much, even though their individual efforts may show to be less valuable, not relating to the events or even less fruitful."
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?Ode to St. Cecilia?s Day?, 2002.
An analysis of John Dryden?s poem ?Ode to St. Cecilia?s Day?, a tribute to the patron saint of music.
955 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 0 sources, $ 33.95
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The paper analyzes ?Ode to St. Cecilia?s Day?, a poem written by John Dryden which celebrates the feast-day of Saint Cecilia on November 22, as well as the majesty of music. The paper shows that music is a heavenly treat that leads to celestial harmony and the mystery of music is clarified through Dryden?s use of metaphor and personification. The paper discusses how in different stanzas, Dryden lends various instruments individual qualities according to their particular sounds. It shows how these instruments become metaphors for human passions and for the wonders of nature.
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"Throughout the ?Ode to St. Cecilia?s Day,? John Dryden personifies music in general and instruments in particular. From the second to the sixth stanza, Dryden outlines the specific qualities of certain instruments. Stanza 2 is devoted to Jubal?s corded shell. Alluding to the biblical character of Jubal, Dryden further exemplifies the divine nature of music. The corded shell ?spoke so sweetly and so well,? (line 23). The music that emanates from Jubal?s shell has the power to ?raise and quell? any human passion (line 24). Because the poet chooses verbs regularly delegated to the realm of human experience, music becomes anthropomorphised. Furthermore, because these verbs tend to be uplifting in nature, music becomes deified."
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John Grierson, 2000.
An insight into the life, career, works, style, themes and goals of the British documentary filmmaker.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 5 sources, $ 55.95
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"John Grierson (1898-1972) made very few films but was one of the most influential figures in the history of documentary filmmaking. As the leader of governmental film units in Britain and the founder of the National Film Board of Canada Grierson's belief in the potential social impact of documentary films set the course for documentary themes in English-language films.
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"John Grierson (1898-1972) made very few films but was one of the most influential figures in the history of documentary filmmaking. As the leader of governmental film units in Britain and the founder of the National Film Board of Canada Grierson's belief in the potential social impact of documentary films set the course for documentary themes in English-language films. His other major innovations were the decision to rely on institutional backing, governmental or private sector, rather than depend on box-office returns and to employ "nontheatrical distribution and exhibition" (Ellis 398). Although Grierson himself abandoned directing early on, his Drifters (1929), the remarkable beginning of the documentary movement in England, remains a vital and interesting piece of work even today and, while showing how well Grierson fulfilled his mission, raises..."
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John Grierson, 2000.
The life, career and major works of the Scottish documentary filmmaker.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 5 sources, $ 55.95
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"John Grierson (1898-1972) made very few films but was one of the most influential figures in the history of documentary filmmaking. As the leader of governmental film units in Britain and the founder of the National Film Board of Canada Grierson's belief in the potential social impact of documentary films set the course for documentary themes in English-language films. His other major innovations were the decision to rely on institutional backing, governmental or private sector, rather than depend on box-office returns and to employ "nontheatrical distribution and exhibition" (Ellis 398). Although Grierson himself abandoned directing early on, his Drifters (1929), the remarkable beginning of the documentary movement in England, remains a vital and interesting piece of work even today and, while showing how well Grierson fulfilled his mission, raises..."
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Painted Portraits, 2001.
This paper discusses the work of American painters Cecilia Beaux and John Singer Sargent.
1,530 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper explores the works and styles employed by Cecilia Beaux and one of her teachers, John Singer Sargent. It gives a brief personal history of each painter and their early influences. It further explores their unique styles, for Beaux, it was based on French impressionism and color, and Sargent's ability to portray essence. Finally this paper attempts to show why portraits remained popular during a time in which photography was widely used.
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"One of the reasons that Beaux and Sargent were popular painters even in an era in which portraiture was becoming more and more the domain of the photographer was that while portraits have always been made to serve as keepsakes and visual memoirs, they have also always served other functions as well, perhaps the primary of these being to mark the social status of the subject. Portraits by their very nature never be mass-produced but must also be commissioned. This means that they are expensive, requiring someone to be able to pay an artist to devote all of her or his skills and time to the subject alone. Thus portraits have always served as a proxy, a marker of high status."
