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?The Elusive Quest for Growth", 2004.
This paper analyzes ?The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists? Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics? by William Easterly.
1,279 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 0 sources, $ 43.95
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This book report examines at great length the various methods used by global banking institutions to promote growth in poor and developing countries. The paper points out that Easterly describes several panaceas, or approaches, which have been used over the years by these financial institutions, such as the World Bank and the IMF. In most of the cases, there is a spotlight shone upon the shortcomings of each of the approaches.
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"Economics provides the vision of what works and doesn?t. The point of Easterly?s book is to show that economics itself proves that many of the current techniques applied to the problem of poor and developing countries are ineffective. Each of the panaceas presented is a surprisingly in depth exploration of the failings of the methods endorsed by the World Bank in particular. Economics as an objective science shows that many methods just don?t measure up, yet they continue to see practice."
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Elusive Desire, 2004.
An analysis and comparison of "L?Immoraliste" by Andre Gide and "The Captive" by Marcel Proust.
2,987 words (approx. 11.9 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 88.95
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In "L?Immoraliste" by Andre Gide and "The Captive" by Marcel Proust, neither main character attains his desire. This paper shows that the reason for each gentleman?s failure can be found in the theories of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. It explains that, according to the work begun by Freud and continued by Lacan, desire is forever elusive because the object of desire is continually non-existent. This lack of an object for desire is explored by applying the theories of Freud and Lacan to the works in question.
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"The main desire of Michel, the narrator in L?Immoraliste is self-actualization and self-discovery. His own inner soul becomes his elusive Other. The problem however arises when circumstances devastate Michel?s original self, and another takes its place. It is interesting that Michel and Marceline?s positions as they relate to each other change progressively throughout the novel, as do Michel?s own disposition and desire. In the beginning of the narrative Michel is ill, and Marceline is healthy. These positions reverse as the novel continues. The hope of a new baby is lost with Marceline?s miscarriage and things basically deteriorate in Michel?s inner world as they do for Marceline?s physique."
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Iago: Elusive or Illusive?, 2006.
A character analysis of the character of Iago from William Shakespeare's "Othello".
2,600 words (approx. 10.4 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 78.95
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This paper examines how of all the Shakespearean villains, Othello's Iago is the most charismatic and at the same time the most puzzling. It looks at how his motives are presented to us in his soliloquies and how we are easily able to determine that he is the villain. It attempts to show that Iago never completely takes off his mask, but instead tries to convince us that he in fact has reason for what he does.
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"Iago might appear as a manifestation of pure evil that we should be warned against. But Shakespeare goes much deeper and says that evil is a manifestation of humanity, which is a much more complicated idea and much more difficult to live with. That it is a natural ingredient of who we are. Shakespeare is writing about human pride and what it can lead a person to do. We think that our needs are more important than anything else and we drive at our needs, and then once we get what we need, we either find a new need, or are destroyed by our own desire."
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The Elusive American Dream, 2008.
An analysis of the belief in the American dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby".
1,227 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 41.95
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The paper looks at the characteristics of America during the era of F. Scott Fizgerald's "The Great Gatsby", and relates that during this period America struggled between two polar tendencies: unalloyed idealism and absolute pragmatism. The paper analyzes how this opposition is reflected symbolically, in Fitzgerald's novel, in the contrast between the romantic Gatsby and Tom Buchanan. The paper also focuses on Daisy's role and her shift from idealism to superficiality and materialism.
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Introduction - Characteristics of America in Gatsby's Times
Gatsby's World
Tom Buchanan - Gatsby's Antithetical Character
Conclusion
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"The history of America itself is the main inspiration for Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby. Since the discovery of the continent, America struggled between two polar tendencies: unalloyed idealism and absolute pragmatism. These opposites are not merely ideologies reflected in the American culture, but actual realities blended in the destiny of the nation. In The Great Gatsby, this opposition is reflected symbolically in the contrast between the Romantic Gatsby and the other characters in the novel, Tom Buchanan and Daisy especially. By contrast, Nick Carraway seems to represent orderliness and neutrality, while all the other characters lead a full and exuberant life. The steps of the narrative follow Gatsby's fall and that of the American Dream along with it."
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Autism - An Elusive Enigma, 2002.
An analysis of autism, a rare neurodevelopmental disorder, focusing on the difficulties of clearly defining this disorder.
1,798 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 12 sources, APA, $ 57.95
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This paper examines autism, describing it as a multi-faceted, complex and enigmatic disorder. The paper discusses the details of the disorder and the methods available for diagnosis. The many different signs and symptoms of autism are outlined. The paper illustrates how the broad range of symptoms and lack of clear-cut inclusion and exclusion criteria allow for misdiagnoses and confusion with other disorders. The paper presents the theories of the etiology of autism. The paper concludes with a claim that while there is some evidence of a biological correlation or genetic and familial link, this evidence is far from conclusive and at present has not yielded any practical treatment options.
