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"Roman Fever" Was Not Pneumonia, 2006.
A review of the book 'Roman Fever' by Edith Wharton.
1,512 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 49.95
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This paper reviews, discusses and analyzes the book, 'Roman Fever' by Edith Wharton. According to the paper, this book that was written in 1936, traces changes in sexual mores from the turn of the century to the time of the writing. This paper summarizes the events of the story, examines the feelings of the two characters and discusses the author's purpose for writing this story.
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"Mrs. Ansley seems to be the more honest character in the story. She admits, for example, that she was not always wise. "The most prudent girls aren't always prudent" (p. 41). It was she who told the story long ago to Mrs. Slade and gave her the idea for the dirty trick. A wicked aunt of Mrs. Ansley's had sent a younger sister to the Forum "after sunset to gather a night-blooming flower for her album"(p. 40) hoping she would get sick. The night-blooming flower is a metaphor for sexual activity. The aunt and her sister were in love with the same man, and the younger sister got the fever and died. Thus, Mrs. Ansley gave Mrs. Slade the idea that led to the letter. Afterwards, instead of reporting that she was pregnant, her family told the community that she had gone to the Forum "to see the moon rise" and had caught a chill. Of course, people wondered because Mrs. Ansley had always careful about her health. "
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Edith Wharton?s ?Roman Fever? and Zora Neale Hurston?s ?The Gilded Six-Bits?, 2001.
This paper contrasts and compares Edith Wharton?s ?Roman Fever? and Zora Neale Hurston?s ?The Gilded Six-Bits.?
2,605 words (approx. 10.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 78.95
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This paper is a look at Edith Wharton's, "Roman Fever," and Zora Neale Hurston's "The Gilded Six-Bits." Edith Wharton was a white American woman of opulence and class, while Zola Neale Hurston was an African-American who was born in Eatonville, Florida, occupied primarily by black families who have historically been struggling for economic sufficiency and comfort, but have historically been hampered by racial prejudice. The paper looks at how the two celebrated authors write about love, marriage and family, women and their overt well as covert emotions and desires, with the authors? respective and opposing cultures and social classes as backdrops.
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"Both stories deal with marriage. In Wharton?s, the marriages of childhood friends Alida and Grace had to be cultivated, for they belonged to the genteel class of human beings at that time. They had to try all means to feign happiness and of being loved and their mates? fidelity to them. How they looked to the outside world weighed much more than how they really felt inside, and that was the core of Victorian values of propriety ? the external, heartbreaking, mind-blowing type. This was the price to pay for belonging up there and everything that went with being high above. In contrast, Hurston?s characters, Joe and his Missy May, treasured their marriage and had a common line of pleasures, including the pursuit of a few gilded coins, chocolate kisses and a baby. Their simple joys were more accessible and this made marriage more workable and forgiving offenses possible. Although both authors had unhappy marriages, Hurston nevertheless valued marriage as an institution that could save an individual or else saw marriage as a stabilizing force like nothing else in a society."
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"Roman Fever", 2004.
A review of Edith Wharton's short story "Roman Fever".
1,055 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 37.95
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This paper examines the irony and foreshadowing evident in the short story "Roman Fever" written by Edith Wharton. The paper discusses how Wharton creates a thrilling short story that takes place in just a few hours on a terrace. It is through the setting of the story and the conversation between Mrs. Ansley and Mrs. Slade that Wharton employs irony and foreshadowing to add tension and drama.
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"Wharton uses the setting of this story to set the mood. The Colosseum is clearly a place that holds tender memories for both of the women. We are introduced to feelings of young love and night skies filled with the full moon. These images work to convey a romantic mood as the two companions reflect on their pasts. Wharton also employs irony in the setting as well. For instance, the women are sitting on a "lofty terrace of the Roman restaurant," which implies a lovely scene. The view also includes a "serenity which might have been borrowed from the spring effulgence of the Roman skies" (Wharton 1025). In addition, the ladies are reminiscing about their younger days. The setting of the story indicates that we are about to read about love and to make that matter more interesting, it is a love from years past."
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?Roman Fever?, 2004.
A review of Edith Wharton's story, ?Roman Fever? .
