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?Tales from the 1001 Nights?.
This paper discusses the empowerment of and prejudice against women in ?Tales from the 1001 Nights? (Anonymous).
1,175 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 0 sources, $ 40.95
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This paper explains that ?Tales? consists of a thousand tales narrated over a thousand nights by a woman named Sharazad in order to divert King Shahriyar?s attention from exploiting and killing more virgin women. The author stresses that three important tales best illustrate the status of women as both empowered and oppressed members of the society: ?The Introduction or Prologue?; ?The Tale of Bakbook, the Barber?s First Brother?; and ?The Tale of Al-Haddar, the Barber?s Second Brother?. The paper summarizes that these tales depict the life of men and women in Islam, how an intolerant Islamic society illustrates, through the tales? narrative, the unfair treatment of women in regard to men, and vice versa, and how these conflicts are resolved with religious undertones, with forgiveness and mercy as the main values illustrated and used as the moral for each story.
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"The first tale, that of Sharazad, the protagonist of the main story in the Tales, illustrates the origin of the conflict that would be reflected throughout the story (with the tales). King Shahriyar is portrayed as the king with insatiable desire for women virgins, and mercilessly kills them after exploiting these virgins, primarily due to the betrayal of his wife, who had an affair with their Negro slave. A similar experience has also happened to his brother, King Shah-Zeman, who has witnessed how his own wife, too, has betrayed him by having an extra-marital affair with a black slave also. Because of their unfortunate experiences, the two kings began avenging against women by exploiting and killing them for three years. It was only in the event when after a ?scarcity? of virgins occurred, mainly because most of them had been killed or had fled their kingdoms, when Sharazad, Wezir?s daughter, took the responsibility of entertaining the King with her different tales for a thousand nights in order to stop the rampage that he started years ago."
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"Ramayana" and "1001 Arabian Nights", 2008.
A comparison of the lessons that we learn from the characters in the ancient classical works, "Ramayana" and "1001 Arabian Nights."
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This paper compares and contrasts the two ancient and classical stories of "Ramayana," attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and "1001 Arabian Nights," which is a collection of stories collected over many centuries by various authors, translators and scholars in various countries. The paper specifically compares the characters within the stories and the lessons of morality that they teach.
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Purity and Deceit in Ramayana
Purity and Deceit in 1001 Arabian Nights
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"Eventually there are no more virgins and Scheherazade offers herself as the next bride. In order to keep his daughter alive, Scheherazade's father tells Shahryar a story without telling him the conclusion. In order to hear the end, Shahryar must keep Scheherazade alive. The next, Scheherazade finishes the last tale and begins another, only again to stop short of revealing its conclusion. Thus, the 1001 stories of the book are told. Although each of these stories involve their own tales of morals, purity and deceit, in an effort to teach Scheherazade a lesson, this act of telling stories itself is deceitful in that it is done as a method of tricking Scheherazade. However, this act of deceit, like the act of deceit done by Brahman in creating Rama to defeat evil, this act of deceit is also done for the greater good."
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"Karaoke Nights", 2006.
A book review of the popular book " Karaoke Nights" by Rob Drew.
966 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 34.95
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In this book review the author starts with a look at the background behind the writing of the book "Karaoke Nights" by Rob Drew. He highlights how Drew was originally drawn to the topic of his book as a research subject only but as he learned more, he elaborated on the karaoke phenomenon. The paper looks at how "Karaoke Nights" is an observation on the external behavior of deejays, performers, and audiences and an intimate portrait of the emotional roller coaster that is the internal life of a karaoke singer. The author also examines how Drew provides an analysis of the varied roles karaoke plays in popular culture and how karaoke can guide to an understanding of local music and culture. The book review concludes with a summary of how karaoke has had a great impact on the American culture at weekends giving people a motive to act out a part and have fun at the same time, as described in "Karaoke Nights".
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Introduction
History of Karaoke
Karaoke Nights
Conclusion
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"Another point that Drew make in his book that American culture relies on a good time Saturday nights so that they relax after a hard week's work. And, ten years ago, karaoke caught on in America after being in Japan for many years before. Drew describes this craze from Japan a great way for people get together and live out some of their fears by singing songs in a public place where others could easily make fun of them. However, everyone in that local karaoke bar is feeling the same fears so they respect the person's feelings and not torment them while they are on stage singing out of tune. Most people do sing out of tune as Drew points out but karaoke is all about having fun and doing something some people would not normally do in front of others."
