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Character Survival in the Landscapes of Cormac McCarthy, 2008.
A review of the book "The Road", by Cormac McCarthy.
1,977 words (approx. 7.9 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 62.95
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This paper examines whether post-apocalyptic landscape in Cormac McCarthy's book, "The Road", departs thematically from his prior works and what message, if any, we should find in the ashes. The paper explains that McCarthy's novels have consistently relied upon the pastoral American South where the isolation of man provides a sense of humanity, morality and community. The paper notes that in "The Road", McCarthy uses a post-apocalyptic wasteland where a man and his son struggle to survive against the barbarism of others. The paper then looks at how the use of a different landscape raises the question of whether or not "The Road" is also different thematically from his other novels, even-though McCarthy still places an emphasis on man's constant struggle for survival and his need for community in "The Road". The paper also points out that some sources cite that McCarthy's choice of landscape comments on the dangerous capabilities of humanity to destroy itself using technology and a legitimate concern for the environment. To conclude, this paper shows that McCarthy's post-apocalyptic landscape does not signify a departure from his consistent themes, instead it further emphasizes and validates his commentary on human nature and society in his prior works.
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"Of course, it should come as no surprise to those familiar with McCarthy's earlier works that The Road takes place, like the others, against such a backdrop of a harsh and unforgiving terrain surrounded by terrifying isolation, and that that landscape, like McCarthy's novels before it, serves once more to cage his main characters in a "world defined by barbarism and violence," where their struggle for survival will test the hope that "civilized values and actions can endure, despite humanity's capacity for savagery." (Smith 26). In his earlier works, however, such as The Orchard Keeper (1965), Outer Dark (1966), Child of God (1973) and Blood Meridian (1979), the landscape in which McCarthy's characters struggled to survive was a natural one. The Orchard Keeper, for example, was set in a small, isolated community located somewhere in Tennessee between the two World Wars."
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"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy, 2008.
An analysis of the book "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy in which the author presents to the reader, the raw basic facts of a nuclear aftermath.
1,518 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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The paper is a a critical essay about a Pulitzer prize-winning novel. In discussing "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy the paper focuses not on what the author may have intended to present, but rather on what the internal elements of the text reveal. The paper states that by writing this novel author McCarthy, is not protesting the nuclear stockpiles in Russia and the U.S. but he is allowing readers to share a story that is compelling, engaging, disturbing and yet brilliantly executed.
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"Indeed, this is clearly a book that touches on the unspeakable horrors that likely will follow a nuclear cataclysm, including humans turning into savages and criminals, and survivors rummaging through the rubble for the tools and food needed to keep going. And it is a story about the male mentality, the male quest for the will and the power to go on in a world where power has destroyed what was there before. "No sign of life...a corpse in a doorway dried to leather" (12). Saying the book is grim is an understatement. In terms of the humanity, this book is dark, darker, and black like a total eclipse. In the first twenty-five pages the word "gray" appears nineteen times. McCarthy is presenting to the reader the raw basic facts of a nuclear aftermath, and one need not try to read any more into than that, as far as the actual narrative. Life after a nuclear blast - in the best case scenario, experienced by the characters, is be bleak and not fun - and in the worse case scenario, at the end, life will be snuffed out."
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"All The Pretty Horses" by Cormac McCarthy, 2002.
A comparison of the written version of this work to the film version.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 24.95
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A disscusion on how meaning is enacted or re-created when a text is performed or adapted for a performance. A written comparison of a print text with the text's adaptation into film.
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"Cormac McCarthy?s novel ?All the Pretty Horses? examines in fine detail the maturing of a sixteen-year-old boy, John Grady Cole, as he travels through the scorched landscape of Mexico. Grady?s quest to uphold the romantic ideals of ?the Wild West? is beautifully illustrated through McCarthy?s attention to detail in his writing. When comparing the delicacy McCarthy has taken to articulate his ideas, with Bill Bob Thornton?s film representation of the same title, one can only feel utmost disappointed."
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Survival in Words: Why Offred Survives in "A Handmaid's Tale", 2005.
A new critical reading of Margaret Atwood's "Handmaid's Tale". An exploration of what gives society the power to assimilate and control a people.
