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Civil Wars in Two Novels, 2005.
A comparison of "Sitt Marie Rose" by Etel Adnan and "The Story of Zahra" by Hanan al-Shayk
1,555 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 51.95
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This is a critique of the representation and personification of civil wars in Middle Eastern countries. Excerpts from the novels and many quotes are found in this paper. Styles of authors Adnan and al-Shaykh are compared and contrasted.
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"Parallels can be drawn between the styles of authors Etel Adnan in Sitt Marie Rose and Hanan al-Shaykh in The Story of Zahra. Both authors create characters whose lives embody the struggle of the Civil War through their emotions and actions. The novels seem to be created in order to bridge the internal and external wars between each of the protagonists. However, differences can be distinguished between the facets of war both main characters portray. The design of the protagonists Zahra and Sitt Marie Rose to embody the Civil War shapes the backbone of these novels in different ways."
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Conflict in Civil Wars, 2007.
A comparison of war in "The Capture of Atlanta" by General William T. Sherman, "Picasso's Guernica" by Sam Hunter and "The Sniper" by Liam O'Flaherty.
722 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 25.95
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This paper discusses three novels relating to different civil wars: "The Capture of Atlanta" by General William T. Sherman, "Picasso's Guernica" by Sam Hunter and "The Sniper" by Liam O'Flaherty. It compares the different views that are presented in each book regarding conflict in the American Civil War, the Spanish civil war and the Irish civil war.
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"These three writers address different aspects of civil war while showing some of the cruelty of war at the same time. Only Sherman tries to justify that cruelty, or at least to explain it away as simply something that happens in war. O'Flaherty shows the reader directly the real meaning of civil war specifically and of war in general, much as Picasso did in his painting of Guernica. Sherman was a soldier, and he gauged war while in the midst of it. Still, his view is too accepting of the cruelty of war and not sufficiently willing to try to end war without adding to the cruelty in the process."
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War in Two Novels, 2002.
A review of "Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo and "Little Big" Man by Thomas Berger.
1,421 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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This paper examines how in the two novels "Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo and "Little Big Man" by Thomas Berger, individuals are changed greatly by war. It discusses how although both novels show war as a foolish endeavor which no one really wins, the authors treat war in different ways. It analyzes how Berger includes scenes of battle in his book, while Trumbo concentrates on the aftermath of war in the form of one blinded and crippled individual whose outer life has been taken completely from him, leaving him only an inner life of memory and immediate sensation. It also looks at how Berger presents his images of war in a comic manner, highlighting the foolishness and insanity of war through exaggeration and in his choice of details and how Trumbo's entire book represents the futility of war and the horror for those who are wounded.
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"Jack Crabb changes in various ways throughout the novel, shifting his personality to fit into the different worlds he finds himself in, first a settler, then an Indian, then a cavalry soldier, and always a man seeking to keep ahead of his fate. For Jack, war has different faces, depending on which side he is on at the time. This fact alone shows how war changes him, for he becomes what others want him to be. When with the Indians, he is told, "My son, those are white people that we are going to destroy" (Berger 91). When he is with the cavalry, he hears similar sentiment about how they are going to kill the Indian. For the real effect of war on the human psyche, there is Custer, who seems to be veering into insanity as he continues his campaign. War itself is depicted as insane, and it is not surprising that some of the warriors are as well, especially a committed leader like Custer."
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War Novels, 2007.
A literary comparison between Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" and Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" and "Going after Ciaccato".
2,421 words (approx. 9.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 74.95
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This paper compares and analyzes the depictions of war and its effects on men in the novels "A Farewell to Arms", "The Things They Carried" and "Going After Ciaccato". The paper explains that, even though these three works are written by different American authors from different generations, are written at different times in the 20th century and are written about distinctly different wars, geographical locations, settings, characters and circumstances, similarities between the novels do exist.
