The music of B.B. King Blues

Sinclair Lewis,"Babbit", a portrayal of George Babbit and American Life in the 1920's.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's Babylon Revisited

This essay discusses the parallel of situations in England as compared to the on-goings in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. It also discusses the historical significance of oppression of the Catholics in England.

History on the punk rock band Bad Religion.

Discusses Badenheim 1939 by Aharon Appelfeld. Summarizes the story and examines how it depicts the Holocaust.

Discusses and reviews the book Bailey's Cafe, by Gloria Naylor. Describes the story's plot. Analyzes the theme of the story.

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.

Baldassare Castiglione, Italian writer and a diplomat, was a great man and a big influence in the Italian Renaissance. He is compared to the masters of literature such as William Shakespeare and Montaigne. His masterpiece, The Book of Courtier was successful in Italy and parts of Europe after its publication in 1528. By 1600, it was translated into almost every European language including Latin.

Essay discusses James Baldwin's view on the Christian church as well as his work "The Fire Next Time."

Essay provides my personal thoughts on the poem "Ballad of Birmingham" by Dudley Randall.

In Balzac and the little Chinese Seamstress, by Dai Sijie, storytelling occurs during times of hopelessness when life seems hard and allows the characters to live vicariously through the tales told. The narrator and Luo use storytelling as an escape from reality in times of desperation.

A persuasive essay in favor of Lois Lowry's The Giver

Banning the book "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" has been a heated topic of debate for years now. This paper offers arguments on why the book should not be banned.

Discusses the William Shakespeare play, Macbeth. Explores the relationship between Banquo and MacBeth . Describes how the friendship was was shattered by their strong differences yet initially driven by their similarities.

Comments on the role of narrator in "Barchester Towers." Discusses the expectations of the reader and how Trollope has fulfilled it.

Examines James Joyce's reflections on female suppression in his work, The Dubliners. Describes how the roles of women in Dublin during the 1800's were very different from the roles women have today. Considers how in the work many of the female characters are ascribed disgusting images or no images at all.

The short story Barn Burning

My essay is a character analysis of Sarty Snopes, the main character in "Barn Burning" by William Faulkner.

This essay is a about the relationship between Cosimo and his enviroment in the book "Baron in the Trees" by Italo Calvino.

This is an essay on the "Baron in the Trees" by Italo Calivino. In this essay it discusses the relationship the main character Cosimo had with his surounding enviroment.

Essay provides an explanation of the baroque style of writing.

Explores how Barry Hindes may be described as a social critic in the novel "A Kestral for a Knave."

In Donald Barthelme's short story "Game", he writes about two men stuck in an underground bunker or base in which they await orders from a higher authority. They are living during a time of war. Not just any kind of war... This was nuclear war. This is the opposite of the world of W.H. Auden's poem, "The Unknown Citizen" which is about a person who is living the "perfect" life in the "perfect" world in which complaints are nonexistent. Both stories have one thing in common. Society has taken away their freedom in one form or another.

Provides biographical detail on the life of Bartholomeu Dias, a courageous 15th century Portuguese sea captain and explorer. Describes his contributions to the European Age of Exploration.

Essay analyzes the story "Bartleby the Scrivener" by Melville.

The Boss in Bartleby the Scrivener: Compares Bartleby's relationship with the Boss.

"Bartleby" and his life as a scrivener. A look into how his life compared to the dead letters he worked with.

Analyzes the novel Bartleby, by Herman Melville. Explains the attitude of the narrator towards the character of Turkey. Discusses the feeling of superiority expressed by the narrator.

Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby the Scrivener", despite being written during the Romantic Age, does not follow the themes of a typical romantic story. It lacks the presence of the supernatural and the lure of the exotic and unknown.

Lord Acton said concerning man and power, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar depicts the demise of Julius Caesar and the corruption of the people surrounding him. The play especially focuses on the negative traits of Cassius, but the corruption of Brutus remains debatable.

Throughout history all the great leader have possessed certain traits that have enable them to be successful. Strength, intelligence, cunning and determination are just a few a good leader might have.

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.

This essay is about the right and wrong decisions of the characters in Antigone.

An argumentive essay over the modern characteristics of the novel, The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer.

A plot summary of "Ex-Girlfriends" by Kylie Adams. The book chronicles the love life of its main character, Dean Paul Lockhart, and the competition by three friends for his affections.

Essay discusses how successful Baz Luhrmann's film is as an appropriation of William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet."

Essay relates the novel "The Bean Trees" to single parenting.

Bear by William Faulkner - His experiences and pursuit of manhood.

Provides a look into the the American post WWII Beatnik Generation, including its literature, key figures, social and political impact. Authors Jack Kerouac and John Clellon Holmes are profiled.

Gerard Manley Hopkin's style of writing in his poem, "Pied Beauty."

A comparison of the approaches taken in Wilfred Owen's poem "Dulce et Decorum Est" and Sharon Olds' poem "Leningrad Cemetery, Winter of 1941" to exhibit the horrendous aspects of war. While Owen uses a soldier to convey his thoughts and Olds uses a civilian to convey hers, both poets employ similar literary techniques and methods to convey the pain and anguish felt during times of war.

Short essay about "Beauty and the Beast" and the similarities between myths and fairy tells.

Essay examines the changing perspective in the novel "The Beauty and the Beast" by Fay Brown.

A synopsis of Robin McKinley's novel Beauty, including a comparison with the earlier version of this story, Madame Beaumont's Beauty and the Beast. McKinley wrote this novel from Beauty's point of view, which gives the reader a glimpse of how strong she truly was to go live with the Beast.

Essay about beauty as explored in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Society will always instinctively judge someone based on their appearance, politically we will trust someone who looks more pure and innocent with power, and culturally we will accept people who fit a certain physical standard. However the point is that beauty is not based on how attractive an object is to everybody, but how attractive it is to one.

Analyzes the novel, Because It Is Bitter, And Because It Is My Heart, by Joyce Carol Oates. Explains how many of the main characters allow the desire to fit in with society become the driving forces of their lives. Describes the great lengths the characters go to in order to satisfy their need for acceptance.

This essay discusses the prevalent theme of honor in "Becket" by Jean Anouil.

In her talk titled "Chasing the Butterflies", Julia Alvarez explains that the "butterfly" in which she is speaking of is not "any touchy-feely, gushy Hallmark-card, sentimentalized definition of butterfly."

Becoming the best Christian possible is the theme of "The Purpose-Driven Life" by Rick Warren.