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Eugene O'Neil's "Long Day's Journey Into Night", 2002.
Discusses how Eugene O'Neil uses Freud's theory of the unconscious in the dialogue of his story "Long Day's Journey Into Night".
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 89.95
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This essay discusses how Eugene O'Neil's "Long Day's Journey Into Night" uses the Freudian theory of the unconscious in the stream-of-consciousness dialogue. The play is about a dysfunctional family, whose summer on the shore is filled with abuse of alcohol and drug addiction. Yet the family is in severe denial about this abuse. In this context, we see Freud's theme of how the unconscious operates.
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"Long Day's Journey", 2002.
A review of the connection between Eugene O'Neill and his character James Tyrone from his play "Long Day's Journey".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper examines the relationship between Eugene O'Neill and James Tyrone, his character in the play, Long Day's Journey. It contends that there is a direct connection between O'Neill and Tyrone. It looks closely at the conflicts within the Tyrone family and within O'Neill's own family.
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Mary's Isolation in "Long Day's Journey Into Night", 2007.
This paper discusses the issue of the isolation of the character Mary, in the play 'Long Day's Journey into Night' by Eugene O'Neill.
2,312 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 71.95
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In this article, the writer discusses that all the characters of the play 'Long Day's Journey into Night' are trapped by their family history and their inability to break out of the family cyclical arguments, however, no one is more trapped than Mary. The writer suggests that
it seems possible that Mary was always lonely. The writer discusses that as a child she may have structured her world around the idea of being a nun because of a guaranteed community, but even in a convent, Mary would have had to know how to connect with others. Further, the writer notes that at every turn she has made choices that isolate herself. Mary chose a stand-offish man for a husband, and has made choices throughout her adult life that have kept her lonely.
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"One soon finds out that Mary has significant problems. When the play opens, she has very recently returned home from a sanatorium where she was treated for addiction to morphine. As the day goes on in the play, it becomes apparent that Mary has returned to taking morphine, and quite a lot of it. Mary has an excuse for her addiction: her husband was too cheap to pay for a good doctor after her second son was born, and that doctor got her addicted. Mary may have started with morphine to ease the pain of childbirth and its aftermath, but now it is apparent that she uses it as an escape from reality. Her need to escape is so great that she is in complete denial about her son Edmund's case of tuberculosis -- even though her father, whom she loved dearly, died of tuberculosis himself."
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Eugene O'Neil's "Long Day's Journey into Night", 2006.
This paper reviews Eugene O'Neil's "Long Day's Journey Into Night" and the use of denial by the main characters.
1,884 words (approx. 7.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 60.95
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This review of Eugene O'Neil's "Long Day's Journey Into Night", describes how the characters use denial as a temporary escape from their problems. Whether it be denying personal qualities, such as stinginess, a bad decision, or an unhealthy addiction, their denial only makes their problems worse. O'Neill uses the Tyrone family and their denial to show how avoiding issues is not going to solve or make them disappear. Though denial may be a temporary escape from a problem, in the long run it is futile.
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"It is common knowledge that "The first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem." Unfortunately, in Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night", many of the characters find the first step to be the hardest. Instead of facing reality, James Tyrone, Edmund, Jamie, and Mary continue to deny their problems in hopes that they will go away. Each of the characters uses denial as a temporary escape from their problems and the reality of the world rather than facing their problems and solving them."
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?Long Day?s Journey Into Night?, 2002.
Examines the imagery of fog in Eugene O'Neill's play.
2,293 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 70.95
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In the play ?A Long Day?s Journey Into Night,? Eugene O?Neill uses fog imagery to suggest that motivations and secret (offstage) lives of each character is partially obscured because each character refuses to really see or hear the others? stories. The paper shows that this refusal to pay attention symbolizes the repeated blame, contempt and self-deception each character practices to deny his or her own complicity in the failure of his or her dreams. Fog is an apt metaphor for this family trait because through fog one can see the general shapes or outlines of things, but the details and the substance of things is mostly hidden. In the paper, the themes of inability to empathize and blame are also explored to varying degrees in O?Neill?s plays ?Desire Under the Elms? and ?Strange Interlude?, but arguably the literary techniques employed by O?Neill in ?Long Day?s Journey? more effectively exploit the dramatic tension these themes create.
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"By Act III, fog has rolled in and a foghorn sounds offstage. In response to Mary?s complaint about the foghorn, Cathleen agrees that it sounds like a ?banshee.? (98). The Oxford English Dictionary defines a banshee is a supernatural being supposed by Irish peasantry to wail under the windows of a house where ?one of the inmates is about to die.? With the metaphorical equation of foghorn (which is heard off-stage) and banshee, O?Neill foreshadows the literal death by consumption of Edmund and probably of Mary?s whose morphine addiction returns by the end of the day. Both of these deaths will occur offstage, somewhere outside the scope of the play."
