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Character Development in Literature, 2006.
A look at the different ways that protagonists can develop in a story, including coming-of-age stories, romance stories and stories about death and loss.
773 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 6 sources, MLA, AU$ 43.95
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This paper examines three classic works of literature, "Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain, "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo and "Cyrano de Bergerac" by Edmond Rostand and discusses the development of the main characters in each of the stories. The paper uses the stories to illustrate how protagonists are developed in literature and how their development often influences the development of the story itself.
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"An excellent example of a coming-of-age story is Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, in which the protagonist, Huck, grapples with issues of slavery and personal freedom. At the beginning of the story, Huck desires one thing: to be free of his father. But his journey down the river with an escaped slave, Jim, forces Huck to consider the differences between his own reach for freedom and Jim's. It's not legal for him to help Jim run away, but is it right? Huck's journey down the river is not just a physical one, it becomes a moral one as well, and by the end of the novel, he ceases viewing Jim as Miss Watson's property and views him instead as a human being."
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Character Development in Classic Literature, 2005.
A comparison and contrast of the characters and family dynamics seen in Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" and William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury".
2,469 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 15 sources, MLA, AU$ 120.95
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This paper presents a detailed examination of two classic pieces of literature. The writer explores the primary texts, and secondary sources to develop a critical analysis of the characters and their dysfunction and how escapism is used in both situations. "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams and "The Sound and the Fury" are compared and contrasted while at the same time being individually analyzed for the purpose of exploring dysfunction, escapism and how it affects the family dynamic. The writer details several examples of each from each story and discusses why they are important to the story development and plot analysis. In the end the paper concludes that escapism for the purpose of these two stories is a product of the family dysfunction.
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"Laura also displays signs of escapism. She has a glass menagerie of figurines that she coddles, cares for and actually believes care for her in return. Her escapism is so deeply imbedded in her mind that she does not come back to reality like the other two do, and realize it is not possible. Tom knows he is watching movies, and Amanda is aware the newsletter does not reflect the real lives of her children, but Laura, because of her emotional and mental issues is not aware that the menagerie presents an escape for her and is not real."
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The "Catalyst Character" in Literature, 2002.
Examines Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" and G. Garcia Marquez's "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" to explore the catalyst character in both stories.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 8 sources, AU$ 113.95
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This paper examines the figure of the "catalyst character" in Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" and in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World". The catalyst character can be seen as the instigator of the action in these stories, but they are also characters that do not contribute to the action itself.
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Character Values in Literature, 2004.
A comparative literary review of four short stories focusing on the values displayed by the main characters.
1,730 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 88.95
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This paper looks at four short stories, each of which shows the natural flaws evident in most people and, specifically, in the typical American personality. The four stories used are: "Lady with the Pet Dog" by Joyce Carol Oates; "Barn Burning" by William Faulkner; "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway; and "The Horse Dealer?s Daughter" by D.H. Lawrence. The paper looks at each story individually and explores how the author portrays the American psyche and the main character's imperfections.
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"Finally, Joyce Carol Oates? story, The Lady with the Pet Dog, takes place in Nantucket, Massachusetts. The story centers on the affair between the main character, Anna and a man known as ?the stranger.? Oates describes Anna as a disillusioned woman, suffering from a bad marriage, and the loss of faith in her husband and her parents. The fact is, Anna considers her marriage to be successful financially, but unfulfilling in any other way. Her husband is a successful plant worker, so successful that he has no energy or interest for his wife at home. Further, she has no real interest in him."
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Characters in Literature.
This paper analyzes a character in Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye," Andre Dubus's "Killings, Anton Chekhov's "The Lady with the Pet Dog," Robert Frost's "Home Burial," and Ernest Hemingway's "Soldier's Home".
