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Revisiting 'Rothschild's Fiddle', 2008.
This paper looks at the idiom of Anton Chekhov by revisiting his work 'Rothschild's Fiddle' and comparing the style to that of contemporary writer Raymond Carver.
2,631 words (approx. 10.5 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 79.95
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In this article, the writer notes that before author Anton Chekhov pursued a career in writing, he was a practicing physician and writing was a way for him to express his feelings, opinions, and experiences. His medical practice helped him to bring a unique perspective to his work. The writer points out that Chekhov expressed many themes in his work, including poverty, tragedy, and pain, yet his work seems simple and clear. It allows the reader to come to his or her own conclusions about the material presented. In this essay the writer explores Chekhov's story "Rothschild's Fiddle," and compares the style with that of the contemporary short story writer Raymond Carver.
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"Another symbol is seen in the association Chekhov creates between Yakov and the violin and the orchestra. The violin represents the influence of music that soothes him and can change his emotion. Yakov uses the violin and fiddling to forget about the losses he's suffered. As a violin player, he is one of a group of music players. The orchestra stands for togetherness, a group of musicians that play a piece of music smoothly and beautifully by cooperating. TThe orchestra could also represent the town Yakov lives in, where everyone is expected to have common courtesy and respect for each other. In that orchestra or environment, Yakov sticks out like a sore thumb. He often becomes uncomfortable with the surroundings where is playing and feels hatred toward the Jews around him. Seeing Yakov so insecure and uncomfortable shows his inability to feel a part of society. He can't fit in. He cannot see things from the other person's perspective and does not care how others feel. He is alienated and lacks basic social skills."
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Armand Aubigny, 2008.
An analysis of Armand Aubigny's character in the short story "Desiree's Baby" by Kate Chopin.
1,117 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper discusses how readers know something important about Armand Aubigny's character by the third paragraph of Kate Chopin's short story "Desiree's Baby". The paper looks at how Aubigny is shown to be as cold as steel, a slave master and very racist, but also attempts to defend Aubigny's actions, claiming that he is a man from a culture where patriarchal and bigoted behavior is acceptable.
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"Rather than embrace the child and reassure one's wife, the way an average man would likely do, Aubigny leaves Desiree and child alone and retreats into his dark world. He was so racist and hateful of any color of skin not his own, he felt that Desiree had brought shame and injury upon his family name. What kind of a man would fall in love so quickly, and then brutally dominate his pretty, soft, feminine wife (taking advantage of her sweetness in order to have a son so his name can be carried on), only to push her away when the child she bore for him did not live up to his expectations? The answer is Aubigny is a man from a culture where patriarchal and bigoted behavior is acceptable. Yes, contemptible to those with grace and loving personalities, but acceptable because for many individuals, that is just how life was in the south prior to the Civil War."
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"The Drunkard", 2008.
A summary and analysis of Frank O'Connor's story "The Drunkard".
1,305 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper introduces, discusses, and analyzes Frank O'Connor's story, "The Drunkard". More specifically, the paper relates the plot of the story, the author's use of narrative voice, the crucial phase of the story, and how, rather than a sad tale of a father's alcoholism, the story becomes a funny and ultimately uplifting tale of how the young boy in the story fulfilled his mother's implied plea to guard his father and to act as a brake upon the man's weakness. The paper concludes that the what seems to be a story of tragedy early on becomes a comic and hopeful tale about a young son making good on a promise to his mother.
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"Here is the crucial phrase of the story: "To this day I don't know whether he was forswearing me or the drink." This is the punch line that makes the tale into a positive tale, about the father foreswearing drink, rather than a story about either the father's or his son's eventual descent into alcoholism. "My brave little man!" she said with her eyes shining. "It was God did it you were there. You were his guardian angel." The fact that his father eventually foreswore drink indicates the extent to which the incident impacted his father in ways that the boy could not know at the time. However, the mother's joy and the fact that the boy was the father's guardian angel seem to indicate that this incident, for all of its negative implications, was a harbinger of good things to come. The fact that the boy became the drunkard of the title for one night rather than his father is the child's lasting legacy to his family's security, and eventually resulted in his father foreswearing drink for the rest of his life. What seems to be a story of tragedy early on becomes a comic and hopeful tale about a young son making good on a promise to his mother."
