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C. S. Lewis vs. Charles Dickens
Essay Grade: 98%   (892 words, approx. 3 pages)
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.
Caddy's Quote
Essay Grade: 88%   (378 words, approx. 1 pages)
Essay provides a discussion surrounding the quote "I have commited incest."
Caesar's Character Development in "Antony and Cleopatra"
Essay Grade: 88%   (1,305 words, approx. 4 pages)
In William Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra," Ceasar transforms himeself from a nervous triumvir in the ruling body to an increasingly confident, Machiavellian politician who outwits Pompey, Lepidus and Antony.
Caesar's Character's (Bad Leaders Vs. Good Leaders)
Essay Grade: 92%   (945 words, approx. 3 pages)
Essay shows qualities in the characters of good and bad leaders and compares them to the ones in "Lord of the Flies."
Caesar, A Character Analysis
Essay Grade: 86%   (587 words, approx. 2 pages)
Analyzes the play, Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare. Provides a character study of Julius Caesar and describes his tragic downfall.
Cages in Caged Bird
Essay Grade: 92%   (622 words, approx. 2 pages)
Essay discusses the cages that keep Maya Angelou down through out her life and how she breaks out of them in the end.
Cain
Essay Grade: 83%   (703 words, approx. 2 pages)
The book Cain, by James Bryon Huggins, was written in nineteen ninety-six, and the fourth best action-thriller written by this incredible author. For a while he was one of the most sought after action-film writers in Hollywood.
Caliban and Ariel - role and presentation essay
Essay Grade: 94%   (1,931 words, approx. 6 pages)
An essay into the role and presntation of the characters Ariel and Caliban
California or Bust
Essay Grade: 89%   (813 words, approx. 3 pages)
Essay describes what is foreshadowed in the conversation between Ma and Tom Joad about California.
Call It Courage
Essay Grade: 85%   (999 words, approx. 3 pages)
Essay discuss Armstrong Sperry's "Call It Courage", which is about a young kid who is afraid of the ocean because his mother died in the ocean. He gets courage and sails out to new land. "Call It Courage" is a very good book to study Polynesian beliefs and customs.
Call of the Wild
Essay Grade: 88%   (887 words, approx. 3 pages)
The following provides an outline of the book "Call of the Wild."
Call of the Wild
Essay Grade: 83%   (643 words, approx. 2 pages)
Buck's life and experiences differ in Southland from Northland. Of course this is due to the differences themselves between the two locales.
Call of the Wild: Qualities of Buck
Essay Grade: 86%   (598 words, approx. 2 pages)
Discusses the different qualities of Buck and their significance.
Calpurnia as a Mother
Essay Grade: 88%   (729 words, approx. 2 pages)
Essay discusses how Calpurnia plays the role of a mother in "To Kill a Mockingbird."
Calvin and Conrad's Relationship
Essay Grade: 86%   (499 words, approx. 2 pages)
Discusses the novel, Ordinary People, by Judith Guest. Explores the relationship between father and son, Calvin and Conrad. Details how the relationship evolves over the plot of the novel.
Calypso
Essay Grade: 79%   (264 words, approx. 1 pages)
Essay discusses how the character of Calypso is the concealer in "The Odyssey."
Camaraderie in "This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix"
Essay Grade: 92%   (726 words, approx. 2 pages)
Discusses the relationship of two friends, Victor and Thomas, in "This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona."
Campare the Way Poets Have Written about Death in Two Poems in Your Selection
Essay Grade: 75%   (357 words, approx. 1 pages)
Cold in the Earth, by Emily Bronte, and Thistles, by Ted Hughes, both address life and death issues. One is through the imagery of war while the other deals with the death of a loved-one.
Camu and the True Artist
Essay Grade: 86%   (541 words, approx. 2 pages)
Discusses the french writer Albert Camu. Examines his view of the role of "True artist" in society, where Camus says that a real writer is the one who speaks up for people and understand things without judging them.
Camus' Portrayal of Existentialism in The Stranger
Essay Grade: 86%   (1,690 words, approx. 6 pages)
A discussion of the main character's meetings with the prison chaplain and the magistrate in Albert Camus' The Stranger, and how they reflect Camus' own belief in the futility of religious or spiritual belief.
Camus' The Stranger: Meursault's Apathy
Essay Grade: 83%   (2,002 words, approx. 7 pages)
In The Stranger, by Albert Camus, Meursault's character is apathetic and insensitive to the events in his own life and those around him. Elements of the plot line are analyzed to support this point.
Can Murder be Morally Just?
Essay Grade: 83%   (562 words, approx. 2 pages)
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.
Can Plays Slaughter Innocence?
Essay Grade: 89%   (622 words, approx. 2 pages)
Essay discusses the violence within the play "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare.
Canal Bank Walk
Essay Grade: 92%   (575 words, approx. 2 pages)
"Canal Bank Walk" is a poem of religious significance focussing on creation through God's love. The poet clearly has a love of nature, its beauty, its purity and its origins, all attributable to God.
Candide
Essay Grade: 97%   (751 words, approx. 3 pages)
Explains the transformation from the middle ages to the enlightenment.
Candide
Essay Grade: 86%   (892 words, approx. 3 pages)
Candide, the protagonist, is the illegitimate nephew of a German baron. He grows up in the baron's castle of Thunder-ten-tronckh in Westphalia under the guidance of the scholar Pangloss, who teaches him that this world is "the best of all possible worlds."
Candide - Cultivate Our Garden
Essay Grade: 95%   (2,192 words, approx. 7 pages)
On Candide by Voltaire...Analysis and explanation of "cultivate our garden" quote.
