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"The Wild Swans at Coole", 2002.
A literary analysis of the poem "The Wild Swans at Coole" by W. B. Yeats.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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This paper addresses the poem "The Wild Swans at Coole" by the poet W. B. Yeats. This paper critiques the poem according to the new criticism approach, which concentrates on an emotional approach to examining works of art and literature. Techniques such as the use of symbolism, persona, emotional connotations, the presence of irony, and the basic form of the poem shall all be subjected to criticism through this singular approach.
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"Wild Swans", 2006.
A discussion of Chinese cultural traditions in "Wild Swans", by Jung Chang.
1,361 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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The paper describes how Chinese cultural traditions shape and transform the lives of each of the main characters in Chang's work, "Wild Swans", influencing them to adopt political loyalties that eventually end up destroying their lives and true cultural traditions. The paper examines how the author reviews the political upheaval occurring in China during the 20th century, suggesting that cultural traditions impacted not only individuals' mentality and political loyalties, but were also manipulated by the government to worship someone who would ultimately destroy any semblance of culture and tradition. The paper concludes that Chang accurately reflects the obstacles faced by Chinese women living during this time as a reflection in part of cultural traditions.
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Introduction
Communism Under Mao
Conclusion
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"Suffering is considered in Wild Swans to be the norm rather than the exception to the rule, a cultural tradition that endures through three generations in Chang's work. Through suffering each of the women believes that they are fulfilling their obligation to their leaders and the communist party. The first generation of woman represented by Chang is the concubine of a warlord. Her daughter is the second woman surveyed by Chang, and then the third the daughter again, who reflects the author's life and circumstances. Chang begins her work in the 1920s telling the tale of the grandmother who following multiple traditions and customer becomes a concubine, bound to her leader and warlord out of a sense of duty. Chang focuses much of her attention on her mother however who as a teenager becomes a communist."
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"Wild Swans", 2007.
A review of the book "Wild Swans" by Jung Chang.
1,563 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 0 sources, $ 51.95
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This paper discusses how Jung Chang's Wild Swans is an epic historical monograph that follows three generations of the author's family; it focuses on the lives of her maternal grandmother, her mother, and herself. The paper looks at how, through a combination of vivid accounts of the women's lives and brief references to the historical context in which they occur, Chang personalizes events in China's history and presents detailed information on topics often overlooked in history text books, such as marriage.
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"Chang begins her story by describing her grandmother's early life. A young woman with bound-feet, Chang's grandmother is essentially sold as a concubine to a local warlord. More or less typical of traditional China, these opening events of the book only hint at the whirlwind events that were about to transform China forever. The warlord dies shortly after the grandmother gives birth to Chang's mother, but in a change of luck, she becomes the wife of a Dr. Xia, who marries her despite the trouble it causes within his own family. The doctor accepts Chang's mother as his own daughter, and details of their family life give an intimate view of Chinese family life, beyond the politics of marriage and concubinage. "
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Jung Chang's "Wild Swans", 2005.
This paper reviews Jung Chang's autobiography "Wild Swans: Three Daughter of China", contrasts the lives of the three generations of Chinese women.
1,330 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper explains that Jung Chang's "Wild Swans: Three Daughter of China" tells the epic story of her grandmother, mother and herself by focusing on their childhood experiences, educational opportunities, family, including love and marriages, social and political roles and some harrowing experiences while living under different political rules including Communism. The author points out that the first generation is Chang's grandmother, Yu-fang, born in 1909, when China is still a feudal society, with many social customs that have now disappeared, such as binding the feet of young girls. The paper relates that Chang, born in 1952, grew up terrible times when her family was renounced by the Communists; however, Chang joined the Red Guard and, when she finally could attend a university, she was assigned coursework rather than choosing a major that interested her.
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"De-hong [the mother] lived through World War II, Japanese atrocities, and the end of the war. She became deeply involved in the Communist Party after marrying a young Communist. Different from her mother, she was involved in political decisions, worked outside the home, and raised her child, Chang, mainly by nursemaids because she was so busy with her job in the Communist regime. She shows how China was changing, and women were becoming far more involved in the society and in the political process. She also rejected the young man her family had picked out for her to marry, something her own mother could never have done. As the author notes when her mother leaves the family home, "In my grandmother's time, leaving home like this would have been out of the question.""
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"Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China", 2002.
A historical analysis of "Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China" by Jung Chang.
