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Hemingway's "A Movable Feast", 2003.
A discussion on Ernest Hemingway's autobiography, "A Movable Feast".
2,070 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 10 sources, MLA, AU$ 104.95
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This paper discusses the accuracy of Ernest Hemingway's autobiographical memoir "A Movable Feast" as it depicts his years in Paris. It contends the book is always compelling is not always factual and presents an aura of truth.
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"Ernest Hemingway's posthumously published A Movable Feast is generally characterized as an autobiographical memoir recalling Hemingway's experiences while living in Paris during ..."
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?A Movable Feast?, 2006.
An examination of why "A Movable Feast" by Ernest Hemingway cannot and should not be considered a 'short story'.
1,874 words (approx. 7.5 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 87.95
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This paper claims that the literary genius of Hemingway of course is in the fact that his works, short stories, novels or any other of his writings are so powerfully written that they defy explanation. The paper looks at the story "A Movable Feast" and defines the story as being one that cannot be categorized by modern terminology.
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"According to Hemingway's heirs, "Earnest started writing this book in Cuba in the autumn of 1957, worked on it in Ketchum, Idaho, in the winter of 1958 - 59, took it with him to Spain when we went there in April, 1959, and brought it back with him to Cuba and then to Ketchum late that fall. He finished the book in the spring of 1960 in Cuba, after having put it aside to write another book, The Dangerous Summer, about the violent rivalry between Antonio Ordonez and Luis Miguel Dominguin in the bull rings of Spain in 1959. He made some revisions of this book in the fall in 1960 in Ketchum. It concerns the years 1921 to 1926 in Paris." /s/ M. H."
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Furniture: Making it Movable in a Movable Society, 2002.
A discussion on how furniture design today reflects a more mobile and changing society.
1,845 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 87.95
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The paper studies people's changing method of furniture buying as society's tastes change. Society today is very different than what it was thirty years ago. Our tastes today are very mobile, and hence, furniture is reflecting this notion. The paper shows that as technology has advanced our society, our tastes have also changed and these tastes further affect what the general public wants as far as art, film, and furniture. The paper explores how the growing aspect of technology today has influenced manufactures to develop furniture with interchangeable parts, as well as furniture that is flexible, easier to move, assemble, and reassemble. All of these factors also assist people with saving space within their living quarters as well as moving their furniture more easily. The paper explores the use of plywood and the need of saving time and space.
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"The formation of plywood in layers permits it to be bent into curved shapes by stretching and compression under heat or steam. Again, this permits people in our ever-moving society to skew their furniture to fit their needs. For the piece that forms the continuous back and seat of a chair it can be used as thin as a quarter-of-an-inch. Because of the cross-grained lamination, expansion and contraction under changes of heat or humidity become negligible. Nor can plywood split or warp under normal conditions."
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Hemingway: A Modernist Author, 1988.
Examines the major works of Ernest Hemingway & discusses why Hemingway can be called a modernist author.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, AU$ 46.95
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"Hemingway can be classified as a modernist in fiction. Modernism is a term applied retroactively to certain literary and artistic trends at the beginning of the twentieth century. Modernism rejected traditions that existed in the nineteenth century and sought to stretch the boundaries, striking out in new directions and with new techniques. More was demanded of the reader of literature or the viewer of art. Answers were not presented directly to issues raised, but instead the artist demanded the participation of the audience more directly in elucidating meaning and in seeing the relationship between technique and meaning. In literature, writers developed new structures as a way of casting a new light on such accepted elements as character, setting, and plot. Much of modernist fiction shows this increased demand on the reader."
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Ernest Hemingway, 1997.
