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"Lost Sister", 2006.
A description of the poem "Lost Sister" by Cathy Song.
1,283 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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This paper discusses a poem "Lost Sister" which is found in a poem collection called "Picture Bride" written by Cathy Song. The paper describes the ways in which the poem collection describes Asian immigrants' concerns with their decisions to migrate to the United States. The poem, "Lost Sister," more specifically compares the contradictions in Chinese and American cultures faced by a Chinese immigrant woman.
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"By acknowledging that jade stone can only be found in several mountains in China and nearby, Song applies the stone to symbolize China, the nation and its culture. Further, by describing the preciousness of jade stone to Chinese people in line 6-9, Song conveys that Chinese culture is very important to Chinese people. They hold their culture so strongly that they pass it on to their descendants and it becomes the family's identity, as stated in lines 3-4. Identifying themselves as Chinese not only shows their pride in being as valuable as jade stone, but also their power to make impossible goals become achievable as they can "move mountains" (line 7). The significance of the word "daughters" in line 3 is an image relating to the intense connection between Chinese women and their identities as Chinese."
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Cathy Song's Poem "Lost Sister", 2006.
This paper is an analysis of Cathy Song's poem "Lost Sister" from her collection of poetry entitled "Picture Bride".
1,290 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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This paper explains that Cathy Song understands the predicaments Asian immigrants must encounter in American society because she grew up as an American of Chinese and Korean descent, which she expressed in "Picture Bride", a poem collection about Asian immigrants' concerns with their decisions to migrate to the United States The author points out that, in the poem "Lost Sister", Song compares the contradictions in Chinese and American cultures faced by a Chinese immigrant woman because American laws allows freedom for everyone; whereas, the ancient Chinese tradition oppresses women's rights. The paper relates that Song depicts, in this poem, the immigrant woman choosing to adhere to American traditions, leaving her original cultures in order to express herself in spite of her Chinese identity. Many quotations.
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"Ending her poem, Song highlights the immigrant woman's choice to follow the American traditions while disobeying her own culture. Song begins the last stanza with "you find you need China/ your one fragile identification" (lines 53-54) to restate the woman's original identity as a Chinese person. The word "fragile", however, emphasizes the intensity of her connection to her Chinese identification. By saying "fragile," the woman admits that although she cannot deny her ethnicity that runs in her blood, she does not practice her Chinese identity further."
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Lost Women of a Lost Generation, 2002.
This paper discusses lost women of a lost generation, between the 1920s and the 1930s, "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway and "Good Morning, Midnight" by Jean Rhys.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper states that both novels prominently feature women who live frivolously from day to day, desperately attempting to "buy" their happiness; or, at least, to buy the alcohol with which they may buy "forgetfulness" of their traumatic pasts. The author believes that, in many respects, the character of Sasha Jensen from "Good Morning, Midnight" may be seen as an older version of Brett Ashley from "The Sun Also Rises". The paper states that these two female characters serve as cultural "bookends" or markers to the long intermission between the wars.
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?How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent?, 2004.
This paper reviews Julia Alvarez?s ?How the Garcia Girls lost their Accent?, which is about four sisters who experienced a lifestyle change in coming to America from the Dominican Republic.
1,205 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 41.95
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This paper examines the four sisters, their parents, the political backdrop, and the Dominican Republic?s male-female nexus, which is so different from what one has come to view in America. The author points out that, in ?How the Garcia Girls lost their Accent?, which is set from the early 1960s to the mid 1980s, each sister brings her own dimensionality, which is a slice of what constitutes a woman. The paper states that the sisters? accents have completely changed; but, for better or worse, they have been fully assimilated into American culture.
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"It is in Fifi?s relationships with men that we see the most vagaries. The start of the novel shows that she is really a person who would support a stable family. She is headstrong and independent. She generally gets what she wants. She presents her parents with their first grandchildren?a boy. She is the only one among her siblings that does not have a college degree, though there is no lack of intellect. Her husband is the most accomplished of all? ?? the German nobody turned out to be a world class chemist.?(p. 31) She seems to hold equal say in her marriage though her husband?s character is not explored. Surprisingly, Fifi can adopt different roles."
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Lost Parents, 2002.
Discusses the reversal of the Peter Pan story in today's society, where the lost boys have become the "lost parents".
