A Study of the Heroines in A Novel by Willa Cather
Willa Cather's early novel about the West- O Pioneers! (1913). Cather found her most memorable symbols of the heroic and creative spirit of the frontie in women who were immigrants or daughters of immigrants. An exmaniation of the women protagonists in these novels- Alexandra Bergson in O Pioneers!....
Comparative Analysis of Poems -Factory Jungle, The Rope and The Song of the Factory Worker
Comparative Analysis
Poetry can take abstract words and show us clearly what it means. Poetry also gives awareness of a writer's experience, which is expressed through meaning, sound, and rhythm as to induce a person's emotional response. This dissertation shall identify three selected poems, wh....
My Antonia
1. Jim Burden, a successful New York City lawyer, leaves an acquaintance a memoir of his Nebraska childhood in the form of a recollection of their mutual friend, Antonia Shimerda. Jim had first arrived in Nebraska at the age of ten, when he was made the trip west to live with his grandparents after ....
Should we still read the Song of Roland today based on the values it presents?
Feudal Values and the Song of Roland
The Song of Roland, written by an unknown poet around the beginning of the Crusades, is an epic whose plot focuses primarily on the battle between the rearguard of Charlemagnes French army and the Saracen Spanish army of King Marsile of Saragossa. Roland,....
Symbolisms of Perfumes based on the books Handmaids Tale and Perfume
Symbolism, the use of visual imagery to represent a message or concept (A Glossary of Terms), has a key function and is respectively portrayed in the two novels entitled: Perfume, written by Patrick Süskind, and The Handmaid's Tale, written by Margaret Atwood. In both of these novels, the autho....
The Song of China and The Family (films)
Eric Pinckney
Song of China and The Family
HIST 364, Fall 2006
October 2, 2006
The Song of China and The Family are two films that each represent different eras of Chinese culture and show the views, ideologies and traditions of modern China. These mo....
Wisdom In Norse Mythology
In the Norse tales, wisdom is a commodity. It can be passed from one person to another, or gained by eating the heart of a mystical beast, or drinking from an enchanted well. To these people, wisdom was something tangible, and very valuable. Today, we might refer to this kind of wisdom as knowledge....