Discusses the life of author Ernest Hemingway. Examines how Hemingway's experiences informed his novels & how he portrayed himself autobiographically in them.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 5 sources, AU$ 116.95
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" INTRODUCTION
Ernest Hemingway in his novel A Farewell to Arms told the story of an American professor who sympathized with the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War and who entered the battle as an antifascist. Hemingway was a realist in the way he developed his fiction and a strong stylist whose use of language was distinctive, though very difficult to imitate. However, the naturalism that usually infused his work was mitigated in this novel by the overall romantic idealism that permeated the work and the actions of its protagonist. The Spanish Civil War was a touchstone in Hemingway's life, and he himself entered that war much as does his character, Robert Jordan. Hemingway had a particular view of himself which helps shape his fiction and his philosophy, and though he could not always live up to the image.."
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Hemingway?s ?Farewell to Arms?, 2004.
This paper discusses Hemingway?s ?Farewell to Arms?, a quasi-autobiographical novel, which echoes Hemingway?s life and serves as a commentary on the times and Hemingway?s character.
2,060 words (approx. 8.2 pages), 6 sources, APA, AU$ 94.95
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This paper explains that ?A Farewell to Arms?, a novel of war and love, consists of two parts. The part before his surgery and convalescence at Milan, including Frederic Henry?s wounding, and the part after he returns to the front. The author points out that Hemingway uses rain as a good or bad portent in almost every part of the novel, and it serves as a metaphor on numerous occasions. The paper relates that Hemingway was an alcoholic, and alcoholism plays an important role in ?Farewell to Arms?, thus showing a slice of Ernest Hemingway?s life.
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"Catherine Barkley, in the novel, has many suitors, including a Dr. Rinaldi, a physician assigned to Henry?s ambulance corps. Rinaldi, recognizing the extent of Henry?s feelings, backs away from his pursuit of Nurse Barkley. This way, Hemingway felt that he had complete ascendancy over Catherine?s very being. The love affair between Catherine and Frederic is not of mutual give and take. Catherine is completely giving of her body mind and soul. Frederic does not reciprocate any of this; indeed, he is constantly demanding. When he wrote the novel, Hemingway was older. He was married and divorced to his first wife Hadley. His real life wife, Pauline, was pregnant with his child and had a difficult cesarean birth around the time the novel was completed--almost a decade after World War I ended. This was the difficulty of childbirth that Hemingway forced upon the character of Hemingway attributed to his characters his feelings of that time. Catherine also combined the characteristics of both Hadley and Pauline."
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The Hemingway Code: Life Sucks and then you Die, 2002.
The Hemingway Code uses Ernest Hemingway's piece 'A Farewell to Arms' to discuss what it is to be a hero and how successful the characters are at dealing with the injustices of life.
2,207 words (approx. 8.8 pages), 7 sources, AU$ 100.95
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This paper sets out to discuss Ernest Hemingway's novels and short stories conceptualizing his ideas of heroes facing life's harshness with dignity and grace which culminate in the Hemingway Code. The essay traces his works as well as various feminist scholars, but focuses on Hemingway's famous piece 'A Farewell to Arms' which the paper analyzes, especially in reference to the heroine Catherine Barkley.
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Catherine does more than simply face unpleasant facts; she takes appropriate action as well. Her demeanor is calm and matter-of-fact, whether the activity in question involves giving Frederic an enema before surgery, dealing with an unplanned pregnancy, or helping Frederic escape to Switzerland to avoid imprisonment and execution. And, as she steadily handles one crisis after another, she continues to reassure her lover. ?You mustn?t mind, darling,? she says about the baby, ?I?ll try and not make trouble for you? (138). Later, as they escape to Switzerland, she says fondly, ?You?re such a silly boy. But I?ll look after you? (251).
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Lillian Ross' "Portrait of Hemingway", 1999.
A paper regarding the three days that Hemingway spent in New York in the sixties written by Lillian Ross, a journalist and friend of the Hemingway family.
710 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 37.95
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A polished paper regarding the three days that Hemingway spent in New York in the sixties written by Lillian Ross, a journalist and friend of the Hemingway family.
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Ernest Hemingway: Larger than Life, 2002.
