EssaysForStudent.com - Free Essays, Term Papers & Book Notes
Search

Literature

Need to read some books on your subject? We might have an overview of them for you. Just use the search bar and find the material you need.

6,133 Essays on Literature. Documents 1,291 - 1,320

  • Compare and Contrast Two Poems - the Rain and Just Walking Around

    Compare and Contrast Two Poems - the Rain and Just Walking Around

    This essay shall compare and contrast two poems of these two poets: “The Rain” and “Just Walking Around.” Both of the poems utilize allusion which is “a casual reference in literature to a person, place, event, or another passage of literature, often without explicit identification”(web.cn). When authors use allusion, they assume that the readers will recognize the original sources and relate their meaning to the new context” to insinuate the connotations different from what

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 1,097 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 22, 2017 By: kellyshiallen
  • Compare and Contrast: Helvarg, Didion

    Compare and Contrast: Helvarg, Didion

    “Without sensory stimulation, we sink into a less-than-human state.” Helvarg and Didion are well versed in the art of descriptive writing. While both essays engage all five senses equally in the way that we, as readers, experience sights, sounds, smells, and taste as if uniquely a part of the story. I consider Helvarg’s essay, “A Storm This Time,” to be a casual analysis showing the consequences of human action (or possibly, inaction) in relation to

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 376 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Compare and Contrast: Macbeth & Lady Macbeth

    Compare and Contrast: Macbeth & Lady Macbeth

    Compare and Contrast: Macbeth & Lady Macbeth In the play Macbeth, ambition, strength, and insanity play major roles in how the characters Macbeth and Lady Macbeth behave and react. Both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth present all 3 of these behaviors at one time or another during the play. However, there behaviors progress in very different ways. While Macbeth gets stronger and more ambitious, Lady Macbeth does the opposite. She starts out strong and ambitious, but

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 882 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 7, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Compare Oedipus and Creon's Rule

    Compare Oedipus and Creon's Rule

    In the stories of Oedipus Rex and Antigone, there are many similarities between the rules of Thebes. Oedipus Rex is about a man who tries to escape his fate by running away from his supposed mother and father, just to end up fulfilling his destiny by killing his father and marrying his mother. Antigone is about a woman who has buried her brother against her king’s orders. Imprisoned in a cave as punishment, she proceeds

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 680 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Bred
  • Compare the Murder Mysteries of “a Lamb to a Slaughter” and the Speck

    Compare the Murder Mysteries of “a Lamb to a Slaughter” and the Speck

    Compare the murder mysteries of “A Lamb To A Slaughter” and “The Speckled Band”? Roald Dahl wrote Lamb to the slaughter in 1954, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote Speckled Band in 1892, that is around 62 yrs apart which would make the stories slightly different to each other because they were wrote in two different centuries. Roald Dahl was born in 1916 and died in 1990, Roald Dahl was most famous for writing children stories

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 1,417 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: February 23, 2010 By: Yan
  • Compare the Theoretical Internal Moment with the Measured Bending Moment for a Beam Under Various Loads

    Compare the Theoretical Internal Moment with the Measured Bending Moment for a Beam Under Various Loads

    Objective The objective of this experiment is to compare the theoretical internal moment with the measured bending moment for a beam under various loads. Introduction and Background Theory Definition of a Beam Members that are slender and support loadings that are applied perpendicular to their longitudinal axis are called beams. Beams are important structural and mechanical elements in engineering. Beams are in general, long straight bars having a constant cross-sectional area, often classified as to

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 2,559 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Bred
  • Compare Widow Douglas and Mrs. Watson

    Compare Widow Douglas and Mrs. Watson

    Compare Widow Douglas and Miss Watson In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain satirizes Pre-Civil War society through Widow Douglas and Miss Watson over their treatment of Huck. They are hypocritical, single, old women who attempt to educate Huck in the ways of the “sivilized” society and show him the benefits of religion. Ironically they are racist even though it contradicts their religious beliefs. Twain emphasizes these satirical points in his descriptions on there

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 775 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Victor
  • Compare/contrast Persimmons and Study of Two Pears

    Compare/contrast Persimmons and Study of Two Pears

    Compare, contrast and contextualize Wallace Stevens, “Study of Two Pears” and Li Young-Lee, “Persimmons”. Compare, contrast and contextualize Wallace Stevens, “Study of Two Pears” and Li Young-Lee, “Persimmons”. (1) Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on October 2, 1879, and became one the most accomplished poets of his era. His modernist ideology coincides with colleagues such as T.S. Elliot and Ezra Pound. In his life Stevens wrote many poems, collected in over ten major

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 1,249 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Comparig to Kill a Mocingbird and the Man Without a Face

    Comparig to Kill a Mocingbird and the Man Without a Face

    Courage is a valuable and rare attribute in people today. In Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, courage is shown by a reclusive character named Arthur "Boo" Radley. In Mel Gibson's movie, The Man Without a Face, courage is shown by Justin McLoud. Due to the noble actions of others, one can discover the true meaning of courage. In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Arthur Radley is a person who has not