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A Faded Rose, 2004.
An analysis of how Miss Emily Grierson fades over time, in William Faulkner's short story, "A Rose for Emily."
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 23.95
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The paper examines how Miss Emily Grierson fades over time and refuses to accept reality after being jilted by Homer Barron, in William Faulkner's short story, "A Rose for Emily."
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"In William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" we are treated to a depiction of Miss Emily Grierson dead at the beginning of the tale. From the narrator's perspective who seems to be one of the town's southerners in the story as is our custom, the story of Miss Emily unfolds. (Faulkner)
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"Camellia Street": Rodoreda?s Picaresque Novel, 1999.
A review of Merce Rodoreda's 1966 novel about life in 20th century Catalan Spain, "Camellia Street".
1,896 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 60.95
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The paper reviews a major work of Rodoreda's. It gives the background to the author, her times, and the setting of the book -- the Spanish Civil War and Franco's rise to power, (although the work was not published until after the war). The paper reviews the form of the picaresque novel and explains why the struggle of Cecilia, the protagonist, meets the necessary criteria in order to be classified as a picaresque novel. The writer focuses on the author's flower imagery and her use of it to symbolize Cecilia's struggle to relate to men. The writer concludes that Cecilia's journey has left her still struggling to find her place in the world.
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"Essentially, Camellia Street is a picaresque novel. This form originated in 16th century Spain and became well known in Cervantes' Don Quixote and Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The subject of a picaresque novel is usually a "rogue" ("picaro" is Spanish for "rogue") that wanders from adventure to adventure without seemingly any roots or home. Certainly Cecilia fits this description. Abandoned as a baby, she doesn't even know her last name or her parentage. She grows up to become a prostitute and a kept woman, subject to the affections and/or brutality of man after man.
"The protagonist in a picaresque novel must live by his/her wits and usually shows little or no alteration of character throughout the long succession of escapades. Though the book does seem to end with some hope, as Cecilia states "I looked around and it seemed like the ceiling was higher," there is no major transformation in her character. Her emotions and matter-of-fact tone remain steady.
"Finally, this form explores the illusions and realities in life. Many critics of Rodoreda's work have pointed out that her characters and settings are usually somewhere in between the bleakly realistic and the imaginary. As Rosenthal points out, in Camellia Street, Cecilia is often victim to her own illusions, developing jealousies and cruel intentions that "slowly build into scenes of hallucinatory intensity."
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Female Depression in Literature, 2005.
This paper discusses the themes of female depression in Susan Glaspell's "Trifles", William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper".
1,375 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper discusses that female protagonists Minnie Wright in Susan Glaspell's "Trifles", Emily Grierson in William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" and the narrator in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" are all dominated by male figures, all suffer from depression and all eventually commit violence. The author points out that none of these women have active control of their lives; however, each in their own way makes a desperate attempt to take action to seek a type of redemption for the misery and humiliation they have endured by the male figures in their lives. The paper relates that Gilman actually gives a first hand account of her experience with depression, explaining that she had suffered from a severe and continuous nervous breakdown and sought help from a noted specialist in nervous diseases.
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"Renee Curry writes of "A Rose for Emily," that Faulkner "reveals the limits of gendered narrative through the narrator's inability to understand or know Emily." The men in town are portrayed as respectful of Emily, while the women are curious, and the narrator is both. Through the narrator, Faulkner reveals clues to Emily's life and her father's domination. Apparently, no young man was good enough for Emily, and the town had "long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip, the two of them framed by the back-flung front door." "
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William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily", 2006.
This paper discusses the theme of denial in William Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily".
1,035 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper explains that, in "A Rose for Emily", the protagonist Emily Grierson is a woman unable and unwilling to accept the changing tides of time and the dangers involved with such behavior. The author points out that an important technique Faulkner utilizes to emphasize Emily's denial to accept change is the narrator's shift between past and present; the present tense is identified with change and progression while the past is coupled with death and darkness. The paper relates that to demonstrate how Emily is living a life of denial. Faulkner proves that Emily's father is a major factor for her very isolated lifestyle; Emily's greatest denial is that her father simply cannot be dead.