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A View of Feminism in "Arabian Nights", 2003.
Analyzes the role of women in Arabian culture as depicted in literature, especially "Arabian Nights".
716 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 25.95
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Historians have always looked to literature for insight into how a culture functioned, what it valued, and how its people lived. Today, when studying the Middle East, many would not only read the Qu?ran, but also "The Arabian Nights", the folklore. The paper shows that when we read "Arabian Nights" we understand a great deal more of how the Arabic people actually lived. Perhaps the most evident discrepancy between the teachings of the Qu?ran and the "Arabian Nights" tales pertains to the view and treatment of Middle Eastern women.
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"This method of seclusion is dramatically illustrated in The Arabian Nights where we hear the story of the demon that locked his wife in a chest and carried her about as if she were his private property. Yet ironically the authors of the Arabian Nights convey in this same story that not even this extreme could prevent a willful woman from knowing other men."
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"The Arabian Nights", 2004.
An examination of why the story of "The Arabian Nights" is still popular.
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper looks at why "The Arabian Nights" story has remained famous and popular as a significant work in Arab literature. It examines the universal and positive appeal of the tales, their influence in Western literature and specific writers influenced by the Arabian Nights.
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""Alf Layla wa Layla" translated as "A Thousand Nights" and also known as "An Arabian Night's Entertainments" has had a remarkable history equal to that of the characters in its tales. Some scholars surmise that these tales originated over years ago in ..."
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A Tale of Love from the ?Arabian Nights?, 2002.
This paper explains the story of Uns-El-Wujood and El-Ward Fi-L-Akm?m, a quintessential romance from Chapter 18 of "Arabian Nights" (anonymous).
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 1 source, $ 53.95
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This paper discusses the story of Uns-El-Wujood and El-Ward Fi-L-Akm?m from "Arabian Nights" (anonymous), a tale of love, separation and reunion. The author believes that desire and longing create immense physical suffering for El-Ward Fi-L-Akm?m and Uns-El-Wujood as if they are not in control of their minds or their bodies once they fall in love and are thwarted from fulfilling their affair. The paper remarks that desire functions in a dual role of poison and cure throughout Chapter 18 of "Arabian Nights".
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"As the poison of desire sets into his soul and his body, Uns-El-Wujood describes his affliction in explicitly physical terms. He is obviously depressed, but he feels his depression in his body as well as his mind. First, he cries so much that his eyes become sore. Uns-El-Wujood reiterates his having this symptom throughout the story, as weeping is one of the most constant and consistent side effects of unfulfilled desire. ?When my tears flow, I say, my eye is sore,? (p. 197). As soon as Uns-El-Wujood discovers that his beloved has been wrested from him, his tears flow freely. ?My eyelids are sore from continual weeping,? he moans as he searches for his beloved throughout the desert. Moreover, along the way, he creates even more physical pain and tension in his body by being unable to eat, drink, or sleep. The harshness of the landscape, the long duration of his journey, and his depression cause him to waste away. Desire, by forcing him to follow the trail of El-Ward Fi-L-Akm?m, creates the conditions for starvation and further physical deprivation. This is depression?s secondary action on the physical body. Both Uns-El-Wujood and El-Ward Fi-L-Akm?m translate their mental and emotional pain into acute and authentic physical suffering. ?Often are our bodies afflicted by our passion,? El-Ward Fi-L-Akm?m writes to her lover on the eve of their separation."
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The Structural Organization of "The Arabian Nights", 2002.
A discussion on the fundemental structure of Sir Richard Francis Burton's "The Arabian Nights".
1,804 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 58.95
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The paper shows how the fundamental structure of "The Arabian Nights" by Sir Richard Francis Burton, consists of frame texts, or stories within stories, with "The Story of King Shahrayar and Shahrazad" as the outermost tale. The stories possess common didactic lessons, or morals, that connect them to one another. The paper examines how the morals are not often initially stated but rather revealed or re-emphasized from one tale to another, and they all possess a common feature that relate them back to the outermost tale?"The Story of King Shahrayar and Shahrazad". The paper shows that the organizing guidelines of the fables in The Arabian Nights are the particular moral, or lesson, they each portray.