Candide's Thoughtful Laughter
Essay Grade: 88%   (904 words, approx. 3 pages)
Explores the use of wit in Voltaire's Candide. Describes how Voltaire uses humor to display the vices of blind optimism and religion.
Candide: Women in Society
Essay Grade: 86%   (367 words, approx. 1 pages)
A brief overview of Voltaire's Candide, exploring its significance to present-day society and offering a comparison of the values in the novel with those of our current generation.
Cane River
Essay Grade: 92%   (659 words, approx. 2 pages)
Essay provides an analysis of "Cane River" by Lalita Tademy.
Cannery Row
Essay Grade: 92%   (864 words, approx. 3 pages)
Essay compares the two main characters of Doc and Mack from "Cannery Row."
Cannery Row, A Review
Essay Grade: 88%   (1,066 words, approx. 4 pages)
Analyzes and reviews the John Steinbeck novel, Cannery Row. Details the basic plot. Explores the function of the protagonist, Mack.
Cannery Row: Pursuit of the Simple Things in Life
Essay Grade: 88%   (801 words, approx. 3 pages)
In his novel Cannery Row, John Steinbeck depicts a Great Depression-era town full of color and simplicity that is pursuing its own way to happiness. The blue-collar characters in the novel have no material possessions, yet they form a family, a home, and a sense of belonging out of each other. Steinbeck shows through these characters and theme that while we focus on making life more complicated, life itself is quite simple.
Cantebury Tales the Knight and the Squire Comparative Critical Details
Essay Grade: 75%   (1,675 words, approx. 6 pages)
Speaking of Chaucer's time and work, in order to understand the exact extent of his achievement in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, it is necessary to stress the fact that the Middle Ages were not a time of portraits. It was a time of patterns, of allegories, of reducing the specific to the general and then drawing a moral from it. What Chaucer was doing was entirely different.
Canterbury Tales
Essay Grade: 90%   (576 words, approx. 2 pages)
Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer: Chaucer representation of Marriage, Christianity, and Class
Canterbury Tales
Essay Grade: 86%   (0 words, approx. 0 pages)
The Canterbury Tales is a masterpiece of the English Middle Ages written by Geoffrey Chaucer. This novel tells various stories told by a diverse group of pilgrims on an expedition to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas a Becket at the Canterbury Cathedral.
Capital Punishment in "Romeo & Juliet"
Essay Grade: 90%   (1,155 words, approx. 4 pages)
Essay shows how capital punishment exists in William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet."
Capital Punishment vs. Romeo and Juliet
Essay Grade: 96%   (1,160 words, approx. 4 pages)
Capital punishment in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.
Capulet's Role in "Romeo and Juliet"
Essay Grade: 78%   (537 words, approx. 2 pages)
In William Shakespeare's tragedy "Romeo and Juliet," Capulet, Juliet's own father, is the person primarily responsible for the star-crossed lovers' tragic end. He brought the death of Juliet by forcing her to marry Paris, separating her from Romeo, and rejecting Juliet's own decisions without consideration.
Carefully Chosen Names and Symbolism in Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men
Essay Grade: 86%   (858 words, approx. 3 pages)
Steinbeck chose names carefully in Of Mice And Men. In this story Steinbeck used a specific symbol to represent each main character in the book. Lennie resembled and animal with a child's brain, Curley's wife symbolized the mistreatment of all women in the 1930s and Slim resembled a godlike person who influenced many of his peers.
Caring or Interference of George in "Of Mice and Men"
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,644 words, approx. 6 pages)
Essay shows how George did not allow Lennie to develop as a person in the novel "Of Mice and Men."
Carl Sandburg's Use of Allusion in "Grass"
Essay Grade: 87%   (547 words, approx. 2 pages)
Essay discusses how Carl Sandburg utilizes the aspect of allusion in his short poem entitled "Grass."
Carol Giligan
Essay Grade: 83%   (1,079 words, approx. 4 pages)
In a Different Voice, by Carol Gilligan, serves to be a unique literary work that challenges traditional outlooks on society's perception of relationships, voice, gender, and moral reasoning. Gilligan establishes a unique answer to conventional psychological theories and purposes her own supposition through her analysis and a series of interviews she conducts.
Carol's Strength in Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Essay Grade: 94%   (782 words, approx. 3 pages)
Debate over Carol's strength vs. weakness in the book Main Street by Sinclair Lewis.
Carpe Diem
Essay Grade: 92%   (939 words, approx. 3 pages)
Comparison of "To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time" by Robert Herrick and "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell.
Carpe Diem in Poetry
Essay Grade: 83%   (1,054 words, approx. 4 pages)
In the seventeenth century, poetry began to move away from humanism and began to explore the everyday person's thoughts and feelings. Robert Herrick was one of the many poets who wrote during this time of change. His poem `To the virgins, To make much of time' is a good example of the carpé diem theme in poetry. The poem, "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost is a tale of a turning point in the speaker's life. The narrator is faced between the choice of a moment and a lifetime.
Carpe Diem Poetry
Essay Grade: 92%   (938 words, approx. 3 pages)
Essay provides a comparison between "Song", "To the Virgins", and "Make Much of Time."
Carton's Striving for "A Life You Love" in "A Tale of Two Cities"
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,288 words, approx. 4 pages)
In "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens, the character of Carton is able to transform his broken, wasted life by overcoming his alcholism and fighting his depression. A character sketch of Carton.
Cassio as Innocent Bystander in "Othello"
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,629 words, approx. 5 pages)
Cassio is an innocent bystander in William Shakespeare's "Othello."
Cassius and Brutus
Essay Grade: 75%   (820 words, approx. 3 pages)
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
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