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| American Literature,
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| LIT. CRITICISM
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| Lord of the Flies,
The Catcher in the Rye,
Life of Pie,
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Macbeth,
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Balance of Power: Oppression Versus Dominance
Essay Grade: 86% (1,720 words, approx. 6 pages)
Provides a comparison between the Shakespeare play The Tempest and the Disney movie "Pocahontas." Explores how both works of literature incorporate a recurring theme of oppression and dominance.
Battle of the Sexes
Essay Grade: 83% (1,142 words, approx. 4 pages)
The display of human emotions is an everyday occurrence. These emotions range from happiness to sorrow, love to hate, aversion to desire, all of which are revealed in the two short dialogues from Much Ado About Nothing and The Taming of the Shrew. Shakespeare has managed to convey his views on the position of women and men in society. Both these scenes center on the wooing of women, and how the whole ordeal affects them.
Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo and Juliet"
Essay Grade: 92% (994 words, approx. 3 pages)
Essay discusses how successful Baz Luhrmann's film is as an appropriation of William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet."
Bede Versus Beowulf
Essay Grade: 81% (379 words, approx. 1 pages)
Analyzes the epic poem Beowulf. Compares the characters of Beowulf and Bede. Examines how each character's religious belief influenced his behavior.
Beloved - Huck Finn comparison
Essay Grade: 92% (655 words, approx. 2 pages)
Mark Twain himself was strongly against slavery; Huckleberry Finn can in many ways be seen as a symbol for why slavery is wrong.
Beowulf and Knights
Essay Grade: 86% (386 words, approx. 1 pages)
Discusses the ancient epic poem, Beowulf. Explores the character of Beowulf as an epic hero. Compares Beowulf to the knights of the Round Table from Arthurian legend.
Beowulf and Healthcliff: Two Different Types of Heroes
Essay Grade: 83% (0 words, approx. 0 pages)
The character of Heathcliff from Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" can be considered a hero, even though he doesn't display any of the chracteristics of a classic definition of a hero. These traditional traits can be seen in "Beowulf," the Old English epic about a great Scandinavian warrior.
Beowulf vs. Yossarian
Essay Grade: 95% (929 words, approx. 3 pages)
What makes a hero? Compare and contrast the hero archetype of Beowulf and the post-modern contemporary hero of Yossarian in Heller's Catch-22.
Black Boy and of Mice and Men
Essay Grade: 88% (1,169 words, approx. 4 pages)
Compares the Richard Wright novel, Black Boy, with the John Steinbeck novel, Of Mice and Men. Describes how each text deals with expressing the theme of the American Dream.
Blade Runner/Brave New World
Essay Grade: 85% (1,264 words, approx. 4 pages)
Discusses the inter-texuality between the film, Blade Runner, and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. The essay question is "The experience of the wild exposes and educates." How well is this statement supported by your prescribed texts?
Bladerunner and Brave New World: A Comparison
Essay Grade: 86% (1,536 words, approx. 5 pages)
Compares the Aldous Huxley novel, Brave New World and the Ridley Scott film, Bladerunner. Discusses the main theme in both works, that the survival of humanity is dependent upon its contact with the natural world.
Blair Vs. Hearst
Essay Grade: 88% (368 words, approx. 1 pages)
My essay is about Jayson Blair and William Randolph Hearst. It is a comparison dealing with how Hearst was a much better writer than Blair.
Blake Comparison
Essay Grade: 86% (1,234 words, approx. 4 pages)
Comparison essay between Blake's "The Shepherd" and "The Garden of Love."
Blanket of Influence
Essay Grade: 96% (3,277 words, approx. 11 pages)
Essay provides a comparision between John Irving's "A Prayer for Owen Meany," Frank McCourt's "Angela's Ashes," and Mahmoud Darwish's "Identity Card."
Bless Me, Ultima
Essay Grade: 93% (1,868 words, approx. 6 pages)
Bless Me, Ultima the novel by Rudolfo Anaya, and the role the major character's mother played.
Blind Obedience in the Lottery and the Wave
Essay Grade: 83% (771 words, approx. 3 pages)
Compares the short stories, The Lottery by Shirley Jackson and the short video, The Wave. Considers the common theme of blind obedience in each work.
Blocked Paths
Essay Grade: 96% (795 words, approx. 3 pages)
The analysis of how Esther Greenwood, Edmond Dantes, and Yossarian when trapped, can't escape because something prevents them from escaping.
Blue Heron
Essay Grade: 92% (777 words, approx. 3 pages)
In both "Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier and "A Poem for the Blue Heron" by Mary Oliver, tone is established through means of organization, metaphoric language, and diction. The different ways in which each author uses literary language and devices enable us to distinguish the tone of one work from the other.
Brady Vs. Barry: A Comparison of Two Authors
Essay Grade: 83% (877 words, approx. 3 pages)
Analyzes two essays, "I Want a Wife" by Brady, and "From Now On, Let Women Kill Their Own Spiders" by Barry. Describes how they can be compared and contrasted through their audience, humor, and purpose.
Brave New World and "Blade Runner": Man vs. Nature
Essay Grade: 86% (0 words, approx. 0 pages)
Ridley Scott's film "Blade Runner" and Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World warn of the detrimental human desire to control the natural world and its rhythms through unbridled scientific development. Both stories portray a wedge that divorces humans from their relationship with nature in order to define what it means to be "human." And both depict chilling dystopic futures in which materialistic, scientific, and economic ways of thinking have been allowed to quash humanistic, religious, and philosophical ways of thinking in the name of progress.
