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I Am David
Essay Grade: 92%   (647 words, approx. 2 pages)
Essay provides a literary analysis of Anne Holm's "I am David."
I Am David, An Analysis of David
Essay Grade: 86%   (485 words, approx. 2 pages)
Discusses the novel, I am David, by Anne Holm. Describes how the character of David grows and changes throughout the novel, both emotionally and physically.
I Am Eve: Emily Dickinson's Identification with Eve in the Genesis Narrative
Essay Grade: 88%   (5,480 words, approx. 18 pages)
Essay describes Emily Dickinson's identification with Eve in the Genesis narrative.
I Am the Cheese: A Matter of Perspective
Essay Grade: 83%   (697 words, approx. 2 pages)
Discusses the three different perspectives of the story "I am the Cheese", by Robert Cormier. Describes how all three of our perspectives come together in the same moment of his narrow escape from his intended fate.
I Am. I Think. I Will. or Do I?
Essay Grade: 75%   (966 words, approx. 3 pages)
In the book, Anthem, Ayn Rand describes a society in which everyone is equal. No one is superior to anyone else. Everyone is treated the same and has the same opportunities as his brother. However, this society comes with a price. No one is able to think or speak for themselves.
I Didn't See That Coming
Essay Grade: 79%   (1,020 words, approx. 3 pages)
An analysis of A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen
I for Isobel - Choosing to Survive
Essay Grade: 83%   (1,108 words, approx. 4 pages)
Analyzes the book, I for Isobel, by Amy Witting. Discusses the character of Isobel and examines her choice between being a victim or a survivor. Includes quotes from the novel and an analysis of each quote.
I for Isobel- Truth and Lies Theme Study
Essay Grade: 81%   (757 words, approx. 3 pages)
An analysis of the recurring theme of truth and lies throughout the novel I for Isobel by Amy Witting
I Heard the Owl Call My Name: Action and Inaction
Essay Grade: 86%   (765 words, approx. 3 pages)
Analyzes the story "I Heard the Owl Call My Name", by Margaret Craven. Describes the action taken to either help or further hurt the chances of survival in the future for the village of Kingcome. Provides a story synopsis.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Essay Grade: 88%   (750 words, approx. 3 pages)
Essay discusses the main character in the book "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - The Importance of Title
Essay Grade: 88%   (464 words, approx. 2 pages)
Explores the importance of title in the Maya Angelou memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and the poem of the same name. Analyzes the poem. Compares Angelou's life to that of the caged bird in her poem.
I Never Sang for My Father
Essay Grade: 88%   (337 words, approx. 1 pages)
Essay is about the significance of the title "I Never Sang For My Father" to the story.
I Never Sang for My Father
Essay Grade: 86%   (975 words, approx. 3 pages)
Provides an analysis of the issue of growing geriatric problems, as explored in Robert Anderson's play I Never Sang for My Father.
I Saw a Man Pursuing the Horizon
Essay Grade: 83%   (784 words, approx. 3 pages)
An analysis of Stephen Crane's poem "I Saw a Man Pursuing the Horizon." This poem displays the freedom of following one's own ideas, without being confined by rules.
I Say Irregardless?
Essay Grade: 95%   (488 words, approx. 2 pages)
Prescriptive and Descriptive approaches to grammar and the linguistic values of both.
I Stand Here Ironing
Essay Grade: 89%   (451 words, approx. 2 pages)
About Emily's mother and how she feels she was a disgrace of a mother to her child.
I Stand Here Ironing, an Analysis
Essay Grade: 86%   (675 words, approx. 2 pages)
Analyzes the short story, "I Stand Here Ironing," by Tillie Olsen. Provides a plot synopsis. Explores Tillie Olsen's characterization of Emily as a strong female protagonist.
I Stand Here Ironing: The 1950s Woman
Essay Grade: 86%   (1,275 words, approx. 4 pages)
Explores the role of the mother/narrator in the short story, As I Stand Here Ironing. Compares the images of the 1950s ideal woman, a happy housewife and a perfect mother.
I Stop Writing the Poem
Essay Grade: 88%   (317 words, approx. 1 pages)
"I Stop Writing the Poem" by Tess Gallagher, portrays the traditional role of the woman who gives up her interests to assume a role model as a wife and as a mother.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Essay Grade: 92%   (963 words, approx. 3 pages)
Provides a formalist approach to analyzing Wordsworth's poem, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. Explores Wordsworth's use of figurative language, diction and symbolism. Details how the experience of nature is portrayed through the image of a dance.
