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Plutarch's "Comparison of Pompey with Agesilaus", 2007.
This paper critiques the historical significance of Plutarch's "Comparison of Pompey with Agesilaus".
1,310 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper introduces, discussees, and analyzes Plutarch's "Comparison of Pompey with Agesilaus". Specifically, the paper considers the historical significance of the document about the time, place, and environment in which it was created. The paper explains that the comparison of Pompey and Agesilaus is valuable for the insight it gives into both men, including their motivation, personalities, strengths, and weaknesses.
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"A quick reading of the document offers several historical points, including information on the culture, religious beliefs, and social customs of the times. First, the author refers to a "false gloss on the oracle" in relation to Agesilaus and his reign. This indicates the importance of oracles and sooth-sayers during the time. In fact, civilizations relied on oracles for much of their decision-making, including laws and military actions. Indeed, Plutarch himself served Apollo at the Oracle at Delphi. Thus, oracles were extremely important in the environment of the time."
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Comparison of Poetry by Robert Frost and William Wordsworth, 2002.
An analysis of several of the poems written by Robert Frost and William Wordsworth and a comparison of their styles.
855 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 0 sources, $ 30.95
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By examining specific poems by Frost and Wordsworth the author of this paper is able to draw comparisons between their two styles and note on differences and similarities. The author notes, for example, that both Frost and Wordsworth maintain the idea that poetry should be written in the natural language, rather than elaborating to make the poems perplexing. Poems analyzed are "The World is too Much with Us" and "The Road not Taken".
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"It is known that Frost will second-guess himself somewhere down the line. Frost imagines himself in the future, discussing his life with others. When "sigh" is written, he admits that he will not say that he took the road less traveled by and that has made all the difference. Instead he will say that there is no right path, just the chosen path. Their differences with their imagination consists of Frost looking to the future wondering what he would say about the path he took, Wordsworth wants to go back in the past."
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Comparison of Three Versions of "Hamlet", 2002.
A comparison Shakespeare's "Hamlet", Michael Almereyda?s film adaptation of Shakespeare?s text, and Tom Stoppard?s work, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead."
1,675 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 54.95
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This paper compares the way three writers use adaptations of earlier texts to write their own versions of "Hamlet." The paper includes a comparison of Shakespeare's original "Hamlet", since he also based his version upon earlier Danish historical texts and stories written about Hamlet.
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"Shakespeare?s Hamlet, Michael Almereyda?s film adaptation of Shakespeare?s text, and Tom Stoppard?s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which uses both characters and scenes from Shakespeare?s play to create a new work, all offer radically different variations on the theme of Hamlet. While Almereyda edits Shakespeare?s Hamlet down and changes its context and the medium of presentation in order to give the 400 year-old work a new millennial resonance, Stoppard almost uses Shakespeare?s Hamlet as a sort of leitmotif in quilting a new mosaic work. Stoppard uses the familiar characters of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and the pieces of the play in which those characters appear, but the rest of his work is clearly informed by a twentieth century sensibility?his work is as influenced by Beckett?s Waiting for Godot as it is by Elizabethan drama. These two adaptations are created through a conscious decision to place the new text in dialogue with Shakespeare?s ?master? text, which is the culturally dominant form of Hamlet. These other versions seek, however, to explore the very possibilities left unexplored by the master text, or else to explore the gaps and spaces that the master text has left open for creative contemplation in its devotion to the single path of narrative that Shakespeare chose."
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Poetic Comparison, 2006.
A comparison between "Heirloom" by A. M. Klein and "Keine Lazarovitch: 1870-1959" by Irving Layton.
1,057 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 37.95
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The paper discusses how both poems namely, "Heirloom" and "Keine Lazarovitch" deal with the subject of parental death from the perspective of Jewish culture and faith. The paper also highlights the differences between the two poems, Layton eulogizes his mother and Klein his father. The author of the paper highlights the different tones of the two poems and cites examples to qualify these differences.
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"But although similarly, "Keine Lazarovitch" is a poem of specificity, of specific dates much like the specific Jewish references to the "Books of the Baal Shem Tov, and of his wonders," (5) Layton's poem is a poem of modern specificity and connection, about the loneliness of growing old that the poet once witnessed in his mother, that he now experiences in his own life, rather than the "Pamphlets upon the devil and his crew;
Prayers against road demons, witches, thunders;/And sundry other tomes for a good Jew," of Klein. (8-10) Layton does not take on the older voice of an older Jewish era, as does Klein. Klein's efforts to access his ultimately inaccessible father, lost to another time only come through books-but Layton's efforts come after he has lived and grown old like his mother, and can appreciate her struggle and frustration with the limits of her existence and advancing age in his own body."