Brave New World and 1984
Essay Grade: 83% (810 words, approx. 3 pages)
Compares and Contrasts George Orwell's 1984 to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Concentrates on similarities between characters and their motivations.
Brave New World and 1984: To Control Freedom
Essay Grade: 88% (1,178 words, approx. 4 pages)
Compares the dystopian novels 1984 by George Orwell and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Explores how individual freedom is controlled in both books.
Brave New World and Blade Runner
Essay Grade: 86% (1,632 words, approx. 5 pages)
Examines in what ways are Aldous Huxley and Ridley Scott critical of the way humans interact with their environment in "Brave New World" and "Blade Runner." Provides specific reference to the novel and the film. Describes how the film and novel focus on humans interacting with their environment.
Brave New World and Blade Runner
Essay Grade: 83% (1,306 words, approx. 4 pages)
Human relationships, and humanity's understanding of the wild, are shaped and reflected in Blade Runner, by Ridley Scott, and in Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) through their composers' use of the contrast between true nature and the wild.
Brave New World and Blade Runner - Perspectives
Essay Grade: 83% (1,939 words, approx. 7 pages)
There are many different perspectives between the futuristic world represented in Ridely Scott's, Blade Runner and Aldos Huxley's, Brave New World. Both texts illustrate the effect of human interference with natural processes and
environments in many different ways. Despite the fact of being conditioned humans and replicates still have a natural connection to the natural world as is evidently shown through the use of language features and film techniques in both texts. Therefore, the suppression of human's natural emotions and functions, ultimately result in the creation of emotions, thus shaping and reflecting the relationship and understanding of human's within the natural world. These ideas are shown through a range of Postmodernist, Feminist and Judao-Christian perspectives.
Brave New World and Blade Runner, a Comparison
Essay Grade: 92% (809 words, approx. 3 pages)
Compares the text, Brave New World by Adlous Huxley, and the film Blade Runner, starring Harrison Ford. Describes how each work explores the tensions between humanity and the natural world.
Brave New World and Blade Runner, a Comparison
Essay Grade: 88% (1,015 words, approx. 3 pages)
Compares Adous Huxley's novel Brave New World to Ridley Scott's film "Blade Runner." Explores the contrast between nature and technology. Explains how each work depicts that theme.
Brave New World and Blade Runner: A Comparison
Essay Grade: 88% (616 words, approx. 2 pages)
Compares and contrasts Aldous Huxley's novel, Brave New World and Ridley Scott's film, Blade Runner Director's Cut. share many ideas about humanity's relationship with the natural world, and are closely connected by the values they convey. Describes how both works raise questions concerning the value of life, both human and replicant. Also examines how in each text, natural processes and human emotions have been impacted on by technology.
Brave New World and Bladerunner
Essay Grade: 86% (1,165 words, approx. 4 pages)
This is a comparative study of the movies Brave New World and Blade Runner. It explores the pretext and textual integrity of the two texts.
Brave New World Versus Blade Runner
Essay Grade: 87% (1,469 words, approx. 5 pages)
Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, and Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott both explore futuristic dystopias. The composers use science fiction, film noir, satire and irony to depict futures which could develop from the issues relevant to their contexts of production. These contexts are integral to the ideas projected within these two texts. Despite being composed 50 years apart both texts deal with similar issues. In particular, they raise concerns about how humanity is valued, the question of what makes us human and explore tensions between humanity and the natural world.
Brave New World Vs. Blade Runner
Essay Grade: 96% (2,190 words, approx. 7 pages)
A comparative study of Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" and Ridley Scott's film "Blade Runner."
Brave New World: Insights Into the Originality of Mankind
Essay Grade: 86% (1,061 words, approx. 4 pages)
Discusses the importance of originality and the detrimental effects of conformity in the Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World, Eugene Ionesco's short story "Rhinoceros," and the film The Stepford Wives.
Breaking Away
Essay Grade: 81% (577 words, approx. 2 pages)
Lord of the Flies by George Orwell tries to show that the adolescentboys behave destructively to merge with their own kind and break away from adult regulations."Teenager are not trying to be like adults; they are trying to contrast themselves with adults." As P. Townsen states, adolescents are not ."..longing for the power and privilege of adulthood," on the contrary, they are actually doing all that is possible to become independent from the adult world.
Breaking Through
Essay Grade: 83% (1,853 words, approx. 6 pages)
In the novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God" written by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie the protagonist is seen by critics as having no voice. For all women silence knows no boundaries of race or culture, and Janie is no exception.
Brother Dear Vs. The Charmer
Essay Grade: 92% (1,353 words, approx. 5 pages)
The following is a comparative essay on "Brother Dear" and "The Charmer."
Byronic Heroes in A Hero of Our Time and The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Essay Grade: 86% (0 words, approx. 0 pages)
A comparison of two main characters, Pechorin in Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time and Ryuji Yukio Mishima's The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea. Both characters are Byronic heroes in that they lack the courage, benevolence, and humility of typical literary heroes; rather than help other characters in their respective novels, they instead create pain, sorrow, and even animosity.
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