1,110 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 61.95
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This paper theorizes the prevailing social environment that each character lives in leads to their transition from being resolute to irresolute individuals determined to make beneficial or detrimental changes in their lives. The author points out that in one of the five literary works, "The Bluest Eye," Morrison creates the character of Pecola Breedlove, a black American in the 1940s American society, in whom the readers can see internal conflict; she is torn between accepting being a black American and aspiring to become a white American, hence her preoccupation to have the "bluest eye(s)". The paper relates that, in the last of the five works, Dmitri Gurov in "Lady with the Pet Dog" by Chekhov demonstrates a change in character for the benefit of romantic love when he finally admits to himself, for once in his life, that he needs a woman who will not only satisfy his physical needs, but also his emotional need to be understood and to feel for him as a man and partner in life.
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"Literary works have become significant artifacts for readers because of the similarities and almost-real depictions of the lives of its characters in a particular period and event in human history. Analyses of literary works include, among others, looking into transitions or changes that occurred within a character's personality or behavior throughout the story. This conscious effort to illustrate changes in characterization is vital to the development of the story, since literary works ultimately mirror the reality that it is through human acts that humanity's fate changes over time. That is, an individual's interaction with his/her society inevitably leads to a change in his behavior, and vice versa."
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Female Characters in Literature, 2007.
A comparison and contrast of the female characters in Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll House" and Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage and her Children".
1,654 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 85.95
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The paper relates that "A Doll House" and "Mother Courage and her Children" both have strong-minded women with three children as leading characters. The paper identifies the stark differences in these characters and discusses how Ibsen's Nora is more literal while Brecht's "Mother Courage" is more symbolical and allegorical. The paper portrays how both plays represent extremes of female characterization; Nora develops more fully into her own self, into an independent personality while "Mother Courage" pulls further away from any sense of authentic self.
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Introduction
Nora's Character
"Mother Courage's" Character
"Mother Courage's" reaction to Kattrin's death
Conclusion
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"Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House (1789), is a play about a young woman named Nora Helmer, a mother of three small children, who is married to an overbearing bank president, Torvald. Nora realizes during the play that she, because of society's repressions, solely domestic expectations of women, has never really grown up into an independent adult human being. Ibsen stated when asked about his reason for writing this particular play: "A woman cannot be herself in contemporary society, it is an exclusively male society with laws drafted by men, and with counsel and judges who judge feminine conduct from the male point of view" ("A Doll's House" Wikipedia)."
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Guiding Characters in Literature, 2008.
An examination of the guiding characters in "The Divine Comedy" and "The Song of Roland".
1,340 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 72.95
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The paper discusses how classical literature often uses pairs of dependent characters to justify the unusual, extraordinary adventures and experiences of the main heroes. The paper looks at Virgil and Beatrice in Dante's "The Divine Comedy" and Olivier in the anonymous "Song of Roland" as examples of guiding characters.
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"The heroes of classical literature almost always have guides who help them or sometimes prevent them from achieving their goals. These character guides are sometimes the peers or friends of the heroes and other times supernatural beings or forces. The role of the guiding figures is obviously that of contributing to the initiating experience of the hero. Because the adventures portrayed in classical literature always have an initiating character, the main hero of the story requires help from other men or forces in his journey. Such guiding roles belong for example to Virgil and to Beatrice in the Divine Comedy, or to Olivier in anonymous Song of Roland."
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Godless Characters in Literature, 2006.
This paper analyzes the characters of Huck Finn in Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" and Jake Barnes in Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises."
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 61.95
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This paper focuses on Huck and Jake's shared lack of religious beliefs, while also discussing what replaces religion in their respective value systems. This paper details Jake's personality and the fact that he is cynical about everything, except for his own perceptions and instincts. The writer contends and explains why Jake is practical, a realist and a nihilist, much like Huck. Religion has no place in both Jake and Huck's value system. This paper details how both Jake and Huck rely on superstition in place of religion. Huck claims that his lack of religion and moral values are to blame for his behavior, in which he disobeys conventions and rules in order to follow his conscience. The writer asserts that Huck's attitude is a substitute for the religious principles he feels he should follow, but cannot. This paper also discusses the traumatic experiences in WWI, that has made Jake Barnes impotent and destroyed his faith in anything higher than himself, including God.