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"Tim O'Brien, on the other hand, while depicting similar brutalities; chaos, and anguish of war, in general reveals more of his various characters' thoughts and feelings. Another key difference between these two authors' depictions of war is in narrative viewpoint itself. For example, Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms is told strictly from Frederic Henry's viewpoint, and is therefore written from a third-person limited omniscient perspective. Tim O'Brien, in contrast, within The Things They Carried1 uses multiple perspectives, thereby putting multiple characters "onstage". In and Going After Ciaccato, O'Brien's narrator, Paul Berlin, alternates in telling the story between past and present and fantasy and reality, while A Farewell to Arms progresses chronologically."
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Two Novels about War, 2002.
This paper introduces and discusses the themes, characters, and moral dilemmas of two novels, ?Corelli's Mandolin,? by Louis de Bernieres, and ?If Not Now, When?? by Primo Levi.
1,270 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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This paper compares these two novels and how the main characters are fighting wars they do not truly believe in. The paper shows how the authors present two narratives in which the protagonists are engaged in warfare, but are basically opposed to war. In exploring how these two men reconcile their beliefs with their activities, as well as how they maintain their connection to life, these authors each makes a profound statement concerning how humanity can exist within the framework of war.
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""Corelli's Mandolin" is a high-spirited roman that takes place on the Greek island of Cephallonia, with the majority of the action of the book occurring World War II. Captain Antonio Corelli commands an Italian garrison posted to the island. Corelli is a man of imagination, sensitivity, and above all, he loves to play his mandolin. Corelli is an unlikely soldier, as he cares more for appreciating life's pleasures then about the Italian Fascist cult of death and hardness. For example, to one Nazi soldier' greeting of "Heil Hitler," Corelli responds "Heil Puccini." "
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Habeas Corpus - Civil Liberty or Civil Right, 2008.
An analysis of civil liberties and civil rights and which of them applies to habeas corpus.
3,137 words (approx. 12.5 pages), 15 sources, APA, $ 91.95
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This paper explores the origins and history of habeas corpus, from its roots that predate the Magna Carta through to the present day, where it is being employed to the benefit of hundreds that wrongly languish in prison. The paper also explains the distinction between civil right and civil liberty and discusses which applies to habeas corpus. Lastly, the paper looks at the historic ups and downs of habeas corpus and discusses its unique place in the Constitution, separate from provisions contained in the Bill of Rights.
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"Rights and liberties need to be at their strongest when public support is at its weakest. Civil rights are decreed by law, civil liberties are God given, and the actions of legislatures are inevitably governed by the politics of the time. Habeas corpus is a civil liberty included among the "self evident truths" of the Declaration of Independence, and alone one of the civil liberties that can be suspended by acts of the government during times of crisis. The president judged by history as one of the best, sought to suspend these liberties in time of extreme crisis in the nation's young history. It was circumvented to increase support during a world war, to intern "dangerous" citizens during another, and to grant due process rights to perpetrators of the war for the new millennium. It is now freeing hundred of wrongly convicted people of a crime. The future of habeas corpus is uncertain in the short term, but solid in the future as all inalienable rights bestowed upon the common man by his creator."
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Postwar Vietnamese Novels, 2005.
This paper reviews two postwar Vietnamese novels: "The Sorrow of War" by Bao Ninh and "Paradise of the Blind" by Duong Thu Huong.
2,390 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 0 sources, $ 73.95
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This paper explains that the Vietnam War was a war between the forces of communism (the norrth) and of capitalism and democracy (the south) and was particularly bloody because of technological advancements, such as napalm and agent-orange. The author points out that Bao Ninh's "The Sorrow of War" is both an anti-war and an anti-heroic novel in which war is not glorified but rather equated with suffering and sorrow. The paper relates that Duong Thu Huong in his novel "Paradise of the Blind" presents socialism positively as it allows people of humble origins to rise up through the ranks.
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"Land reform is seen as a necessary step in "Paradise of the Blind", but it was not without its errors. The first socialists were perhaps too strident in their methods. Thus, the "Special Section for the Rectification of Errors" came into being. This group of socialists acknowledged that in the pasts errors had been made. This willingness to accept that socialism is not perfect is a positive aspect of Vietnamese socialism as portrayed in "Paradise of the Blind". Socialism has evolved. It gives the people a chance to correct errors. The atmosphere in the time of the Special Section for the Rectification of Errors was one of "laughter, tears, and sighs of relief." Socialism ushered in a happy time in Vietnamese history, even if the initial days might have been a little rough.""
