Compares authors C.S. Lewis and Charles Dickens. Examines the works and lives of both men. Promotes Lewis as the better of the two based on his works and personal history.

Essay shows qualities in the characters of good and bad leaders and compares them to the ones in "Lord of the Flies."

Buck's life and experiences differ in Southland from Northland. Of course this is due to the differences themselves between the two locales.

Compares the short story "Killings," by Andre Dubus to the movie "In the Bedroom." Considers the possibility of morally just murder. Compares the main characters of the works and explores how their decision to take another's life affects themselves and other characters.

Comparison of "To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time" by Robert Herrick and "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell.

Essay provides a comparison between "Song", "To the Virgins", and "Make Much of Time."

Brutus and Cassius differ in personality and in leadership, but are alike in handling crisis throughout Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare. Yet, they have an enduring friendship that withstands every test faced without breaking. Fittingly, the two men express this bond as they bid a final farewell at the beginning of the last battle in act five

The 2001 film "Cast Away" is appropriated from Daniel Defoe's classic novel, "Robinson Crusoe." The journeys the main character in each work takes is different, forced isolation versus chosen, but have similar themes. Also, an analysis of the filmmaking and symbolism of "Cast Away."

This essay contains an analysis and comparison of the orginal ending and broadway ending in the play "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." It includes the affect the two endings had on the audience and the significant changes in the two acts.

Compares the novel, "Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger, with the poem, "At Woodward's Gardens" by Robert Frost. Discusses the common idea of how to live your life. Also describes how the literary elements of characterization and conflict are used in both the novel and the poem.

The essay is about the techniques the author/director used to depict popular adolescent's culture in the book, "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger and the movie "Ferris Buller's Day Off."

the following is a compare and contrast essay between the novels "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain and "Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger.

Censorship within novels, movies, and music. These include Edith Hamilton's Mythology, Harry Potter, the Bible, and the Odyssey.

This essay links "Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare, "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens, and "Tess of the d'Ubervilles" by Thomas Hardy through the topics of chance, coincidence, and fate.

Essay discusses the aspect of change in the novels "1776" by Peter Stone and "In Separate but Equal" by George Stevens Jr.

Compares the novels A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry, The Village by the Sea, by Anita Desai and Anna and the King, 2000 version (Film). Examines each body of work for the themes of change and adaptation. Reveals how each author uses repetition to reinforce those themes.

Discusses the relevance of change in relation to "Looking for Alibrandi" by Marlina Marchetta and "Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver.

A comparison of "Looking for Alibrandi" and "Amelie" and an analysis of the theme of change within them.

Essay discusses the issue of changing perspectives and how this is accomplished in the poetry of Peter Skrzynecki and Hannah Robert.

Discusses changing perspectives in literature. Describes how we regard and analyze situations places their significance in context. Evaluates the perspective in a number of literary pieces.

How composers of text represent change. Includes the poems "In the park", "Father and child" and "prize giving" by Gwen Harwood. Also includes analysis on the movie "My fair Lady" - directed by George Cukor, the stimulis text 5 - fractals from the board of studies HSC booklet and the narrative of "Adam and Eve" from the book of Genesis.

Compares and contrasts the characters of Uncle John from the novel "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck and Rev. Dimmesdale from the novel "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

The 19th-century author Ralph Waldo Emerson and the 20th-century author Richard Wright differ greatly in their personal lives, their literary lives, and their literary selections and styles. They came from different places (Emerson from New England, Wright from the South), read different kinds of books, and wrote about different issues.

Essay provides a character comparison of Mathilde Loisel from "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst and Doodle's brother from "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant.

Compares the film version of The Scarlet Letter to the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It illustrates the fact that the film negates Hawthorne's intent in the novel.

Everyone has at least has one flaw in their life; nothing is perfect or else everything would move in peace and harmony. A comparison of three literary characters -- Janie in Their Eyes Were Watching God, Jake Barnes and Brett Ashley in The Sun Also Rises, and Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan in the Great Gatsby -- reveals their various flaws and how those flaws impacted their actions and their ability to find happiness with their respective companions.

Romeo's love and devotion is that of William Shakespeare's and Ann Hathaway's love. William Shakespeare's immense power in poetry brings upon his fickleness as Romeo. While Ann Hathaway was sitting in Stanford William was out having affair with the Black lady.