I Want a Wife
Essay Grade: 86%   (459 words, approx. 2 pages)
Examines the essay, "I Want a Wife," by Judy Syfers. Explores the role of women in the mid-to-late 1900s. Considers how the role of a wife has evolved over time.
I'm Not the Enemy
Essay Grade: 89%   (634 words, approx. 2 pages)
The following is a response and persuasive essay to an article about Muslims.
Iago and Ben Jago
Essay Grade: 88%   (1,013 words, approx. 3 pages)
Compares two versions of the Shakespeare play, Othello, the text and film version. Contrasts the character Iago from the text to the film character, Ben Jago.
Iago's Motives
Essay Grade: 81%   (0 words, approx. 0 pages)
A description of the development of Iago's motives in Act 2 of William Shakespeare's play "Othello." At this juncture of the play, Iago displays the attributes of a Machiavellian character in devising his plan for revenge.
Iago's Muse Was Not a Unicorn: an Exhaustively Researched Paper Discussing Motivation
Essay Grade: 89%   (1,695 words, approx. 6 pages)
Essay discusses Iago's motivation in "Othello."
Iago's Purpose in Othello
Essay Grade: 98%   (1,306 words, approx. 4 pages)
Iago's Purpose in Shakespeare's Othello.
Iago, an Analysis
Essay Grade: 86%   (484 words, approx. 2 pages)
Provides an anlysis of the character Iago from the William Shakespeare play, Othello.
Iago: Proud and Deceptive
Essay Grade: 90%   (889 words, approx. 3 pages)
Essay on the proud and deceptive nature of Iago from William Shakespeare's "Othello."
Iago; The Representation of Villainy in "Othello"
Essay Grade: 83%   (1,087 words, approx. 4 pages)
In William Shakespeare's "Othello," Iago's manipulation of Othello serves as the role of evil in humankind. For his own gain, Iago manipulates Othello into killing his wife.
Ian Baucom and Midnight's Children, Wild Thorns, and Reading in the Dark
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,187 words, approx. 4 pages)
This essay will examine how memory is profoundly shaped not only by the historical identity of the community but also that of self.

Ian Reid. the Short Story. London: Methuen, 1977. a Discussion.
Essay Grade: 88%   (1,011 words, approx. 3 pages)
An exploration of the nature of the short story by examining works such as those of Edgar Allen Poe.
Ibsen Said That His Mission in Life Was to "inspire Individuals to Freedom and Independence
Essay Grade: 83%   (1,359 words, approx. 5 pages)
A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen is basically about his revolutionary play that inspired females towards freedom. Henrik Ibsen was one of the first writers to use his plays to comment and analyse controversial social topics of the Victorian society. He used his writing as a way to express his belief that societies conditioning was holding individual people hostage.
Ibsen Themes
Essay Grade: 92%   (715 words, approx. 2 pages)
Essay discusses the femal protaginist theme to "Hedda Gabler," "Ghosts," and "A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen.

Ibsen's A Doll House
Essay Grade: 85%   (639 words, approx. 2 pages)
Short comparison of Torvald Helmer in Ibsen's A Doll House, to the character of Red Forman from That 70's Show.
Ibsen's Plays Portray the Individual in Opposition to a Hostile Society ?
Essay Grade: 95%   (1,943 words, approx. 7 pages)
Do the sympathies of Henrik Ibsen lie with his individual characters in their struggle against society, in 'A Doll's House' and 'Hedda Gabler'?
Icy Sparks and Simon Birch, A Comparison of Themes
Essay Grade: 88%   (1,565 words, approx. 5 pages)
Compares the novel Icy Sparks, by Gwyn Hyman Rubio to the film Simon Birch. Explores how each work deals with the theme of disability. Compares the main characters from each work and explores how each handles disability differently.
Idea of Freedom
Essay Grade: 86%   (0 words, approx. 0 pages)
The purpose of "Beach Burial" by Kenneth Slessor and "The Rockpool" by Edward Shanks is to advace the concept of freedom. Freedom is conveyed through nature, or more specifically the sea in "The Rockpool." The idea of freedom is conveyed through the loss of young sailors in Slessor's "Beach Burial." To convey this universal idea Slessor and Shanks use techniques and teachings such as metaphors, personification, imagery, alliteration, onomatopoeia and irony.