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?A Long Day?s Journey into Night?, 2005.
Examines the compassion conveyed in this play by Eugene O'Neil.
1,283 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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This paper discusses the play by American playwright, Eugene O'Neil "Long Day's Journey into Night." The paper focuses on how O'Neil encompasses themes of family love and compassion in this autobiographical play.
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"This connection through denial, love, and addiction is also seen between mother and sons. At one point, Mary is seen, like Jamie, refilling the liquor bottle with water to keep the level the same. The family 'trick' keeps up appearances for both characters. This sameness in protective mechanisms of addiction seems both touching as well as tragic-both child and mother protecting one another from one another's knowledge, through the same 'hiding' behavior, as if heredity creates both the hideous and debilitating nature addiction and the protective, loving mechanism to cover up the addiction from the family."
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"Long Day's Journey into Night", 2005.
Review and analysis of Eugene O'Neill's famous work from the perspective of several literary critics.
2,563 words (approx. 10.3 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 77.95
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This paper analyzes O'Neill's work and how he tried, by incorporating aspects of everyday life into his writings, to describe the longing and tragedy that is inherently part of the human psyche. The paper looks at how "Long Day's Journey into Night" is a an example of how O'Neill incorporated his own life experiences into his writing in an effort to portray this aspect of life and then looks at how various literary critics have supported or refuted these ideas.
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"Winther (1961), one of O?Neill?s earlier critics, suggests that O?Neill deals with tragedy from a universally appealing standpoint. O?Neill according to Winther, deals with the fall of man from prosperity into adversity in a manner ?that is shocking and through causes that lie within man himself in relation to the outward forces o his world? (298). In Long Day?s Journey into Night, O?Neill displays man as brought to disaster by ?forces that are stronger than he is? (298). Mary for example, in his work Long Day?s Journey into Night, struggles for years in a state of inescapable despair. In the work Mary is struggling to conquer forces of life she has no control over. Winther (1961) points out that each character has its flaw or failure, and is also a combination of his inner self and the circumstances of a world that is uncontrollable."
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"Long Day's Journey Into Night", 2002.
A review of the play "Long Day's Journey Into Night", by Eugene O'Neill.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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A critical and analytical essay on the play "Long Day's Journey Into Night", written by one of the most esteemed American playwrights, Eugene O'Neill.
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"Long Day's Journey Into Night" by Eugene O'Neill and "The Sound and The Fury" by William Faulkner, 1994.
A description of the portrayals of moral decline of families in the play and the novel.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 4 sources, $ 63.95
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"The decline of the family is a primary theme in both Eugene O'Neill's drama Long Day's Journey into Night and William Faulkner's novel The Sound and the Fury, and in each case the theme is linked to a general decline in society at large. For Faulkner, this decline is inextricably linked with the fact of slavery in the South and its aftermath, while for O'Neill the decline is bound with the failure of the Irish-Catholicism of New England. The Compson family was once a proud and patrician southern landholding family which has deteriorated now into madness, moral decay, and greed, while the Tyrone family similarly exhibits the worst of modern civilization. In both stories, money has become the new god of society, to the detriment of the ties of family.
In the beginning of Long Day's Journey into Night, we find..."
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Marlow's Journey: A Journey of the Heart, 2005.
The journey motif in Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness".
1,200 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 1 source, $ 41.95
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This paper shows that the theme of a journey in the novel, "Heart of Darkness," by Joseph Conrad, implies not only the physical journey, but a symbolic one as well. During his journey down the Congo River, the character, Marlow, undergoes a physical journey that is filled with spiritual, cultural, moral, and political symbols.
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"Even though the Europeans look on with disdain, deep down inside, they feel connected and drawn to the dancing and the singing. Hidden inside there is a response to the call of the forest, and somewhere there is a meaning to it all. Even though they are two different peoples, Marlow's confession shows that they are one in spirit, and that if one would just heed the call of the land, it would not be as foreign, or half as frightening. There would be meaning and understanding, and then the Europeans too, could join in the celebration."
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Armistice Day - Veteran's Day, 2002.
This paper discusses the history of Armistice Day that began after WWI.
3,369 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 95.95
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This paper looks at the origins and rituals surrounding Armistice Day, or as it is better known, Veteran's Day. The author explains how Armistice Day began after WWI and was treated as a holiday and since it was created, many different rituals are carried out. The paper refers to many sources describing the changes in the way Americans celebrated Veteran's Day after WWI to the present.