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"The Tale of the Fisherman and the Demon divulges into The Tale of the Enchanted King. This tale, like The Tale of the King?s Son and the She-Ghoul, displays the consequences of returning good with good. The king saves the enchanted king from spending his life as half man, half stone and gains his companionship as a result. Even more importantly, the tale connect back to the The Story of the Fisherman and the Demon because the fisherman ?was the cause of saving the young man and the city? (66). The moral, therefore, is not only re-emphasized but connected with the previous tales."
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"Arabian Nights", 2002.
An analysis of the stories of "Arabian Nights" as a window on Islamic culture.
1,205 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper discusses the stories of "Arabian Nights". The writer illustrates how the stories within the main story are told with the purpose of teaching lessons about life in the Islamic culture and religion.
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"The stories of ?Arabian Nights? vary as much as the lands they originate from. However, all the stories have a spiritual message and a message about values during life. The stories talk about life and how to live it, based on the Islamic culture and religion. Each story gives the reader a vivid image of life in Islamic culture."
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"Three Nights in August", 2006.
This paper reviews Buzz Bissinger's book "Three Nights in August" about Tony La Russa and the St. Louis Cardinals.
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This paper relates that Buzz Bissinger's "Three Nights in August" describes what life is really like surrounding major league baseball clubs, what it's like in the clubhouse before and after games and what baseball players do when nobody, especially the media, is looking over their shoulders. The author points out that, throughout much of the book, Bissinger's descriptions come from sitting behind La Russa in the dugout. The paper relates both sides of the media story---from the aspect of what media members go through to get access to players and what players do to keep the attention on themselves through the media.
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"Bissinger also wrote about several interesting tidbits, like the lives of Rick Ankiel, Albert Pujols and Cal Eldred. He also wrote about how clubhouse attendants unwrap sticks of Juicy Fruit so that the players don't have to unwrap them themselves, or that former pitcher Steve Kline spends an inordinate amount of time walking around in the nude, or that Bill Veek once built a hole in his wooden leg and used it as an ashtray. The best paragraph that Bissinger wrote in the book comes from Tony La Russa, when he is speaking to Kerry Robinson."
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?The Arabian Nights?, 2004.
A look at the theme of conscious deception in ?The Arabian Nights?.
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This paper examines how the notion of telling a story of deception that reflects one?s current situation seems counter-intuitive due to the possibility that, in telling the story, the deceived may become aware of the secret intention. It uses as an example ?The Arabian Nights? and examines how Shahrazad?s life depends on every story she narrates, on both a momentary and permanent levels. It shows how a series of entertaining stories may allow Shahrazad to delay her execution, but never eliminate its certainty. To live, Shahrazad strives to reform King Shahrayar?s view of women as unfaithful, and she accomplishes this endeavor by means of suggesting that anger renders irrational conclusions, like those of the caliph, and multiple repetition of this theme serve only to further propound the message.
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"The caliph prematurely assumes that his vizier?s incompetence in governing the kingdom directly or indirectly causes the young woman?s murder. As previously stated, coincidence indirectly causes the girl?s death. With that in mind, the young man?s story exposes the vizier?s innocence. Within that frame, the son?s story reveals the mother?s innocence. The importance of such situational repetition conveys the theme that Shahrazad aims to suggest, that solutions derived without reason or logic may never be adequate. This implication indicates a high degree of courage on Shahrazad?s part. Effectively, in correlating this theme to King Shahrayar?s life, she accuses the king of being wrong. The insinuation that a ?king of the world? (11) is wrong seemingly harms Shahrazad?s reformation of the king based considering that despots usually do not tolerate contradiction."
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The Play Midsummer Nights Dream" Verses the Film Version, 2000.
A comparison between Shakespeare's play "Midsummer Night's Dream" and Elijah Moshinsky's film adaptation.
750 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper discusses "Midsummer Night's Dream" as the author believes Shakespeare intended the play to be - as a delightful, fun frolic, and contrasts it to Moshinsky's film version which emphasizes the darker elements of the script and loses much of the comic elements of the story.
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"This sentence would be a perfect introduction to Elijah Moshinsky?s film adaptation of Shakespeare?s ?Midsummer Night?s Dream?, since it is not delightful, but instead stresses the tragic elements of the play. Shakespeare?s language, rich of colourful images, creates a flower-scent and magical atmosphere. ?The descriptions breathe a sweetness like odours thrown from beds of flowers.? Though Moshinsky adapts Shakespeare?s original text, the language loses nevertheless a part of its imaginative power. He focuses rather on the tragic elements of the play and renders it thus more serious and less bland."
