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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."
Calypso
Essay Grade: 79%   (264 words, approx. 1 pages)
Essay discusses how the character of Calypso is the concealer in "The Odyssey."
Cassius: A Foil to Brutus
Essay Grade: 88%   (881 words, approx. 3 pages)
Essay discusses how Cassius is a foil to Brutus in William Shakespeare's "The Tragedy of Julius Caesar."
Catharsis in Oedipus Rex
Essay Grade: 86%   (1,108 words, approx. 4 pages)
Describes the importance in Greek plays of catharsis. Details how it is designed to purify or to cleanse, and beautifully demonstrates the Greek playwrights in their finest era. Discusses the catharsis in Sophocles' play 'Oedipus Rex'.
Catherine and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights
Essay Grade: 83%   (576 words, approx. 2 pages)
Evaluates the relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights. In particular, the essay discusses how their love-hate bond is especially unique and heartfelt.
Cause and Effect
Essay Grade: 90%   (683 words, approx. 2 pages)
Essay shows how Medea, Oedipus, and Antigone lived sorrowful lives from the actions they took.
Causes and Effects of Rural Development on Rural Life
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,167 words, approx. 4 pages)
According to a novel, The Village By the Sea, by Anita Desai, there is a rapid growth of population in the city, Bombai, because people from the countryside keep moving in. Why do they immigrate and what are the effects?
Celestial Coalescence
Essay Grade: 83%   (2,540 words, approx. 9 pages)
Considered among the most venerable fourteenth-century poets on record, Geoffrey Chaucer and the Pearl Poet ("Pearl," "Purity," "Patience," and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight") share in the same literary practices through their incorporation of the dream narrative, satire of nobility, Boethius, and the Golden Section.
Celie's "The Color Purple"
Essay Grade: 89%   (810 words, approx. 3 pages)
Essay discusses the symbolism between Celie and "The Color Purple."
Censorship of "Balzac and the Little Seastress"
Essay Grade: 81%   (462 words, approx. 2 pages)
Censcorship of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie should not be tolerated in the Unites States. By denying books like Balzac to our youth, we are cutting off resources to a heightened education, as well as limiting individual thinking and philosophy, which is, once again, guaranteed by our constitution.
Cesure and Sympathy in Oedipus Rex
Essay Grade: 86%   (806 words, approx. 3 pages)
Discusses the play Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles. Explores how Sophocles translates his philosophy of life, of there being a harmony in the workings out of the universal order of things, into a harmony. Considers how Sophocles successfully cast Oedipus in a very pitiable light as a result of his misfortune, and, on the other hand, exposing the flaws in Oedipus'character in such a way as to invite strong condemnation of his failings.
Challenged Religion
Essay Grade: 87%   (537 words, approx. 2 pages)
Essay describes the effects the concentration camps had on the prisoners view of religion.
Change in "The Chrysalids"
Essay Grade: 91%   (944 words, approx. 3 pages)
Provides a description of change in John Whydam's "The Chrysalids."
Change Is Inevitable
Essay Grade: 95%   (591 words, approx. 2 pages)
Discusses how in the play "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Zeffirelli in various ways changes many scenes in his film, which enhances and sometimes detracts from the play.
Change of the Lead Character in 'the Girl with No Name'
Essay Grade: 83%   (620 words, approx. 2 pages)
Summarizes the story,' The Girl With No Name.' Describes how main character Matthew evolves from a naive child into an independent young man. Explores the relationship between him and No-name.
Changes over time in the Horror Literature Genre
Essay Grade: 83%   (1,178 words, approx. 4 pages)
The horror genre has evolved and taken numerous forms in different cultures. This can be seen by comparing "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley, the movie and television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," and "The Silence of the Lambs."
Chapters 1-4 of "Fly Away Peter"
Essay Grade: 89%   (898 words, approx. 3 pages)
Discusses the relationships between Ashley and Jim and the landscape of the story "Fly Away Peter."
Character Amidst Tragedy
Essay Grade: 96%   (1,124 words, approx. 4 pages)
Essay analyzes the portrayal of women in "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin.
Character Analysis Brutus
Essay Grade: 83%   (621 words, approx. 2 pages)
In the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, Brutus is depicted as honorable, loyal stoic, but gullible through what he says what he does and through what others say about him.
Character Analysis of Bosola
Essay Grade: 90%   (1,211 words, approx. 4 pages)
Essay provides a character analysis of Bosola from the play "The Duchess of Mali."
Character Analysis of Jake Barnes
Essay Grade: 96%   (2,624 words, approx. 9 pages)
The essay is a character analysis of Jake Barnes from the novel "The Sun Also Rises."
Character Analysis of Telemachus in Homer's "The Odyssey"
Essay Grade: 85%   (343 words, approx. 1 pages)
Character analysis of Telemachus in Homer's epic "The Odyssey."
Character Analysis: Antigone Vs. Ismene
Essay Grade: 90%   (212 words, approx. 1 pages)
Essay is a character analysis of the characters Antigone and Ismene in the novel "Antigone" by Sophocles.
Character and Emotion in Act 2 Scene 2 of "Translations"
Essay Grade: 96%   (2,379 words, approx. 8 pages)
A consideration of the ways in which Friel reveals character and emotion in Act 2 scene 2 of "Translations."
Character Narrative
Essay Grade: 88%   (636 words, approx. 2 pages)
Essay provides a character narrative of Jeffrey O' Connor.
Character Sketch of Emma Woodhouse
Essay Grade: 90%   (689 words, approx. 2 pages)
Character sketch of Emma Woodhouse from Jane Austen's "Emma."
Character Sketch: Hang in Paradise of the Blind
Essay Grade: 86%   (1,965 words, approx. 7 pages)
In Duong Thu Huong's novel Paradise of the Blind, Hang is a Vietnamese girl who has been deported to Russia and has a flashback of memories during her journey to Moscow. The novel outlines Hang's struggle to build their own paradise and her understanding of what it takes to achieve that paradise.
Character Study of Piggy in "Lord of the Flies"
Essay Grade: 88%   (574 words, approx. 2 pages)
Essay describes the character of Piggy and what he symbolizes on the island in William Golding's "Lord of the Flies."
Characterization in The Nun's Priest's Tale
Essay Grade: 83%   (391 words, approx. 1 pages)
Explores characterization in the Nun's Priest's Tale, from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Describes how every character is satirized in the story except for the single ideal character, the widow.
Characterization in Things Fall Apart
Essay Grade: 86%   (627 words, approx. 2 pages)
Examines the novel Things Fall Apart by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe. Analyzes the characters Mr. Smith and Mr. Brown. Explores how different they were.
Characterization of "Lysistrata"
Essay Grade: 92%   (792 words, approx. 3 pages)
Essay characterizes the Athenian woman, "Lysistrata" from the play "Lysistrata" by Aristrophanes.
Characterizations of the Canterbury Tales
Essay Grade: 83%   (717 words, approx. 2 pages)
Throughout his prologue to The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer does an excellent job molding different ways of describing characters, as is evidenced by the descriptions of the Prioress, Monk, and Friar.
Characters with Impact in "Lord of the Flies"
Essay Grade: 87%   (489 words, approx. 2 pages)
Essay is about a few of the characters who had the most impact in "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding.
Chaucer
Essay Grade: 86%   (262 words, approx. 1 pages)
Essay provides information on the literary works of Geoffrey Chaucer.
Chaucer's Construction of the Female Identity in the "Wife of Bath"
Essay Grade: 86%   (518 words, approx. 2 pages)
Chaucer's construction of the female identity in the "Wife of Bath" through his character Alison. The values of Chaucer's society and how they are presented in his work.
Chaucer's Retraction
Essay Grade: 84%   (414 words, approx. 1 pages)
Essay provides a discussion regarding Chaucer's retraction.