2,057 words (approx. 8.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 64.95
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The paper argues that the story of today?s family is in many ways quite the opposite of Peter Pan. It is the grown-ups who have flown out the window and off to wonderful adventures, while the children wait to see if they?ll come home. The question has become not so much one of losing one?s children, but rather, if they will have left the windows open when one comes back. In more direct terms, the parents of today are often trying to live in a ?Neverland? of work and social involvement and the fear of losing ones children has increasingly changed to a nagging thought that one may instead be lost to them. The paper uses literature on the subject to support its argument, including ?There?s No Place Like Work,? by Arlie Russel Hochschild and Jerry Adler?s ?Building a Better Dad".
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"There is more to the story of the Lost Parents, though, than just the history of their escape from the home. There is also the story of the children who are left behind. In the staged version of Peter Pan, the character of Captain Hook is generally played by the same actor as Wendy?s Mother. In a similar fashion, the Wizard of Oz draws parallels between the evil witch and the evil adults in Dorothy?s life. The children, in trying to escape from their families and all those controlling grown-ups, end up encountering those grown ups in far more horrid forms. They have gone from parents and neighbors to pirates and witches. In our parallel story of the lost parents, it seems that a similar phenomena may be occurring. While adults are escaping from their children and families, they are increasingly running in to the same problems returned in a more terrible way. Hochschild mentions this, pointing out today?s children are more likely to run into a host of problems such as drug use, teenage pregnancy, and to be victims of violent crime. One might also remind the reader of the increasing upswing in crimes committed by children. The child whose parents have escaped out the window becomes the pirates of their fantasies -- and this is played out in a host of ways. In many urban areas, gangs of children are widely feared. In a more corporate sense, children getting into trouble with pregnancy, drugs, and even simply at school create a financial drain on the economy, ?stealing? the resources their parents work to create."
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Sisters in Literature, 2002.
This paper analyzes the use of sisters as a literary device in Geraldine Jewsbury's novel The Half Sisters, and Christina Rossetti's narrative poem "Goblin Market".
2,670 words (approx. 10.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 80.95
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The paper looks at these two works from the middle of the nineteenth century as they use the device of a pair of sisters for exploring the nature of women and expanding their audiences' understanding of women, their capacities, and the limitations placed on them by convention. The paper brings examples from the writing to illustrate this point.
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"As Armstrong puts it, there is deliberate cruelty in the "way in which the fruit is offered as a saleable commodity and arbitrarily withdrawn" so that "it has to be bargained for, but it belongs to a mystified economy to which both girls are inevitably subject" (Armstrong 349). The world of men is, like the invisible world of the goblins, incomprehensible to women and they are forced to accept the bargain on the terms offered by men. Laura gives in to her own desire for pleasure and accepts the terms of the goblins at face value. The seeming gift of fruit that does not have to be paid for, of course, entails a hidden cost that Laura, if she only paid attention to the example of Jeanie, should have understood. But women also lack full and explicit knowledge and thus Jeanie's example, while it is strong enough to motivate Lizzie, does not really satisfy their curiosity which is the motive that, almost as much as greed, compels Laura to go against her sister's common-sense advice."
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"How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents", 2002.
This paper discusses J. Alvarez's novel, "How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents".
2,840 words (approx. 11.4 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 84.95
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This paper examines Alvarez's novel "How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents" illustrating how the 'accent' is mostly a metaphor for the evolution of several facets of the sisters. 'Accents', become synonymous with a modern, west-influenced lifestyle where equality is introduced into the male-female nexus. The author concludes that the relationships of the four sisters really mirror the male-female relationships of the west and their accents have completely changed?they have been fully assimilated into the Western culture.
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"Interestingly, Julia Alvarez presents several unique characteristics in the narrative. The novel is set from the early 1960s to the mid 1980, but in reverse chronological order. Such a description helps develop the characters of the four sisters: Carla, Sandi (Sandra), Yolanda (YoYo aka Joe) and Fifi (Sofia). To put the plot in the right order: Carlos is a doctor in the Dominican Republic. Carlos is married to Laura. They have four daughters. Carlos?s nuclear and extended family is wealthy and influential?one of a few in the entire nation situated on an impoverished tropical South American Island. Fearing reprisals in the dictatorial reign of Trujillo Ciudad, called only Trujillo in the entire novel (assuming that every Dominican is familiar with the name), the family escapes to the United States."
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John Milton's Personal Influence on the Writing of "Paradise Lost", 2002.
A look at John Milton's political and religious forum in the novel "Paradise Lost".
2,280 words (approx. 9.1 pages), 27 sources, $ 70.95
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This paper examines John Milton's "Paradise Lost" and explains how it is more than just another entertaining tale, but rather a religious and political forum for Milton's personal views and feelings.
