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  • William Faulker's a Rose for Emily

    William Faulker's a Rose for Emily

    William Faulker's " A Rose for Emily" tells the story of a young woman who is violated by her father's strict mentality. After being the only man in her life Emily's father dies and she finds it hard to let go. Emily was raised in the ante-bellum period before the Civil War. This story takes place in the Reconstruction Era after the war when the North takes control of the South. Like her father, Miss

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    Essay Length: 1,296 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 26, 2010 By: Jack
  • Rose for Emily - William Faulkner

    Rose for Emily - William Faulkner

    In "A Rose for Emily", William Faulkner tells a story about a young women who is overwhelmingly influenced by her father. Her father controls her live and makes all of her decisions for her. Without him she could not do anything except stay at home. When her father dies, Emily has to confront a new life without her sponsor. Since she is not able to function without the presence of her father, it is hard

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    Essay Length: 657 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 28, 2010 By: David
  • Stephen William Hawking

    Stephen William Hawking

    Stephen William Hawking was born on 8 January in Oxford, England. His parents' house was in north London, but during the second world war Oxford was considered a safer place to have babies. When he was eight, his family moved to St Albans, a town about 20 miles north of London. At eleven Stephen went to St Albans School, and then on to University College, Oxford, his father's old college. Stephen wanted to do Mathematics,

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    Essay Length: 525 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 28, 2010 By: Fatih
  • William Faulkner

    William Faulkner

    William Faulkner William Faulkner has been one of the most prolific and influential writers of the twentieth century. He is remembered as both a gentlemanly southern eccentric and an arrogant, snobbish alcoholic. But perhaps the best way to describe Faulkner is to describe his heritage. Like so many of his literary characters, Faulkner was profoundly affected by his family. William Faulkner is viewed by many as America's greatest writer of prose fiction. He was born

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    Essay Length: 2,711 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: January 30, 2010 By: Mike
  • William Blake’s Poem London

    William Blake’s Poem London

    There can be little doubt that William Blake’s poem ‘London’ demonstrates the weakness and frailty of human nature, and the disregard the individual (or institution) has for his fellow man. Blake’s character wanders through the streets of London observing the actions occurring therein, revealing to us the dark disposition of humanity. Each verse repeats and echoes this idea with symbology, rhythm, and illustration. The opening stanza clearly shows mans pre-occupation with all things economic and

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    Essay Length: 1,023 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: February 4, 2010 By: Yan
  • A Tale of William Burke and William Hare

    A Tale of William Burke and William Hare

    I would like to take you back in time , to the 19th Century, around 1827, to Edinburgh, a small town off the out skirts of Scottland. Where a man named William Burke and William Hare became fellow partners and began and odd and grusome killing spree that shocked Scottland and many other surrounding areas. Some say they were known as the “The Graverobbers”, but it wasent actually proven if they had actually robbed any

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    Essay Length: 1,016 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: February 6, 2010 By: Mike
  • William McKinley

    William McKinley

    William McKinley William McKinley (1843 - 1901) was the twenty-fifth president of the United States of America. His Administration was considered one of the great powers of the world. It was the beginning of vast changes in ways of living and attitudes in America. McKinley’s parents were William and Nancy Allison McKinley. He had eight brothers and sisters of which he was the seventh child. Both parents were of Scots-Irish decent. He was born

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    Essay Length: 587 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 8, 2010 By: Victor
  • William Shakespeare's Macbeth

    William Shakespeare's Macbeth

    William Shakespeare’s Macbeth In what you are about to read is a detailed description of every scene and every act of Macbeth. Act I: The play begins upon a heath. Thunder and lighting rake the air. Three Witches ask themselves when they shall next meet, deciding that it will be "When the hurlyburly's done, / When the battle's lost and won". This will be later in the day at "the set of sun" upon a

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    Essay Length: 9,726 Words / 39 Pages
    Submitted: February 10, 2010 By: Mike
  • Exploring Sexuality with William Shakespeare

