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Background and Influence: Merchant of Venice
Essay Grade: 96% (1,957 words, approx. 7 pages)
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.
Badenheim 1939
Essay Grade: 83% (678 words, approx. 2 pages)
Discusses Badenheim 1939 by Aharon Appelfeld. Summarizes the story and examines how it depicts the Holocaust.
Baldwin's View of Christianity
Essay Grade: 89% (766 words, approx. 3 pages)
Essay discusses James Baldwin's view on the Christian church as well as his work "The Fire Next Time."
Balzac
Essay Grade: 78% (1,325 words, approx. 4 pages)
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.
Banned
Essay Grade: 94% (1,098 words, approx. 4 pages)
A persuasive essay in favor of Lois Lowry's The Giver
Battle of Wills
Essay Grade: 88% (1,162 words, approx. 4 pages)
This essay is about the right and wrong decisions of the characters in Antigone.
Bear
Essay Grade: 75% (645 words, approx. 2 pages)
Bear by William Faulkner - His experiences and pursuit of manhood.
Beauty and the Beast
Essay Grade: 84% (222 words, approx. 1 pages)
Short essay about "Beauty and the Beast" and the similarities between myths and fairy tells.
Beauty and the Beast
Essay Grade: 90% (945 words, approx. 3 pages)
Essay examines the changing perspective in the novel "The Beauty and the Beast" by Fay Brown.
Before and after Oedipus's Final Submission to the Gods
Essay Grade: 81% (1,529 words, approx. 5 pages)
The play centers on Oedipus, a man of great compassion and intelligence who was also a man of great pride. Through his intelligence, he managed to solve a riddle no one else had been able to solve. This resulted in freeing Thebes from the sphinx that had been oppressing the land and securing for Oedipus both the kingship of Thebes and Jocasta, the late king Laius's widow, for his wife.
Beloved
Essay Grade: 78% (287 words, approx. 1 pages)
Essay discusses the novel "Beloved" by Toni Morrison.
Beowulf
Essay Grade: 90% (494 words, approx. 2 pages)
Essay provides an analysis for the novel "Beowulf" by Dr. David Breeden.
Beowulf as a Cartoon Character
Essay Grade: 83% (771 words, approx. 3 pages)
Ponders the question if Beowulf can be transformed into a cartoon to reach a younger audience. Analyzes Beowulf's credenitials as a tragic hero. Maintains that his mystique would be ruined by being portrayed as a superhero.
Beowulf's Battles
Essay Grade: 86% (369 words, approx. 1 pages)
Analyzes the epic poem Beowulf. Compares and contrasts Beowulf's three battles in the epic. Provides a character portrait of Beowulf and examines his evolution in the text.
Beowulf: a Character Study
Essay Grade: 83% (837 words, approx. 3 pages)
Uses quotes from the epic poem "Beowulf" to discuss the character of Beowulf, his motives and his success or lack of it as a king.
Beowulf: Christian Beliefs Versus Paganistic Values
Essay Grade: 86% (570 words, approx. 2 pages)
The tale of Beowulf highlights both pagan and Christian beliefs and the differences between them. Beowulf reflected the emphasis of early paganistic times on heroism, bravery, and achieving good deeds for the sake of honor. However, he also represented Christian beliefs in that, like Jesus, he was sent to save a people and was willing to die for the sake of good.
Beowulf: Hero of All Heroes
Essay Grade: 90% (775 words, approx. 3 pages)
Beowulf's journey to become the hero he is perceived to be throughout Hrothgar's kingdom.
Bertolt Brecht's Theatre
Essay Grade: 75% (270 words, approx. 1 pages)
A short analysis of Bertolt Brecht's approach to the theatre, utilizing the examples of his plays "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" and "The Threepenny Opera." These two plays show Brecht's intentions to promote his Marxist beliefs, to maintain the audience's awareness of what is going on, and to eliminate suspense.
Bibliography: J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
Essay Grade: 92% (2,198 words, approx. 7 pages)
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, the author deliberately creates a believable word that emphasize imagination that his ideas began to show and perform actions, an imaginative creation that moves people deeply inside because of the moral visionary that Tolkien expresses in his life. We can see this in his book about the ring, The Lord of the Rings. In his book, Tolkien writes about a myth and a struggle for life, which leaves the reader puzzled and trying to figure out what the characters will do next. However, The Lord of the Rings can be described as heroism because the characters are willing to do whatever it takes to destroy the ring in the presence of life and death.
