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The Works of Michael S. Harper, 2003.
The following paper critically analyzes the following Michael S.Harper poems: "Peace on Earth"; "American History"; "Dear John", "Dear Coltrane"; and "Makin' Jump Shots".
1,820 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 58.95
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This paper examines the works of Michael S. Harper and the way in which Harper sees music as a link between past and present. The writer comments on the way in which Harper continues to use jazz as a basis for his poetry expanding his philosophies, somewhat from the early 1970s to include different themes.
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"In the opening of the poem "Dear John, Dear Coltrane" Harper begins by telling us about the black man's pain. Harper says that he interprets the poem's opening as a declaration that men should not assert manhood. The poem is a declaration of tenderness, and a reminder to the reader of a suffering beyond the personal and historical to the cultural, that there can be no reservations fixed to sensibility, that personality gives power through the synthesis of personal history and the overtones of America in and by contact."
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Michael S. Harper, 1993.
Examines the major works, ideas and influences of this black American poet.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, $ 39.95
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"Michael S. Harper is a black American poet who sees history as a vital and continuing process. He also has an interest in and makes use of his ancestral past, the African heritage of his race. His verse is generally in free form but is regulated by the jazz and blues structures which have always interested him (Mendelson & Bryfouski 138). Harper was born in 1938 in Brooklyn. He attended public schools in that city. His family moved to Los Angeles in 1951. In creative writing classes in school, he wrote plays and short stories. He worked as a newspaper distributor, lifeguard, postal clerk, and counselor, and in 1961 he spent a year at the University of Iowa's Writer's Workshop. He taught in Portland, Oregon, Hayward, California, and Urbana, Illinois, before teaching and directing the writing program at Brown University. He now lives with his wife and ..."
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Michael Crichton?s "Jurassic Park" and "The Lost World", 2002.
A discussion on the use of allegory in Michael Crichton?s novels: "Jurassic Park" and "The Lost World".
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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This paper studies the use of allegory in Michael Crichton?s "Jurassic Park" and "The Lost World". The writer draws several examples from the story to illustrate the use of allegory and then discusses its effectiveness.
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"In many literary works the authors use methods that might be considered metaphoric to make their point. In the case of science fiction the author is given a lot of freedom to use things such as metaphors and allegory characters to present an underlying message to the readers. The ability to use allegory in science fiction is strengthened and enhanced because of the very nature of the genre. Aliens, monsters and man made creatures often grace the stories, allowing the allegory effect to be utilized."
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Michael S. Nassaney, 2006.
An assessment of "An Epistemological Inquiry into Some Archaeological and Historical Interpretations of 17th Century Nation American-European Relations" by Michael S. Nassaney.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 0 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper assesses Michael S. Nassaney's article, "An Epistemological Inquiry into Some Archaeological and Historical Interpretations of 17th Century Nation American-European Relations" showing that objective interpretations are based on the current society. According to the paper, Nassaney's article discusses the archaeological records of the Narragansett Native American tribe. His thesis states "I will show that 'objective' interpretations of the archaeological record are ideologically charged while serving to empower those with access to the record".
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Michael Feldberg?s ?The Turbulent Era?, 2004.
This paper reviews Michael Feldberg?s ?The Turbulent Era: Riot and Disorder in Jacksonian America,? a vivid portrait of the violence that existed in America of the mid-19th century.
1,005 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 35.95
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This paper explains that Feldberg places importance on the crisis of violence in the 1830?s and 1840?s because it was the first time in American history that the nation saw such an eruption of unrest. The author points out that Feldberg?s approach is not only thorough in the range of the categories of riots examined, but also systematic and in-depth in its analysis of the unrest that was characteristic of the Jacksonian era. The paper explains that in his analysis of the social and cultural factors, such as the temperance crusade and its impact on further alienating the Irish immigrants from the nativists, the reader gets a great deal of insight into the life and times of the people in the Jacksonian era.
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"Feldberg?s approach to examining the causes and nature of the riots in the era is thorough, examining as it does, anti-immigrant; religious, anti-abolitionist; anti-black and other forms of politically motivated violence. The book even takes the reader through incidents of trouble caused by recreational, labor, and vigilante movements. Through using such an approach, Feldberg examines the root causes of the disturbances, in all its nuances, and thereby presents a picture of a young nation torn apart by the desire of various factions to protect or gain social power, status and political influence."