901 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 0 sources, $ 32.95
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This paper examines how Edith Wharton?s short story, ?Roman Fever?, offers a dark glimpse into the characters of two upper-class women, Mrs. Ansley and Mrs. Slade, who have known each other for years in New York City, and who serendipitously meet in Rome where they are vacationing with their daughters. It analyzes how Wharton?s exploration of the characters of these two women illustrates much about the nature of female friendships, jealousy, and forgiveness. It also shows how the character study illuminates Ansley and, especially, Slade as exemplifying few of the cardinal virtues of wisdom, temperance, courage, and justice.
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"As they sit knitting together on the terrace, Slade muses about their pasts, insulting Mrs. Ansley thoroughly in her mind. This silent, passive character assault indicates that Slade lacks true courage. Although her past action of luring Ansley with a fake letter by her fianc? demonstrates a degree of compunction, brashness, and guts, Slade nevertheless acts passive-aggressively. She allowed an irrational, as yet unfounded jealousy cause her to entrap her friend. Then she lets the wound fester for decades. Her envy of Ansley and her upper-crust lifestyle also cause her to compare their daughters and Slade feels that her Jenny is inferior to the livelier, spunkier Babs Ansley."
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"The Awakening"( Kate Chopin ), "Yellow Wallpaper "( Charlotte Gilman ) & "Roman Fever" ( Edith Wharton ), 1999.
Examines portrayals of women & marriage in novel & two short stories.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 3 sources, $ 39.95
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"The purpose of this research is to examine Stephen Crane's use of literary realism and literary naturalism in The Red Badge of Courage and "The Open Boat." The plan of the research will be to set forth the pattern of ideas in each work and then to discuss ways in which each story creates a picture of the events and of the behavior and thoughts of the people involved in them.
The pattern of ideas emerging in The Red Badge of Courage is in large measure a function of the emergence of the psychologially authentic temperament in Henry Fleming, the central characer. The progression of events in the novel describes a voyage of self-discovery, i.e., the discovery of an authentic, realistic self, as opposed to a romantic notion of the self. In each suceeding episode, Fleming attains increasing insight into his own nature and into the nature of the world, which provides a great "
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Roman Slavery and Roman Comedy, 2004.
An analysis of Roman literature's comedic view of enslavement.
822 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 29.95
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This paper examines, through a literature review of such works as Plautus?s two comedies, ?The Pot of Gold? and ?Pseudolus?, how Roman drama is not a seamless construction of slave identity, or even a seamless construction of a world of upside-down power relations between master and servant. It shows how it is an uncertain negotiation of real life tensions where harsh realities and punishments of slaves existed simultaneously with portrayals of individuals in the Roman media of the day who were clearly human.
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"Clearly, slavery in the ancient Roman world was socially stigmatized. However, what is so fascinating about the Roman?s version of this ?peculiar institution,? as slavery was often called in the American South, was that slaves did not occupy a stigmatized racial class, as they did in the American South. That is to say that in the racist, antebellum South, a free black man was still stigmatized by his race. However, in Rome, an individual who was a slave might be highly regarded as well as treated like chattel, if he or she possessed special educational or artistic skills. Slaves were often captured prisoners of war, and valued for their social contributions as well as socially despised."
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Impact of Gothic Tribal Warfare on Late Roman Empire, 2001.
Foundations of Roman imperial security. Rome's Balkans' frontier. Origins of Goth migration. Roman-Gothic relations. Decline in effectiveness of Roman Army & victories of Goths.
3,150 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 11 sources, $ 111.95
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"This research paper examines the relations between the late Roman Empire and the Gothic tribes which pressed upon Rome's frontiers in the southeast Balkans in the late 4th century A.D. The focal point is the period covered by Ammianus Marcellinus in his The Late Roman Empire (A.D. 354-378) which culminated in a devastating defeat by the Goths of the Romans outside Adrianople in Thrace in 378. The vulnerability of the empire to barbarian pressures in this area was revealed by the Gothic wars of the mid-3rd century. Despite the efforts of its reforming Illyrian emperors of the late 3rd and early 4th centuries, which temporarily restored an uneasy peace on its Balkan frontiers, Rome found itself militarily overextended and internally weakened by a series of developments which rendered it incapable..."
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The Evolution of the Roman Theater, 2005.
The history and development of the architecture of the Roman theater building. An in-depth look at how the ancient Romans borrowed heavily from the Greek example, but improved upon it to create a building that was uniquely Roman.
