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Women Authors: A Double Standard, 2002.
This paper compares, contrasts and analyzes the writings of three famous women authors.
1,690 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 58.95
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This paper examines the double standard that has been applied within the literary world. It takes the lives of three women authors: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mary Rowlandson, and Anzia Yezierska, and examines the commonality of their struggle to find and secure the women's identity.
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"Women's literature has long been characterized by the struggle to establish the feminine experience in accordance with accepted standards within the context of the world at the time of writing. Women have long been repressed to a very small section of the literary world and as such, they have had to struggle with preconceived notions, cultural standards, and intellectual bigotry against them, which is reflected in their writing. Women authors have perceived themselves, particularly those from previous two centuries, as having to nearly shout to be heard."
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A Quick Glance At Two Great Writers, 2002.
Discusses the lives of two famous authors, James Baldwin and Pablo Neruda, and the significance of their works in society.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, AU$ 38.95
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The authors discussed in this paper (James Arthur Baldwin and Pablo Neruda), of course, did not know during their youth, that they would one day be famous personalities and authors, and they could not know how the world and their societies would change so that their opinions and projects became very important in cultural circles, and to large and international audiences.
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Paranoia in Ray Bradbury's Writings, 2003.
This paper focuses on the fears and paranoia that have influenced the writings of Ray Bradbury, the famous author of science fiction.
2,144 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 9 sources, APA, AU$ 72.95
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The paper discusses the disorder of paranoia in general and then the specific haunting apparitions and life changing events experienced by Ray Bradbury as a child. The paper suggests that these paranoia impacted greatly on his work and that the evils he witnessed in his youth are reflected throughout his writings and portrayed within his plots, characters, and settings. It also posits that his writing actually provided him with a form of treatment to escape from his fears. The paper uses Bradbury's seminal work, "The Martian Chronicles", to display how the author expresses his fear of technology through the story.
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"Ray Bradbury's paranoia started at a young age. Throughout the first ten years of his life, he was tormented by a variety of fears, nightmares, and frightening fantasies (Moritz 41). He was afraid of the dark and was often haunted at the thought of ghosts, skeletons, and dead men (Chenes 16). It is most likely that Bradbury wrote the way he did because of these childhood fears. He once said, "you have to know fear and apprehension in some form before you can write about it thoroughly." Due to this, Bradbury was able to write about the many evil things found in his books exceedingly well."
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Author John Grisham, 2006.
This paper offers a literary analysis of the author and works of John Grisham.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 28.95
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In this article, the writer looks at the author John Grisham, who has become famous for his law filled suspense novels. The writer discusses whether Grisham's background as a lawyer affects his literary career. Further the writer examines if there are any other factors that affect the choices he makes as an author. Finally, the writer discusses what the future may hold for this author's literary career.
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"The name "John Grisham" is nearly synonymous with the courtroom/law suspense novel, a genre he and Scott Turow dominated at the end of the twentieth century. Before becoming a best-selling author, Grisham was a lawyer who billed dozens of hours a week from a small Mississippi law office. Today, he puts in as many hours at his desk, creating detailed--if sometimes convoluted--tales of situations that would no doubt cause real life lawyers to reconsider their career choices if such cases truly crossed their desks. Does Grisham's background as a lawyer affect his literary career? What else, if anything affects the choices he makes as an author? What does the future hold for this author's literary career?"
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"What is an Author?", 2007.
An analysis of Michel Foucault's understanding of authorship, according to his essay, "What is an Author?".
2,180 words (approx. 8.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 72.95
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This paper discusses the famous French philosopher and writer, Michel Foucault and his understanding of authorship, according to one of his most well known and controversial essays, "What is an Author?". It discusses his argument that our current social understanding of authorship is fundamentally flawed. The paper then looks at the validity of his statements and suggests that his argument remains largely compelling.
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"Altogether, Foucault determines that authorship has only manifested itself in artistic and intellectual expressions which possess the potential to threaten the basic power structures of our society. This is why it does not affect all forms of expression in the same manner or to the same degree. Since he has argued that it is essentially a worthless way to attempt to genuinely understand a piece of literature and even the individual human being who is responsible for producing it, he is left with the conclusion that it must be useful for limiting the spread of information and keeping power mechanisms within society properly functioning: "How can one reduce the great peril, the great danger with which fiction threatens our world? The answer is: one can reduce it with the author. The author allows a limitation of the cancerous and dangerous proliferation of significations within a world where one is thrifty not only with one's resources and riches, but also with one's discourses and their significations," (Foucault)."
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Famous Women, 2002.
A look at some famous women and immigrants who have changed the face of American history.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, AU$ 47.95
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This paper is written about famous women and immigrants. From the beginning of American history women have played an active role in seeking rights for immigrants, African Americans, and their own rights.