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Experience of War, 2003.
A comparative analysis of the presentation of experience of war in the novels "Regeneration" by Pat Barker and "In Country" by Bobby Ann Mason.
2,500 words (approx. 10.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 75.95
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This paper examines how one of the most important ideas that both authors, Barker of "Regeneration"and Mason of "In Country", seem to be portraying is that experience of war is not restricted to the soldiers, the combatants, those on the front line. It looks at how they are trying to get the message out that war effects everyone, as a collective and as an individual and how it it affects women and children and the men that were not fighting. It examines how "Regeneration" follows the stories of several men in a World War 1 hospital in Scotland for those suffering from shell shock whereas "In Country" is set eighteen years after the Vietnam War and uses opinionated narration from the view point of an eighteen year old girl who just missed the war.
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"One of the most powerful ways that Pat Barker and B.A .Mason show that experience is not restricted to the front line is in the fact that neither author use front line action in their novels. The novels are very similar in this respect. The lack of action from the war is startling, but the portrayal of it in both novels is very real. The authors it seems, from the very beginning, set out their ideal that it is not contact and combat that are the experience, but the effect of the war upon the person. Women cannot engage in combat in either of the novels, but in both the authors show women to have experience of the war. The authors set out this idea by the consistent opinion of the male characters that ?women weren?t over there? so they can?t really understand?, while continually challenging this with the female characters."
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Detective Novels Compared, 2002.
A comparative analysis of five recent children's detective novels and five recent adult detective novels.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 10 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper will argue that the key point of similarity between the two forms of detective fiction is the adherence of the authors to a formula. It will be seen that while the adult novels are undeniably more complex than the children's works, both generally present their audiences with the comforting familiarity of formulaic plot and repeating characters.
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Perspective and Stereotype in Western Detective Novels, 2001.
The writer examines novels by Agatha Christie and Joseph Conrad, and discusses characters and scenes in light of prejudices the authors may have held, bringing as evidence Chinese (non-Western) detective novels.
2,200 words (approx. 8.8 pages), 2 sources, $ 68.95
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We can also see the kind of xenophobic stereotypes that Christie used when we compare her works to detective fiction taken from an entirely different cultural tradition: When we think about the detective novel, we are most likely to see in our mind?s eye Sherlock Holmes?s deerstalker cap or hear the Belgian accents of Hercule Poirot. The genre of detective fiction ? with its traditional elements of the seemingly perfect crime, the wrongly accused suspect at whom circumstantial evidence points (in many cases, the bungling of the dim-witted police (in opposition to the cleverness of the private operator), the astonishing powers of observation and superior mind of the detective, and a startling and unexpected denouement (quite likely taking place in a parlor) in which the detective reveals how the identity of the culprit was ascertained ? seems a quintessentially Western concept.
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Social Protest Novels, 2004.
Analysis of "Uncle Tom?s Cabin" and "All Quiet on the Western Front" as novels of social protest.
1,798 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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This paper looks at the techniques used in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin", and Remarque's novel, "All Quiet on the Western Front", to protest the social conditions they were writing about. Both authors use the language and the metaphors of their time to help emphasize their point. Stowe also used narration, commentary, and poetry to make her anti-slavery statement, whereas Remarque relied heavily on graphic depictions to make his anti-war statement. To help determine the effectiveness of the novels' social protest, the paper compares the two novels to David Halberstam's journalistic account of the Vietnam War.
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"There is a single problem common to Uncle Tom?s Cabin and All Quiet on the Western Front, despite the works? having been created in different centuries on different continents and nominally about different subjects. The single, common problem is this: the valuation of one group of human beings by another, with that valuation coming in lower for the group being valued."
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Place in Two Novels, 2002.