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Brazil, 2008.
This paper looks briefly at the history, economy and literature of Brazil.
986 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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The writer presents his research on the country of Brazil that portrays Brazil as a powerful, massive nation, with a diversity of people and a history of interesting literature. The writer discusses the injustices that have taken place in this nation and the rampant deforestation of the Amazon rainforests. The writer then looks at two examples of Brazilian literature.
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Researching Brazil
Personal Reflective Response
What I Learned
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"Brazil is an enormous country, covering 3.3 million square miles, with approximately 183 million people living within its sprawling boundaries, according to the BBC News (http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk). In fact Brazil is the largest and most influential nation in South America, and it takes up nearly half of the entire continent. It is the eighth largest economy in the world, and is a major producer of soybeans, sugarcane, coffee, rice, wheat, cotton, oranges, cocoa, and Brazil supplies the world with beef from its large cattle ranches in the south and western regions of the country. The Brazilian coastline is 4,500 miles long, and much of this region consists of very fertile land suitable for farming."
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Nawal Saadawi's "Woman at Point Zero", 2008.
Looks at the theme of female degradation in Egyptian novelist Nawal Saadawi's "Woman at Point Zero" (1998) and its broader feminist and cultural implications.
2,080 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 65.95
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This paper explains that, throughout the world today, in different ways and for different reasons, fiction, film, politics, the Internet and the mass media have taken a dim view of the particularly inhumane treatment of many Muslim women within southern areas, such as the Africa, where Islam is practiced. The paper then points out that the Egyptian woman novelist Nawal El Saadawi, who is also a physician and a feminist, has written many fictional and non-fictional works about women's unequal treatment by men in Islamic societies. "Woman at Point Zero" (1998 and first published in 1975 ) is a stark, disturbing and poignant novel. The paper relates the plot of Saadawi's story about the protagonist Firdaus, an Egyptian-born perpetually abused woman, who out of desperation becomes a prostitute and murders a pimp.
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"Moreover, Firdaus herself is neither an evil person nor a hardened criminal (or a criminal at all, except in the sense of having also been driven by desperation into being a prostitute); Firdaus is simply a chronically abused, rejected, degraded and humiliated 20th century Muslim woman in Egypt who arrives at "Ground Zero" on one especially unfortunate day. Within this story, Firdaus's degrading experiences both exemplify and underscore the degradation of Muslim women like herself generally, whose repressive and cruel societies under male-dominated fundamentalist Islam make it impossible for such women to catch a break in life."
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"The Story of an Hour", 2008.
This paper analyzes how marriage is portrayed in "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin.
2,072 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 65.95
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The paper shows how Chopin takes a dim view of marriage in general in "The Story of an Hour". The paper looks at Chopin's own marriage, which although happy, ended in tragedy just like this short story. The paper looks at the unhappy marriage of Chopin's mother and discusses how this is reflected in "The Story of an Hour".
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"Kate O'Flaherty Chopin was born into a wealthy but unhappy family in St. Louis, Missouri in 1850. Her mother was nearly 30 years younger than her father was, and he was a gruff, controlling man who sent Kate away to boarding school when she was only five. The family kept slaves, and there is speculation that her father, Thomas, fathered at least two children with the slave women of the family (Toth 6-8). There is a startling similarity between her mother's life and the life of Mrs. Mallard, which leads the reader to believe Kate was writing about her mother when she composed this short story. In 1855, Kate's father was riding a train as it took the inaugural run over a new bridge. The bridge collapsed, and Thomas O'Flaherty was one of the men killed in the accident."
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Cicero, 2008.
An overview of the philosophical theories and literature of Cicero.
