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| American Literature,
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Life of Pie,
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Macbeth,
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Daniel's Story
Essay Grade: 88% (437 words, approx. 2 pages)
Essay discusses the novel of "Daniel's Story" by Carol Matas.
Dante's Inferno: Perception of Good Vs. Evil
Essay Grade: 95% (1,129 words, approx. 4 pages)
Essay compares Dante's sense of morality with the modern sense. It compares what his ideas were and what the laws of today consider a major or minor offense.
David Williamson
Essay Grade: 88% (1,027 words, approx. 3 pages)
David Williamson's writing offers a truly Australian feel. In his plays "The Removalists," "The Club," and "Emerald City," Williamson uses everyday Australian slang to make his characters seem more believable, as well as various Australian stereotypes, social roles, and domestic issues.
Dawn, by Elie Wiesel
Essay Grade: 83% (455 words, approx. 2 pages)
A summary of and reaction to Elie Wiesel's novel Dawn, about an Israeli freedom fighter and his internal struggle over his assignment to execute a British soldier.
Dead Stars, Dead Love
Essay Grade: 75% (0 words, approx. 0 pages)
An analysis of the short story "Dead Stars," a story of "what if" as a married man again meets the woman he fell in love with many years earlier while engaged to his wife. The story is basically a compilation of the complicated circumstances that every man has to go through in life.
Dead to the World Essay
Essay Grade: 88% (1,055 words, approx. 4 pages)
Dead to the World - H. A. Hargreaves
Technology and how people depend so much on it.
Death and Retreat from the Global
Essay Grade: 81% (929 words, approx. 3 pages)
How death signifies a 'retreat from the global', literature assessed includes 'The Shipping News', by Annie Proulx, and advertisements from HSBC bank.
Deception in "The Odyssey"
Essay Grade: 92% (983 words, approx. 3 pages)
Deception is a key theme in the Greek epic poem "The Odyssey" by Homer. For example, Penelope uses deception to trick her suitors, Odysseus outsmarts the cyclops, and Odysseus uses trickery to eliminate those who have sided with the suitors.
Defining the Tragic Hero
Essay Grade: 86% (886 words, approx. 3 pages)
Sophocles' character Oedipus provides a good example of what a tragic hero is. Representing the human experience in its extreme and possessing human characteristics, ambitions, and goals, the tragic hero is capable of great suffering.
Definition of Alphabet
Essay Grade: 80% (259 words, approx. 1 pages)
Essay attempts to provide a definition of the word "alphabet."
Description of "Night"
Essay Grade: 83% (399 words, approx. 1 pages)
A descripion of the book "Night" by Elie Weisel.
Destiny
Essay Grade: 87% (1,491 words, approx. 5 pages)
This essay shows Hamlet's renewed faith and that there is a "divinity that shapes our ends."
Dickens's Craftsmanship of Plot and Character in Bleak House
Essay Grade: 96% (1,118 words, approx. 4 pages)
The structure of Bleak House is a cycle. Dickens has built a framework of brooding fog, and embedded all his characters and events into the framework. The story begins as well as ends in that foggy atmosphere. With the fog as a running through thread and the skillfully connected scenes as the beads, Bleak House is presented to readers like a tied up necklace, an exquisite production of Dickens's great craftsmanship.
Did They Do the Deed or Did They Not Do the Deed? That Is the Question.
Essay Grade: 81% (1,481 words, approx. 5 pages)
William Shakespeare's defining work may in fact be the masterpiece named after its ambivalent main character Hamlet. In this play the poet-playwright artfully guides his audience through a tangled plot of murder, revenge, madness, and perhaps even love - sexual relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia.
Differences of the Two Main Characters in "Dreaming in Cuban"
Essay Grade: 83% (720 words, approx. 2 pages)
In "Dreaming In Cuban" by Christina Garcia, the story of the Cuban Revolution is told through the eyes of one family. The mother, Lourdes, and the daughter, Piloar, have extremely divergent personality, which causes them suffering in many ways.
