World Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 11

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The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The authors use the character of the grand inquisitor to depict a savior of mankind. The power bestowed upon the grand inquisitor by the authors brings the mysteries of the roman church into limelight.
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Linguistics in Educational Programs

The demand by the California Indian Council to have the Bilingual Education Programs brought back in exchange for access to the oil reserves located in the Indian reservations land is in order and quite timely [...]
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Review: “Persepolis” by Marjane Satrapi

It is necessary to state that this department is opposed to the inclusion of this book in the seventh grade curriculum and argues that these students are not old enough to understand this book according [...]
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Effects of Transnational Organized Crime on Foreign Politics

In particular, he discusses the features of criminals, who engage in human trafficking, which is one of the types of transnational organized crimes. Review of Literature Shows that transnational organized crime is the new threat [...]
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“After Bin Laden” by Abdel Bari Atwan

The overall argument of the book "After Bin Laden" is that the organization has greatly spread, internationally and that the death of Osama Bin Laden will not be the end of the fight.
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Problem of Racial Slurs in Australia

In fact, the impact of the social factors on the evolution of the pejorative terms, which the residents of Australia use in order to insult the indigenous inhabitants of the state, is evident; the significance [...]
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A Dystopian State: Astutopia

The education system reinforces the essence of the dungeons, and the aim is to instill fear within the children so they can adhere to laid down teachings and doctrines.
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Magical Realism: Garcia Marquez

Magical realism is explained as the desire of the author to show the ordinary life of people with the instances of unreal, fantastic events.
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“Humor and Laughter” by Attardo

Since then up to now, a synthesis of the different elements of humor and laughter lacks thereby, triggering the relevance of evaluating the maturation of the field.
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The Scar of Colonialism and Ongoing Post-Colonialism

Travel The travel denoted in all the three works of Kincaid, and Desai, are typical of expatriation where the two women in Kincaid's texts travel to foreign lands as a result of heightened resistance to [...]
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Measuring the Communication Competency of EFL Learners

The major features of these types of tests are that they objectively measure the speaking abilities and competency of the examinee, they have a high statistical reliability, speaking tests allow for the standardization of the [...]
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Poem Research and Analysis: Dressmaker

By looking at this poem from this perspective, one can better understand this literary work and the message that the writer wanted to convey.eireann Lorsung wants the readers to be interested both in the subject [...]
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Los Pichiciegos by Enrique Fogwill

In that regard, Fogwill's approach to the presentation of the plot of the novel in the form of the collection of the testimonials of the real participants of the events is meaningful.
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Science & Nature in Frankenstein & Blade Runner

A novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is a romantic work that reflects the consequences of "blind science" and human ambition, and Blade Runner by Ridley Scott depicts the industrialized society and world of the future [...]
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The comics of Urbano Gomez

Urbano Gomez's was caught playing "...husband and wife with his cousin Hiccups behind the school lavatories". Although we sympathize him for his fate, the cause of his expulsion from the school is a comical matter.
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Last Virgin in Paradise

In the comedy, there is an emphasis on adjustment of the play to match cultural beliefs of the target audience so that the comedy becomes relevant to the society.
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Alienation in Douglas Coupland’s “Player One”

It is needless to mention of course, that the earlier mentioned issue fits rather well within the methodological framework of the Massey Lectures, as such that are supposed to serve the purpose of enlightening listeners [...]
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Language Policy and Cantonese Speaker

Since, over the last few decades, the impact of the Cantonese language in China has increased, sinking the significance of the traditional Chinese, or Putonghua, the Chinese government decided to reestablish the Putonghua language as [...]
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‘From Within and Without’ a World of Utopia

In this regard, the almost Marxist twist which I employed in the narrative depicts the dystopian world in line with the Marxist critical assessment of capitalism that points out the ever decreasing "unlimited faith in [...]
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Our Man in Havana

This is exactly the reason why, even though that as recently as during the course of the fifties, the idea that one should be willing to sacrifice its life for the sake of a 'nation' [...]
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Different Approaches to the Theme of Death

Facts and Reality In the first place, it is necessary to focus on the major similarities within poets' approach to the theme, i.e.the three major peculiarities of the Asian poetry. The reader understands that the [...]
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Jean-Paul Sartre and Jules Ferry

One of the critical arguments put forward by Sartre is that many nations colonized by Europeans could see that the colonizers failed to live up to the ideals of humanism that they often proclaimed.
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Is the literary expression of trauma gendered?

