… fit. Also, I'm not really sure what his middle name is. Stephen J. Hawking by Rachel Finck         Stephen Hawking was born in January of 1942 in Oxford, England. He grew up near London and was educated…

… trends. There is nothing in the text that hasn't happened already." How does the novel work to shock readers into a recognition of the dangers of our contemporary world? 2637 words with quotes Shock in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is used to keep the…

… true. The very writing of a book implicates humans - even if the subject matter is the cretaceous period or the moon - because to write you have to have opposable thumbs. Snide remarks about the fact that I'm currently typing will just result in me…

… do a project about a certain Irish author by the name of Flann O'Brien. I have decided to do so because I have read a few of his books before, Further Cuttings From Cruiskeen Lawn, Myles Before Myles and The Hair Of The Dogma. Flann O'Brien and the way…

… of author Hayden Herrera. First printed in 1983 by Harper Collins, this book was reprinted in 2002. Herrera received help from the Graduate School of the City University of New York, as well as a grant from the Art History Program Dissertation Fund.…

… into an aristocratic family. In his childhood, Degas was never short of money. Throughout his life, unlike others, he never doubted his vocation as a painter. Also, Degas' family, unlike the families of other great artists like Michelangelo, always…

… explores Shakespeare's Hamlet through analyses of its characters, but most of all through an examination of the main character and his soul. Goethe inaccurately defines a person's soul as their underlying nature, which one infers remains…

… many similarities, both writers being from the Romantic Era. There are also a few differences in their styles that distinguish then from each other. Their extremely different backgrounds and life styles growing up is a reason for their different…

… of a girl who turns her misfortune into an encouraging story that is engaging and engrossing. At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced…

… Larry who is forced to confront issues of jealousy and confusion. Larry is forced to confront these issues when his father, who he does not know that well, comes home from the war. The "Oedipus Complex" is a term coined by Sigmund Freud in which…