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 475 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Comparing Childhood Love in Sense and Sensibility and Wuthering Heights

    Comparing Childhood Love in Sense and Sensibility and Wuthering Heights

    Childhood Love Love is an emotion that you are fortunate to experience sometime in your life. Love can make you very delighted but it can also make you do crazy things. It is almost like it takes control of your emotions and makes you irrational. This does not just go for adults, but children too. A child is just as capable of being in love. The novels Wuthering Heights and Sense and Sensibility proves the

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 2,539 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Comparing Childhood Love in Sense and Sensibility and Wuthering Heights

    Comparing Childhood Love in Sense and Sensibility and Wuthering Heights

    Childhood Love Love is an emotion that you are fortunate to experience sometime in your life. Love can make you very delighted but it can also make you do crazy things. It is almost like it takes control of your emotions and makes you irrational. This does not just go for adults, but children too. A child is just as capable of being in love. The novels Wuthering Heights and Sense and Sensibility proves the

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 2,539 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Comparing Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan

    Comparing Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan

    Comparing Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan The book “The Great Gatsby” is beautifully written with the intention of providing the reader a clear view of the wealthy (through the eyes of Nick Carraway) during the Roaring Twenties. Two characters that are very important to the story and eventually end the story are Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan. Though they have some similarities, their personalities, jobs, and lovers are very much different in the way they

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 694 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 11, 2010 By: Anna
  • Comparing the Setting of Barn Burning to a Rose for Emily

    Comparing the Setting of Barn Burning to a Rose for Emily

    Comparing the Setting of “Barn Burning” to that of “A Rose for Emily” William Faulkner has written some of the most unique novels and short stories of any author, and, to this day, his stories continue to be enjoyed by many. Both “Barn Burning” and “A Rose for Emily” tell about the life of southern people and their struggles with society, but Faulkner used the dramatic settings of these two stories to create a mood

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 1,329 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: February 2, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Comparing the Symbolism of the Houses in the Red Death and House of Usher

    Comparing the Symbolism of the Houses in the Red Death and House of Usher

    Comparing the Symbolism of the Houses in the Red Death and House of Usher Most stories have occurrences of symbolism. Symbols are used everyday in many different ways. For instance, the Bald Eagle is used to symbolize the determination and nobility of our United States of America. In both the Masque of the Red Death and the Fall of the House of Usher, the symbolic nature of the House plays an imperative role. The House

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 849 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 21, 2010 By: Jon
  • Comparision of Ted Hughes Hawk Roosting and William Wordsworth

    Comparision of Ted Hughes Hawk Roosting and William Wordsworth

    The poem "Hawk Roosting" written by Ted Hughes discusses the power and the superiority of a Hawk from the animal's own perspective. His writing in 1st person as a hawk compares and personifies the life of a human. In lines "I kill where I please because it is all mine" the hawk compares his own savage nature to the egoistic character of a human being. This is also seen in the lines when he

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 351 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 15, 2011 By: ashima
  • Comparison Between Adele Ratignolle and Mademoiselle Reisz

    Comparison Between Adele Ratignolle and Mademoiselle Reisz

    Comparison between Adele Ratignolle and Mademoiselle Reisz In order to help to get a point or idea across it is not uncommon to provide two stark contrasts to assist in conveying the point. Writers commonly use this technique in their writing especially when dealing with a story that concerns the evolution of a character. An example of such writing can be found in Kate Chopin's The Awakening. The novel deals with Edna Pontellier's "awakening" from

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 742 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Comparison Essay Hamlet - Macbeth

    Comparison Essay Hamlet - Macbeth

    Hamlet and Macbeth, two dying heroes In all the plays of Williams Shakespeare there is a hero, a main character who changes major things in the country, because they are close related to the royal house, which makes them noble. But did you recognize that these well meant deeds, almost always leads to the death. In this essay I will compare this strange characteristic of the Shakespeare plays Hamlet and Macbeth. First Hamlet. The father

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 686 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 16, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Comparison of Catch 22 and America: The Book

    Comparison of Catch 22 and America: The Book

    America is a work of non-fiction; though the information is presented in a comical manner, it is based on fact. On the other end of the spectrum, Catch-22 is a fictional piece that satires real events. While this might seem to make them different, it actually makes them extremely similar. Though America (The Book) and Catch-22 have many differences, there are certain similarities in theme and tone that can be used to link the two

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 2,998 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Top
  • Comparison of Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now

    Comparison of Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now

    Important Note: If you'd like to save a copy of the paper on your computer, you can COPY and PASTE it into your word processor. Please, follow these steps to do that in Windows: 1. Select the text of the paper with the mouse and press Ctrl+C. 2. Open your word processor and press Ctrl+V. Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, and Apocalypse Now, a movie by

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 2,366 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Mike
  • Comparison of Oedipus the King, Hamlet&#8221, Waiting for Godot

    Comparison of Oedipus the King, Hamlet&#8221, Waiting for Godot

    Some of the first forms of drama come from ancient Greece. “Oedipus the King” by Sophocles is a great example of ancient Greek tragedy, “Hamlet” by Shakespeare is the example of drama of Elizabethan period and Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot “ represents the drama of the 20th century and belongs to so called “Theatre of the Absurd”. Because all these dramas come from different period of time, it's natural that they differ from