An analysis of the three protagonists in three of Hemingway's war novels with an indication to Hemingway's quasi-autobiographical style of writing.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 12 sources, APA, AU$ 88.95
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By examining the main characters in three of Hemingway's novels ("A Farewell to Arms", "For Whom the Bells Toll" and "A Soldier Home"), the author of this paper shows how Ernest Hemingway wrote about events which occurred in his lifetime and how his participation in several wars led him to develop these characters.
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"Hemingway describes the processes of a soldier coming home in a very cryptic format. As if coming home is a stepped-program towards a certain goal. The first step in coming home is to satisfy the visceral needs. Nick Adams spends time doing what he likes most: Fishing, Camping and spending time in the outdoors. The soldier then reevaluates relationships. He has been away. He has see things; he has learned things.(Young, 1964) He is, in some ways, a different person. He knows himself like he has never known himself before. Therefore he seeks to make certain that relationships are terminated if they have to-the break up with Marjorie."
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Ernest Hemingway and the Trademark Law, 1999.
An overview of the relevant law and an analysis of the legalities of tbe use of Hemingway's name, legacy and image by Key West businesses, including "Sloppy Joe's International" and the Hemingway Festival.
5,400 words (approx. 21.6 pages), 12 sources, AU$ 197.95
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An overview of the relevant law and an analysis of the legalities of tbe use of Hemingway's name, legacy and image by Key West businesses, including "Sloppy Joe's International" and the Hemingway Festival.
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"Hemingway Days In Key West Florida: Publicity Rights under Law
Background
Over one hundred years ago, Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis wrote a law review article in favor of a right to privacy (Warren and Brandeis, The Right to Privacy, 4 Harv. L. Rev. 193: 1890). After the New York Court of Appeals refused to recognize such right under the common law, Robertson v. Rochester Folding Box Co., 171 N.Y. 538, 64 N.E. 442 (1902) (unauthorized use of a young woman's photograph in advertisements for bags of flour), the New York State legislature enacted a statute in 1903 which prohibits use of a person's name, portrait or picture for advertising purposes or purpose of trade without the person's written consent (N.Y.C ..."
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Hemingway Literary Analysis, 2002.
An examination of the setting in three of Ernest Hemingway's works.
2,275 words (approx. 9.1 pages), 5 sources, MLA, AU$ 103.95
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This paper is a literary analysis of the setting of Hemingway?s three works: ?Soldier?s Home,? ?The Old Man and the Sea,? and ?A Moveable Feast.? It compares and contrasts the setting of the three different works using the question of ?Does Hemingway use setting to help the reader understand the character's actions?? A short biographical sketch of Hemingway is given and then each work discussed separately with the settings compared and contrasted.
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"?Soldier?s Home? is the story of Krebs, who has returned home to Oklahoma after World War I. By the time he returned though, ?the greetings of heroes was over?. The men from the town who had been drafted had all been welcomed elaborately?.people seemed to think it was rather ridiculous for Krebs to be getting back so late, years after the war was over? (Soldier?s 145). He sleeps late and hangs around the house all day. He?s a hero to his sisters and mother. The town hasn?t changed except that some of the girls have grown into women. He enjoys watching them but he doesn?t want to get involved with any of them. To Krebs, being involved means consequences and he doesn?t want consequences every again. He?s allowed to take the car out at night, something he wasn?t allowed to do before he left for the war. His mother tells him not to muss the paper, his father hasn?t read it yet. His sister tells him she playing a baseball game that day, and might he come. His mother shoos her out the door."
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Hemingway "The Snows of Kilimanjaro", 2006.
A review of conflict, character change and stasis in Ernest Hemingway's short story "The Snows of Kilimanjaro".
1,907 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 7 sources, MLA, AU$ 88.95
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This paper reviews the short story "The Snows of Kilimanjaro", by Ernest Hemingway. According to the paper, this story by Hemingway
suggests (or blames or admits) female significance and influence in ways that other Hemingway works characteristically do not.