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"Perhaps Paradise Lost was more than just a biblical tale of humankind?s fall from God?s grace, out of paradise. It was more, it was a religious and political forum for Milton to express his views unopposed, by using the conflict of good and evil in Paradise Lost portraying his own philosophies. With each struggle he illustrates his political and religious notions connecting them with the conflict of the main subject introduced in Book I, ?the creation, fall, and redemption of the world and humankind? (Lazzari 367). With certain influences in his life Milton?s beliefs were shaped into what they were during the composure of Paradise Lost. With these influences and these beliefs he wrote a Paradise Lost."
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"The Makioka Sisters", 2002.
A review of Junichiro Tanizaki's "The Makioka Sisters".
1,726 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 55.95
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This paper examines how the four sisters in Junichiro Tanizaki's "The Makioka Sisters" are parts of an allegorical account of the decline of Japan's old upper-class merchant families in the face of rising modernism and nationalism. Each of the sisters, largely depending on her age and placement in the family, symbolizes a different aspect of the change in the social order. It looks at how Tanizaki manages to develop these allegorical roles for his principal characters without sacrificing any of their validity or interest as individual beings whose thoughts and actions retain the reader's full attention. It also shows how despite the fact that each sister functions in the allegory in a different way, none of them is a simple character with traditional or modern traits that make it easy to sum up her symbolic meaning in a few words.
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"The principal allegorical function of the sisters begins long before the novel opens, of course, in the simple fact that their father had only daughters to inherit from him. He had also been somewhat careless with money and had greatly reduced what there was to inherit. But even this attitude, which was responsible for the kind of upbringing his daughters had, has an allegorical function in that he had never believed that things could change. Thus, even though the early signs of change must have been everywhere in the first part of the century, his daughters were brought up believing that the pattern of life they knew so well would last forever."
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John Milton's "Paradise Lost", 2007.
This paper discusses the shared characteristics of the poet and Satan in John Milton's Christian epic, "Paradise Lost".
2,290 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 0 sources, $ 70.95
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This paper explains that, during the time that John Milton was writing "Paradise Lost", he lost his sight and was deeply troubled. The author believes that the parallels he generates between Satan and himself as the poet figure are meant to hint indirectly at his own struggle with his faith and his love of God. The paper establishes this argument, based on textual evidence from the poem, suggesting that these similarities are crucial because they imply a loss of faith on the part of both characters and therefore of Milton.
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"Despite the fact that Milton implies that the poet has acquired God's grace by means of the Bible, he admits that God, as represented by light, does not return his sight: "thee I revisit safe,/And feel thy sov'reign vital lamp; but thou/Revisit'st not these eyes". This passage seems particularly troubling; as Milton's mournful tone suggests a lingering sense of loss and disappointment. Later on, Milton inadvertently furthers this sense of loss by listing all of the things the poet can not see:..."
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Sister Faustina and the Devine Mercy, 2006.
A review of the life of Helena, otherwise known as Sister Faustina.
4,307 words (approx. 17.2 pages), 15 sources, MLA, $ 114.95
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This paper takes a look at Sister Mary Faustina. According to the paper, Sister Faustina was born, Helena Kowalski, a polish child whose parents would not permit her to enter the convent. The paper discusses how after a vision of the Suffering Christ, Sister Faustina finally joined the convent. The paper goes on to discuss her life.
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"One particular confessor helped the confused Sister a lot, for it was he who pointed out the fact that since Jesus Christ is our master, communing with Him is "neither daydreaming nor hysteria nor illusion. Know that you are on the right path." (John Paul II and the Feast of Divine Mercy) When, three weeks after her vision in which she received the image of Divine Mercy from Christ, Sister Faustina met Father Michael Sopocko, and she felt as if she had already met him, for she had seen him in another vision, in which Jesus Christ had promised that she would have a new benefactor, she knew that she was not relay imagining everything. Father Michael was a man, who was highly educated in moral theology and other similar subjects, and even though he did not believe at the outset the extent of his subject's communion with Jesus Christ, he was to prove her benefactor in later years, and also a constant source of encouragement for the discouraged and de-motivated Sister Faustina."
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?Sister Imelda?, 2005.
This paper reviews the short story "Sister Imelda" (1981) by Irish author Edna O'Brien about nuns and students at a strict Irish Catholic convent school.
1,050 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper explains that Edna O'Brien's descriptive writing style in the short story "Sister Imelda" is seen in her characterizations of the narrator, her best friend Baba and the seductive but sad Sister Imelda herself and their various interpersonal conflicts. The author points out that O'Brien takes the reader inside the closed and remote world of an Irish Catholic convent school with its myriad rules, restrictions and joyless routines. The paper relates that the themes of the book are (1) Sister Imelda's lesbianism, (2) honoring one's feelings even if doing so should disappoint others and (3) the importance of facing oneself and others with honesty and courage.