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"Huck develops an early cynicism of beliefs his society accepts, particularly religion. Religion serves him not at all, and seems irrelevant. Also Huck has "other fish to fry", so to speak, than being an obedient boy in the religious south: first, quite literally, when he is returned to his abusive father, against any semblance of social good, and later, when he escapes from him and heads for the river. Another character who does not believe in God or religion is the nihilistic Jake Barnes, the ex-World War I G.I. of Ernest Hemingway's first novel The Sun Also Rises. Although the book takes its title from the Book of Ecclesiastes, its characters themselves are agnostic at best."
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Child-Orphan Character in Children?s Literature, 2001.
Explains that the orphan character has a very powerful meaning in children?s literature. Looks at how they are often used to represent development of character and self-esteem in the young orphan throughout any given story.
2,000 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 101.95
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This paper examines two examples of child orphans: Anne Shirley in Lucy Maud Montgomery?s novel, "Anne of Green Gables", and Mary Lennox in Frances Hodgson Burnett?s work, "The Secret Garden". It explains how, in these two children?s classics, the orphan child is used to demonstrate an ability to make the best of an unfortunate situation in life. With the help of other characters in their respective stories, these two young girls play vital roles in manifesting to readers that retaining a positive attitude, developing solid friendships, having a will to enjoy life and attaining strong self-confidence are essential to ensuring an enjoyable childhood.
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"Anne Shirley, a young girl mistakenly adopted by Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert of Green Gables, plays an influential role in demonstrating the importance of having a positive outlook on life. Despite being subject to an unfavourable past, Anne considers here new home in Green Gables as a chance to start over. Anne exemplifies her cheerful, positive nature before she even arrives at Green Gables when she is riding with Matthew Cuthbert. Anne, overwhelmed by the beauty of the scenery, exclaims gleefully, ?this Island is the bloomiest place. I just love it already, and I?m so glad I?m going to live here?(Montgomery 21). Here, the author is trying to bring forth Anne?s ability to put the past behind her. At this point the reader knows full well that Anne is coming from an orphan asylum but she is still portrayed as being polite, and willing to act pleasantly. Another example of Anne?s positive outlook comes near the end of the novel after she is finished school and is convincing Marilla that she has full intent on staying at Green Gables and helping her out with her diminishing eyesight. Anne turns down an academic scholarship to take a job as a teacher in Avonlea. Anne views it as a chance to show Marilla her appreciation for her being there as a friend and as a mother figure during her years at Green Gables. Marilla questions her choice and Anne replies, ?I don?t know what lies around the bend, but I?m going to believe the best does?(Montgomery 324)."
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Literature Review and Analysis: Culture and Development, 2008.
A review of literature regarding childhood development in diverse cultural contexts.
2,370 words (approx. 9.5 pages), 10 sources, APA, AU$ 115.95
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The purpose of this study is to examine the influences of cultural variations on childhood development, by looking closer at the research that already exists on the topic. It holds that existing literature does not pay enough attention to the impact of culture, especially regarding the parent-child relationship, on developmental psychology. While the role of parenting has been long recognized as an important component in development, this recognition has existed mostly devoid of cultural context. The paper argues that culture does have an influence on development, and will consequently have an influence on any planned intervention strategy. The paper concludes that what is critically needed is further research into the subject to demonstrate statistically viable methods for conducting important therapies and interventions in different cultural settings that are backed by legitimate theory and research.