A comparison of two novels one by author Charles Dickens and the other by George Eliot.
1,815 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 58.95
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This paper compares and contrasts the two novels: Charles Dickens' "Dombey and Son" as a novel of metropolitan life, and George Eliot's "Middlemarch" as a novel of provincial life. The author chose these novels to offer the reader a view of England through two different eyes. The novels also convey how writers manage to get their themes and thoughts across to their readers in different ways.
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"Dicken's novel "Dombey and Son" appeared in serial form in 1847 and 1848. It tells the story of Mr. Dombey, a proud, rich businessman who hopes to pass his prosperous company on to his son, Paul, but Paul dies as a child, and there is no one to carry on the business. Because he is so enamored of his company, and passing it on to his heir, he neglects his kind daughter Florence"
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Social Novels, 2004.
A paper that links several novels through the theme of social awareness and change.
1,005 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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This paper looks at examples of social novels and how the writers used these reflections as a method of critique and to suggest ways to change. The novels referred to in the paper include George Orwell?s "1984"; George Orwell?s "Animal Farm"; John Steinbeck?s "The Grapes of Wrath";and Joseph Heller?s "Catch-22". The paper concludes that the unifying thread in all these social novels is their reflection of reality.
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"Joseph Heller?s novel has more in common with Orwell?s writings than with Steinbeck. Unlike Steinbeck, who strove for a hyper-realism in The Grapes of Wrath, Heller?s Catch-22 uses satire to chronicles the futility and ultimate dehumanization of war. While stationed in the fictional Mediterranean island of Pianosa, Air Force soldier John Yossarian participates in several brutal and dangerous operations, where his men die not for their country, but to obtain good aerial pictures of the exploding targets. Disgusted that his life is constantly in danger for nothing, Yossarian vows to survive this pointless war at all costs. He thus spends much of his time faking illness and devising ways to be sent home."
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Slavery Novels, 2002.
A discussion of two novels written about African American society during the period of the abolishment of slavery: ?Ambition? by Beryl Weston and ?Contending Forces? by Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins.
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This paper examines these novels which depict the lives of Black Americans in the dominant white American society prior and after the legal abolishment of black slavery. Both novels discuss these social issues while discussing and narrating in closer detail the everyday lives of black Americans as they go through their lives in a new established society. The novels were written at slightly different time periods and the paper examines the differences in society during these times.
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"These love stories also illustrate how the society and the people in it determine the fate and course of romantic love for the main characters. However, the novels start in a different pace: ?Contending Forces? starts with the abolishment of black slavery, then proceeds with life in a society that has its black Americans as the equals of white Americans, not as slaves of them. Meanwhile, ?Ambition? by Weston starts initially with the already abolished black slavery, and we are introduced to a new American society, wherein black Americans are now educated and lived as equals with the white Americans. Despite these differences in the narrative structure, both novels are great eye- openers that illustrate what American society is like after the abolishment of black slavery and what society is like with black Americans as part of the whole operation of running a functional society."
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Nineteenth Century Novels, 2005.
An analysis of several famous nineteenth century novels and how they reflected the social standing and status of women of that time.
1,902 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 60.95
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This paper examines several novels written by famous 19th century authors and explains how these novels not only reflect that dependency and domination of women of that era, but also reflect the authors' attempts to bring this to the attention of their readers. The paper uses authors George Elliot and Mary Elizabeth Braddon as examples of feminist writers whose work focused on the inner desire of women to be free, both sexually and emotionally.
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"Nineteenth century was a time of conventional domesticity for women and even though a fight for emancipation of women was on, gender roles were still defined by tradition. Women were regarded as the weaker sex and were dominated by men in all spheres of life. Nineteenth century novels thus portrayed women as the weaker, dependent sex but this was done not to reinforce the traditional gender roles but to challenge them and to create awareness among women regarding their emotional dependency on men. Even some feminist writers including George Eliot portrayed women as weak and fragile souls who looked up to men for emotional and financial support. Her main reason for doing this was to question the social norms that had turned women into such meek souls."
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