Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 72

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The Market Place: A Woman with a Child

On the one hand, it is a bit challenging to express the emotions and thoughts of the main characters in the chosen situation.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 497

Learning to See & Learning to Listen

Thesis statement: learning to listen is easy as compared to learning to see but hard to perfect. Even though it is the easiest approach to learning, listening remains the hardest skill to perfect as compared [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 668

Story of Jacob and Esau

Unfortunately, his wife Rebecca overheard the conversation and since he loved Jacob more, he advised his beloved son to lie to his father that he was Esau.
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  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 746

The Problem with Mr. Gunes

However, the principle made a point to assure Jake that he would not get into any trouble as a result of this suspension.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 607

Rhetorical Analysis of the Article

Having further introduced the main thesis of the essay and having given some background information, the writer moves smoothly to the body of the piece.
  • Subjects: Historical Fiction Comparison
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 748

Some Thoughts on what is to be Done

While he provides a bare account of development, he is not to be considered pessimistic but instead aims to make people aware of the facts of development motives, especially by the western countries.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 682

“On Killing” by Dave Grossman

Ironically, soldiers are trained to kill; that is, silencing the voice against killing in then, yet are expected to resurrect this feeling to live peacefully in society.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1153

Metamorphoses by Ovid: The Character of Phaeton

The character of Phaeton represents a perfect collection of different elements like false confidence in personal powers and inability to listen to parents words that are inherent to many young people; Phaeton's complexities and desire [...]
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  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 627

How Serfdom Saved the Woman’s Movement

According to Flanagan, "...because it reveals the unpleasant truth that life presents a series of choices, each of which precludes a host of other attractive possibilities is that when a mother works, something is lost".
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 586

Common Sense and Related Writings

Paine talks of government as a necessary evil, emphasizes on state of nature, underlines the inevitability of American independence and British oppression, highlights the problems of monarchy, and finally sheds some light on America's relationship [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 579

What Makes a Real Hero: Ideas by Bolt, Douglas, and Albom

A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave, and Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom are the three works from different times, which help me [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 691

Review of Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy

To my mind, one of the major goals, which Bellamy wanted to achieve is to provide the reader with an opportunity to see one of the possible variants of our future and underline the fact [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 846

San Manuel Bueno, Mártir

The only purpose of his arrival to the village is to take his mother and sister to the larger, progressive city.
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 837

Henry Thoreau: The Concept of the Friendship

Not every person is able to understand the essence of nature, its uniqueness, and importance. To my mind, his close connection to nature and a kind of isolation from people helped him to understand deeper [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 593