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E M Forster and the British Raj in a Passage to India
Essay Grade: 88%   (1,697 words, approx. 6 pages)
Discusses the EM Forster novel, A Passage to India. Examines Forster's description of British rule in India. Details how he arrived at his conclusions.
E.M. Forster: within the Brilliant Master Piece
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,000 words, approx. 3 pages)
Essay discusses the brilliance of Forster as he developes a common and central theme.
East and West: Eggs from Separate Baskets
Essay Grade: 86%   (850 words, approx. 3 pages)
In a world without morality and where one's drive for wealth may take them over dishonest roads, social standing is something that, surprisingly, cannot be bought with money. The 1920's novel ¬The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, does a spectacular job of showing many issues of the "Roaring Twenties."
East of Eden - Self Knowledge
Essay Grade: 86%   (1,192 words, approx. 4 pages)
Analyzes the novel East of Eden, by John Steinbeck. Discusses how Caleb Trask's character demonstrates how the struggle between good and evil within an individual can affect one's self-knowledge, which is catalyzed mainly by the nurture of the character and, ultimately, is amendable through free will.
East of Eden: Character Analysis
Essay Grade: 88%   (574 words, approx. 2 pages)
This is a character analysis on certain characters in John Steinbeck's "East of Eden."
East Versus West in Antony and Cleopatra
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,307 words, approx. 4 pages)
This essay compares the two main settings, Rome and Egypt, in Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra. Describes how the setting of this tragedy is split between two places that are diametrically opposed geographically and symbolically. Considers how Shakespeare used the opposing places as conflict for Antony.
Easter Island
Essay Grade: 76%   (304 words, approx. 1 pages)
Essay provides a brief description of Easter Island.
Easter Parade: The Effect of Divorce
Essay Grade: 86%   (1,322 words, approx. 4 pages)
Analyzes the Richard Yates' book Easter Parade. Provides a detailed plot summary. Describes how the book is very informative of what can happen when a failed marriage occurs and the offspring are forced to cope with the divorce.
Eating Scene in Great Expectations
Essay Grade: 89%   (849 words, approx. 3 pages)
An eating scene in the book Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
Ebenezer Denny's Journal
Essay Grade: 86%   (667 words, approx. 2 pages)
Discusses the Ebenezer Denny journals found in The American Revolution, Writings from the War of Independence. Provides details on the life of Denny and examines his motivation for fighting in the war.
Ebony and Ivory
Essay Grade: 97%   (1,766 words, approx. 6 pages)
A compare and contrast essay between the black and white aspects of Richard Wright's book "Native Son."
Ecotopia: The World of the Future
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,678 words, approx. 6 pages)
A book report on Ecotopia, a futuristic novel by Ernest Callenbach. In the novel, the states of Washington and Oregon and the northern part of California secede from the United States and form the country of Ecotopia. Twenty years later, an international affairs reporter and the first American visitor to Ecotopia arrives on an investigative mission on the country's economy and lifestyle.
Ed Gein
Essay Grade: 89%   (615 words, approx. 2 pages)
Biography of Ed Gein
Edgar Allan Poe "The Cask of Amontillado"
Essay Grade: 83%   (391 words, approx. 1 pages)
Analyzes the story, "The Cask of Amontillado", by Edgar Allen Poe. Provides a brief plot description and answers the question, Little is described about the motive causing Montresor to seek revenge on his friend, what does this add to the plot?
Edgar Allan Poe - Genius or Madman?
Essay Grade: 83%   (516 words, approx. 2 pages)
Discusses conflicting opinions about the works of Edgar Allen Poe. References his literary works as evidence for conclusions. Describes Poe as a genius for daring to explore the dark side of the human conscience.
Edgar Allan Poe -- Lunatic or Genius?
Essay Grade: 98%   (1,787 words, approx. 6 pages)
Essay examines the life and work of Edgar Allan Poe and whether he is truly a genius or a lunatic. Also examines the possibility that he is the father of the short story and highlights those who have been influenced by his work.
Edgar Allan Poe, A Biography
Essay Grade: 86%   (2,017 words, approx. 7 pages)
Provides biographical detail on the writer Edgar Allan Poe. Discusses his early life, education and his development as a professional writer. Examines his influence on modern horror writers.
Edgar Allan Poe- Genius or Madman?