Drawing facts from the novel, Human Toll, the Western society presents men as the beneficiaries of the gender bias since the male folks engage the females in endless conflicts, and the women are the ones [...]
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Analysis of Style and Response to Stephen Jay Gould

In the area of punctuation, Gould's punctuation style is characteristically useful in the breaking of his sentences down, as he does this to improve the comprehensibility of the ideas he is conveying.
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Baoyu and the Green Delight

Despite the main aim of sending a boy to inspect the garden as a way to recollect himself after the loss of his best friend, sending Baoyu to the garden was also a means to [...]
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“Diet for a Warmer Planet” Julia Whitty

In the article "Diet for a Warmer Planet" Julia Whitty presents two specific ideas: that it is necessary to reduce the global carbon footprint made by humanity in order to prevent adverse climate change and [...]
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Traditional Literature: Is folk literature too violent?

This form of literature can be in form of folktales, music, sayings, and proverbs depicting the culture and livelihoods of the society. Of particular interest to this essay is the level of violence depicted in [...]
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Comic nature of Lysistrata

Despite the film revolving around sexual relations, Aristophanes has generally succeeded in bringing out the absurd nature of war, both to men and women.
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Great works of literature- Chinua Achebe

This book also brings out the wide impact of knowledge, education, and evangelism on the people lives and at psychological level, the damage is inflicted on Achebe's changing society as this brought the culture of [...]
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Reflection: The Concept of the “Islamic State”

Mohammed Ayoob is a professor of International Relations from Michigan State University and the author of one of the most interesting and worthwhile book about the Islamic world The Many Faces of Political Islam: Religion [...]
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The Paradoxes of Time Travel by David Lewis

The 'original' 2008 would represent the actual time when the poor scientist lived and did not know anything about the winning lottery numbers; on the other hand, the 'new' 2008 would represent a counterfactual time [...]
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“The Tale of the Heike”

It discusses the stories of 12th century and the main focus is the transition of Chinese and the Japanese. This is the initial stage that the belief of the Japanese is portrayed.
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A Play “Medea” by Euripides

Not only has there been a gender difference between men and women in life and social environment, but extreme discrimination and external conditions of the world and governmental ruling added to the role division.
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“Kokoro” a Novel Written by Soseki

There is also contradiction in the way that narrator and his father feel in regard to graduation. After Sensei learns that K is also in love with daughter of the widow, he proposes to her.
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Illness of the Mind

This also comes from the fact that Bartleby think very highly of himself, and being the person that he is, others must understand him and love him as he is."Torquemada at the Stake" is also [...]
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Gender Issues and Post-Colonialist Mood in Supernova

Dewi, however, does not interpret the given statement as the fact that knowledge is the source of power and power is the source of knowledge. The depth and palette of emotions that a single phrase [...]
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Writers who predicted the future

Years ago, in a meeting of the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society, George Scithers, the longtime editor of Asimov's Magazine, and grand old man of SF editing generally, gave a most reassuring piece of advice to [...]
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“Isis in Darkness” by Margaret Atwood

The eternal love between the gods and the characters from the story can be seen as the source of light, it is considered the most important part of the world.
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Gothic Literature

The choice of settings as "THE PIT, typical of hell........the Ultima Thule of all their punishments", shows the pervading elements of gothic literature.
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Shared Identity: Fostering a Strong Nationality

Through a shared language people form an identity, and in a country they feel a sense of nationalism. Therefore, the quest for a shared identity can become a source of strife and division in a [...]
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Schlepping through the Alps