Birds
Essay Grade: 86% (217 words, approx. 1 pages)
Essay provides a discussion of the book "Birds" by Ryan Heasley.
Black Ice: A Thin Membrane
Essay Grade: 88% (573 words, approx. 2 pages)
This essay concerns the objective of "being black" and what it means within Lorene Cary's "Black Ice."
Bless Me Ultima - Maturity
Essay Grade: 83% (787 words, approx. 3 pages)
The different stages of maturity that Toni goes through in Bless Me Ultima.
Blooming Flowers of Love; Falling Ashes of Disintegration
Essay Grade: 75% (490 words, approx. 2 pages)
A comparison of Romeo's love for Juliet with his love for Rosaline in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." Romeo's expressions of love for both women are equally ardent, but the difference is in the love returned; his love for Juliet contains fondness, hope, and warmth, while his love for Rosaline contains sadness and regret.
Body and Soul
Essay Grade: 81% (1,435 words, approx. 5 pages)
In "A Yellow Flower," the soul is the jail because it carries the procedure for which the body's forced to unconditionally obey. The storyteller believes in reincarnation after encountering Luc, whom he believes to be a copy of him.
Boethius and Plato's God
Essay Grade: 96% (1,324 words, approx. 4 pages)
Examines the differences and similarities of Boethius's God and Plato's God. Also provides a brief background of both philosophers. Focuses mainly on Plato's Timaeus and Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy.
Book IX of "The Odyssey"
Essay Grade: 86% (219 words, approx. 1 pages)
Provides an explanation of Book IX including personal feelings towards characters.
Book Review for Falling by Anne Provoost
Essay Grade: 83% (410 words, approx. 1 pages)
`Falling' by Anne Provoost is saturated with sadness anger and perhaps fear. Throughout the story, Lucas's experience is punctuated with fear, anger and sadness. As expected, the ill-use of power leads to even more sadness for Lucas at the end of the story, which is shown by the broken relationship between Caitlin and him.
Book Review of "The Shell"
Essay Grade: 92% (1,021 words, approx. 3 pages)
The dramatization of man verses nature in Colin Theile's novel, "The Shell."
Brave New World
Essay Grade: 82% (221 words, approx. 1 pages)
Essay provides a brief analysis of the novel "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley.
Breakdown of Humanity in "Blindness"
Essay Grade: 92% (1,180 words, approx. 4 pages)
In the book "Blindness" by Jose Saramago, the characters lack of vision breaks down their beahvior, and they begin to act like animals. This is symbolic of when individuals or society are blinded to their humanity, they become less than human.
Brutality
Essay Grade: 96% (1,136 words, approx. 4 pages)
The essay is about brutality using examples from Lord of the Flies by William Golding, "The Most Dangerous Game" by Connell, "When Children are Vicious" by Bergman and "Girls Just Want to be Mean" by Talbot.
Brutus as a Tragic Hero
Essay Grade: 92% (1,015 words, approx. 3 pages)
This essay is based on Shakespeare's character of Brutus as a tragic hero.
Brutus as Tragic Hero
Essay Grade: 88% (1,641 words, approx. 6 pages)
Essay shows how Brutus is the tragic hero instead of Caesar in the play "Julius Caesar."
Brutus Vs. Cassius
Essay Grade: 83% (619 words, approx. 2 pages)
The motivations of Brutus and Cassius for killing Caesar differ far more greatly than anything else between the two of them. They both see Caesar as a threat, and recognize his ambition to be king and rule completely over Rome and Italy. But Brutus takes part in the murder for the good of Rome. Morally, Brutus and Cassius could not be more different.
Buddhism in "Animekalai"
Essay Grade: 86% (1,583 words, approx. 5 pages)
How Buddhism is portrayed in the Indian epic novel "Manimekalai: The Dancer with the Magic Bowl" by Merchant-Prince Shattan. Also, some of the beliefs of Buddhists and history of Buddhism.
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