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Mystery Religions, 2004.
This paper examines how the mystery religions have influenced Christianity.
2,260 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 79.95
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In this article, the writer discusses how the mystery religions influenced the religion of Christianity. The writer explores a number of the ancient mystery religions. The secret rituals of these mystery religions as well as their similarities are discussed. Most importantly, the writer examines the impact of these religions on Christianity and discusses why they are no longer practiced.
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"By the end of the first century small communities of Christians could be found in many of places in the Greco-Roman world. According to Jeffrey Sheler, writing for U.S. News World Report as the movement expanded during the second and third centuries, it proved to be anything but simple to deliver a consistent message. The early Christian church was torn by persecution and internal division as Christians struggled to understand and apply the meaning of Jesus' life, death and resurrection in the religious ... "
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East Asia Religions, 2002.
Discusses East Asian religions as human-centered rather than metaphysical mysteries.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 4 sources, $ 71.95
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Discusses East Asian religions as human-centered rather than metaphysical mysteries. Overview of the principal characteristics of the major East Asian Religions: Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism. Development in China, Korea and Japan. Adaptation of Confucian ideals & its impact on society. Conflict between Buddhism , imported from India, with indigenous religions of Confucianism and Taoism. Comparison of Confusianist & Taoist orientations to Western religion.
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"The religions of China, Korea, and Japan have in common an emphasis on the essential unity of all things and the necessity of the individual's integration with nature, family, and society. In addition they have a strong basis in ancestrism and, for the most part, favor a level of syncretism that, especially for those in the Western monotheist traditions, seems remarkable. The overriding common characteristic of East Asian religion, however, is that it is human-centered and seen not, primarily, as the source of solemn metaphysical mysteries but as "part of a ring of relativistic commitments whose real center is inflexible norms or propriety for human and divine relations" (Ellwood & McGraw 180). A brief overview of the principal characteristic of the main East Asian religions will demonstrate how this region of the world has been a distinct entity in terms of the nations' reliance on ..."
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"The Big Bow Mystery" - A Locked Room Puzzle., 2002.
An analysis of Israel Zangwill's mystery novel "The Big Bow Mystery".
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 1 source, $ 62.95
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This paper dissects Israel Zangwill's mystery novel The Big Bow Mystery and analyzes it in terms of other mystery-novel standards: logical consistency, character evenness, and distraction (e.g. "red herrings"). It concludes that although the novel also functions as a critique of Victorian society, the novel itself has great worth as a mystery due to its supreme internal consistency, hard to achieve in the "locked room" subgenre.
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"Pride and Prejudice": A Mystery Novel, 1996.
An analysis of the element of mystery in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice".
1,958 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 0 sources, $ 62.95
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This paper reviews Jane Austen's novel "Pride and Prejudice" with an emphasis on how the element of mystery in it serves to give depth and development to the characters. It examines how the related mysteries of "Pride and Prejudice" are the Wickham-Darcy relationship and the "mystery of character." It is no mystery from the beginning that Elizabeth Bennet and Darcy are fated to be together, the mystery is their feelings and motivations and their characters, as they evolve and are revealed throughout the novel. It shows how, like many a mystery novelist, Austen leaves ample clues from which the reader could discern that all is not what it seems, which seem obvious only on a second reading.
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"There are two central and intertwined mysteries in the novel: the traditional mystery of Wickham?s relationship to Darcy, and the more subtle mystery of Darcy?s (and Elizabeth?s) true character. The author?s treatment of the Wickham mystery is not that of the conventional mystery story, as a modern reader might understand it. The clues Austen gives are not material to the direct verification of one side?s or the other?s story, but to the respectability and trustworthiness of Wickham and Darcy. We are not given, for example, accounts of Wickham?s behavior in London while he is pretending to study law. It is only through an understanding of the two men?s characters that we discover the truth of their relationship."
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?The Mystery of Edwin Drood?, 2002.
Discusses the mystery element in Charles Dickens' novel.
1,500 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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One of the mysteries of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" is the question that lies at the heart of all mysteries ? Whodunnit? But there is another, at least as compelling question at the heart of this mystery, which is: How did author Charles Dickens intend for this novel to end? And, why does this unfinished novel read so very much like a finished novel? The paper shows that despite the fact that the story is often performed by theater companies that allow the audience to guess what the intended ending might have been ? thus emphasizing the unfinished nature of the book ? the novel itself seems oddly complete. This paper proposes one possible solution to the unfinished novel ? one that is consonant with the tone and intent of what Dickens himself wrote.
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"This improvised ending takes up where Dickens laid down his pen and assumes ? as do many of the proposed endings to this novel ? that Edwin is not really dead. To understand why this is the logical solution, we must go back in time to John Jasper?s Christmas Eve party. During this party, Neville finds his antagonism toward Edwin diminishing because of Edwin?s own friendliness and disarming openness to Neville. They are also drawn together by the fact that each of them believes that there is something peculiar about Jasper: Their increasing distrust of him draws the two of them together."
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Mystery Literature, 2004.