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Introduction
Literature Review and Analysis
Current Limitations of Family Therapy Theory
Importance of Cultural Context
Emerging Picture of Culture's Effects
Conclusion
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"On a theoretical level, developmental psychologists and theorists have been plagued by the same impulses that beset researchers in most disciplines: the desire to devise a single, all-encompassing theory. What dedicated researcher doesn't dream of a single theory that can provide all of the answers for all of the questions that have been (and will be) asked? This impulse has led to the creation of many theories, such as attachment theory, that strive toward a grand theory of development. But attachment theory has been exaggerated in its usefulness to explain actual instances of childhood development. Lamb (2005) concludes that development is much too complex, owing largely to the complicating effects of culture, to be easily reduced to a single theoretical approach. Contrary to the tenets of attachment theory, empirical data has consistently shown that there is more to development than just the parent-child relationship (though, admittedly, this is an important component)."
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The Development of the Good and Bad Self in Literature, 2005.
Examines the development of self in two texts by Subhadra Sen Gupta and Maxine Clair.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, AU$ 56.95
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In this essay, the development of a sense of self is shown as seen in the lives of two adolescent female protagonists, found in Subhadra Sen Gupta's short story "Good Girls Are Bad News" and Maxine Clair's short story, "The Creation." This realization of the sense of self is seen in the definition of societal norms, the difficulty of "good," and a return to one's original self.
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"From the travails of such Biblical characters as David and even Jesus Christ as they learned and grew to the confused maturation of Shakespeare's Prince Hamlet to the developing and lovelorn protagonists of Jane Austen to the angst-ridden Holden Caulfield of Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, one of literature's most oft-used and diverse topics is that of simply growing up. As each of our lives are different, holding unique and varied circumstances and backgrounds, what should be a universal truth and tale is almost always new and fresh with each new young, maturing character that is introduced or described in a story, novel, or play. Differences in setting and ethnicity hold the key to making two such short stories, Maxine Clair's "The Creation" and Subhadra Sen Gupta's "Good Girls Are Bad News," interesting and vital."
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?Literature; Ancient Greek Literature?, 2002.
A discussion of the relationship between ancient Greek burial and death rites and ancient Greek literature.
1,409 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 6 sources, MLA, AU$ 74.95
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This paper focuses upon illustrating the relevance of the obvious emphasis and taboo regarding Greek burial or death rites as it is portrayed in a significant amount of ancient Greek literature. It examines how literature has long been a relevant source that historians as well as other scholars can turn to so as to glean at least a marginal understanding regarding the societal norms of the era or culture in particular.
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Introduction
Generalities Regarding Ancient Greek Burial Rites
Relevance of Literary Illustrations Regarding Ancient Greek Perspectives on Death
Burial Rites Within Ancient Greek literature
Conclusion
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"One of the first things that essentially needs to be taken into consideration is that, as a result of their significantly un-advanced and superstitiously primitive preconceptions and beliefs, that nearly all kinds of ancient literature is tinged, to some degree or another, with elements of the super natural or paranormal. The occult, witches, curses and ghosts, all are things that are mentioned, with varying degree of figurativeness and realism, within ancient British as well as Greek literature. Moreover, there appears to be a particular degree of emphasis upon the relevance and effectuality of such things as oaths and curses, especially in regard to the likes of such being implemented in concern to a particular person?s death or burial. This something that is quite strongly portrayed when Euripides? Hippolytus, the protagonist within the play, reasserts his confidence to his father in so much as taking an oath that in death may neither sea nor earth receive my flesh, if I have proved false (Lawson, 1964)."
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The Evolution of American Literature, 2002.
Explores the growth and development of American Literature.
2,650 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 5 sources, AU$ 155.95
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The evolution of literature in America has been an extraordinary process, where its development from humble descriptions of exploration to extraordinary works of fiction demonstrates a comparable form of development within the American people. This paper explores the concept of "American Literature" in respect to its evolution from the Columbian period through the Ante- Bellum period.
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Cooper and Brown: Early American Literature, 2002.
This paper discusses in detail James Fenimore Cooper?s ?The Last of the Mohicans? and Charles Brockden Brown?s ?Wieland? and their contributions to the development of American literature.