2,514 words (approx. 10.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 76.95
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This paper examines how the Gileadean society assimilates and controls its inhabitants by controlling language in the novel by Canadian author, Margaret Atwood. This paper uses a New Critical theory to examine the text of "A Handmaid's Tale" to explore what makes Gilead so effective, and why Offred is able to survive and escape when others, who seem to be stronger, cannot.
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"Another division of communication is the auditory or spoken. The Republic of Gilead, like any other changing society, developed its own specific vocabulary that works effectively to assimilate a people into the culture. The vocabulary ranges from the names of certain events like Prayvaganzas, which are mass weddings, to Salvagings, which are executions, or particutions, which are also executions, but ones in which the Handmaids are able to participate. The vocabulary extends to the names given to the class distinctions within the society: Marthas, Handmaids, Commanders, Guardians, Angels, Aunts and Eyes."
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"The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival", 2002.
Review of the holocaust survival story "The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival" published posthumously by the author's daughter.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 1 source, $ 53.95
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Sara Tuvel Bernstein's memoir, "The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival", is one of the most memorable of first-person accounts of survival during the Holocaust. The book is well-told by the late Bernstein and deserves a prominent place in the archive of Holocaust survival stories. In 1944, she was transported with her sister and two friends to the Ravensbruck concentration camp. In a moving afterward, Seren's daughter describes her mother's strong personality. Published posthumously, Bernstein's work evolved literally thread by thread as she worked in her sewing room, methodically recording her tale of survival during the Holocaust.
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Landscapes Painting, 2002.
A review of two landscape paintings, "Landscape with Saint John on Patmos" by Nicolas Poussin and Paul Cezanne's "Mont Saint- Victoire".
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 71.95
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This paper analyzes two pieces of art in terms of their content and design, as well as investigating the periods during which these pieces were produced. The two works that are explored are "Landscape with Saint John on Patmos" by Nicolas Poussin and Paul Cezanne's "Mont Saint- Victoire". Both images are of landscapes featuring mountains, yet the overall composition and execution of both pieces is remarkably different
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Joseph McCarthy, 2002.
Critical review of "Joseph McCarthy - Reexamining the Life and Legend of America's Most Hated Senator" by Arthur Herman.
1,443 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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This is an overall positive review of Herman's book on Joseph McCarthy. The paper sides with Herman's view that McCarthy was accurate in his perception of a communist threat to America and that his anti-communist investigations were right on target. Also agreed upon is the suggestion that the real problem with Joseph McCarthy was with the man himself and his tactics, not with his fears of the threat posed by Communism. The paper also points out some of the shortcomings of the book and, in particular, mentions the way Herman brushes off the ruin McCarthy brought to so many innocent lives.
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"Arthur Herman's book, Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator provides us with a different view of the man who is remembered as an unscrupulous, self-serving, and hypocritical man who recklessly destroyed people's reputations and lives through his unfounded anticommunist witch hunting. Arthur Herman's re-examination of the McCarthy legacy shows that, in retrospect, his disgrace came at a certain price to historical truth. His concept of modern politics and what drove him to his unethical practices remains both unexplored and unexplained."
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Arctic and Antarctic Landscapes, 2002.
An overview of European and Aboriginal misperceptions of the Arctic and Antarctic landscapes.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 62.95
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This paper will examine misperceptions of the Arctic and Antarctic landscapes as cognitive constructs. These misperceptions will be analysed as constructs of two different cultures: European and Aboriginal. It will be argued that the Arctic and Antarctic landscapes have, over the centuries, functioned as a geographical equivalent of a psychological Rorschach test; vast white landscapes upon which we (or rather, white male explorers) have imposed readings that reveal more about ourselves than about the geographic realities of the spaces. In contrast to this, the views of peoples indigenous to the Arctic may be seen as a more valid perception of this forbidding environment.
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The Lesson of Joseph McCarthy, 2003.
This paper is an essay about honesty and Senator Joseph McCarthy, using examples from Arthur Miller?s ?The Crucible?.
1,170 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper discusses that Senator Joseph McCarthy lied about people being communists to get himself reelected. The paper compares McCarthy to the Salem Witch Hunts and gives examples from Arthur Miller?s ?The Crucible?. The author?s core argument is that when striving for personal gain, one begins to realize the unfortunate fact that honest methods can be lot harder than fraudulent ones; and thus, people who will try and deceive others will always exist.