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Edvard Munch's Famous Painting, "The Kiss", 2001.
A short look at the artistic qualities and techniques used in this famous painting.
609 words (approx. 2.4 pages), 1 source, AU$ 23.95
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"The work is quite simple, using simple artistic devices in order to capture this couple's one timeless moment. It successfully portrays joy pulling the viewer into the painting's depths with its brilliant use of colour and shape, creating another reality. It's as if you are looking at these lovers through a glass panel, distorting them and melding them together until they themselves look as smooth as the glass that protects them."
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Santiago's "Danny Famous All Over Town", 1994.
This paper reviews Santiago's "Danny Famous All Over Town" a novel about life and culture in East L.A. barrio and family dynamics.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, AU$ 42.95
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"In the novel Famous All Over Town, Danny Santiago writes about the barrio in East Los Angeles, a whole world away from the experience of most of the residents of the city. The author details the life of this subculture, how it has developed as a reflection of the culture of Mexico and how the original culture is challenged and altered in the American context. The life of the barrio is presented here as difficult and even dangerous, producing generation after generation of angry and defiant youth who strike back at all of society for the world into which they have been born. One of the themes in this novel related to the production of these angry young people is parenting and the way young people come to see their parents in a new light as they (the children) grow up and measure their reality against the ideal they have been taught and against the image projected by ... "
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Famous and Forgotten, 2002.
A short essay on presidential successes and failures.
1,991 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 68.95
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This paper examines the history of the American Presidency and attempts to determine the factors that make a president considered successful in his term or a complete failure. It uses examples from history and by comparing these men and their presidencies, illustrates how much can be learned about presidential success and failure. It discusses how success comes to Presidents who use rhetoric effectively, have the ability to change and be pragmatic and expand presidential power and how successful Presidents also come during times of crisis and often at the destruction of an old political regime. In conclusion, it shows that what determines the success of ones presidency is up to many different factors that include the president's personality type, political powers of the time and current events.
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"John Quincy Adams seemed doomed from the start. The son of John Adams, John Quincy was forever subjected to unfavorable comparisons. In the election if 1825, he was elected by a coalition in congress, although Andrew Jackson carried the popular vote. The people where sick with the current federalist regime and wanted a change from the patrician government that existed. Adams was a symbol of this old regime, and was unpopular with the common people. Adam's is best described as a President of disjunction, leading a crumbling regime ripe for reconstruction. Although Adams tried to change the current regime to save it, he was doomed the day he was elected."
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A Comparison of Two Famous Novels by Hemingway, 2000.
Compares and contrasts Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" and "The Old Man and the Sea".
1,772 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 6 sources, AU$ 62.95
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An essay that compares and contrasts two of Hemingway stories, discovering that while the intricacy of plot, settings and number of players differ greatly between the two works, they both share a common thematic characteristic.
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"While the intricacy of plot, settings and number of players differ greatly between the two works, The Sun Also Rises and The Old Man and the Sea share a common thematic characteristic: Hemingway's concepts of bravery and the code hero are reflected in Jake Barnes to some extent and are clearly evident in Pedro Romero and Santiago. Loyalty is an important quality among these heroes. He pits both heroes of his novels against animalistic forces of nature. The author also gives his heroes scars to keep them from being too far removed from the audience. Thus, while these novels initially may provide many contrasts, upon close analysis Hemingway uses both The Sun Also Rises and The Old Man and the Sea to formulate a pervasive character in his fiction: the ideal man. "
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The Construction of Identity in Famous Novels, 2000.
This essay examines the construction of identity, especially in a heroic sense, in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and "The Tempest".
1,911 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 2 sources, AU$ 66.95
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Chaucer's World, 2006.
This paper explores Geoffrey Chaucer's life and writings as well as the influences that aided the author in penning his most famous novel "The Canterbury Tales."
1,399 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 6 sources, APA, AU$ 50.95
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This paper examines famed author Geoffrey Chaucer's works as well as the various occupations, travels and experiences which provided the author with a keen insight into human nature which greatly influenced his writing style. This paper also reviews and discusses several of Chaucer's novels including: "The Canterbury Tales" and "Troilus and Criseyde."
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"If Chaucer hadn't broken free of the auspicious life that he was born
to, being son of a wealthy vintner and trained to be a diplomat and civil servant, his writing of such characters, as in the Wife of Bath and The Pardoner, would not have had the life-like qualities they do. It was in his later life that Chaucer gained first-hand knowledge of the the corruption in the medieval church and the often times unscrupulous affairs in court and the high-handed ways of merchants."
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Shel Silverstein and Billy Collins, 2005.