Essay Grade: 81%   (516 words, approx. 2 pages)
Edgar Allan Poe is well known over the world for many of his literary works, though the opinions people hold for him differ drastically. To some, his works are famous, to some, infamous. Many people see him as a brilliant composer of words and expresser of feelings. Others see him as perverse in his dissection of the dark conscience and motives humans have.
Edgar Allen Poe
Essay Grade: 83%   (532 words, approx. 2 pages)
The life and works of the man Edgar Allen Poe
Edgar Allen Poe, Father of Modern Detective Fiction
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,225 words, approx. 4 pages)
Details how writer Edgar Allen Poe became the father of the modern detective story genre. Analysis his introduction of the character Dupin, the detective in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", as the first detective to use analytical and imaginative reasoning to solve the mystery and will create a guideline for all detective stories to come. Also explores his use of gothic themes.
Edith Wharton's View of Society's Hold on Men
Essay Grade: 88%   (6,035 words, approx. 20 pages)
Even though the characters in Edith Wharton's novels The Age of Innocence and Summer are dissatisfied with their orthodox lifestyle, they know the title of "outcast" is an even heavier burden to bear. In the novel The Age of Innocence, Old New York stifles the individual development of young Newland Archer.
Editha
Essay Grade: 78%   (859 words, approx. 3 pages)
In William Dean Howells' short story, "Editha", the main character is an unusual woman, Editha, who has her own perfect ideals and pushes them on her lover, George, to ask him to fight in the Spanish-American War. In the story Howells not only brought his anti-war message about the dangers of war but also satirized the United States' governments that have foolish ideas about the reasons to go to war.
Editor's Memo On Great Expectation Ending
Essay Grade: 90%   (807 words, approx. 3 pages)
Dicken's Great Expectations was written with two alternate endings. This essay is told from an editor's point of view on which ending should be published.
Edna and Hester: Two Different Women with Similar Personalities
Essay Grade: 93%   (511 words, approx. 2 pages)
This is an essay comparing and contrasting the characters Edna Pontellier, from "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Hester Prynne, from "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin.
Edna Is a Loser
Essay Grade: 86%   (432 words, approx. 1 pages)
Provides a character analysis of Edna Pontillier from Kate Chopin's "The Awakening."
Edna Pontellier of The Awakening: A Woman before Her Time
Essay Grade: 78%   (1,214 words, approx. 4 pages)
Details how the three male characters in Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" affect the awakening of Edna Pontellier, the main character.
Edna Vs. Nora
Essay Grade: 92%   (793 words, approx. 3 pages)
Essay compares and contrasts the character of Edna in "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin with the character of Nora in "A Doll's House" by Henrik Isben.
Edna's Final Escape
Essay Grade: 86%   (511 words, approx. 2 pages)
Throughout Kate Chopin's novel "The Awakening," Edna Pontellier spends her time trying to escape the things in her life, including her husband, her home, her responsibilities to her family, and society's expected role of women. She does not succeed in her efforts until she commits suicide. Edna may have been truthful to her inner self through her suicide, but she was not truthful to her real life and to the people who cared about her.
Edna's Quest for Freedom in "The Awakening"
Essay Grade: 96%   (1,506 words, approx. 5 pages)
In "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin, Edna awakens to individuality as she breaks free from her conventional Creole society. Her desire for freedom leads to her suicide, which is both a victory and a defeat.
Edna's Weaknesses in The Awakening
Essay Grade: 83%   (0 words, approx. 0 pages)
In Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening, Edna Pontellier suffers from many weaknesses. Committing suicide, she felt, would free her of her problems and would be the best thing for everyone. In reality, by killing herself she ran from her problems instead of facing them, making her even weaker.
Educating Rita
Essay Grade: 91%   (1,602 words, approx. 5 pages)
Analyzes how Willy Russell engages his audience in his play, "Educating Rita."
Educating Rita - Discuss How Rita Changes Though the Play
Essay Grade: 81%   (1,892 words, approx. 6 pages)
Educating Rita, written in 1985 by Willy Russell, details the changes to Rita before and after summer school in England. The extent of Rita's change from a blonde uneducated "bimbo" to a well-spoken, educated person is the main theme.
Educating Rita, An Analysis of the Play
Essay Grade: 86%   (858 words, approx. 3 pages)
Analyzes the Willy Russell play, Educating Rita. Focuses on how Russell uses drama to illustrate the changes in Rita's character. Provides specific examples from the play to support the premise.