    Exploring Sexuality with William Shakespeare

    The presence of homoerotic references in the works of William Shakespeare was a direct result of the Elizabethan attitude towards sex during the English Renaissance. Within the privacy of the sonnets, Shakespeare could effusively express a passion that the Elizabethan Era, with its social mores, stifled greatly as it frowned upon homosexuality. Given the freedom to express himself uninhibitedly, Shakespeare cast aside the homophobia of his age and inscribed love sonnets for another male,

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    Essay Length: 1,521 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: February 10, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Research Paper on Clarence Williams

    Research Paper on Clarence Williams

    Clarence Williams was both an artist and an entrepreneur. Highly energetic and adept at all sides of the music business from writing, publishing, and performing to managing other artists, he worked with the most famous early female blues singer, Bessie Smith. The songs he wrote were popular across the United States; some of his compositions in the Dixieland style have become classics. Williams was born on the outskirts of New Orleans, in Plaquemine, Louisiana, on

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    Essay Length: 1,323 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: February 11, 2010 By: Fatih
  • King Lear by William Shakespeare

    King Lear by William Shakespeare

    King Lear, by William Shakespeare, is a tragic tale of filial conflict, personal transformation, and loss. The story revolves around the King who foolishly alienates his only truly devoted daughter and realizes too late the true nature of his other two daughters. A major subplot involves the illegitimate son of Gloucester, Edmund, who plans to discredit his brother Edgar and betray his father. With these and other major characters in the play, Shakespeare clearly asserts

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    Essay Length: 1,237 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: Tasha
  • William Wordsworth

    William Wordsworth

    Prologue William Wordsworth is possibly the greatest Romantic poet to ever live. In his writings, his use of vivid descriptions, symbolism, and imagery are unmatched by any author past or present. Reading the poetry of Wordsworth is a unique experience that is both intellectual and enjoyable. His style of writing and themes captivate the reader and make him/her feel that they are experiencing the sights and sounds described in the poem. Throughout this report, I

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    Essay Length: 7,545 Words / 31 Pages
    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: Mike
  • The Nomination of William Rehnquist to the Supreme Court and the Power of a Supreme Court Chief Justice

    The Nomination of William Rehnquist to the Supreme Court and the Power of a Supreme Court Chief Justice

    Established in Article III of the United States constitution, The U.S. Supreme Court is the only federal branch that is comprised of non-elected members. Justices are appointed by the President with the advice and consent of Congress. The court adjudicates cases that arise through U.S. Constitutional issues (as opposed to state issues), U.S. laws and treaties, interstate cases and cases where a state itself or the U.S. is a party in the case. The Supreme

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    Essay Length: 978 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: Yan
  • Joni Mitchell and William Wordsworth

    Joni Mitchell and William Wordsworth

    Romantic poet, William Wordsworth, and Folk singer-songwriter, Joni Mitchell, both comment about their respective “worlds” and the way these worlds have been perceived or treated. Although both artists are from a different time in history, their work somehow cast off the anchors of their own eras with material that continually remains relevant through generations of listeners and readers. Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi” and William Wordsworth’s “The World is too Much With Us” are perfect examples.

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • A Path to Immortality: William Butler Yeats Sailing to Byzantium

    A Path to Immortality: William Butler Yeats Sailing to Byzantium

    English 202 1/29/06 A Path to Immortality: William Butler Yeats Sailing To Byzantium Yeats takes the reader through a world of natural order and death, and then plays into his journey of becoming an “artifice of eternity.” Ponder through this poem to stimulate your imagination into a paradise. The poem portrays Yeats wish to become something more than just a man. Instead of being forgotten and passed by, Yeats describes with rich images his becoming

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    Essay Length: 766 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 15, 2010 By: David
  • Point of View Analysis of “a Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner

    Point of View Analysis of “a Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner

    In “A Rose for Emily” Faulkner begins the story with the death of Miss Emily Grierson, giving the reader the first glimpse into the main character of the story. In “A Rose for Emily” Faulkner creates an objective, yet complex point of view through the unknown narrator with his use of setting, events and characters to create a southern mood. By using an objective point of view an author turns the reader into a