This paper reviews two children?s mysteries: ?The Shore Road Mystery? from Franklin W. Dixon's Hardy Boys series and ?Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Sleeping Dog? from Donald J. Sobol's Encyclopedia Brown series.
2,160 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 67.95
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This paper explains that the Hardy Boys, in 1964, in ?The Shore Road Mystery" are mere boys who can think like crafty adults, can go out and challenge crooks and thieves, and find a farmhouse to call for help with just old-fashioned land-based phones. The author points out that a young man learns that hard work and perseverance plus brainpower and the use of good instincts lead to success, even for kids. The paper relates that ?Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Sleeping Dog? leaves the reader wondering how a seemingly normal kid named Encyclopedia Brown could come up with this kind of skullduggery and carry it off.
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"The irony here is that Chet is on a research mission seeking information about car thieves, a felony crime that any kid could think about, but few could actually follow through. Still, he can?t keep his hands out of the cake Aunt Gertrude gave him to deliver. A reader learns here that young men are always young men in most predictable respects (in this case, Chet is tempted by chocolate cake, and can?t keep his hands off the cake notwithstanding the promise to deliver it); but in other areas, Chet is acting more like being a criminal investigator than a green-behind-the-ears / snot-nosed kid who can?t keep his fingers out of a chocolate cake."
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Edgar Allan Poe?s ?Mystery Man?, 2002.
An examination of the mysteries surrounding Edgar Allan Poe's strange graveyard character in ?Mystery Man?.
2,405 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 73.95
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This paper examines the mysterious visitor who pays tribute to Edgar Allan Poe at his grave in Westminster Churchyard in Baltimore, Maryland.
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"Within the weathered brick walls of Westminster Churchyard, at the corner of Fayette and Greene Streets in Baltimore, Maryland, a cold marble shrine marks the final resting place of a tormented soul. 1 In life, he was haunted by torturing memories--memories of wrong and injustice and imputed dishonor and from a sense of some strange, impending doom. In death, his memory endures in the hearts of those who still honor his great literary genius as a poet who eternally searched for supernal beauty in a world filled with poverty and abandonment and produced some of the world's finest tales of the macabre and the supernatural"".
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York Mystery Cycle, 2005.
This is a creative assignment/historical research paper on the York Mystery Plays that were performed in medieval England.
3,104 words (approx. 12.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 90.95
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The paper begins with a historical fictionalized account of a young man apprenticed in medieval York and his first experience in seeing the York Mystery Cycle, one of the oldest and best preserved English cycles. It has a great number of details that were researched from medieval texts, including information on guilds, the city of York, interesting facts, and the actual procession of the York cycle.
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"The York Cycle of Mystery plays (1376-1569), also known in singular form as the Corpus Christi Play, is one of the oldest and best preserved of the surviving English cycles. There are four complete or nearly complete extant English cycles: The York Cycle of forty-eight pageants; the Towneley cycle of thirty-two pageants, the N Town cycle of forty-three pageants, and the Chester cycle of twenty-four pageants. Each pageant was presented by different guilds of craftsmen, which were also known as the 'mysteries', hence the name of the Plays. The feast of Corpus Christi is performed on the second Thursday after Whitsun, and depending on the date of Easter, it could fall any time from 21 May to 24 June*."
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Classic Mystery Novels, 2001.
A critical comparison of pre-twentieth century stories showing how they reflect the literary tradition of the 19th century ?mystery? genre.
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This paper is a discussion of two of the most popular and respected author's of modern times. This essay compares short stories showing how they reflect the literary tradition of the 19th century ?mystery? genre. The stories examined are ?The Judge?s House? by Bram Stoker and ?The Speckled Band? by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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"In the 19th century short stories were of interest owing to three major factors: a high crime rate; scientific and industrial advances; and the serialisation of novels into magazines. Public concern with high crime rates opened the door for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to publish his Sherlock Holmes stories owing to public desire for a successful detective. This was also a period of scientific and industrial advances. This led to a questioning of formal religious beliefs and increased interest in the supernatural and the afterlife. Bram Stoker’s “The Judge’s House” is trying to promote belief in God, Malcolmson’s mathematics book missed the rat, the Bible struck. The short story format became popular owing to the increasing number of magazines. These were widely accessible causing big novels to be serialised."
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Film: "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery", 2007.
This paper analyzes the film "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery", which was released in the United States and Canada on May 2, 1997.
1,105 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 0 sources, $ 38.95
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This paper explains that the film "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery" was inspired by a slew of sixties spy movies including the James Bond films. The author points out that most of Mike Myers inspiration came from the spy spoofs "Helm Series" produced by Columbia Pictures and loosely based on Donald Hamilton's novels. The paper explains that, in the part described by the author, the producers purposely switched the female character with a male character just after Austin hits the woman, setting the stage for the classic good versus evil theme of the film. The author underscores that the costumes play a huge role in the film with Austin dressing a bit on the feminine side, unlike the masculine 007 Sean Connery. The paper concludes that the film seems to reinforce stereotypes of men and woman in both space and time.