2,150 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 80.95
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This paper will focus on the autobiography entitled: "Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China" by Jung Chang and express the life that she lived through the scope and influence of Chinese communism that was around at the time. Her family will also be analyzed within the scope of her life, but the main focus will be how the history of the country that she lived influenced her personal life and the way her family was changed by these political issues. In reflecting her life the period from Mao Zedong, when he ruled in the nineteen forties will be covered, to the end of the dynast dated around nineteen seventy-six.
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Alice Munro's "Wild Swans", 2002.
This paper describes "Wild Swans" as a story about the sexual violence that is perpetuated against women that passes so subtly in our society.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 1 source, $ 71.95
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This paper reports that Rose is sitting on a train ride during which a self-described minister gropes her throughout the ride. She cannot take a stand against him, because she knows that the abuse is hidden and that her outcry will be deafened by an indifferent society.
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Wild Swans, 2002.
A book review of "Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China" by Juan Chang.
545 words (approx. 2.2 pages), 0 sources, $ 19.95
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This paper provides a brief book report of this novel which describes three generation of women in China between the years 1924-1978. It is based on true occurrences which happened to Chang herself, her mother and grandmother. It provides insight into the life and experiences of women in this dynamic era.
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"The book begins by giving the reader a view and insight into life in China in the 1920?s through the simple device of narrating Chang?s grandmother?s experiences as a concubine to a powerful Chinese warlord and the story of her eventual escape. From the 1920?s through to the 1960?s, the history of early 20th century China and Communist China under Mao unfolds as Chang continues on her quest to chronicle the life and times of three generations of her own family. The 1940?s, 50?s and 60?s act as a setting to the life story of Chang?s mother."
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"Wild Swans", 2003.
Analyzes Jung Chang's book.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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Discusses the difficult role of women in China during the 20th century and presents the narratives of the women of the stories. Focuses on three generations of women. Presents the stories of the grandmother, mother, and author. Discusses the practice of foot binding.
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"Comparison of Two Incidents from "Wild Swans" by Jang Chung
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This paper will make compare and contrast the stories of two of the daughters of China as found in the book Wild Swans and use those comparisons and contrastings to make critical ..."
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"Wild Swans", 2003.
Discusses Jung Chang's biographical book.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 31.95
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Describes Chinese history during the 20th century. Compares and contrasts two stories from the book that depict the role of women in China. Discusses the importance of the extended nuclear family in China and the non-importance of women.
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" Wild Swans is a book by a Chinese author Jung Chang that is part autobiography and part biography. Chang writes about three women - her grandmother (Yu Fang), her mother (Ba Qin) a..."
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William Butler Yeats, 2004.
An analysis of three poems by William Butler Yeats: "Sailing to Byzantium", "Easter 1916" and "Wild Swans at Coole".
1,857 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 59.95
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This paper argues that any text is a source of endless speculation, argument and debate in relation to three poems by William Butler Yeats: "Sailing to Byzantium", "Easter 1916" and "Wild Swans at Coole". Each poem is analysed through two critical approaches, namely New Critical, which focuses on the specific devices used by the poet in the actual poems and Marxist, which looks at the context of the poet and poem to extract meaning.
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""Sailing to Byzantium" is not an exception to the fact that any text is a source of endless speculation, argument and debate. The debate in this poem arises over the interpretation of the golden bird that is "set upon a bough to sing". A New Critical reading of the golden bird holds that it is a symbol of the "artifice of eternity" and the ideal world of art. The golden bird defies all change and, as apart of art, comments on life and the natural world which is subject to mutability and transformation. A Marxism, however, argues that the golden bird along with the "holy city of Byzantium" represent aristocratic values, and the stability and immutability of the aristocracy is what Yeats yearns for. To a Marxist, nature symbolizes a society that changes."
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Women in China and America, 2002.
Uses Jung Chang's work, "Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China" to compare the position of women in China and America in the twentieth century.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 44.95
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The political upheaval that occurred during China during the past hundred years is described in the first- hand accounts presented in Jung Chang's work, "Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China". This book demonstrates that the rights provided to the women described during this period by the government were constantly limiting, where on the other side of the globe the women in the United States were privileged to have ever- increasing rights and liberties. This paper explores the book "Wild Swans" in respect to the rights that were given to women in China and compares and contrasts these rights to those of American women during the same time period.
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"Cool Like Me" by Donnell Alexander., 2002.
An analysis of the author's meaning of 'cool' in "Cool Like Me" by Donnell Alexander.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This paper will discuss the story "Cool Like Me" by Donnell Alexander, and seek to understand the methods by which the author argues for within the text. By realizing the different facets of his beliefs, we can see the major ideas that he unravels, while being able to understand his style of writing. The techniques contained within the text will be examined to show how the author used his abilities to tell his version of 'cool.'