Idea of Heroism in War Literature
Essay Grade: 97%   (1,181 words, approx. 4 pages)
Explores the "idea of heroism" in selected texts from war literature. (Text references: "The Red Badge Of Courage" by Stephen Crane, "Regeneration" by Pat Barker and "Journey's End" by R.C. Sheriff)
Ideal-ology : the Life
Essay Grade: 86%   (1,007 words, approx. 3 pages)
The Handmaids Tale, set in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a novel that presents a totalitarian theocracy that has forced a certain class of fertile women to produce babies for elite barren couples. These "handmaids," who are denied all rights and are severely beaten if they are uncooperative, are reduced to state property.
Ideals behind "The Minister's Black Veil"
Essay Grade: 75%   (0 words, approx. 0 pages)
Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "The Minister's Black Veil" exemplifies Puritan beliefs with regard to sin, cruelty, tolerance, and guilt, and how one can never be truly free from sin. The black veil worn by the minister Mr. Hooper to acknowledge his sin symbolizes the townspeoples' inability to admit that they are also sinners and their tendency to exclude the only person brave enough to admit his own sin.
Ideas about Marriage from Campion and Austen
Essay Grade: 98%   (1,263 words, approx. 4 pages)
Examines the ideas about marriage presented in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" and Jane Campion's "The Piano", focusing on society's expectations of women in marriage and the issue of marriage as a form of imprisonment.
Ideas about Marriage in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice"
Essay Grade: 88%   (906 words, approx. 3 pages)
Details how marriage is portrayed by Jane Austen in "Pride and Prejudice".
Identifying Patriarchy in European Literature
Essay Grade: 96%   (2,020 words, approx. 7 pages)
An essay on Sophocles' Antigone, Austen's Northanger Abbey, Bronte's Wuthering Heights, and Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. The presence of strong patriarchal characters in the texts solidifies the argument that a general patriarchal force, in fact, exists. This essay identifies the patriarchal tendencies in the European mores, and describes the feminine struggles with it.
Identities Shaped by Materialism
Essay Grade: 92%   (745 words, approx. 3 pages)
About how materialism affects the 3 of the main characters in the book "The Great Gatsby"
Identity as a Compilation of Mona, Addie, and Billy Pilgrim
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,030 words, approx. 3 pages)
William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying; Gish Jen, Mona In the Promised Land; Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five

A contrast and comparison of the main characters in each and their cultural perspective.

Identity as a Theme in "Walking Naked" and Other Literature
Essay Grade: 88%   (1,142 words, approx. 4 pages)
The title of "Walking Naked" by Alyssa Brugman refers to the ability of one's self to be a geniune and authentic person. The inability to do so inevitably leads to one's downfall. This theme is also explored in the Disney TV series "The Weekenders" and in the poem "The Face in the Glass" by Dale Wimbrow.
Identity as Represented in The Secret Life of Bees and On the Road
Essay Grade: 88%   (1,380 words, approx. 5 pages)
The actions we take are a greater representation of who we are as a person than the actions that others take against us. The examples in Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees and Jack Kerouac's On the Road show that what we do for ourselves determines our identity, not what others do to us.
Identity Construction: National Identity, or Gender and Class?
Essay Grade: 92%   (2,960 words, approx. 10 pages)
Although people do think of themselves as belonging to a nation, as individuals, they are more likely to define themselves through the issues that affect them personally. This means that the roles of the different genders and their social class will affect people on a much more personal level. Anne Enright's novel The Wig My Father Wore and Roddy Doyle's novel The Woman Who Walked into Doors offer revelations as to how contemporary society in Ireland views itself; they show how the characters identified themselves not as being Irish, but more as women and people in social society.
Identity Crisis in The English Patient
Essay Grade: 84%   (581 words, approx. 2 pages)
The English Patient by Michael Ondatje - deals with characters inescapable ties of national identity.
Identity Crisis in The Invisible Man
Essay Grade: 92%   (6,556 words, approx. 22 pages)
Critiques Ralph Ellison's novel, Invisible Man. Describes how the narrator of the story learns that he is incapable of achieving a true identity because of society and its tendency to prevent specific people or groups of people from attaining certain accomplishments crucial for life. Examines society's inability to function with diversity.
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