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Michael Wayne?s ?Death of an Overseer?, 2002.
This paper evaluated the interpretation proposed by historian Michael Wayne in his book ?Death of an Overseer?.
1,270 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 43.95
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This paper discusses historian Michael Wayne?s interpretation of the murder of a plantation overseer, Duncan Skinner, in his book ?Death of an Overseer?. The paper argues against the probability of the traditional version of events by using his own theory based on letters and newspaper articles of the period. The author believes that Wayne never answers the basic question: Why is this theory better than the old one?
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"Now, only when Wayne is explicitly (and at the end of his research) given information that McCallin, after being ostracized from the white community, lived as husband and wife with a black woman, does Wayne rethink that bias and conclude that perhaps McCallin did conduct a long-term affair as investigators of the time believed. But, even this reasoning seems a bit fuzzy. On one hand, the fact that McCallin essentially married a black after the murder had dramatically altered his position in the community and any plans he had to accumulate wealth were cut short may reflect the fact that he himself had been ostracized. Consequently, his actions with respect to other people that were similarly excluded from white Southern society (e.g. African Americans at that time) are very little indication of what his actions were prior to those events. On the other hand, it is unclear why Wayne places so much more value on a simple ?fact? that McCallin was married to a black woman than on the opinion of the investigators who personally knew him and spoke among themselves. Certainly the fact of this interracial marriage is interesting; however, ?marriage? recorded does not speak to devotion or commitment in an everyday, real sense. This is a seemingly small quibble to make about Wayne?s text, but this detail is relevant to critiquing Wayne?s general approach to factual reconstruction because Wayne relies on the notion that the three slaves who implicated McCallin were unreliable and notes in support of their unreliability, Dorcas? unwillingness to impugn McCallin."
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Clement Greenberg's and Michael Fried?s Aesthetics, 2004.
Compares the ideas of Clement Greenberg and Michael Fried, relating them to specific instances of art practice.
2,830 words (approx. 11.3 pages), 41 sources, APA, $ 84.95
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This paper explores and compares the influence of Clement Greenberg's and Michael Fried's ideas on art and aesthetics and how the reaction to those ideas impacted the development of late Modernism and its transition into Postmodernism.
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"Central to both the theoretical stances of Greenberg and Fried is the non-referential nature of high art and the non-contingent nature of artistic practice. This forms part of an ?elitist? view of art, which was to contrast sharply with later postmodern concepts of artistic practice that emphasize an egalitarian ethos and a breaking down of the barriers between the different art forms. As will become clear, for Greenberg and Fried correct artistic practice could not be contingent on and referable to other areas besides that specific mode of art. In other words, ?proper? or pure art can have no subject and cannot be related to social or any other external areas. For both Greenberg and Fried the subject and correct developmental path of art was art itself. This becomes clear if the central tenets of modern formalism are analyzed."
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Michael Almereyda?s "Hamlet", 2005.
A discussion on director Michael Almereyda's film version (2000) of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet".
4,755 words (approx. 19.0 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 122.95
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This paper examines how director Michael Almereyda uses technology and a modern setting to tell the story of "Hamlet". It looks at how Almereyda's use of various devices, as well as forms of technology, give "Hamlet" new relevance to an audience that may not understand or care much about the succession of monarchies but does understand the consequences of corporate buy-outs. It also discusses how the fact that Almereyda sets "Hamlet" in modern times not only makes it more accessible to a modern audience, but also changes the image of the play.
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"After one has seen multiple productions of "Hamlet", one comes to expect each production to place a different emphasis on Hamlet's madness. Therefore, one of the most striking things about Almereyda's Hamlet was that it completely de-emphasized Hamlet's madness. However, by taking emphasis away from the very scenes in which other directors have chosen to have their Hamlets act the most mad, Almereyda and actor Ethan Hawke have created something unusual: a Hamlet that is definitely mentally ill. While Hawke's Hamlet lacks the frantic lunacy of other Hamlets, the movie makes it clear that Hamlet is severely depressed. In fact, Hawke spoke of rock star Kurt Cobain, who ended his life by suicide, as his inspiration for Hamlet."
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Michael Ignatieff?s "The Lesser Evil", 2005.