A biography of the lives of Shel Silverstein and Billy Collins, two modern day authors and their influence on American youth.
1,948 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 7 sources, MLA, AU$ 67.95
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This paper examines the life and career of Shel Silverstein who was a famous children's author as well as a prolific songwriter, humorist, singer, playwright, adult cartoonist and poet. It discusses how his work has been embraced by millions of people of all ages since the early 1950s. It also looks at how the poet Billy Collins has earned the respect of many young people through his humorous, reader-friendly poetry and how he implemented the Poetry 180 Program, a poem a day for high school students of America.
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"After leaving the military, Chicago born Silverstein befriended Hugh Hefner and became a cartoonist for Playboy in 1956. Silverstein never planned on becoming a children's author as he states "I never planned to write or draw for kids. It was Tomi Ungerer, a friend of mine, who insisted... practically dragged me, kicking and screaming, into [editor] Ursula Nordstrom's office. And she convinced me that Tomi was right, I could do children's books." (poemhunter.com) His career as a children's author began with the 1963 of Uncle Shelby's Story of Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back, but it was not until The Giving Tree that he first achieved widespread fame as a children's writer. "
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African-Americans in Post-War America, 2006.
A look at the injustice and degradation suffered by African-Americans in post-war America, through the eyes of famous African-American authors such as James Baldwin and W.E.B. Du Bois.
1,345 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, APA, AU$ 49.95
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This paper examines the writings of famous African-American authors such as James Baldwin, W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, and discusses their experiences and understanding of what it meant to be a Black-American in post-war America. The paper focuses primarily on the work of James Baldwin and his description of the destruction of his race and the injustice and the force to which African-Americans were subjected.
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"Baldwin's experience was that of a black man trying to find meaning and success and identity in apartheid America. Being black--or Negro, in the vernacular of the time--was a crucial fact of life. Baldwin observes the creation and the effects of "the projects," slums, and ghettoes on both the city-dwellers who live there and those who create them in the first place. James Baldwin's "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: A Letter from Harlem" is about one of these 'projects' that has captivated the blacks within the lanes of Harlem. Baldwin desperately and passionately hated the streets of Harlem not for what they were but rather, what they stood for. According to Baldwin the neighborhoods were distinctive in place and culture. They differed from America in all terms and manners. The law, schools, professional associations, and judicial institutions in these neighborhoods, were 'protected by law enforcement not of this territory. Baldwin's "occupation thesis," of course, challenges the American Dream and suggests an endemic basis for social unrest. But, the implication to be developed here is for how we understand law. Jurisprudence rather than policy, ethics, or political theory, is the issue and the challenge is just as compelling."
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Memorandum of Law Re: Paula Tall, 2008.
This paper is a formal memorandum of law about the potential criminal, tort and contract claims by client Paula Tall, who was said to be raped by a famous athlete and then fired by him and the resort.
6,875 words (approx. 27.5 pages), 74 sources, MLA, AU$ 168.95
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This paper is written by the author as the associate reporting his or her legal research to the senior partners about the client Paula Tall, a licensed physical therapist at physical rehabilitation resort, who was assigned to do therapeutic work with a famous athlete. The author reports that, after two days of therapy, the athlete offered Ms. Tall a contract for a job as his personal therapist, which she accepted. The paper continues to relate the facts of an inconsistent report of rape and her subsequent firings. The author presents questions and answers to (1) what crimes, if any, might the famous athlete be charged with and the prospects for conviction, (2) what actions in tort might be brought against him and the prospects for recovery and (3) whether the "contract" which he gave to Ms. Tall is enforceable and to what extent. The paper includes an extensive discussion of cases relating to the author's research.
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Facts
Questions Presented
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Discussion
Criminal Charges
Civil Torts
Contract
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"There is no requirement that the victim of a sexual assault resist. The Texas statute defining criminal sexual assault focuses the fact that the victim is compelled, not her resistance. Hernandez v. State, 804 S.W.2d 168 (Tex. App. 1991). Further, consent must be given freely. If consent was produced by a threat against the victim, consent is negated, and the resulting act remains a criminal sexual assault. Cavazos v. State, 668 S.W.2d 435 (Tex. Crim. App. 1984). Further, in evaluating the validity of consent, the relative strength of the parties can be considered."
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African- American Characters and the Search for Identity, 2002.
Reviews three works by famous African-American authors to explore the theme of a search for identity.
3,650 words (approx. 14.6 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 144.95
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The search for identity is a predominant theme in African- American literature, where the focus of many characters is based in the quest for a fundamental understanding of the self. This paper explores the search for identity in respect to the works of three noted African- American authors. These works are Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man", Andrea Lee's "Sarah Phillips", and Toni Morrison's "Beloved".
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