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"Autism (also known as pervasive developmental disorder) is defined by the Columbia encyclopedia as ?A rare neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by the inability to relate to and perceive the environment in a realistic manner?. Its onset is defined to occur in infancy or early childhood, generally before age thirty months, and males are affected four times more often then females. Symptoms include impairment in social interaction, fixation on inanimate objects, an inability to communicate normally, and resistance to changes in the daily routine (Columbia University Press 1993)."
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Thomas Pynchon?s "Gravity?s Rainbow", 2002.
This paper discusses the social placement of Americans in the National Book Award winner ?Gravity?s Rainbow? by Thomas Pynchon.
520 words (approx. 2.1 pages), 3 sources, $ 18.95
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This paper examines the character Slothrop in Pynchon?s ?Gravity?s Rainbow?, who has dropped his social placement in Europe because he is an American. The paper points out that when Slothrop's parents lost their money during the depression, he was forced to affiliate himself with the poor and he now speaks in the American vernacular which automatically orients him to the lower class. The author observed that Pynchon?s use of vernacular language extends beyond dialogue and carries over into the narrative voice.
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"Two Americans who do seem to possess a degree of respect in the novel that others do not are Bodine and Waxwing. They command respect because of their various connections throughout Europe. They have the demeanor of businessmen who offer a degree of utility to the other characters, which posits them in a category of power. However, both men's activities are criminal and underworldly, suggesting that people give them respect out of fear instead of in response to their character. Their actual power through criminal intimidation overrides the familiarity of their vernacular."
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Pynchon's "Vineland", 2002.
Discusses the notion of utopia in Thomas Pynchon's contradictory novel, "Vineland".
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 89.95
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In his novel, "Vineland", Thomas Pynchon provides a notion of utopia that is embedded with ambiguity and contradiction. On the one hand, the plot appears to be very straightforward: radicals and potheads from the 1960s take up their cause in the 1980s to fight against authority. The 1970s and 1980s, in many respects, are seen as a fulfilment of their secret wishes. In other words, there is a certain duality in that the radicals of the 60s said that they wanted peace and equality, but what they really wanted was success and individualism -- which the 1970s and 1980s provided.
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Thomas Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49", 2001.
An analysis and discussion of the themes in the book and a personal explanation of the human attempt to find truth.
2,065 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 1 source, $ 65.95
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Postmodern literature is one of the most confounding genres in existence today, a reflection of the confusion of the world in which it exists. Thomas Pynchon's novel "The Crying of Lot 49" deals with this difficult issue, using entropy as its organizational structure. The author discusses the novel and its themes.
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?Man now lives in a circle without a center, or in a maze without a way out.? (Edward Said, ?Abecedarium Culturae: Structuralism, Absence, Writing?) Edward Said?s words incorporate a very recognizable trait in contemporary society: our journey away from the simpler, concrete, more understandable world of the past into the more complex, abstract, and confusing world of tomorrow. As man grows ?smarter? or becomes more aware of his surroundings, we gather more and more information about our universe in an attempt to find ?truth.?
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"Crying of Lot 49" by Thomas Pynchon, 1993.
An examination of the moral quest of the protagonist Oedipa Maas.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 4 sources, $ 39.95
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"Introduction
This essay examines the character, Oedipa Maas, who is the protagonist in Thomas Pynchon's second novel The Crying of Lot 49 (1965). Essentially, this novel is concerned with a quest for meaning--a situation also true of Pynchon's first novel V. As Robert A. Hipkiss suggests: "Oedipa Maas inherits Stencil's role as the seeker after a moral order underlying an apparently amoral, perhaps inherently immoral, world. Like Stencil, she sees man's destiny in either/or terms . . ." (11).
For the purpose of communicating his concepts concerning Oedipa and the world in which she lives, Pynchon uses such literary techniques.as Menippean satire. Northrop Frye describes this approach: "The Menippean satire deals less with people as such than with mental attitudes. Pedants, bigots, cranks..."
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"The Black Cat", 2007.
This paper discusses the elusive motives behind the narrator's actions in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat".
1,194 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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The paper reveals that many of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, although appearing reader friendly and merely stories of the macabre, have many layers of meaning. The paper discusses how decades later, literary scholars continue to debate exactly what themes and messages Poe was trying to convey. The paper examines "The Black Cat" and the elusive motives behind the murders committed.