The book's title is "Schlepping through the Alps" in reference to the Austrian Alps. The subtitle quips that the author's journey is a "search for the Jewish past with the last wandering shepherd".
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Religion in American Poetry

This is one of the main issues that should be considered. This is one of the main elements that the poet emphasizes in his work.
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Jekyll & Hyde, Dalloway

It discusses both the pain that a mismatch in sexual desire between a husband and a wife can create, and the power of a crush of one woman for another.
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Domination in the Book “Animal Farm”

The animals believed in the concept of equality and democracy. This discussion highlights some of the factors that influenced the social life of the animals within the farm.
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A Myth as a Set of Rules

It is a myth because most of the people who tend to believe it think that it is unfair to be biased on wealthy people.
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“American Grace” by Robert Putnam and David Campbell

The authors have provided a commendable insight into the religious landscape in the US. This is a charming and dependable book which offers a wide-ranging evaluation of the transformations and the function of religion in [...]
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Chevely, or Man of Honor

The book is based on the theme and symbolism of irony and shows instances, which women in the Victorian era suffered in the hands of their husbands as well as in-laws.
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Visions of Henry Adams and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

At the end of the 19th century the American society was involved in the process of changing the social principles, breaking stereotypes, and creating new revolutionary visions of the peculiarities of the social development.
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“We” by Yevgeny Zamyatin

I have just completed reading the manuscript for the book titled We by Yevgeny Zamyatin and would like to recommend that the book should be published for a number of reasons. In conclusion, the book [...]
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Oedipus the King and Hamlet

However, the fact is both Oedipus and Claudius managed to get the post of kingship after killing the former kings leaving the seats vacant. In conclusion, both Oedipus and King Claudius attained their crown after [...]
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An explication of the Character “Hester”

This paper will explicate the character "Hester" by analyzing her characters as well as pointing out metaphors and similes pertaining to her in the novel. The author states that "Hester is like a big monster" [...]
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Response to Destro’s claim on Faust

Here, Destro interprets it to mean what we were to subject Faust to was not the standard morality but that of the superman: "In reality, the law that Faust follows is not that of morality [...]
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Yang’s American Born Chinese

The main character of the first part is the Monkey King. The main question the author possesses in the tales of the novel is What Are Your Efforts to Succeed?
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Achebe’s Views on Racism

When they went to Africa, the whites found Africans a little too awkward in culture and the fact that they managed to manipulate them in their own continent was a proof enough that their way [...]
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Heroes after the Middle Ages

Though put in the beautiful Garden of Eden with one clear instruction not to eat from fruit tree in the middle of the garden, Satan, the leader of the banished and rebel angels, endures a [...]
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The New Science by Vico

The other aspect that is used to express the nature of the human race is the issue of the poetic metaphysics and how this influenced the issue and practice of poetry and the role that [...]
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The Hardboiled Qualities and Features in Detective Stories

Hardboiled fiction writing was popularized by Dashiell Hammett with his character Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, over the course of time in the late 1930s Raymond Chandler refined hardboiled writing through his Philip Marlowe [...]
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Change in Wiesel’s Understanding of God

But this did not change the faith he had in God and he continued believing that God was going to safe them. He believed that the Jews were faithful to God but his understanding was [...]
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Two-page précis over Wild Swans

Written by Jung Chang, the book focuses on the lifestyle of three women to give a detailed description of the traditional practices and political progression of the Chinese people.
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Tartuffe vs Candide

In his endeavor to address the situation, as it stood on the ground, Moliere employed the motif of social masking as a strategic style that brought out the concerns of religious hypocrisy before the eyes [...]
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A precise of the Three Daughters of China Wild Swan

The writer gives us the low point of the political struggle involving the Japanese and the Chinese citizens by telling a story of a Chinese who had been arrested and killed for committing an 'economic [...]
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The Contemporary Indian Society

According to Proust this portrays the oppression of the poor by the rich in the society because as it occurs later that, the producer of the television show did not have the money to give [...]
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