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"The scene I will look at is at the five minute and 18 second mark. It is in the beginning of the second chapter. The atmosphere is electric because Austin is at a club called the Electric Psychedelic Pussycat Swingers Club. Pink Floyd himself would be proud of the colors mixed in at the club. Lighting is very high for a club. The only effects are the different colors and shapes of light to signify a psychedelic mind-tripping club, which was typical in the sixties. The music was The Strawberry Alarm Clock "Incense and Peppermints" which are from southern California and was popular in 1967."
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Genres: Horror and Mystery, 2004.
This paper discusses ?The Yellow Wallpaper? by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and ?The Cask of Amontillado? by Edgar Allan Poe as examples of the horror and mystery genres in literature.
1,075 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 37.95
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This paper explains that most of the literary works under the horror and mystery genres provide insightful depictions and illustrations of social criticisms that the writers want to critique symbolically or figuratively. The author points out that, while Poe in ?The Cask of Amontillado? uses both themes of insanity and murder in his story, Gilman?s ?The Yellow Wallpaper? effectively uses the protagonist?s downfall to insanity to portray the grotesqueness not only of psychological instability, but also of emotional repression the woman character experiences in the story. The paper reviews various forms of irony that are used in both stories to create the monstrous feeling within the tales and to state the authors? position on social issues.
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"The short story ?The Cask of Amontillado? illustrates both themes of the protagonist?s downfall to insanity and celebration of death through the commitment of murder. The story shows how Poe, through the main character?s (Montresor) narration, behavior, and action, is able to generate fear and the air of mystery, especially in illustrating the shocking narration and illustration of the death of Fortunato, the man Montresor despised and considered as his enemy and competitor."
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"The Mystery of Samba", 2002.
A review of Hermano Vianna's "The Mystery of Samba".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, $ 44.95
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A book report on Herman Vianna's "The Mystery of Samba", a cultural anthropology study of music in Brazil, particularly the use of 'racially-mixed' culture as a symbol for all of Brazilian culture.
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Charles Dickens' "The Mystery Of Edwin Drood", 1985.
This paper analyzes Charles Dickens' "The Mystery Of Edwin Drood" by looking at the chosen language and examining drug use by the character John Jasper and the dream-world he creates.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 4 sources, $ 79.95
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"The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens was the last work of the author and has been widely discussed and written about not only for that reason but also because it was unfinished and thus poses something of a problem for critics and readers. The book is thus a mystery in a double sense, leaving the reader uncertain whether Dickens intended that John Jasper was the murderer of his nephew Edwin Drood.
... how Dickens started the novel in the usual way by writing the first two installments. The ideas that were behind this story had been written in Dickens's notebook some time before. The idea of two young people who had been separated for many years after having been pledged to be married was written down as early as 1861 or even 1857, and by the middle of 1869 he was hard at work developing his... "
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The Mystery of Jack the Ripper, 2001.
Describes the mystery of Jack the Ripper and his victims.
1,666 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 5 sources, $ 54.95
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This paper is a step by step account of the murders committed by Jack the Ripper in the late 1800s. The author takes us through each one chronologically including a detailed look at the most cruel and ruthless murder, the fifth and final one.
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"Jack the Ripper terrorized the East End of London with his heinous acts of senseless violence in the Nineteenth century. The perpetrator who committed these malicious murders in which the victim?s body was viciously mutilated is under speculation. By analyzing each murder, acknowledging the characteristics of the murderer, and providing a scenario, which links Prince Eddy to the murders, it establishes that he is a likely suspect to be Jack the Ripper."
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Mystery and Detective Literature, 2005.
This paper analyzes the influence of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders at the Rue Morgue" on Conan Doyle's "Silver Blaze".
1,030 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 36.95
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This paper explains that poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe gave birth to the genre of mystery and detective story-telling, popularized through his character Auguste Dupin, who is considered the first detective character to demonstrate the disciplines of deduction and logical thinking in solving the mysteries and crimes that plague society; Conan Doyle's fictional detective character, the well-known Sherlock Holmes, exhibited similar characteristics. The author compares Poe and Doyle's literary works based on their use of stereotyping and pattern-formation (logos), ethos and establishment of pathos as rhetorical techniques in which they solve mystery cases. This paper relates that Dupin's character was portrayed in the most eccentric light as possible by Poe, perhaps giving him a single commonality with the readers through his poverty; in proving Holmes credible to solve the mysteries of English society, Doyle also utilized the character of eccentricity as the most salient points of Holmes' character.
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"Dupin's solution to the murders at the Rue Morgue was based on a stereotype and pattern found in the facts available about the case. Pattern formation was apparent in his analysis of the witnesses' accounts of the events before, during, and after the murder. His discovery that each witness's testimony reflected the fact that "[e]ach likens it (the voice heard)-not to the voice of an individual of any nation...but the converse," a point that led him to conclude that the murderer was of an 'alien' nature, someone who does not speak the language of any of the nationalities of the witnesses."
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