2,698 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 80.95
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The paper discusses in great detail the evolution of the Roman theater, beginning from the Greek wooden origins to the stone monuments that became iconic with Roman architecture during the Republic and the Empire. A brief history of theater is discussed in the beginning of the paper, with special attention given to the religious implications of how theaters were originally set up. The importance of the orchestra and "skene" are given historical background, dating back to early Dionysian worship. The layout of the early Greek theaters are discussed, with a complete layout included that describes the circular performance area, the seating arrangements, background adjustments and a rudimentary stage. The rest of the paper deals with how the Romans, eager to take the art of theater from being a religious practice to more of an entertainment value for the masses, incorporated their own unique designs to the Greek theater layout to create a more efficient and clearly Roman design. Heavy attention is give to Vitruvius and his work " De Architectura" which provides a step-by-step process in which Roman theaters were built. Improvements are discussed from eliminating the completely circular stage to a half-circle, as well as creating an official stage that persists in modern theatrical performances. The paper takes each part of the theater and discusses the area extensively in terms of what the Romans did to improve upon or change from the early Greek models.
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"Ancient Rome's concept of art and architecture was heavily influenced by the cultures that the Romans had conquered, but were in no way identical copies of the art that existed in those subjugated areas. The Romans excelled at taking artistic ideas from other civilizations and molding them into a form that could undoubtedly be identified as uniquely Roman. This technique can easily be seen in practice when one examines the Roman theater building. Roman theaters can be found throughout the area that used to be the Roman Empire, with remnants of theaters all over Europe and the Mediterranean. These theaters have details and building techniques that are exclusive to Roman designs, but when they are viewed in comparison with ancient Greek theaters, one can clearly see where the Romans received their inspiration."
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Ancient Roman Literature, 2008.
A discussion of the worth of Roman literature and a comparison of the meter and themes of Roman literature to Greek literature.
851 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 30.95
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This paper discusses the value of the works of the great Roman poets and prose authors. The paper specifically discusses how Roman literature and poetry is criticized because it lacks originality, being greatly indebted to the Greek texts. It describes the meter and themes of Roman literature and discusses how these, and even the mere details, are most of the times only imitations of the Greek writings.
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"Thus, Roman art can be characterized by the lack of spontaneity and speculative power. The Romans were a logical and practical people, usually engaged in political affairs or warfare. The greatest conquerors of the antiquity, the Romans were also the greatest civilizing power. Their systematic and disciplined spirit laid the foundations of the Western civilization. As it is obvious from the lyric, dramatic and epical works of the Roman writers, they Roman people was certainly not inclined to philosophy as the Greeks had been. Indeed, the only writer who can be said to have contributed meaningfully to the realm of antique philosophy is the multidimensional Cicero, who is the only Roman methodological philosopher: "Philosophy was not a natural growth at Rome: indeed, it was regarded by the average Roman with definite mistrust, and we hear that philosophers were banished from the city in 161 B. C....The Roman, essentially a man of action engaged in the practical business of war or politics, was not given to pausing on his way to reflect deeply on the nature of the world or the ultimate meaning of human life."(Bailey, 183) The Romans were thus less preoccupied with the ultimate meaning of the universe and of life, as the Greeks were, but rather with the world of action and human behavior. Usually associated with imitation rather than creation, Roman art had nevertheless its own force precisely through its absolute conformity to classicism."
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Non-Roman Christians: Texts, 2004.
Examines how Roman Christian authors viewed non-Roman Christians through their writings.
1,081 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 37.95
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The view of non-Roman Christians as constructed by Roman Christians is examined in this paper through three texts. The first two are texts by anonymous authors, both translated by Kenneth B. Wolf and dated 750 and 850, respectively. These two texts represent two widely diverse views of the Muslim faith and the Arab people. The third text concerns the view of the Greek Orthodoxy and is translated by Ernest F. Henderson.
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"The initial Roman intention was to achieve peace by means of a marriage between Otto II and a Greek princess. Despite the fact that Liutprand arrives in peace as an emissary to conduct negotiations, by his account, his reception is nothing short of hostile and even barbaric: Liutprand and his companions were held prisoner without food or drink, and in terrible conditions (Henderson, 1910, p. 442). Things never improve throughout the narrative, and the Greeks; most especially the orthodoxy, are shown to be stingy and hypocritical: ?In all Greece - I speak truly and do not lie - I found no hospitable bishops. They are at the same time poor and rich; rich in gold, with which they play from full coffers; poor in servants and implements.? (Henderson, 1910, p. 475)."
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"A Scandalous History of the Roman Emperors", 2002.