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"From the beginning, it is clear that the narrator is fascinated and infatuated with Sister Imelda. All the girls notice her and make comments about her. According to Baba "her eyes were like blackberries" and "with makeup Imelda would be a cinch." The narrator wants to know all about Sister Imelda, especially after they become special friends, more so than the usual teacher and student. As she asks her one day, "Sister, did you ever ride a motorbicycle [sic]?..." To the narrator, Sister Imelda is fascinating, yet not quite real."
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Allusions to "Paradise Lost" and "Faust" in "Frankenstein", 2007.
A literary analysis of allusions to John Milton's "Paradise Lost" and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Faust" in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein".
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This paper examines Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein" and the allusions it makes to Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost" and Goethe's "Faust". The paper holds that "Frankenstein" includes these allusions to present the reader with a clear explanation of the inner torment of the characters. The paper expands upon the parallels between the characters in each work in detail and concludes that familiarity with "Faust" and "Paradise Lost" adds to our understanding of "Frankenstein" and makes the novel memorable and powerful.
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"The monster's epiphany is a catalyst to his destructive path. He realizes that his creator has handled creationism in an irresponsible manner and is repulsed by Victor's utter abandonment. "'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? (125) He also realizes that his grotesque appearance will forever condemn him to loneliness. "God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of your, more horrid even from the very resemblance... Satan had his companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him, but I am solitary and abhorred" (125). This idea drawn from "Paradise Lost", that even Satan has companions, pains the monster terribly; he knows he is a good natured, genuine creature, yet he is rejected by the world."
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"Paradise Lost": Epic or Anti-Epic?, 2004.
An analysis of John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost".
2,331 words (approx. 9.3 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 71.95
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This paper attempts to define whether Johm Milton's poem "Paradise Lost" can be classified as a true epic or as in fact an anti-epic. It looks at the proper defintitions of the terms epic and anti-epic and discusses how each of term could be applied to the poem, supported by quotations from the text. It explores the role of the "hero" in an epic by defining who the true "hero" of "Paradise Lost" is. It also attempts to understand Milton's intentions in writing the poem whether he thought he was writing an an epic or whether he was satirizing and subverting the genre by writing something very different.
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"Christ, too, is a hero. The contrast between him and Satan, however, could not be more complete. Whereas the bravery of Christ is directed at the protection of man, Satan?s aim is destruction. Which, we must ask, is the true hero of Paradise Lost?
The temptation, when faced with the contrast between the two, is to now decide that Christ is ultimately more heroic; he has, after all, more too lose, and he sacrifices himself in the name of goodness. Satan, on the other hand, has nothing left to loose, and merely wishes to reduce mankind to the same condition he has found himself in, due to his own excessive pride."
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?Paradise Lost?, 2002.
A study of the use of symbols and metaphors in John Milton's epic poem, "Paradise Lost".
1,928 words (approx. 7.7 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 61.95
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Universally accepted as one of the world?s foremost epics, John Milton?s "Paradise Lost" traces the history of the world from a Christian perspective. This paper deals primarily with how Milton uses the word ?hands? as metaphors or metonymies (parts for the whole) to represent Adam and Eve?s physicality and emotions. Hands represent physical work, light heartedness, joy, seduction, deceit, despair, equivocation, supplication and companionship. The paper describes how Milton also uses ?hands? effectively to represent the deep chasm between good and evil. he Son of God who intercedes on behalf of the first couple; and, is destined to die so that the Paradise lost may once again be regained is on the right hand of God. Satan, on the other hand, is on the left. Satan is condemned to ?grovel and eat dirt? like the serpent he purported to be.
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"After both have eaten of the fruit, innocence is lost. Once again, the hand characterizes the transformation from pure love to carnal lust. One can see in the language where post-Fall Adam grabs Eve's hand and pulls her to their bed, where before it was Eve who gently took Adam's hand. Milton uses explicit metaphors. The hands of Adam and Eve mirror their personalities, souls and their emotions.
Shame and revulsion overcomes Adam and Eve. Here Milton demonstrates a marked difference between the falls of Satan and the fall of Mankind. When Satan is cast into Hell, along with his minions, he plots revenge. Satan along with Death and Sin are forced into Hell where Satan is forced to grovel like the serpent he wanted to be. Faced with eternal damnation, Eve, weak as usual, wants to commit suicide??take her life by her own hands.? Adam who is complicit is perplexed. He is not sure how, ?That from her hand I could suspect no ill (X-141), And what she did, whatever in itself.? "
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