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  • Comparing Anthem to Fountainhead

    Comparing Anthem to Fountainhead

    Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, once written, “The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.” He meant to say was that people should not let their society take control of how they should live their own lives. People should not

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    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Comparing Emerson and Dickinson

    Comparing Emerson and Dickinson

    Darrell Phifer Dr. Colin Clarke English 202-002 February 4, 2004 Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Dickinson were two of America’s most intriguing poets. They were both drawn to the transcendentalist movement which taught “unison of creation, the righteousness of humanity, and the preeminence of insight over logic and reason” (Woodberry 113). This movement also taught them to reject “religious authority” (Sherwood 66). By this declination of authority, they were able to express their individuality. It

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    Submitted: March 23, 2010 By: Mike
  • Comparing Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now

    Comparing Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now

    Comparing Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now Heart of Darkness written by Joseph Conrad and "Apocalypse Now" a movie directed by Francis Coppola are two works that parallel one another but at the same time reflect their own era in time and their creator's own personal feelings and prejudices. "Apocalypse Now" was released in 1979 after two years in the making, as Coppola's modern interpretation to Joseph Conrad's novel, Heart of Darkness (Harris). Conrad's book

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    Submitted: March 29, 2010 By: Jon
  • Comparing Heroes

    Comparing Heroes

    Many of the stories about heroes are quite similar no matter what culture they may be from. A person may think of a hero as a person with super-human strengths or the ability to fly, and others may consider a peaceful man with the ability to hold his tongue in conflict, as a more wise and powerful hero. Most authors or creators of stories seem to incorporate a message and lesson within the material to

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    Submitted: May 15, 2010 By: Top
  • Comparing Homeric Heroes

    Comparing Homeric Heroes

    During the Homeric era there was a distinct type of hero that was consistently used in his epics. The Homeric hero consisted of an individual with two main qualities: a doer of deeds and a speaker of words. A doer of deeds was someone who was strong, brave, and skilled in fighting. A speaker of words was someone who was persuasive, clever, and reflected intelligence behind their worlds. A hero in the Dark Ages was

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Anna
  • Comparing Huck Finn and Colden Haufield

    Comparing Huck Finn and Colden Haufield

    Throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Huck and Holden go through a series of events from which they are able to learn and grow from. They are able to develop opinions that they did not hold at the beginning of the novels but that they have formed from their travels, and both Huck and Holden are changed by the end of each novel. Although

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    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Mike
  • Comparing Jack & Creon

    Comparing Jack & Creon

    Leadership: “the ability to lead and exert authority.” In the play �Antigone’ by Sophocles, and in the novel �Lord of the Flies’ by William Golding, leadership is largely portrayed by the main characters. Creon, the powerfully built King of Thebes, is compared to Jack, the strong-willed school boy who is stuck on an island. When comparing the roles of both Creon and Jack, there are many similarities and differences that arise ultimately coming to the

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    Submitted: June 5, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Comparing Jewett, Chopin, and Freeman

    Comparing Jewett, Chopin, and Freeman

    The White Heron depicts a story of a little girl who leads a life of respect and love of nature rather than that of fortune. Early on in the story, she meets a boy who is a self-proclaimed ornithologist, a scientist that studies birds. He is willing to pay ten dollars to whomever can show him the White Heron he had once seen. It is now up to Sylvia, the young girl, to make a

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    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Comparing King Arthur’s Court

    Comparing King Arthur’s Court

    King Arthur’s court is the primary setting in a variety of tales in literature. This particular setting is portrayed in various different ways. For example, King Arthur’s court in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight depicts the king and his court is all pleasant ways. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, every one of the characters in Camelot is happy and full of joy. On the other hand, in Marie de France’s Lanval, King

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Comparing Poems from Different Cultures

    Comparing Poems from Different Cultures

    Comparing Poems I am going to be talking about their methods that the poets use to explore the connection between people and the places in which they live in. The poems that I am comparing are Hurricane hits England and Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan. In Hurricane Hits England the techniques used are personification, she says “Talk to me oya” here referring to the hurricane as a person, she is doing this to try

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    Submitted: April 13, 2010 By: Artur
  • Comparing Scrooge to Grinch

    Comparing Scrooge to Grinch

    Christmas Carol Assignment Assignment One Scrooge compared to Grinch A reflective response to a famous work of art that conveys the message of a passage in your assigned stave. Include the artwork. Following are a few examples of ones that could relate. Scrooge from start to stave four of Christmas Carol has changed a lot from inside he went from selfish, grumpy old man to a kind and generous fellow. The spirits that came to