A review of Anthony Blond's book, "A Scandalous History of the Roman Emperors", characterizing the Roman era.
1,988 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 63.95
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This paper examines the book, "A Scandalous History of the Roman Emperors" by Anthony Blond, who seems to have written a history of Rome for the current tabloid age. The paper illustrates the book as both a history of the Emperors and a characterization of the age. The paper describes the picture created by the author of the Roman era, and the stories he tells of the emperors, from Julius Caesar to Nero. This is followed by a discussion of Rome as a city and an empire. The paper claims that although the author of the book states that there is nothing original in his book, the paper shows that the approach he takes to the material is original.
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"One monument that Blond gives special attention, as did the Romans, is the Colosseum, notable for the money, effort, materials, and time spent on construction. This space was central in Rome, providing an arena for the Games and so far watching the slaughter of men and beasts. The base of its pillars consist of blocks of seventy cubic feet of stone, each weighing five tons. Some 50,000 wagonloads of tavertine were brought to the site."
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The End of the Western Roman Empire, 2002.
An overview of the downfall of the Western Roman Empire through a review of Edward Gibbon's "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire".
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 10 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper is written about the end of the Western Roman Empire. The classic work in the field is provided by Edward Gibbon in "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". Gibbon's essential argument was one that attributed the "fall" (the use of this term today being itself a source of controversy) to "Christianity, which he claimed had undermined the ancient warrior traditions of the Romans and, through the influence of monasticism and asceticism, turned them away from earthly things".
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Roman Republic Power, 2002.
An examination of the lack of central power in the Roman Republic.
1,616 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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In this paper, the writer argues that if Rome had not transferred power to one man it would have fallen far sooner then it did. The writer discusses the lack of centralized power in the rapidly expanding Roman Republic. It examines the reasons for the fall of the Roman Republic and why it was necessary for the Roman Republic to become the Roman Empire.
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"The ancient Roman Republic, which was established with the expulsion of the last Etruscan king in 509 BCE and ended around 31 BCE with the start of the Roman Empire, was generally very successful, but especially toward its fall was plagued by internal and external conflict which would lead to the necessity of an Empire. When looking at an achievement of the Roman Republic such as its expansion of great amounts of territory, one can see that one main element the Roman Republic lacked was centralized power. This lack of a central power would eventually lead to great unhappiness among the masses and to the downfall of the Republic and the creation of the Roman Empire."
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Germanic Royal Authority in the Roman Empire, 2002.
This paper is a scenario: A Germanic member of Clovis' court explains to a Gallo-Roman bishop why the Germans were given Royal Authority in the Former Roman Empire.
1,405 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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This paper discusses the central treatise that Clovis, unlike his contemporaries, was a leader who stressed unity on a political, cultural and military level to further his reign and to create a sense of peace within the territory to which his reign expanded. The paper continues that Christianity created a further sense of unity in his kingdom, but it was not alone responsible for this unity. The paper points out that Clovis extended the spoils equally to his army, regardless of ethnicity and behaved without prejudice.
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"This was true even before Clovis converted to Christianity in 496 after his marriage to the Christian Clotila after his glorious victory in the battle of Tolbiac. Clovis was always willing to unite with people of diverse nature, including the Gaelic episcopate, even when he was a pagan. His military structure was primarily determined upon loyalty to himself, rather than upon a soldier?s ethnic character. Lastly, the common military respect and fear long shared between the German and Roman people must be taken into consideration as well. Despite many cultural differences, since the great emperor Julius? time, Germanic military fierceness and unity was respected by all."
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The Hero: Greek vs. Roman View, 1982.
This paper compares Greek and Roman views of a hero: Zeus is the Greek name for the leader of the gods, and Jupiter is the corresponding leader of the Roman gods.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 8 sources, $ 55.95
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"The purpose of this research is to compare Greek and Roman views of a hero. Zeus is the Greek name for the leader of the gods, and Jupiter is the corresponding leader of the Roman gods. The Greek gods of Olympus were well represented in Greek art and literature, and the influence of these works was so great in Rome that ancient Roman deities were changed to resemble the corresponding Greek gods and were considered to be the same. Because the Romans did not have personified gods of their own, they easily adopted the Greek gods. The Romans had great religious feeling, but they also had little imagination and could never have created the Olympians, each a distinct, vivid personality, on their own. Before they adopted these personalities from the Greeks, the Roman gods were vague entities, called the Numina, which means the Powers of the . "
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