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Short Story Comparison, 2004.
Comparison and contrast of William Faulkner's story, "A Rose for Emily", and Katherine Mansfield's story, "Miss Brill".
1,139 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper is a compare-and-contrast essay that illustrates the main characters in the two stories, "Miss Brill" and "A Rose for Emily". The paper shows the similarities and differences in the personalities and attitude of both characters.
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""A Rose For Miss Emily" by William Faulkner and "Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield relates the stories of two women who had been through a lot in their past lives and were trying to relive their past in their present. The characters of both Miss Emily and Miss Brill are the same. While Miss Brill relates her past to her present with happy thoughts, Miss Emily considers her present an era that is trying to drift her away from her past. Both the characters of Miss Brill and Miss Emily symbolize loneliness. While Miss Brill tries to communicate with the outer world, Miss Emily on the other hand shuts herself away from her neighbors and town people. Both the characters are the same and yet so different in their attitude and their personality."
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A Comparison of "The Great Gatsby" and "The Sun Also Rises", 2000.
A comparison of the common themes of wealth, drunkeness and sex in "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald and "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway.
3,143 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 91.95
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An examination of works from both authors which closely examine American realities through characters that pursue wealth, drunkenness and sex with the hope that they will provide at least the possibility of some sort of meaning.
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""The Great Gatsby" and "The Sun Also Rises" by F. Scott Fitzgerald: Wealth, Drunkenness and Sex
Like other writers of the 1920's, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway were fascinated by what had become of the American Dream. The impact of World War I on both Fitzgerald and Hemingway and on their generation was tremendous. Indeed, many writers in the postwar period took on the unpleasant task of exposing the degradation of the American Dream; of covering the grossest aspects of selfishness, hypocrisy and moral vacuum. Fitzgerald and Hemingway?s characters are a careless, aimless, pleasure-seeking crowd ?which is clearly emblematic of a generation of lost souls. Before Hemingway?s novel, The Sun Also Rises, opens, he quotes Gertrude Stein who names the generation that came of age during the First World War as the ?lost generation.? Indeed, the pre-war values of love, faith, manhood and womanhood, which previously gave meaning to life, fail to offer an adequate answer to Fitzgerald?s and Hemingway?s characters who try to produce meaning in a world seemingly lost to rampant, amoral consumerism and loveless-ness. Both authors closely examine American realities through characters that wander through endless experiences of wealth, drunkenness and sex with the hope that they will provide at least the possibility of some sort of dependable meaning. "
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Edward Taylor and Jonathan Edwards: A Theological Comparison, 2001.
This paper is a comparison of two pastors in Colonial America, Edward Taylor and Jonathan Edwards.
990 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 35.95
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This paper looks at two Colonial American pastors, Edward Taylor and Jonathan Edwards. The role these men played in the lives of the people is examined in detail since during these times, all theological knowledge was derived from their local pastor. A pastor was their only connection to God and one's learning how to get to heaven, therefore his correct interpretation of the Bible was crucial to their spirituality. Through their sermons, each of these men hoped to lead their congregations to salvation, but they had different methods of achieving this goal. Taylor used love, joy, praise and worship while Edwards used fear, revenge, hatred, dark imagery, and scorn.
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"Taylor?s ?Joy?? is a poem about the souls of ?saints? (people who were devout members of the church while living) traveling in the ?coach? of Jesus? arms toward heaven (3,5). Taylor uses this imagined scenario to demonstrate to his congregation the right way to live while on earth, and how one gets to heaven. The saints sing for joy as they travel, ?Enfir?de with holy Flame!(7). If something ?slips? (i.e. their faith or righteousness) they fix it in haste, and are made more superior in the eyes of God than before (13). Taylor is trying to convey to congregants that God notices the rectification of a sin. Taylor says that in all areas of life ?publick, and private, any And secret too,? that one is to praise God and act in accordance with His will (19,20). Taylor proclaims that on the way to heaven, the ?saints? see other souls who aren?t in Christ?s protective arms (25-28). He emphasizes that they can get to heaven as well if they mend their ways."
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