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"Senator Joseph McCarthy, like many politicians, was willing to lie and deceive in order to receive re-election. However, he went too far: he accused many high-ranking government officials of condoning Communism in order, as many believe, to give him an issue for his re-election campaign in 1952. (Jesse Friedman) ?McCarthy drove many individuals from their jobs?and destroyed the reputations of an uncounted number of people?. Reminiscent of the fear of witches during seventeenth century, the spread of communism was a blinding trepidation in America during the 1950s. McCarthy saw this weakness, and he attacked it relentlessly. Throughout his campaign, though, he was unable to produce a shred of evidence against anyone he had defamed."
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Joseph McCarthy and the Red Scare, 2005.
Discusses how Senator McCarthy caused panic in the United States with his extreme anti-Communist views in the 1950s.
1,205 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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During the 1950s, after WWII, America was in a period of fear, from communism and conformity. This paper examines how Joseph McCarthy, a Republican Senator from Wisconsin, pushed America's fears to an extreme as a ploy to get re-elected. McCarthy's plan was to make America hate communism as much as he did. The paper explains how Congress immediately started to hunt down the people who were on this supposed list. This period of intense anti-communism, was also known as the (second) Red Scare or McCarthyism, which occurred in the United States from 1948 to about 1956.
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"Joseph McCarthy was a dirty politician who would do whatever it took to get him a place in office. By holding a piece of paper, and saying that the enemy who everyone feared was so close, McCarthy diminished all thoughts that America was truly safe. The actual piece of paper was blank; McCarthy had no writing on the paper at all. He knew that by telling the people of the United States of America that the enemy was so close, he could finally see a war erected against Communism. Everyone knew about it, but no one ever talked about it. "The first knowledge many American's had of Communism came from Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech" (Matusow, 45). Churchill basically said in his speech that the Soviet Union was pushing forward a global Communist takeover. Churchill also said that he believed, "We should not let such a force loose on the planet" (Matusow, 46). That was the first time many American eyes were opened to Communism, and McCarthy made sure it was not the last. "The entire chaos that Senator McCarthy caused had become collectively known as The Red Scare" (Feuerlicht, 34). McCarthy used this entire Red Scare idea to boost his hopes for re-election. But an elected official is supposed to be a representative of the people. All McCarthy did was abuse his power and pull the wool over the people's eyes. McCarthy did not work for the benefit of the people. He only worked for the benefit of himself."
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Primo Levi's "Survival in Auschwitz", 2004.
Summary and analysis of Primo Levi's book about his experience in a Nazi extermination camp, "Survival in Auschwitz".
1,932 words (approx. 7.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 61.95
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The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the topic of the Holocaust and how Primo Levi survived his imprisonment in Auschwitz. Specifically, it answers the questions: What perspective does Levi provide on day-to-day survival within Auschwitz? Was there order amidst the chaos of mass murder?
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"Primo Levi was one of the lucky few who survived the horrific prison camp of Auschwitz operated by the Nazis with the sole purpose of exterminating as many Jews as possible. Levi opens his book with the statement, "It was my good fortune to be deported to Auschwitz only in 1944, that is, after the German Government had decided, owing to the growing scarcity of labor, to lengthen the average life span of the prisoners destined for elimination" (Levi 9). Initially, this opening sentence in the Preface not only illustrates the strength of the man who the reader will come to know throughout the book, but his essential optimism, which is one of the many things that ultimately helped him survive his nine months in the world's most notorious Nazi prison camp. As the book unfolds, the traits necessary to survive become quite obvious, and Levi's trait of optimism even in the pit of despair is one of the things that helped pull him through, and helped many others survive, too."
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"Survival in Auschwitz", 2001.
This is a review of Primo Levi's book, "Survival in Auschwitz."
1,080 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 37.95
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The author uses Primo Levi's autobiography, "Survival in Auschwitz," to describe the everyday life of a prisoner in the Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz. The author gives a brief biography of Primo Levi, and describes how he ended up at Auschwitz, including his experiences on the train ride from Italy. Some of the issues discussed are the day-to-day activities in the camp, and how Levi actually managed to survive the horror in which he was living.