Education and Growing Up
Essay Grade: 83%   (772 words, approx. 3 pages)
In the story To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, three children named Jem, Scout, and Dill learns very important things that will lead to growing up in way that they wouldn't experience at school. Through the many events happening to each of them during the Tom Robinson trial and the gossips around Boo Radley, they each gains separate insights to the society in the small town of Maycomb.
Education in "to Kill a Mockingbird"
Essay Grade: 88%   (995 words, approx. 3 pages)
This essay describes and compares the characters in Harper Lee's novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" and discusses how their varying levels of education affected the role in the story.
Education under the Magnifying Glass.
Essay Grade: 92%   (2,223 words, approx. 7 pages)
This essay is a brief introspection into the theme of education presented in the first six chapters of Harper Lee's book, 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'
Edward Abbey's Down the River
Essay Grade: 86%   (508 words, approx. 2 pages)
Edward Abbey's essay Down the River reveals his strong belief that the existence of life revolves around nature itself. Abbey conveys these views through diction, imagery, and his choice of structure.
Edward Britton- Book Review
Essay Grade: 83%   (724 words, approx. 2 pages)
Edward Britton by Gary Crew and Philip Nielson is an Australian novel about two young boys Edward Britton and Izod Wolfe who were sent to Point Puer Boys' Prison to serve out their sentence.
Edward de Vere Vs. William Shakespeare
Essay Grade: 92%   (659 words, approx. 2 pages)
This essay is about whom truly wrote the works acredited to Shakespeare.
Edwards Versus Franklin
Essay Grade: 81%   (406 words, approx. 1 pages)
"Soul on Fire" is a review for Jonathan Edwards's sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. In "The Autobiography", Ben Franklin says people should base their life on moral perfection. Comparing the works of Jonathan Edwards and Benjamen Franklin leads to an understanding of their desire for moral perfection and spiritual discipline.
Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Miniver Cheevy"
Essay Grade: 83%   (314 words, approx. 1 pages)
A character analysis of "Miniver Cheevy" in the poem by the same name, by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
Effective Settings in "A Pair of Tickets"
Essay Grade: 90%   (1,259 words, approx. 4 pages)
Discusses the relationship between mother and children, heritage, family root.
Effectiveness of Writing With Dialogue
Essay Grade: 86%   (554 words, approx. 2 pages)
Explains how dialogue is profound in all sources of literature.
Effects of Colonialism in Africa
Essay Grade: 95%   (1,419 words, approx. 5 pages)
Essay, to show the effects of colonialism in Africa, chooses two fictional novels, Things Fall Apart and Arrow Of God to set two examples of main characters, who is being affected by the colonialism in Africa.
Effects of Starvation on Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment
Essay Grade: 88%   (1,306 words, approx. 4 pages)
Explores the novel Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Discusses the effects of starvation on the character of Raskolnikov. Examines factors motivating Raskolnikov's actions and thoughts.
Effects of the Holocaust in Maus
Essay Grade: 94%   (1,562 words, approx. 5 pages)
In Art Spiegelman's book, Maus, how the Holocaust leaves lasting effects on families of Holocaust survivors.
Egoists and Altruists is "Foundtainhead"
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,115 words, approx. 4 pages)
In Ayn Rand's "Fountainhead," the character traits of egocentrism and altruism are examined. Howard Roark is symbolized as a true egoist, one who has absolutely no desire to be involved in other peoples' business. Ellsworth Toohey is a prefect example of a second-hander, who uses the principle of altruism to demand men to live for others and place others above themselves.
Egrets Commentary
Essay Grade: 92%   (442 words, approx. 2 pages)
Essay provides commentary on Mary Oliver's poem "Egrets."
Elements in George Orwell's "Animal Farm"
Essay Grade: 83%   (1,137 words, approx. 4 pages)
Animal Farm has many mimetic qualities. One such quality is demonstrated in the use of symbolism. The animals, representing people, overthrow their authority. This is similar to the situation in the Russian Revolution. The people followed Lenin and overthrew the czar, the same as the animals overthrew Mr. Jones.
Elements of Fiction
Essay Grade: 88%   (605 words, approx. 2 pages)
Readers can obtain a more in-depth perspective on an author's true meaning behind his writing through a critical analysis based on elements of fiction. For instance, Susan Glaspell's story "A Jury of Her Peers" effectively applies irony, theme, plot, and structure throughout. These elements play important roles in Glaspell's description of the struggles women had with inequality and the method Mrs. Wright took to overcome her personal struggle in this regard.
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