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    Essay Length: 284 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 15, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Analysis of William Wordsworth

    Analysis of William Wordsworth

    William Wordsworth poem, Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey…July 13, 1798, is about a man returning, after fives years, to the beautiful scenery near the ruins of Tintern Abbey in Wales. He recalls how he once had such innocent views of nature when he was younger and how now that he had grown he’d lost such sight. Near the end of the poem the speaker mentions his sister, Dorothy, only to make himself

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    Essay Length: 1,280 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: February 17, 2010 By: Monika
  • The Analysis on Thanatopsis by William C. Bryan

    The Analysis on Thanatopsis by William C. Bryan

    What do people think when they read about Thanatopsis? Shall people be afraid of death? No is the best answer to respond to this question, especially, when death is predestined; therefore, people shall be ready when they are facing the actual “death”. Usually, their fears of facing the actual death are caused by their own negative perspective, when they have to define and understand about death itself. Death is really connecting to the word Thanatopsis

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    Essay Length: 788 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 18, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Diary of Abigail Williams

    Diary of Abigail Williams

    Dear Diary, Well, he used it. You remember the thing I told you about, how there was no way that John would tell the court about our affair to save his wife? Well he did, and I almost did a backflip. I didn’t know what I would do, so I did what I had to. I lied to the court with a blank face, and denied the accusation with everything I had. I became indignant

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    Essay Length: 316 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 18, 2010 By: Steve
  • William Shakespear

    William Shakespear

    William Shakespeare was a great English playwright, dramatist and poet who lived during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest playwright of all time. No other writer's plays have been produced so many times or read so widely in so many countries as his. Shakespeare was born to middle class parents. His father, John, was a Stratford businessman. He was a glove maker who owned a leather shop.

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    Essay Length: 311 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 18, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

    Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

    Throughout Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, there is an overlaying presence of the typical roles that men and women were supposed to play. During Elizabethan times there was a major difference between the way men and women were supposed to act. Men typically were supposed to be masculine and powerful, and defend the honor. Women, on the other hand, were supposed to be subservient to their men in their lives and do as

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    Essay Length: 579 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 19, 2010 By: David
  • Huey Long in the View of Harry Williams

    Huey Long in the View of Harry Williams

    Huey Long in the View of Harry Williams In the Pulitzer Prize-winning book entitled Huey Long by T. Harry Williams, the reader is given an interesting perspective into perhaps the most controversial American politician of the 20th century. The book is lengthy and wordy, but still a very easy read and very informative. For a larger than life kind of guy like Huey Long, a man that cannot be confined to just pages in a

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    Essay Length: 1,667 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: February 19, 2010 By: Janna
  • William Wordsworth - the World Is Too Much with Us

    William Wordsworth - the World Is Too Much with Us

    William Wordsworth's "The World is Too Much With Us" is a Romantic Sonnet that can be broken into two parts. The speaker tells us in the first part that we have lost our connection with nature, and that that connection was one of our most important relationships. The speaker the goes on to tell us that that he is willing to sacrifice everything to recover this relationship, and begins on line 9. In romantic poems,

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    Essay Length: 1,500 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Vika
  • A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

    A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

    Reading Response: “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner The narrator must have been someone that at one time or another lived in that same town as Miss Emily Grierson. The first indication was the very fact that the narrator said, “ our town went to her funeral.” Throughout the story the narrator seem to use the term “we” referring not only to himself but also the town people. Notice that I said himself.

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    Essay Length: 547 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

    Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

    In the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare there are two forces at work fate and freewill and throughout the play they are both fighting for control over man. Fate was shown in the many prophecies and omens that the characters viewed throughout the entire play. Free will as defined in the play is the ability to overcome fate. Although in the end all three of the characters succumbed to their fate, Shakespeare shows again

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    Essay Length: 841 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 23, 2010 By: Mike

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