1,690 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 86.95
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The author reviews in detail the ?The Last of the Mohicans? and ?Wieland?. She concludes that they are different in style and genre. Both Cooper and Brown contributed greatly to the development of a distinctly American literature. Cooper adapted the Romance; Charles Brockden Brown adapted the European Gothic novel to the American context. Cooper's influence is seen in frontier fiction; Brown's influence, in the works of Poe and Hawthorne.
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"James Fenimore Cooper wrote in the vein of European Romantic writers like Walter Scott, while Charles Brockden Brown recreated the new form of the Gothic novel. Both adapted the original forms to the American experience, which meant not only embedding them in the land but also shifting the focus from aristocratic European characters to the common man in the democratic social order in America. Both Cooper and Brown elevated the common man over any ideas about the superiority of the aristocracy and did so in the American setting."
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Teaching Children Literature, 2002.
Conceptual analysis of the literature on storytelling and child development in relation to reader response and and structural models of instruction in literature appreciation. Includes the development of an integrated model.
4,467 words (approx. 17.9 pages), 13 sources, APA, AU$ 185.95
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This paper develops a perspective on the structural and reader response approaches to literature appreciation that is based upon empirical findings observed in research into the influence of storytelling on child development. To this end, this report first reviews the literature on how storytelling can influence the social, cognitive, and psycho-emotional development of children as well as its basic influence on learning. This examination of the effects of storytelling on child development is followed by an explication of both the structural and the reader response approaches to teaching literature appreciation. Based on the review of all of this material, the report discusses each theory in terms of the support or lack of support offered for it by the storytelling-child development literature. Where relevant, this discussion is used to modify, hone and refine theory into a new model of instruction (The Integrated Model) in literature appreciation, a model that focuses on storytelling as a mode of instruction and that incorporates elements and postulates of both the reader response model and the structural model.
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"Effects of Storytelling on Social Development. There is a good bit of literature that supports the notion that storytelling can strongly contribute to both very young and older children's social and psychosocial development. For example, Pellowski (1990) reports that research has shown that stories inform children about the lives, the dreams, the hopes, the problems, the tensions and the conflicts of diverse social and ethnic groups. In this way, storytelling helps familiarize children with how groups of people, some of them which may be very different than the group children were raised in, perceive life and its events.
Simultaneously, while informing of group differences, storytelling serves the function of maintaining a sense of the human community by telling the story using universal themes common to all. In other words, storytelling operates to broaden children's view of the world and the diverse societies it while also emphasizing the social ties that bind communities and groups of people together."
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Foreign Aid and Economic Development, 2005.
A literature review of the effectiveness of foreign aid in promoting economic development in the developing world.
4,873 words (approx. 19.5 pages), 39 sources, MLA, AU$ 197.95
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The purpose of this paper is to survey the available body of research done on the effectiveness of foreign aid as an agent for economic development of recipient countries, most of which come from the third world countries. In particular, it aims to assess how strong the empirical evidence is that aid has been an effective agent for economic growth. In so doing, it attempts to identify areas where future research is required.
Outline
Overview
Introduction
Econometric Models Used In the Literature
The Poverty Trap Model
Anti Aid Literature
Pro Aid Literature
Qualified View
Observed Gaps in Existing Research
Conclusion
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"Since its birth right after World War II when the United States of America (USA) released billions of money to assist Europe (Sogge, 2002) in reconstructing the latter's economy, foreign aid has been assumed to directly induce or at least influence economic development in a recipient country. Most donor rhetoric perpetuates this association (World Bank, 1998). Many studies have been undertaken to try to assess if aid actually fulfils its main objective, that is, to promote macroeconomic development in developing countries. After half a century characterized by some serious changes in world economy and politics (i.e. breakdown of Communism, globalization, terrorism), the link between foreign aid and economic growth remains at the center of debates on aid effectiveness."
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