World Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 13

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Elements of high fantasy literature

Atl is among the few people to overcome the plague and as a result his sick father initiates and hands him the leadership of the tribe.
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War and Nature in Literature

At war time, pleasure is derived from the anguish and agony that is directed to the enemy as stated in Wilfred Owen's poem.
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Causes of Global Warming

Global warming is the increase in the earth's atmospheric temperatures due to a corresponding increase in the emissions of greenhouse gases, for example carbon dioxide and chlorofluorocarbons, which creates a 'greenhouse' effect: the retention of [...]
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“Utopia” by Thomas More

The name of the utopian land is the Green Spit; its inhabitants refer to it simply as "The Spit". Most people in Barrel work at forestry, maintaining the rainforests, or zoology, looking after the animals [...]
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Swahili-Speaking People

The main purpose of the paper is to consider three sources about Swahili speaking community and to understand whether the arguments presented in those works support or contradict the ideas presented in the article The [...]
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Harlem Renaissance: The Cultural Movement

In 1931, she collaborated with Langston Hughes in the production of the play "Mule Bone," which was never published because of the tension between the two writers, and in 1934, she authored her first novel, [...]
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Plot Fragmentation in Modern Comedy

All of these comedies feature the absence of a well-structured plot, the plenty of plot-unrelated self-referrals, on the part of the characters, and the inclusion of a number of primitively humorous gags.
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Literary Analysis of “Teddy”

However, the boy's intelligence is noted at this moment when he religiously turns his attention to floating orange peels beside the ocean liner, saying he saw the floating peels because he had a personal understanding [...]
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Letters from the Earth

Having being deported to space, he decided to visit the earth to determine the progress of God's experiment. In the third letter, Clemens criticizes the current Bible as lacking the originality of the earlier Bibles.
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The Betrothal in Santo Domingo

The repression that blacks suffered from under the rule of the white race generated discontent among the black and Creole racial groups residing on the island.
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Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales

The tales touch on various topics such as corruption and marriage, and they also unveil the immoral nature of the clergy in the modern Catholic churches.
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Consumerism Dangers in “No Logo” by Naomi Klein

Klein believes marketing analysts concoct the perceived value of their products in their offices and sell them to the masses. The importance of this state of affairs in export processing zones like China is indicative [...]
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Things Fall Apart: Ibo Hero Analysis

In addition to this, towards the end of the novel, he commits suicide due to the fact that he has no followers when it comes to dealing with the missionaries.
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Folk and Fairy Tales: Sleeping Beauty

I find it interesting the King was willing to take the gifts from the seven fairies and yet expect that he could cheat fate and avoid the curse by the old fairy.
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Folks and Fairly Tales

It is fascinating because even though Bluebeard was wealthy and had life trappings that could endear him to any woman, all women and girls could not stand the thoughts of marrying an ugly rich man [...]
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Folks and Fairy Tale. Cinderella

He found solace in this woman, and she was the perfect replacement of his late wife, and a mother figure for his children.
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Characteristics of Okwonko in Things Fall Apart

First, when he bullies his wives and sons in the homestead, he reveals to the white man that, in Africa, a man is the head of the family. Finally, in committing suicide, Okwonko demonstrates to [...]
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History of Sexuality by Foucault

One of the bases of power was the body that was perceived to be in the form of equipment while the other basis of power was applicable in the form of population.
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Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen

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The story of Moon starts with the description of a girl's affection to two blond twins who managed to humiliate her in the most violent way.
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Creation Myths: Theories of Myths

This longing to explore on the nature of creation through vivid accounts or tales, prompted the materialization of way of life and custom which in the long run led to formation of religions and subsequent [...]
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The Long Voyage by Jorge Semprun

Indeed, in some scenes the author builds the narration in a way that shows his uncertainty in the situation, and the change of external and internal seems to help the narrator to find the solution.
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“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.
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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".
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