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"Yet another element in his survival was his friendship with two Italians, Alberto, a fellow H?ftling, and Lorenzo, an Italian civilian worker at the Buna installation whom Levi met by chance. Levi was assigned to Alfredo's block after a two-week stay in the Ka-Be (sick house.) Levi and Alberto shared rations and supported each other in their quest for survival. Lorenzo's friendship was of even greater importance. Lorenzo became Levi's protector and brought him a piece of bread and what was left of his ration every day for six months. Lorenzo's conduct was atypical of the civilian behavior toward the H?ftlinge in the camp. The civilians saw the degraded and disfigured slaves as deserving of their fate even when they threw them potatoes or bread. Above all, Lorenzo treated Levi as a human being, and it was that treatment which Levi believes kept him alive."
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"Survival in Auschwitz", 2008.
A review of Primo Levi's "Survival in Auschwitz".
1,773 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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This paper examines Primo Levi's "Survival in Auschwitz", which describes his personal experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camp. It discusses how, for Primo Levi, the strength and tenacity to withstand the terrors of the death camps had much to do with his physical and mental stamina, his scientific background as a chemist and perhaps his personal religious beliefs, which certainly helped other Jews to survive.
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"Without a doubt, Levi did indeed possess great luck, good, sturdy health and much spiritual strength upon entering Auschwitz and certainly retained these traits when he was released in 1945. Physically, Levi was a rather small man but possessed much body mass and strength as a result of climbing mountains as a hobby. He once declared that he "learned the virtues of resistance, endurance and sustenance in the mountains" and admitted that without these "virtues" he would not have been able to survive the death camp at Auschwitz (Pytell, "The Grey Zone: Viktor Frankl's Auschwitz"). Clearly, as a denizen of the Auschwitzian version of "Hell on Earth," Levi found himself dependent on these "virtues" in order to endure and overcome the horrible conditions at the camp and the never-ending taunting and coarse discipline of his Nazi inquisitors. "
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Miller and McCarthy, 2007.
An analysis of the repercussions of Arthur Miller's play, "The Crucible" and Joseph McCarthy's speech, regarding communism in the 1950s in the United States.
904 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 32.95
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This paper discusses the history of communism and the perceived communist threat in the United States in the early 1950s. The paper discusses the repercussions of Arthur Miller's play, "The Crucible," as well as Joseph McCarthy's speech in 1950, where he held up a list of names he claimed proved that Truman's administration, as well as the State Department, was peppered with Communists and "Communist sympathizers". The paper concludes with the messages that can be learned from Miller's play in the United States, today.
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"Miller's play carries an important message for today. The United States of today is under a threat at least as real as the Communist threat of the late forties and early fifties was. We have had the graphic evidence from the attacks of September 11, 2001. Those attacks were driven ideologically, so once again the American public is caught up in a war of words, with some views "patriotic" and some "un-American." Both the events of the McCarthy hearings and Miller's play might serve as cautionary tales to warn us to stick to our legal principles and require solid proof before accusing people of being some form of "enemy of the state." The residents of Salem in the 17th century had more excuse than we would have, either during the McCarthy hearings or now. In Salem they fought a foe, Satan, who was by definition hard to detect and hard to see. The fact that brought McCarthy down was that he avoided evidence and relied on innuendo. In Salem they could not get verifiable proof, but as a democratic country we must always be ready to demand it."
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Arthur Miller and McCarthy, 2005.
A review of Arthur Miller's criticism of Senator McCarthy through his play "The Crucible".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper introduces a theme relating to Arthur Miller and McCarthyism and then offers an annotated bibliography of six books on the subject. This paper notes how Miller criticized McCarthy indirectly with his play "The Crucible," which stands as an indictment not only of McCarthyism but of any such use of hysteria and falsehood to create and manipulate fear during a time of tension.
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"The McCarthy era took advantage of existing tensions in the country over changes after world War II and new fears of a Communist threat directed at America. America was seen as a target because of its influence, the fact that it had the atomic bomb, and because of imperialist designs by Russia. Senator Joseph McCarthy took advantage of the hysteria of the time, and it is not clear how much his actions were simply self-promotion and how much true belief. He showed reckless disregard for any damage he might cause by making unfounded accusations, and in this atmosphere a few managed to criticize him and his methods, often indirectly as playwright Arthur Miller did with his play 'The Crucible', which stands as an indictment not only of McCarthyism but of any such use of hysteria and falsehood to create and manipulate fear during a time of tension."
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