This paper reviews Michael Ignatieff's "The Lesser Evil", which investigates the fundamental disparity between the principles of human rights and democracy and the practical necessities of living with terrorism.
2,080 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 65.95
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This paper explains that, in "The Lesser Evil", Michael Ignatieff asserts that, occasionally, circumstances arrive in which a nation is forced to choose between two undesirable options, which may require us to take actions in defense of democracy that will stray from democracy's own foundational commitments to dignity. The author points out that Ignatieff offers a comprehensive argument detailing the ethics, justifications, successes, failures and recommendations for instances in which the ideals of democracy must be partially surrendered in order to save them. The paper summarizes that the primary theme of the book is finding a middle road to these two opposing viewpoints, which impel a nation to either die by their morals or to trash them in self-preservation.
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"Next, Ignatieff synthesizes these two standpoints to analyze the risks of "nihilism," as he terms it. Generally, this is the prospect that the victorious party must defend against: the institution of a form of rule whose purpose is merely self-continuation. This can happen if the liberal democracy prevails: "Thus democratic values, instead of preventing the lesser from shading into the greater evil, may actually blind democratic agents to the moral reality of their actions." (Ignatieff, 119). Additionally, it can occur if the terrorists prevail: thus, creating a cycle of terrorist and counterterrorist violence with no apparent end. These comprise the elemental outcomes to be guarded against in the war on terror."
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Michael Cunningham?s "The Hours", 2005.
A critique of Cunningham's book about Virginia Woolf and her work.
1,218 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper introduces, discusses and analyzes Michael Cunningham's book "The Hours". It explains that the book is about the nature of mortality, literature, Virginia Woolf's life, and the connections between life and one of Virginia Woolf's greatest works, "Mrs. Dalloway".
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"In The Hours, housewife Laura Brown simply and ineffectually bakes a cake. Clarissa Vaughan buys flowers. But these events are imbued with transcendence significance, simply by showing how these characters are interconnected across the ages-even across the bounds of the fiction/nonfiction divide of literature. When things are connected, everything becomes significant. By highlighting simple events, like buying objects for a party, such events become sympathetic and significant to an apparently disconnected viewer or reader."
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Michael Moore?s "Bowling for Columbine", 2006.
A review and analysis of the film "Bowling for Columbine" and its portrayal of gun violence.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper studies Michael Moore's award winning docudrama "Bowling for Columbine" (2002), which provided an eye-opening look at the social problem of violence in the United States, particularly violence with guns. The film focused on events leading up to the Columbine High School shootings. The paper demonstrates how, from a sociological perspective, Moore effectively showed that both social institutions (e.g., the community, the school) and social relationships (e.g., within the community, between students) played a role in the Columbine tragedy. The paper also lauds Moore for effectively presenting the causes and consequences of this recurring social problem (i.e. gun violence) in an effective manner.
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"One portion of the film that I found extremely revealing was when Michael Moore went up to Canada with his film crew for this movie, and interviewed people up there, who seemed less afraid, and said they were less afraid, than Americans he had interviewed for the film earlier. These two sets of interviews illustrated the point, very convincingly, that America has far more general fear bred into its culture, in terms of anxieties people feel just living life, than does Canada. For that reason, Moore implies, many Americans feel they need guns simply to protect themselves against the frightening elements "out there", a feeling that then feeds on itself, with more fear and more gun ownership. In contrast, Canadians who were interviewed for the film do not even lock their front doors, and most do not own guns or feel any need to own guns. Moore convincingly explored, also, how the mythology of the Wild West (e.g., Western movies starring actors like John Wayne and Clint Eastwood) are so much a part of the American identity that Americans actually also identify with guns and gun ownership as if it were needed in order to feel safe."
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William Wordsworth?s ?Michael?, 2002.
This paper discusses the pastoral poem ?Michael? by Wordsworth in which he introduces Michael, ?[a]n old man, stout of heart, and strong of limb.?
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This paper discusses the triangular relationship between father, son and land, which Wordsworth eulogizes in ?Michael.? The paper states that Wordsworth is expressing an imagined nostalgia for a time when strong men, such as Michael, toiled on their own land for their livelihoods but halfheartedly accepted that the changes in society have been unavoidable. The author feels that Wordsworth seems to be making a connection between himself and future generation of poets, a connection similar to the relationship between Michael and Luke.