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    Submitted: December 14, 2017 By: mypc162
  • Comparing Speakers: My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover

    Comparing Speakers: My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover

    Nicholas hola English 115 6/3/05 West Comparing speakers: My last duchess and porphyria’s lover The great poet Robert Browning, who created the poems My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s lover, had an interesting taste for speakers of his poems. He seems to be fond of violent, sexual and eccentric people to narrate his intriguing poems. In his poem Porphyira’s Lover, a dramatic monologue, a man in a cottage talks of a woman who brings cheer to

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    Submitted: May 31, 2010 By: Vika
  • Comparing the Contrasting

    Comparing the Contrasting

    Comparing the Contrasting Written two centuries apart, “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne and “Where Are You Going; Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates are two seemingly different stories. However, if looked at closely, several elements can be tied together. Each story has a similar point of view, but the story is told from two different perspectives. Several themes are unique to the stories, but deep within similarities can be found. The authors

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    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Jack
  • Comparing the Contrasting

    Comparing the Contrasting

    Comparing the Contrasting Written two centuries apart, “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne and “Where Are You Going; Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates are two seemingly different stories. However, if looked at closely, several elements can be tied together. Each story has a similar point of view, but the story is told from two different perspectives. Several themes are unique to the stories, but deep within similarities can be found. The authors

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    Submitted: March 6, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Comparing the Handmaids Tale and 1984

    Comparing the Handmaids Tale and 1984

    War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength. The party slogan of Ingsoc illustrates the sense of contradiction which characterizes the novel 1984. That the book was taken by many as a condemnation of socialism would have troubled Orwell greatly, had he lived to see the aftermath of his work. 1984 was a warning against totalitarianism and state sponsored brutality driven by excess technology. Socialist idealism in 1984 had turned to a total loss

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    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: Anna
  • Comparing the Old Man and the Sea and the Bluest Eye

    Comparing the Old Man and the Sea and the Bluest Eye

    Perseverance has been an issue for many people for as long as anyone could remember. “If at first you don’t succeed, give up, there’s no use in being a damned fool about it”, this modern twist on the old adage seems to convey the attitude of most people in this day and age. However there are a few people that decide to go all the way with it; people that decide defeat is not an

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    Submitted: February 20, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Comparing the Priest and Mrs. Ryan

    Comparing the Priest and Mrs. Ryan

    In the short story “First Confession,” writer Frank O'Connor uses two characters to illustrate different approaches to instilling a belief in a person. While each approach, as used by Mrs. Ryan first, then by the priest, has its merits and can be effective to a certain extent, it can be shown that one way can produce the same result with less grievance to the pupil. This essay will highlight the differences in the blueprint that

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Mike
  • Comparing the Rights of Women from Essays Through the Eras

    Comparing the Rights of Women from Essays Through the Eras

    Society has long since recognized the concept of men being superior to women, both in the aspects of physical strength and the ability to earn living for their family. It was a natural concept that based and formed the modern society: strong versus weak, superior versus inferior, non-marginalized versus marginalized. In earlier time, this concept materialized itself in the battle of the sexes, or what we knew as men versus women. Naturally, the existence of

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    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Steve
  • Comparing the Two Poems: When We Two Parted and La Belle Dame Sans Mer

    Comparing the Two Poems: When We Two Parted and La Belle Dame Sans Mer

    GCSE English coursework: comparison of poems. There are many similarities and differences between the two poems: “When We Two Parted”, written by Lord Bryon, and “La Belle Dames Sans Merci”, written by John Keats. I shall be exploring these poems and seeing connections and differences between them, so that I am able to compare them. The storyline of both poems is based around love, and so they are similar in that respect, however I think

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    Submitted: April 2, 2010 By: regina
  • Comparing the Unlikely

    Comparing the Unlikely

    In the poem, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” the narrator, Prufrock, has similarities to and can be most closely compared to the character Gatsby, from “The Great Gatsby.” The main reason is that, though their fates are different, they have similar personalities centering around the phrase, “Do I dare?” They also have built up lives around the masks they wear. They are both characters that are in love with a person that they

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    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: Top
  • Comparing Those Winter Sundays to My Papa’s Waltz