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"At 11 a. m. on November 11, 1918, the imperial German army radioed to the world that it had signed the Allied unconditional terms of surrender, and had agreed to the laying down of arms. The guns of the Great War became silent, and were replaced by outbursts of joy across the nation. It was finally over, over there. In 1995, New York City commemorated this event with 500,000 cheering, flag-waving spectators lining the roads. With thundering drums punctuating nostalgic Glenn Miller swing music, tens of thousands of proud American warriors marched out of the past and up Fifth Avenue in New York's largest Veterans Day Parade since the end of World War II. This 1995 parade was a victory of sorts due to the fact that, in recent years, Veterans Day observations have become, as Robert McFadden says, "desultory at best, with spectators often limited to passers-by walking their dogs or heading out for a quart of milk." This parade was evidence of a revival in veteran appreciation, and a renewal of Veterans Day as a much-celebrated American holiday. But while this parade can be used to model a renewal in ceremony and enthusiasm, the true meaning of Veterans Day, or Armistice Day as it was originally called, has been lost through name changes and changes in those it is supposed to honor."
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Eugene O'Neill, 2002.
A review of the common themes in Eugene O'Neill's plays, "Long Day's Journey Into Night" and "The Iceman Cometh".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper discusses Eugene O'Neill's plays, "Long Day's Journey Into Night" and "The Iceman Cometh", in terms of their common themes dealing with how the inevitable tragedies of life can trigger self-destructive behavior in people, and whether human happiness depends on denial and consoling lies or confrontation with reality.
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Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Six-Day War, 2002.
A day-by-day discussion of the events of the Six-Day War.
3,235 words (approx. 12.9 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 93.95
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This paper breaks the war down, and gives details of the events of each day. The paper also looks at the broader political picture and how this conflict fits into it. By recounting a brief history of the Middle East post World War II and examining the events of the Six-Day War, this paper reveals how Israel?s military progress was both advanced and restricted by the influence of the Super-powers in the region.
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"The Six Days War was essentially a regional conflict until one considers its broader Cold War strategic implications. As a client of the United States, Israel was able to utilize its air power to its fullest, allowing the Israeli army to make astounding gains in the course of a few days. So dominant was the air superiority of Israel that the conquest of the Arab nations surrounding it seemed almost inevitable. Further, support from the United States in the form of military hardware and diplomatic inaction allowed Israel to prosecute the war more effectively and to extend its dominance over its Arab neighbours in less than a week. Conversely, the threat of intervention by the USSR, in order to protect strategic interests in the region, prevented Israel from completely conquering the Middle East. "
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"Churning Day", 2007.
An analysis of the poem "Churning Day" by Seamus Heaney.
1,549 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper discusses how, on the surface, the poem by Nobel Prize Laureate Seamus Heaney called "Churning Day", is a wonderful journey into the past, into the old ways of making butter when technology and the corporate world were far from becoming part of Europe. The paper looks at how the poem is both a history lesson and a reflection of Heaney's agricultural upbringing. It also shows how the poem is in a very real way a testament to his sharp eye and attentive ears towards the culture in rural Ireland in which he grew up.
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"In the poem it is clear that Heaney sees his boyhood old-world family lifestyle as a metaphor, and all the things that were part of those experiences are building blocks for his storytelling. But he shows how highly intelligent he is by his strategic use of words - just enough descriptiveness and emotion. Still, he does not let the tools of poetry overpower the poem. As a poet he has the license to pour forth with images and metaphors, but he handles this poem with grace, the same as his family handled the chores of making food with grace and deliberation. His poetry is, according to The New York Times, "...accomplished, predictable" (Unterecker, 1967). "
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Cultural Tourism and the Day of the Dead, 2008.
Discusses the feelings of the people of Mexico regarding tourism during the holiday, Day of the Dead, based on Lucero Morales Cano and Avis Mysyk's article "Cultural tourism, the State, and the Day of the Dead".
1,336 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 44.95
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The paper is a review of an article entitled "Cultural tourism, the State, and the Day of the Dead", which the writer find particularly relevant to him because of his plans to observe Day of the Dead celebrations during an upcoming visit to Mexico. The paper then relates the emotions of the writer prior to an intended visit to Mexico during the "Day of the Dead " celebrations, noting that there is a conflict between the authorities who welcome tourism on this holiday and the civilians who see tourism as intrusion into a sacred historical ritual and oppose it being promoted as a tourist attraction. The paper also explains that the community is divided on the subject, as many recognize the economic importance of tourism.
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"These dynamics are evident in Mexico, particularly concerning how to mediate the conflict between the state and local residents over the tourist attraction that Day of the Dead festivities have become because of globalization. Cano and Mysyk have studied the problems which have arisen in the village of Huaquechula since 1988, when the one road leading into the village was paved for the benefit of tourists and the village became a part of the tourism circuit. In the process of studying the impact of these developments, Mysyk surveyed the villagers regarding their appreciation of the presence of tourists, their behavior, their feelings about tourists photographing or videotaping altars, and related issues."
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