Chinese Cinderella
Essay Grade: 89%   (1,028 words, approx. 3 pages)
In Adeline Yen Mah's, Chinese Cinderella, life is not only a stuggle for a young girl's existence but also a triumph over all odds. Essay tells why the new genre of unhappy childhood memories has become so popular.
Choice of Women
Essay Grade: 83%   (603 words, approx. 2 pages)
Marilyn Yalom's "The Wife Today"

The author argues that many common perceptions about women are inaccurate.

Christian Story with Bits of Paganism
Essay Grade: 92%   (960 words, approx. 3 pages)
My essay is about Beowulf and whether or not it is a Christian piece of literature or a pagan piece.
Chrysalids- Chapter Summaries
Essay Grade: 96%   (1,884 words, approx. 6 pages)
Essay provides a review of each chapter of "The Chrysalids."
Classic Literary Heroes in The Iliad
Essay Grade: 91%   (985 words, approx. 3 pages)
This essay explains how Hector and Achilles, two characters from Homer's The Iliad, are classic literary heroes.
Classical Civilizations on Agamemnon
Essay Grade: 83%   (2,209 words, approx. 7 pages)
Analyzes Agamemnon and the three main characters Agamemnon, Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra and how they appeal to the audience.
Classical Literature
Essay Grade: 86%   (1,430 words, approx. 5 pages)
This essay discusses the development of literature during the period of classical literature. It especially outlines the early Greak literature
Colonialism in Modern Prose
Essay Grade: 86%   (635 words, approx. 2 pages)
Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness and E. M. Forster's novel A Passage to India both serve as condemnations of the process of colonialism, which reached its peak during the nineteenth century. Deeply disturbed by the improper treatment of the natives in the colonies, Conrad and Forster provided striking descriptions in their novels of the harsh, unjust reality of colonialism.
Coming of Age
Essay Grade: 87%   (327 words, approx. 1 pages)
Essay discusses the maturation process of the character of Telemakhos in "The Odyssey."
Coming of Age Analysis of "On the Rainy River"
Essay Grade: 88%   (455 words, approx. 2 pages)
Essay provides a coming of age analysis of the novel "On The Rainy River" by Tim O'Brien.
Coming of Age in Homer's the Odyssey
Essay Grade: 88%   (1,027 words, approx. 3 pages)
An explication of Telemakhos' emotional maturation and spiritual journey in Homer's The Odyssey. The example of Telemakhos heavily emphasizes this epic poem as a tale of identity.
Commentary on James Joyce's A Mother
Essay Grade: 96%   (1,435 words, approx. 5 pages)
A Mother, from James Joyce's collection of short stories Dubliners, portrays middle-class Catholic life in Dublin. Themes include paralysis, class distinction, culture and poverty.
Commentary: Things Fall Apart
Essay Grade: 81%   (0 words, approx. 0 pages)
Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart projects a general tone of death and loss through a number of literary devices that inflict emotions of sorrow. Achebe's intricate approach in projecting this tone utilizes such devices as repetition, illustrative word choice, and contrasting tone.
Common Sense
Essay Grade: 97%   (1,794 words, approx. 6 pages)
Deals with the document "Common Sense" that was written by Thomas Paine.
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