"?We do not come, as minding to content you, our true intent is. All for your delight, we are not here. That you should here repent you, the actors are at hand; and, by their show you shall know all, that you are like to know (p.57).?
This sentence would be a perfect introduction to Elijah Moshinsky?s film adaptation of Shakespeare?s ?Midsummer Night?s Dream?, since it is not delightful, but instead stresses the tragic elements of the play.
Shakespeare?s language, rich of colourful images, creates a flower-scent and magical atmosphere. ?The descriptions breathe a sweetness like odours thrown from beds of flowers.? Though Moshinsky adapts Shakespeare?s original text, the language loses nevertheless a part of its imaginative power. He focuses rather on the tragic elements of the play and renders it thus more serious and less bland."
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"Notes From The Underground" ( Dostoevsky ), "L'assommoir" ( Zola ) and "Last Nights Of Paris" ( Philippe Soupault ), 1999.
Examines how these novels' isolated protagonists are used to critique their indifferent societies.
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Examines how these novels' isolated protagonists are used to critique their indifferent societies. Public space in fiction serves as a means of identifying aspects of the characters of the people who inhabit those spaces.
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"Public space in fiction serves as a means of identifying aspects of the characters of the people who inhabit those spaces. The characters in Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, L'Assommoir by Emile Zola, and Last Nights of Paris by Philippe Soupault also illustrate multiple social meanings and serve as a means for the authors to criticize their own society.
The theory of human nature and the meaning of life that is offered by the Underground Man in Notes from Underground derives from his personality and his particular experiences in the world. Those experience have left him angry and spiteful, and in part his "theory" of human nature is a spiteful reaction to the way he himself has been treated. He seems obsessed with developing this theory, as if he will be able to codify all human conduct and explain it by means of his view of why people behave in a certain ..."
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Night Terrors, 2008.
This paper explores the symptoms and treatments of night terrors as well as research on this disorder.
1,292 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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The paper describes night terrors as panicked awakenings that could turn very violent. The paper looks at how to handle a situation when someone is experiencing night terrors, the symptoms of someone experiencing night terrors, the cause of these night terrors and how to prevent them from happening again. The paper then examines an experiment on night terrors and its interesting results.
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"A night terror, also known as sleep terror or pavor nocturnus, is a parasomnia sleep disorder. A night terror occurs in stage 3 or 4 sleep. A stage four night terror causes the "greatest heart rate acceleration possible in man" (Kahn, 533). Episodes are most common in the first third of the night and may last 10 to 20 minutes, and then normal sleep returns. Contrary to what most believe, a terror it is not a dream or night mare. Dreams occur during R.E.M, rapid eye movement sleep, while night terrors occur in N.R.E.M. sleep, non-rapid eye movement."
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"Midsummer Night's Dream", 2002.
An analysis of the theme of desire in William Shakespeare's "Midsummer Nights Dream".
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An analysis of the idea of desire in the play Midsummer Nights Dream, and how the characters of Shakespeare's play portray this in the text. By analyzing how love and relationships play into this theme, we can see relate how madness plays a part in their demise.
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"A Night to Remember": Book Review, 2008.
A review of "A Night to Remember", Walter Lord's 1955 work about what happened the night the RMS Titanic sunk.
756 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 26.95
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This paper favorably reviews Walter Lord's 1955 non-fiction work, "A Night to Remember", explaining that it is a heart-rendering account of the Titanic's deadly collision with an iceberg. The paper further relates that the book is a compilation of survivors' recollections of the disaster and that the major theme of the book is the good and evil of human nature that is revealed in life threatening situations. The paper concludes that Lord's book is a critical expose of one of the most tragic events in the history of travel on the seas.
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"Walter Lord gives his reader an authentic sense of what it was like to be a passenger onboard the boat that dreadful night. He describes the night of the crash as being calm, clear, and bitterly cold. He details the passengers' formal attire to help demonstrate just how shocking and unexpected the sinking was. He depicts their dress as an odd mixture of bathrobes, fur coats, turtleneck sweaters, and tuxedos to emphasize the bitter irony of the sinking."
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