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 1,020 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: February 18, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Comparison of the Great Gatsby Book and Movie

    Comparison of the Great Gatsby Book and Movie

    The book, The Great Gatsby, was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The book has a definite plot line, and the details are very well defined. Everything in the book fits together well. The movie on the other hand, has some continuity errors. The movie follows the same plot line as the book, but the movie leaves out some details and events that are in the book, and has details and events that didn’t occur in

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 445 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 3, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Comparison of the Sorrows of Young Werther and Slaughterhouse Five Regarding Madness

    Comparison of the Sorrows of Young Werther and Slaughterhouse Five Regarding Madness

    The word madness can be used to describe many different things; however, it is not a word with a definite and simple definition. The usual connotations that the word madness seems to convey, such as anger, delusion, and just plain crazy people, are used in ways that we separate ourselves from the “crazies” and makes us able to say: Wow! Look how crazy and stupid these people are on the Jerry Springer Show. The ability

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 1,769 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: David
  • Comparison of Two Short Stories: Mrs. Pulaska by Christopher Burns and My Good Fairy by Christopher Hope

    Comparison of Two Short Stories: Mrs. Pulaska by Christopher Burns and My Good Fairy by Christopher Hope

    Comparison of two short stories: Mrs. Pulaska by Christopher Burns and My Good Fairy by Christopher Hope Mrs. Pulaska and My Good Fairy are both stories in which a child describes a memory of a certain person. Both stories are written in the past tense “She had sought refuge among us” and “Nicomedus was a big giver”. Both stories are also written in the first person, so the viewpoint is the same. In Mrs. Pulaska

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 1,229 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Comparsen Between the Book and Movie Cujo

    Comparsen Between the Book and Movie Cujo

    Watching the movie is so much more interesting, and it grabs your imagination by the hand. There are not that many things that are different in the movie. In fact the movie describes what?s going on a little better than the book. Basically the book seems like an out line of the whole story and the book gets into details a little more. In the beginning of the book it talks about Tad going to

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 563 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 10, 2010 By: Max
  • Competitive Forces

    Competitive Forces

    Competitive Forces (Porter’s 5 Forces) Analysis of the competitive environment can be done utilising Michael Porter’s 5-forces model of UPS and FedEx. Porter’s theoretical framework allows us to determine the overall profitability and sustainability within the industry (Laudon & Laudon 2006, pg.99; Hubbard 2004, pg.211). We reckon that in this case, the competitive forces for both UPS and FedEx are very similar because they are both in the same industry. • Power of substitutes: Communications

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 567 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Anna
  • Competitve Analysis of the Pc Industry

    Competitve Analysis of the Pc Industry

    .0 Introduction The opening of the 21st century arrived with an economic limp. Dragging behind it a spirit squeezed by imploded exuberance, the economy led some to give up on change and growth. Companies cut new programs, pulled out of or shut down corporate ventures, retrenched and played it safe. Yet, simmering barely beneath the surface we can see powerful drivers of change and growth still at work, building pressure for the next upswing in

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 772 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Victor
  • Comprehensive Thinking Behind Langston Hughes

    Comprehensive Thinking Behind Langston Hughes

    Comprehensive thinking behind Langston Hughes Langston Hughes paint a picture of himself, as he goes on to thirteen in church but finds himself directly reflecting on mans own instinctive behavior for obedience. A congregation who wants him to go up and get saved, gives into obedience and goes to the altar as if he has seen the light of the Holy Spirit itself. “won’t you come? Wont you come to jesus? Young lambs, wont you

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 1,035 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: May 10, 2010 By: Mike
  • Computers

    Computers

    Vocabulary 1: 1. Strophe: Part of the ode that the chorus chants as it moves from right to left across the stage. 2. Parados: First ode, or choral song, in a Greek tragedy, chanted by the chorus as it enters the area in front of the stage. 3. Antistrophe: Part of the ode chanted as the chorus moves back across the stage from left to right. 4. Foils: Characters who have contrasting or opposite qualities.

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 602 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Victor
  • Computers Taking over Books Response to Anne Prolux

    Computers Taking over Books Response to Anne Prolux

    Visal Gallapaththi Ms. Gray ENG3U1 March 7th 2008 Flipping The Screen Half a century ago, people used books for everything related to education. In fact, the human’s best source of knowledge and education was the book. If you wanted to look up a recipe, you opened a book. If you wanted to learn how to fix the radio on your car you opened a book called the manual. If you wanted to know Black beard’s

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 1,023 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Mike
  • Conceited

    Conceited

    See this aint nuttin that you use to Out of the ordinary and usual You got to have the mind of state like I'm so great Can't nobody do it like you do Miraculous, phenomenal and aint nobody in here stopping you Show no love cus you whut's up Look at ya self in the mirror like what da fuck Damn I look good and cannot nobody freak it like I could Yea ok I

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 576 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 9, 2010 By: Mikki
Search
Advanced Search