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"In order to avoid selling his lands, Michael suggests that he should send his son Lucas to work with a well-to-do relative, so that Lucas can send money back home and Michael can keep from parting with his property. Michael?s idea was that ?[h]e quickly will repair this loss, and then/He may return to us.? Thus, he would send Luke away to work off his own debts, and then have his son to help him in the field, once again. But when Michael speaks to Luke about his impending journey, he senses that Luke will in all likelihood not return. He tells Luke: ?This was a work for us; and now, my Son, /It is a work for me.? "
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The S.S., 2002.
An overview of Hitler's notorious military group, the S.S.
1,057 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 37.95
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In 1925, Adolf Hitler formed his own personal bodyguard unit and called it the Schutzstaffel (S.S.). Four years later Heinrich Himmler was appointed its leader. This paper looks at the history of one of the world's most feared military units during WWII. It also looks at the structure of the group, its three branches and their roles within the organization. Finally, the paper looks at the downfall of the S.S. with the fall of the Third Reich.
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"Despite the almost mythical reputation of the S.S., (at least in the eyes of Germans), when the Third Reich fell, the S.S. fell with it. By mid-1943, more than 100,000 Waffen S.S. recruits died in during battle in Russia. ??We weren?t outfought?, wrote Kurt Meyer, ?but we were outnumbered, overwhelmed, pushed to the wall by sheer weight.?? (Constable, 172) Yet, the Waffen S.S. units continued to fight to ?stave off the end of nazism?. The attack of Kharkov was Germany?s last won battle. ?Hitler was ecstatic because his faith in the S.S. panzer corps had been validated?Himmler, too, brimmed with pride.? (Constable, 174)"
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T. S. Eliot?s ?Hollow Men?, 2002.
This paper discusses the theme of the meaning of life and death in T. S. Eliot?s ?Hollow Men?.
700 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 4 sources, $ 24.95
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This paper discusses the poem by T. S. Eliot, ?The Hollow Men? that contemplates the idea of how life would end and what the fate of man is when he dies. The author believes that, all throughout the poem, Eliot uses lines that depict hopelessness and emptiness in one?s life. The paper concludes by comparing the theme of life and death in T. S. Eliot?s ?The Hollow Men? with ?Faust? by Goethe, the legend of ?Beowulf? and ?Hamlet? by William Shakespeare.
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Meanwhile, the legend of ?Beowulf and the play ?Hamlet? are contrast views of Eliot and Goethe?s perception of the meaning of life and the death of man in the world. In "Beowulf", it is imperative that the character die nobly and courageously, which is a generalized perception of how life should be led by mortals. Although Beowulf has extraordinary powers, he is still a mortal subject to death afterwards. Death is an honor for the legend of Beowulf, and a meaningful life is needed in order also to lead a meaningful existence in the afterlife. Hamlet, meanwhile, discusses death and its meaning in the initial and latter part of the play. The first discussion of death is through the ghost of King Hamlet, whose soul cannot enter heaven because he was not able to confess when he suddenly died because he was murdered by his brother Claudius.
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T. S. Eliot?s ?The Waste Land?, 2004.
This paper discusses, extensively, the theme of water in the T. S. Eliot?s ?The Waste Land?.
3,785 words (approx. 15.1 pages), 14 sources, MLA, $ 104.95
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This paper explains that the lack of water, which is referred to continuously throughout T. S. Eliot?s ?The Waste Land?, is a sign of spiritual drought and symbolically indicative of infertility and philosophical and existential stasis. The author points out that water is the primary symbol of the release and awakening from the nightmare of "The Waste Land", and its interpretation offers an alternative to the loss of meaning, which in Eliot?s view, characterizes the modern world. The paper relates that water links to the ancient myth of the vegetation god and to the Christian myths because water can be seen to regenerate through suffering and death.
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"The sense of ennui and existential angst is related to Eliot?s personal situation as well, and to the situation of his entire generation after the ?Great War?. Any understanding of the poem necessitates a perception that the symbol of water as an image of salvation from the ?modern predicament? and its various constraints, was not a random image selected for its obvious connotations, but refers to an entire tradition of mythical and philosophical thought. Drawing from these ancient roots, the modern usage of the symbol of water is reflected in the intense search for relevance and meaning that was central to the work and the art of the modernist period."
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