Essay discusses the characteristics of great heroes.

Compares the characterization of Esther Greenwood in The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath to that in As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner. Examines how each author attempts to connect the reader to the characters. Contrasts the technique each uses to accomplish that.

The theme of childhood in three novels: "The Lord Of the Flies" by William Golding, "Ellen Foster" by Kaye Gibbons, and "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison.

Examines if writer Kate Chopin and her characters Mrs. Mallard (Story of an Hour) and Calixta (The Storm) are feminists and liberated women. Provides biographical detail on Chopin.

Examines the Eumenides and Agamemnon of The Oresteia trilogy, by Aeschylus. Describes how Aeschylus constructs an over-arching metaphor for elements of the new Athenian democracy.

Analyzes the book and theatrical production of Chronicle of a Death Foretold, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Discusses the differences between the two forms. Reveals how the addition of lighting and sound effects added to the mood of the story.

Compares the Walt Disney film Cinderella to the Anne Sexton poem, Cinderella. Describes how the poem differs greatly from the fairy tale. Provides biographical detail on Sexton's life.

Essay comparing different versions of Cinderella.

the story of Cinderella is so appealing that several different versions of the fairy tale have since appeared in various cultures, from the Native American version, "The Rough-Faced-Girl", to a Vietnamese version, "Tam and Cam." The different versions may be based on very distinct beliefs, but they all have one thing in common, that being that they all engage in the moral imagination that good always overcomes evil. That being said, each story still emphasizes on different aspects of spirituality, magic, miracles, and outcomes.

It compares the classic "Cyrano de Bergerac" by Rostand and the movie "Roxanne" with Steve Martin. It also compares each to another piece of literature, "Cinderella" and "The Little Prince."

Uses textual support from Geoffrey Chaucer's, The Canterbury Tales, to dispute or support Mark Twain's idea that a classic is a piece of literature that nobody reads.

In The Adventures of Hucklebury Finn by Mark Twain and Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton, coincidence and chance serve as recurring themes that create spurious atmospheres in the stories presented. The continuous manifestations of dubious possibilities in both novels make the tales less believable.

An examination of didactic elements of the journey in Coleridge's "This Lime Tree Bower, My Prison" and Grahame's "The Wind in the Willows." Both stories invite the reader to take an imaginative journey, in the hope of sharing the same discoveries they experienced about the world in which we live and about ourselves.

Collective responsbility, taking responsbility for an individual wrong, is a key theme in three works: "The Murder They Heard," "The Hangman," and "The Milgram Experiment."

The 19th century novel "Emma" by Jane Austen and the 1990s film "Clueless" reflect the values of a specific social environment in time. These environments are worlds apart, but the values and human qualities are the same.

Common themes found in three works of literature: "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, "Sometimes My Body Leaves Me" by Lorna Crozier, and "Holy Sonnet 10" by John Donne. The themes are misery, love's ability to overcome hardship, and justice and injustice.

Discusses two film versions of Romeo and Juliet. Although they are very different, both stick to Shakespeare's script, and they are both perfectly adapted to the generation that they belong to.

Essay provides an analysis of "The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision" by Henry Kamen and "Trent 1475: Stories of A Ritual Murder Trial" by R. Po-Chia Hsia. This essay compares and contrasts the methods of historical analysis in both books.

Focuses on issues of poverty in Toni Cade Bambara's "The Lesson" and William Faulkner's "Barn Burning".

Provides a comparative commentary between two texts, a poem written by Erlene Stetson, and a speech by Martin Luther King. Analyzes the theme of equality in each text. Discusses the use of religion in both texts.

The two novels Brave New World and 1984 are both good examples of complete government control but when comparing the two it is evident that the governments have different views on the control of sex and morality. Both novels Brave New World and 1984 are good examples of different beliefs when it comes to being in complete control.

This is a comparative essay linking the two short stories "No Witchcraft for Sale" and "Once Upon a Time" and tracing the similar themes within each of them.

A comparative essay, comparing two short stories; "The Painted Door" and "A Trip for Mrs. Taylor." Both of these short stories are from "The Best Canadian Short Stories Book."