Different Levels of Civilization in the Odyssey
Essay Grade: 86% (1,784 words, approx. 6 pages)
Discusses Homer's epic, The Odyssey. Compares the three different settings in the text, Phaeacia, Cyclops' island and Ithaca. Argues that Phaeacia, for many apparent reasons, is the most civilized of the three societies.
Diomedes: One of the Finest Greek Soldiers
Essay Grade: 81% (995 words, approx. 3 pages)
Diomedes being a great Greek Soldier. It shows how although he is not the "best" fighter or most prominent soldier, he is a hero because he contains other qualities necessary for being a hero in the Archaic time period.
Discuss Austen's Presentation of Emma
Essay Grade: 83% (2,241 words, approx. 8 pages)
In the first Volume of "Emma", Austen has portrayed a character we doth find immature and naïve, but also endearing and kind hearted. Her obsession with class status means she appears to us as snobbish and above her station, plus the fact that we do not necessarily like what she is doing to her friend Harriett, whom she seems to be misleading.
Discuss the Ways in Which Shakespeare Presents Anti-semitism
Essay Grade: 88% (2,418 words, approx. 8 pages)
Nine years before "The Merchant of Venice" was performed, "The Jew of Malta" was written by Christopher Marlowe. The play also reflects themes of racial hatred and religious conflict which mirror the parallels of sixteenth century England and it is fair to say that Marlowe inspired "The Merchant of Venice."
Disgrace: David Lurie as Hero
Essay Grade: 86% (1,173 words, approx. 4 pages)
Reviews the book Disgrace. Explores the character of David Lurie. Considers his merits as a tragic hero.
Disguises in the Odyssey
Essay Grade: 86% (587 words, approx. 2 pages)
Describes how throughout the Odyssey, by Homer, disguises help the characters convey a fake identity, which is very helpful in achieving their goals. Reveals how the character Athena uses her disguises most of the time to help and assist people with their hardships and problems.
Does Hamlet Want Only Revenge?
Essay Grade: 86% (810 words, approx. 3 pages)
A theme commonly chosen for analysis in William Shakespeare's play "Hamlet" is that of revenge, which Hamlet seeks against Claudius for having killed Hamlet's father. However, Hamlet is not an ordinary person seeking the simplistic act of revenge; his considerations of both his relationships with others and ethical dilemmas as he plans his revenge reveal Hamlet's complex, noble character.
Does Shakespeare Present the Character of 'Shylock' as Villainous or Victimised?
Essay Grade: 83% (2,723 words, approx. 9 pages)
The character of Shylock entails the major themes of prejudice, anti-Semitism, deception and greed within the play. His language throughout the play is both powerful and captivating, and his aggressive, evasive, demanding character more than compensates for his supposed 'inferiority' as a Jew, and second-class citizen.
Don Quixote by Cervantes
Essay Grade: 83% (490 words, approx. 2 pages)
Discusses the novel Don Quixote, by Cervantes. Examines the major theme of humanity and details examples where Don Quixote demonstrates his humanity.
Dramatic Convention Analysis for Romeo and Juliet
Essay Grade: 83% (544 words, approx. 2 pages)
Juliet's Act II soliloquy in William Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet" ("O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?") provides the play's turning point, using both light and dark imagery. Had not Romeo eavesdropped on Juliet during this soliloquy, they may never have become star-crossed lovers. As a result of the soliloquy and the eavesdropping, the two young lovers fall in love with each other, make their plans for the future, and begin their trek that is destined to end tragically.
Dramatic Techniques in "No Sugar"
Essay Grade: 92% (988 words, approx. 3 pages)
Dramatic techniques helping to convey the ideologies of Jack Davis in "No Sugar". A play on Aboriginal injustices.
Dulce Et Decorum Est
Essay Grade: 78% (1,096 words, approx. 4 pages)
Tsitsi Dangarembga's book, "Nervous Conditions" portrays the oppression of women in Africa. This novel exemplifies the dual battle African women are fighting to emancipate themselves. They're simultaneously fighting the effects of colonialism and the patriarchal domination over women.
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