Outline:
I. Introduction and thesis statement
II. Body of essay
III. Conclusion
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"The key conflict between man and woman as shown within Hemingway's story "The Snows of Kilimanjaro", then, has to do with Harry's progressively feeling, as he lies helplessly dying in the African savannah as Helen looks on, also helplessly (and accepting Harry's verbal abuse),l that Helen has kept him from being the writer he might have been, had Harry not become seduced, against his own better judgment, by Helen's wealth and irresponsible lifestyle, her wealthy friends, and their relatively feckless and non-ambitious ways. In better or less desperate or extreme circumstances, Harry, having these same thoughts, might still have been able to have these same realizations and still had time to change the direction and focus of his life. But in fact his life is now ebbing away, and Harry realizes, and expresses to himself and Helen, with extreme bitterness, that he has wasted what are to be his last years of writing in meaningless and unrewarding ways. "
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Ernest Hemingway's "In Another Country", 2006.
Explores how Ernest Hemingway's personal experiences affected his writing of in another country.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 51.95
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To varying degrees, every writer's work is affected by her or his personal experiences. Some might argue that this is particularly true for Ernest Hemingway. For example, it has been pointed out that Hemingway's war injury was a central symbol in his fiction until his death. This essay demonstrates that there is overwhelming evidence of Hemingway's personal experience affecting his writing in his short story, "In Another Country".
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Ernest Hemingway, 2006.
This paper discusses the depression and creativity of Ernest Hemingway, considered by many as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
1,855 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, AU$ 87.95
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This paper explains that similar to Ernest Hemingway, who suffered from life-long depression, many American writers, such as William Faulkner and F. Scott Fitzgerald, appear to have suffered from some type of mental disorder such as alcoholism, schizophrenia or depression. The author points out that it is quite obvious that Ernest Hemingway utilized his depression as a kind of support mechanism to compose his short stories and novels; however, the question remains as to exactly how depression either led or inspired Hemingway to become such a great American novelist. The paper relates that the literary conflict within "The Old Man and the Sea", as seen in the character of Santiago is, actually Hemingway himself, an old man with great internal struggles based on his need to satisfy his inflated ego, which is in a battle with his depression.
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"One important element of depression is that some people become very neurotic, meaning that they over-react to certain situations which in reality are not that particularly disruptive to ordinary persons. Under certain circumstances, a person suffering from depression may experience vivid hallucinations and delusions that are not real, much like living in a dream state where things and ideas are not tangible nor logically explainable. Those that suffer from major depression often have recurring episodes throughout their lives, yet they may also return to a relatively normal state at any given time."
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Ernest Hemingway's Depression, 2004.
Analysis of the types of depression from which Hemingway suffered.
1,435 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 6 sources, APA, AU$ 69.95
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This paper gives a brief history of Hemingway's life, provides background information on Hemingway's family, including those members who also committed suicide, and looks at the type of treatment Hemingway received when he finally sought help for his depression. The paper concludes with an analysis of the types of depression from which Hemingway possibly suffered.
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"Of all the American writers that have suffered from some form of mental disorder, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O?Neill and William Faulkner, novelist Ernest Hemingway and his life-long struggle with depression appears to be the most studied and discussed by psychologist and literary scholars. Although depression played a major role in his early life and well into adulthood, it was not until his final years that Hemingway decided to get professional treatment for his disorder."
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Amish Barn Raisings: Collective Work Events and Feasting, 2001.
This paper discusses not only the history and custom of Amish barn raisings, but deals with theoretical work on feasting that often accompanies group work projects in less ?modern? cultures.
5,425 words (approx. 21.7 pages), 4 sources, AU$ 194.95
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This paper examines the Amish barn raising feast within Dietler?s and Herbich?s theoretical framework of the Collective Work Event (CWE) and elucidates the role of the feast within the barn raising event, as well as the event itself within a broader social context. The investigation begins with a description of barn raisings within the Old Order Amish community of Goshen, Indiana and then discusses the concepts of the Work Feast and Work Exchange beneath the CWE rubric. Finally, barn raising as an ethnographic object is analyzed using Dietler?s and Herbich?s six descriptive factors to determine the relevance of the framework to the Amish and to uncover other aspects relevant to a larger discourse of feasting.
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