April 27, 1997 SP 200 Bee y†n°lti', shima'. You have spoken, my mother. That you, the Earth, above and below, are the embodiment of us all. As with the beat of the drum, you breathe life into us all. From...
December 11, 1996 Soc 360 He pulled the cassette tape case out from the inside of his jacket and for the first time in my life I got to see what a hit of acid truly looked like. All my...
September 30, 1995 History 408 There are more than 300 known Native American tribes living on the North American continent. Each with their own unique world view, belief system, rituals and ceremonies. The Indians of the great Pacific Northwest are...
August 27, 1995 Hist 408 First discovered in 1775, by Bruno de Hezeta, later named by the American Robert Gray in 1792 (Lang 1992 : 4) the Columbia River was the most densely populated in Indian tribes (Zuker, et.al. 1983...
November 18, 1996 Engl 499 Not much has been written on what many scholars call Lovecraft's dreamlands fiction, from which The Silver Key is taken. The major reason is that Lovecraft, himself, wrote many letters to friends and fans describing...
Writing a story is a lot like putting together pieces of a puzzle. The words become the individual pieces that are connected to form sentences. Although there are many different types of words and ways to assemble your story, there...
November 19, 1995 E 389 In this world there are many different ways of interacting with others, Nature, and life. In To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf examines two very different ways of viewing life. The first reflects an interaction with...
December 10, 1995 E 389 The first thing one notices in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus is wings. Sophie Fevvers, aerialist extraordinarre, has wings. Glorious angelic, birdlike wings that she uses to fly. Not in the literal sense of...
August 27, 1956 English 388 During the Victorian era, there was great controversy over the roles of women and what constituted the ideal woman. For the better half of the era, women were seen as pure, pious and innocent. They...
October 23, 1996 Engl 354 Our society places a heavy importance on technology and its jargon. It seems like every day a new term is developed or some new technology-based fad erupts. This mania is described within Michael Heim's article,...
December 3, 1996 Engl 354 They come out at night through wire fences. They know that if they are caught, they could be thrown in jail for it. Yet, the thrill and danger of doing it-- breaking the law-- lures...
April 24, 1996 E 351 They dressed the stage with two blue and warn velvet chairs. A pitcher of water sits atop a table next to two water glasses; this ensemble divided the chairs. The lecture hall contained the excited...
March 12, 1996 Engl 338 Proposing a new set of environmental ethics, Callenbach's visionary novel Ecotopia depicts a necessary, evolutionary step in the way environmentalism in America should be seen. The novel addresses the issue of whether or not an...
May 1, 1996 E 338 Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek explores the ways we perceive Nature and our connections to it. The novel is structured around series of epiphanic moments and images which attempt to define our relationship to...
November 2, 1995 Engl 332 Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Or so they say. However, in "Sonnet 130," written by William Shakespeare, the speaker describes a much different situation. Where a woman's outer beauty is seen as...
December 20, 1995 E 332 Despite its name and the implications of a middle or stagnant period, art and literature flourished during the old english period (Norton 1). Much of the history during this period is rooted in the Anglo-saxon...
February 11, 1996 Engl 332 William Blake's poem, "The Garden of Love" tells of a young man's past, a time when he used to play in a garden untamed by man's hand. This poem, from Blake's Songs of Innocence and...
March 9, 1996 Engl 332 What draws the reader's attention to Blake's "The Little Black Boy" is the way in which Blake uses the cloud. There are two different ways in which Blake uses the cloud imagery. On the surface...
April 20, 1996 E 332 The industrial revolution changed the world. Not only did it procure new methods of producing items and advancing the quality of life, it created a fundamental change in the way that the world-- Nature-- was...
May 6, 1996 Engl 332 During the Restoration/ Eighteenth Century most poets, being concerned with the development of the novel and what it had done to the poetic form chose to write melancholic poems that were concerned with the "morbid...
August 27, 1956 Engl 331 Carefully constructed, The Wedding Banquet tells a tale of love revolving around sexes, cultures and even time. There are two paralleling love stories within the screenplay. The first one is between Wai Tung and his...
April 13, 1996 Engl 311 Set in post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, Cynthia Kadohata's novel In the Heart of the Valley of Love uses symbolism in a way that forces the reader to see beneath the surface of the prose. When the...
September 24, 1996 Engl 305 Kenneth Branagh's film version of Much Ado About Nothing and Shakespeare's play Much Ado About Nothing incorporate the illusion of masks to illustrate the juxtaposition of the characters' inner and outer feelings towards one another....
November 17, 1996 Engl 305 In order to prove his existence, Renee Descartes said "I think, therefore I am." This same logic can be applied to rationalizing the existence of the faeries in A Midsummer Night's Dream. The reality within...
October 21, 1995 Engl 302 James Joyce's "A Little Cloud," depicts the world through the eyes of an Irish working-class man. It is a story about one man's failure to achieve his dreams and aspirations. The narration and setting work...
September 28, 1995 Engl 302 The first thing the reader notices in Isak Dinesen's story is the title. "The Ring," is exactly that, an allegory based around a wedding band and what it represents: marriage, magic, or the object itself....
December 12, 1995 E 302 Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, transcends the realm between Gothic horror and scientific fact. Its "ultimate message concerning man's relationship to the acquisition of knowledge and things brought into being out of that knowledge" is a...
August 27, 1956 E160 Since the beginning of written history, man has been obsessed with the ending of the world. The Hebrew and Christian apocalypse myths, or The Book of Revelation and The Book of Daniel, are two of the...
March 9, 1997 Anth 350 Question One : Languages become related when they develop near one another and have common traits in their constructions. Languages that are related share common traits in sound, grammatical structure, and spelling-- and in most...
April 18, 1997 Anthro 303 In humanity's search for knowledge there are three areas in which we have yet to agree within the anthropological field of study. These areas being the concepts of religion, magic, and myth. There are so...