1,539 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 50.95
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This paper discusses how Cicero put together two rather important philosophical works within the realm of political philosophy: "On Commonwealth" and "On Law". It looks at how, though rarely regarded by modern Western philosophers as one of the most influential thinkers within the tradition, Cicero is nonetheless responsible for bringing the classical Greek perspective back into the Roman school of philosophy. It also examines how Cicero also was one of the first philosophers to introduce the notion of Natural Law into the equation of the ideal society--though he is rarely credited with this achievement.
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"At several points within On Commonwealth and On Law Cicero attempts to illustrate the early days of the Roman republic as being far closer to an in ideal society than the age from which he wrote. He appeals to the great leader, Marius, who was the first consul to arise out of the Republic as an individual leader. Out of the struggles of the Punic Wars, from which Rome created much of its early identity as a state in which anyone could live within, the Roman Republic, in reality, began to deteriorate with the naming of Marius as consul. The Punic Wars lasted over a century--between 264 BCE and 146 BCE--but by the time that Rome finally managed to utterly defeat its only major Mediterranean rival, the vast empire that had been accumulated could no longer be stably supported by the Republic as it had functioned until that point. "
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"A Gathering of Old Men.", 2008.
An overview of the book "A Gathering of Old Men", by Ernest J. Gaines.
1,477 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 48.95
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The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the novel "A Gathering of Old Men" by Ernest J. Gaines. Specifically it describes and assesses how the novel depicts the culture that it is portraying. "A Gathering of Old Men" indicates that even in the relatively modern South, hatred and old ideas still exist. Slavery may have ended in the 19th century, but the residual effects of that institution still follow blacks and whites in the South. The historical context of this moving book illustrates that quite clearly.
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"Ernest J. Gaines was born on January 15, 1933 on the River Lake Plantation in Louisiana. He worked in the cane fields of the plantation when he was a child, and the setting offers the background for much of his fiction. He says, "Though the places in my stories and novels are imaginary ones, they are based pretty much on the place where I grew up and the surrounding areas where I worked, went to school, and traveled as a child. My characters speak the way people speak in that area" (Bauer). He has written numerous novels and short stories, and almost all of them tell the emotional stories of black people struggling to live in a largely white world, just like this one. He has won numerous awards and recognition for his novels, including a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Guggenheim fellow, and a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellow (Bauer). He is a professor of English in Lafayette, Louisiana, and he continues to write compelling tales about black life and social issues in his home state."
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Kurt Vonnegut, 2008.
An analysis of the life, works, character and unique contribution to American fiction of Kurt Vonnegut.
1,202 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper discusses how Kurt Vonnegut's novels such as "Cat's Cradle" and "Slaughterhouse Five" have a reputation both as great literary classics and great works of underground fiction. It looks at how "Slaughterhouse Five" is his most famous novel and also regarded his most personal, as it was based on his experiences as a prisoner of war in Germany during the Allied firebombing of Dresden in 1945. It also discusses how Vonnegut is credited with helping to elevate the genre of science fiction, once considered a staple of pulp magazine racks, to that of high art and how "Cat's Cradle" tells the tale of scientists trying to create 'ice-nine,' a crystal that could turn all water solid and thus destroy all life on earth.
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"Vonnegut is credited with helping to elevate the genre of science fiction, once considered a staple of pulp magazine racks, to that of high art. Cat's Cradle tells the tale of scientists trying to create 'ice-nine,' a crystal that could turn all water solid and thus destroy all life on the earth. In 1963, Cat's Cradle slowly developed a readership as Cold War Americans were increasingly receptive to a book that showed the dangerous potential of science and technology to develop faster than ethics and morality ("Novelist Kurt Vonnegut dies at 84," CNN.com, 2007, p.1) The novel, takes its title from an Eskimo game in which children try to snare the sun with string (Smith, 2007, p.1). Although its first printing sold only 500 copies, it has become a staple of English classes all over America today (Smith, 2007, p.1)."
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