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"With Homer, Emily is in denial that he could never love her. As a result of her father's teachings, Emily is quiet arrogant and the "Griersons held themselves a little too high for what they really were" (454). Homer brings a certain level of complexity to Emily's life and the story as well because of what he represents. Homer is no doubt a symbol of change and progression that represents the modern day Jefferson. However, for Emily, Homer represents something entirely different to Emily, which allows us to see the more disturbed nature of her character."
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?A Rose for Emily?, 2006.
An analysis of the main character in William Faulkner's novel, "A Rose for Emily".
943 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 33.95
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This paper describes and analyzes the character of Emily Grierson from William Faulkner's novel, "A Rose for Emily". The paper explains that Emily's characters depicts the stereotype of the southern belle and the strict code of conduct expected by a woman of such status and position. The paper also explains that it is this very status as a southern belle that imprisons Emily and distances her from everyone, and which eventually leads to her insanity.
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"A lady of such noble birth and standing was expected to be above the rest of the townspeople. She was even exempted from taxes, at one point, as a recognition of her family' importance and influence. This continued even after the legend of her family had been tarnished by her behavior, showing just how much everyone, including herself, believed in the power her legend and role commanded. This position, however, required sacrifices, and when it came time to marry, she went beyond picky, refusing all comers without exception."
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?A Rose for Emily", 2002.
Discusses the theme of the inability to accept change in William Faulkner's story.
862 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 30.95
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William Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily" reveals the life of Emily Grierson who lives a secluded life, not leaving her home for over ten years, while also living in a state of madness. The extent of Emily's madness is finally revealed at the end, where it is found that she has been living with the body of her dead boyfriend for years, sleeping next to him. The paper shows that this illustrates the main theme of the story, the problem of being unable to accept change and move forward in life. Emily is the character who descends into madness because she is unable to accept change and live a normal life. The paper describes how William Faulkner makes this theme clear by a combination of effective structure, symbolism and characterization. Each of these elements are discussed to show how they contribute to the theme.
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"Faulkner also makes effective use of symbolism to express the theme, with two of the important symbols being death and taxes. It is no coincidence that these important symbols are both associated with items that are unavoidable. Death features as a symbol in the form of Emily's own death, the death of her father and the death of Homer. However, each of these deaths are ones that Emily is not able to accept. Another scene that illustrates Emily's inability to accept death is where she purchases the poison. When the druggist asks her what she wants it for, "Miss Emily just stared at him, her head tilted back in order to look him eye for eye, until he looked away and went and got the arsenic and wrapped it up" (40). This same inability to accept the realities of the world is symbolized by her refusal to pay taxes. In the meeting where the mayor tries to convince her to, Emily keeps repeating "I have no taxes in Jefferson" (10)."
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"To His Coy Mistress" ( Andrew Marvell ), 1999.
Examines this poem of seduction including the speaker, object of affection, poem's argument and dramatic structure.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, $ 23.95
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Andrew Marvell was one of the so-called metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century, a title conferred on a group of poets with certain similar approaches by Herbert Grierson and T.S. Eliot. Eliot himself notes that "[n]ot only is it extremely difficult to define metaphysical poetry, but difficult to decide what poets practice it and in which of their verses" (Eliot 23).
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"Andrew Marvell was one of the so-called metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century, a title conferred on a group of poets with certain similar approaches by Herbert Grierson and T.S. Eliot. Eliot himself notes that "[n]ot only is it extremely difficult to define metaphysical poetry, but difficult to decide what poets practice it and in which of their verses" (Eliot 23). Grierson offers a definition when he states that metaphysical poetry is poetry which "has been inspired by a philosophical conception of the universe and the role assigned to the human spirit in the great drama of existence" (Grierson 3).
"To His Coy Mistress" is a poem of seduction offered as an argument directed at the lady of the title. Now, he offers an argument as to why she should submit to him, and he uses an extended metaphor to describe the life-cycle, to show how short ..."
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Gender and the Middle Ages, 2005.
A look at how women were viewed in Europe during the Middle Ages.