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"The Abstract Wild", 2004.
This paper discusses Jack Turner?s ?The Abstract Wild?, which shows the reader how wild the wilderness actually is.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 64.95
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This paper explains that Jack Turner?s ?The Abstract Wild?, eight provocatively written essays, reviews the ways in which the wilderness has been interceded, micromanaged and, in effect, nearly taken out of existence. The author points out that Turner feels humans need to spend time with the wilderness because the actual time they have spent with this very wilderness is rare; therefore, they do not know how to preserve the wilderness. This paper relates that Jack Turner, in ?The Abstract Wild?, defines wild as being natural; anything and everything, which stands in its natural form and away from development, is wild.
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"This throwing of the spotlight on the wild and his related experience sieved out the special emotions he had once felt being created within him. It is here that Jack Turner has made his point, which deals with the effect of publicity on wilderness. From this story, one conclusion regarding his theory can be drawn. Had he not been involved in revealing his bond and connection either through pictures or through conversations, he would have encountered the equally intense or similar emotions inside him on his second visit."
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Wilde Visions of Paterian Aesthetics, 2007.
This paper analyzes works by Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater, examining parallels with regards to ethics and aesthetics.
19,650 words (approx. 78.6 pages), 25 sources, MLA, $ 249.95
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In this work, Oscar Wilde's plays are partially taken into deep consideration as an analysis of his playwright identity. In the process of the discovery of his decadent resentment of the late nineteenth century orders, the influential figures of the new movement are also indicated. Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater have important parallels among their Epistemologies, ethics and aesthetics. The writer uses extensive examples primarily regarding to Pater's first book, Marius The Epicurean: His Sensations and Ideas (1885) and Wilde's plays of 1894, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest, to display their aesthetic ideology to demonstrate the precise link between the two, for it has never been convincingly interjected. The main question underlying this paper is of how Wilde perceives art. While exploring his conception of art, dandy-ism is comprehensibly touched in order to reveal his aesthetic identity. However, this paper discusses his aesthetic ideology in the context of individualism through the referencing of some of his works, particularly his aforementioned plays. The question at the basis of this preoccupation is of how Wilde displays the expressing of individuality and idiosyncrasies through art and in particular the value of art.
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"The use of Puns is another concept that pars to both the aesthetic identity of Walter Pater as well as the aesthetic identity of Oscar Wilde. In this play "The Importance of Being Earnest", the pun, which is generally believed to be the lowest structure of oral humor, is hardly ever just a humor on words. The duality of the title in itself is proof of that. One example of such a notion lies in the earnest/Ernest humor that is utilized to hit the very truth of all the Victorian ideas and rules regarding propriety and responsibility. Gwendolen wants to be betrothed to a man named Ernest, without giving a thought to whether the man bearing such a name bears its qualities too or not. She, nevertheless, immediately exonerates Jack's dishonesty in personifying a man who is originally neither "earnest" nor "Ernest," and who, because of forces stronger than his own power, consequently develops both "earnest" and "Ernest." Jack is a perfect paradox and a compound emblem of Victorian duplicity."
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"The Wild Duck", 2002.
A review on the play "The Wild Duck" by Henrik Ibsen.
1,165 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 0 sources, $ 40.95
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This paper provides a brief analysis of Ibsen's play and focuses on the symbolism of the wild duck and its relation to the characters of the play. It explains that the protagonist, Hjalmar Ekdal's life and behavior are similar to the symbolic wild duck. The wild duck possessed one sort of life spirit when alive, and in that form it symbolized the life Hjalmar might have had or should have had; in its wounded form, as a trophy, though, it symbolizes the life Hjalmar has now and the plight of his family.
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"The wild duck would once have been free, alive, strong, and able to make choices as to where to go and what to do. This is no longer the case, any more than Hjalmar would be able to express himself, be free, or show any real strength. Another element of the wild duck's existence is that it is kept away from the real world in which it formerly lived. It is Gregers who says that if the duck ever glimpses the sky, its former home and place of greatest freedom, it will die of a broken heart. It can only live by the illusion that the sky no longer exists, much as Hjalmar has to have illusions in order to live. Hjalmar is therefore contrasted with the hard-headed realist seen in the elder Werle, and it is the clash between the two that represents the war between illusion and reality most clearly, with the wild duck as a symbol of Hjalmar's hiding his head from the real world because he has been wounded."
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