    Comparing Those Winter Sundays to My Papa’s Waltz

    Battered Memories: Child and Father Relationships In “Those Winter Sundays” and “My Papa’s Waltz” “Sundays too my father got up early and / And put his clothes on in the blueback cold” comes from Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays” and describes the life of the speaker who reminisces of the childhood experiences that were spent with the speaker’s father (1-2). “At every step you missed / My right ear scraped a buckle” comes from

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    Submitted: March 14, 2010 By: David
  • Comparing Two Poems

    Comparing Two Poems

    Comparing Two Poems The comparison between two poems are best analyzed through the form and meaning of the pieces. “Mother to Son” and “Harlem (A Dream Deferred)” both written by the profound poet Langston Hughes, depicts many similarities and differences between the poems. Between these two poems the reader can identify his flow of writing through analyzing the form and meaning of each line. Form and meaning are what readers need to analyze to

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    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Victor
  • Comparing Two Poems

    Comparing Two Poems

    For this assignment I have decided to work on two poems. The first one being ‘There is a garden in her face by Thomas Campion and the second ‘She walks in beauty’ by George Gordon and Lord Byron. I will be deconstructing both poems and commenting on them with reference to the techniques used by the author when writing them. The first poem by Campion has a Sesta Rima form, meaning a six line stanza

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: July
  • Comparing Two Poems

    Comparing Two Poems

    Comparing Two Poems The comparison between two poems are best analyzed through the form and meaning of the pieces. “Mother to Son” and “Harlem (A Dream Deferred)” both written by the profound poet Langston Hughes, depicts many similarities and differences between the poems. Between these two poems the reader can identify his flow of writing through analyzing the form and meaning of each line. Form and meaning are what readers need to analyze to

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    Submitted: March 8, 2010 By: Mike
  • Comparing Two Poems

    Comparing Two Poems

    For this assignment I have decided to work on two poems. The first one being ‘There is a garden in her face by Thomas Campion and the second ‘She walks in beauty’ by George Gordon and Lord Byron. I will be deconstructing both poems and commenting on them with reference to the techniques used by the author when writing them. The first poem by Campion has a Sesta Rima form, meaning a six line stanza

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    Submitted: March 11, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Comparing Why, Honey? and Shopping for one

    Comparing Why, Honey? and Shopping for one

    Although the teacher is primarily concerned with teaching rather than testing, classroom tests play three important roles in the second-language program: they define course objectives, they stimulate student progress, and they evaluate class achievement. Students, particularly older ones, are quick to observe the types of tests given and to study accordingly. Thus, much as the teacher may emphasize oral fluency in the classroom, if all the tests are written tests the students will soon concentrate

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    Essay Length: 1,120 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Comparing Why, Honey? and Shopping for one

    Comparing Why, Honey? and Shopping for one

    Comparing Why, Honey? and Shopping for One This essay will be based on the two short stories; Shopping for One by Anne Cassidy, and Why,Honey? by Raymond Carver. I will compare and contrast the two short stories. This essay will show that Why,Honey? is the better short story because it is interesting, mysterious and exciting. The short story, Shopping for One, is written in the third person. It is based on a single woman who

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    Submitted: March 9, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Comparision Between "the Fog" by Carll Sandburg and "the Sick Rose" by William Blake

    Comparision Between "the Fog" by Carll Sandburg and "the Sick Rose" by William Blake

    The poems “Fog” by Carl Sandburg and the “The Sick Rose” by William Blake have many similarities and differences. Both the poems use animals and bad weather in their content. “Fog” uses a cat and the fog while in the “The Sick Rose” there is a worm and a storm. The poets use the bad weather to create a sense of unhappiness to the reader as the bad weather stops normal events from happening. For

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Comparison & Contrast Essay

    Comparison & Contrast Essay

    Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story both have a lot in common as well as major differences that set them apart. Although West Side Story is a direct rendition of Shakespeare's original play, many of the themes and symbols are altered to fit the modern perspective. The characters have a direct correlation to each other, yet racial issues give them a new light. Many of the events also reflect each other, yet small

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    Submitted: April 19, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Comparison and Contrast

    Comparison and Contrast

    Christine Ledson October 23, 2005 Comparison and Contrast I grew up in Brooklyn New York. Believe it or not, in the Seventies and Eighties, Brooklyn was a great place to be a youngster. I have so many wonderful childhood memories. I can still remember them as if they happened in the not so distant past. Of course, there is a good and bad side of everything, and growing up in a big city, like Brooklyn

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    Essay Length: 827 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Jon
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