1,780 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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This paper uses literature to examine the way in which women were viewed during the Middle Ages and the conflicting nature of those perceptions. Through a review of Chretien de Troyes?s "The Knight with the Lion", Judith Bennett's "Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader of Brigstock", and Jean Joinville's "Life of Saint Louis", the paper demonstrates that women of that era were viewed as either the embodiment of the mother of Jesus or the embodiment of Eve's sin.
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"The act of the knights recounting their tales of valor began at the ?invitation of ladies, damsels, or maidens.? Thus, the acts of masculine and knightly valor shown are evidently inspired by a female-centered audience and for female approval rather than the male-centered universe of the court. Even the evident leader of the Arthurian court in Yvain?s world is not that of Arthur himself, but Arthur?s queen, who feels quite confident from her position of title to rebuke a ?seneschal? as she is above Kay in the court?s hierarchy of status, if not of gender. Differences of social status thus could transcend gender. Guinevere is not simply symbolically important, but is an effective political actor."
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The Divine Miss Em, 2002.
A look at the triumph of the feminist heroine, Emily, in William Faulkner's
"A Rose for Emily".
1,187 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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A superficial read of William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" allows the story's first-person point of view - the voice of the townspeople of Jefferson - to overshadow the power of its heroine, Emily Grierson. The paper argues that rather than accept the narrow, exclusive evaluations such a viewpoint offers about the character of Emily, from physical descriptions of her to assumptions about her love life, readers should explore not only what the townspeople's narrative says, but also what it does not say. The paper shows that by avoiding Faulkner's intentional narrative limitations, we discover the depth of Emily's liberation; quite simply, she lives in accordance with her desires, thereby refusing to answer to others. Amid the gossip, judgments, and overt intrusions of small minds in a small southern town, Emily lives by her own rules, disregarding others as she pursues what she wants in life. The paper shows that, ultimately, Emily's alienation from society is self-imposed; therefore her isolation proves to be a triumph of womanhood and spirit.
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"Emily's lifestyle and social status in Jefferson further exemplify the free-spirited, unrestrained way she addresses the world. She is brusque with visitors who call on her with at least partially good intentions. (More important than offering Emily comfort or companionship are the townspeople's desires for glimpses of the mysterious house that nobody ever enters except for the servant Tobe.) For instance, Emily refuses to receive ladies who offer their condolences after her father's death and Homer's disappearance. She just as coolly dismisses the Board of Aldermen about her taxes, and she alone rebuffs the town ' s offer to put a mailbox and house numbers above her door when they receive free postal delivery. Without the benefit of an objective narrator, without knowledge of the internal processes of Emily's mind, we still feel the reach of her self -sufficiency."
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Faulkner's and Porter's Female Characters, 2006.
A comparison of the main characters in William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" and Katherine Anne Porter's "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall".
1,120 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper compares the characters and lives of Emily Grierson, from William Faulkner's novel "A Rose for Emily", and Granny Weatherall ,from Katherine Anne Porter's novel "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall". The paper discusses the similar character traits the characters share and explains how both were affected by a similar, life-changing event in their youths that became the tragedy of their lives . The paper also contrasts how each character chose to deal with that tragedy, pointing out that Emily allowed her past to turn her into a depraved and perverse character, while Granny chose not to let her past dictate her life and instead built a life of warmth, dignity and compassion and understood that life was what you made of it, for better or for worse.
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"The two characters presented for comparison bare likeness to each other in several respects. Each are presented as strong-willed and defiant. They both were raised during an era where existed a strict southern code of manners and appearance. Unfortunately, this code is based on appearance rather than truth. Southern society placed great emphasis on a woman's conduct and each of the women acted according to this unwritten code. The secrets that they concealed and the demeanors they chose to display to society differ from reality. Emily Grierson's fa?ade of gentleness conceals her iron-willed strength capable of even murderous acts. Granny Weatherall is perceived as an ailing lady of forgotten memory and time. Both ladies were significantly affected by events in youth that became the tragedy of their lives. They were both jilted by their young loves. The difference between Emily and Granny lies in the effect this betrayal had upon the remainder of their existence."
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