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"The "Black Cat," is essentially a narrative by a seemingly obsessed individual who is writing a journal entry "which I am about to pen," about a homicide with various layers of understanding, "For the most wild, yet most homely narrative." However, he does not expect anyone to actually believe this story. To make things more complicated, he is expressing that the narrative will be written in alternate states of reality, madness or dream, yet of an actual event that takes place in the ordinary, everyday world. He claims his purpose is to show "a series of mere household events" and hopes that someone in the future more logical and calm than he will understand the situation that he describes "with awe nothing more than an ordinary succession of very natural causes and effects" (p.230)"
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Critical Analysis: "The Crying of Lot 49", 2001.
Critical analysis of Thomas Pynchon's, "Crying of Lot 49". The paper attempts to exploit the problems associated with Pynchon's world of isolated individuals and explains the oneness associated with people who are similar in their isolation.
750 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 26.95
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This essay explores Pynchon's novel, "The Crying of Lot 49". It also looks at a critical essay written by Molly Hite and discusses the ways in which Oedipa becomes both isolated and at one with society. As more people join the "society of isolates", they become assimilated as one, rather than separate in their isolation. This essay covers some of the questions that arise when reading Pynchon's famous novel and it delves into the subject of love in "The Crying of Lot 49".
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"In her essay ?Purity as Parody in _The Crying of Lot 49_,? Molly Hite repeatedly argues that as Oedipa attempts to define her universe in terms of either absolute coherence, the ?Word,? ?one,? or ?Meaning,? or absolute incoherence, the ?Void,? ?zero,? or non-meaning, she misses a possible assimilation of these two ideas and thus becomes a failed heroine. Between these two apparently irreconcilable interpretative definitions that Oedipa gives to her universe, Hit posits that the novel suggests a third reality that the protagonist rejects during her alienated despair: ?The idea of a community of isolates is a paradox."
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The Dream of Diversity, 2008.
This paper proposes a solution to attain the elusive goal of true diversity in America today.
1,050 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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The paper discusses how the goal of true diversity in America is illusive and wrought with many systemic barriers that find their roots in the early history of the country. The paper explains the propensity of Americans to congregate with people similar to themselves and also highlights the futility of those that espouse diversity from their culturally segregated educational positions. The paper therefore supports the proposition of Americans totally immersing themselves in foreign cultures as a solution to obtaining a truly diverse society.
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""The dream of diversity is like the dream of equality. . both are based on ideals we celebrate even as we undermine them daily. . " (Brooks 348) is how the self-proclaimed comic sociologist David Brooks summarizes the state of cultural diversity in America in his Atlantic Monthly article entitled "People Like Us". The stated desire for true diversity is often manifested in a society that is balkanized into socio-economic and ethnic enclaves in spite of the neighborhood's multicultural history. Americans are traditionally more comfortable with like-minded neighbors, and have a tendency to seek each other out when traveling abroad. The only proven workable solution to integrating true diversity into American culture is through instituting a mandatory foreign service "rite of passage" for all American young adults."
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"The Right Stuff", 2009.
A discussion on the elusive qualities of astronauts as conveyed in Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff".
836 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 29.95
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The paper refers to Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff", the non-fiction novel about the individuals and organizations responsible for launching America beyond the stratosphere of Earth. The paper explains the title 'The Right Stuff' as a catchall allusion to the indefinable combination of abilities, presentation and disposition expected of that exclusive class of pilot. The paper attempts to convey the set of qualities that was that rare intercession of fearlessness and brilliance which drives every great man forward.
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"In the 1960's, the American space program represented the pinnacle of military achievement, with those training to take human evolution to this next tier of awareness required to exhibit the best and most infallible of qualities. As Tom Wolfe reveals in The Right Stuff, his non-fiction novel about the individuals and organizations responsible for launching America beyond the stratosphere of Earth, the pilots being trained to take those first leaps into space were informed in their actions and motives by both the cultural demands of the highly bureaucratic world forming around the program and the extremely rigorous physical, intellectual and emotional prerequisites of forging ahead thusly. This complex tapestry of elusive qualities, found in different permutations in figures such as John Glenn, Alan Shepard and Chuck Yeager, is described variably throughout the novel as the 'right stuff.'"
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The Vancouver Island Marmot, 2006.
A look at studies discussing the behavior and life cycle patterns of the elusive Vancouver Marmot and the decline of the marmot population.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper discusses the Vancouver marmot, a species from a larger family of rodents that can also be found on the North American mainland and in Europe. The paper explains that human encroachment on the marmot's natural habitat, which includes environmental pollution and a dramatic loss of or changes in habitat, has threatened this particular genus with extinction. The paper also provides detailed information that can combat extinction.
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