CaSaWoMo: Essays

TitleAuthorYearDescription
ImaginationMatt Stoltz2005a final essay for CHID 390
Dream Songs and FreudMatt Stoltz2004an essay
A History of PoseidonRobert Reese2002a research paper about the portrayal of the god Poseidon in Greek literature (especially in Homers epics)
Chinua Achebe's Response to ConradRobert Reese2004essay suggesting that Chinua Achebe's novel, Things Fall Apart, was the antithesis to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Filial Piety in Chinese ReligionRobert Reese2003short essay describing the relation of filial piety with Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism
CafeteriaRobert Reese2001essay documenting the social interaction that takes place in the cafeteria
Views of ColumbineRobert Reese2001essay looking at the Columbine High School shootings from different points of view
The Relation of a Reader and Writer: Rodriguez and HoggartRobert Reese2002essay discussing how Richard Rodriguez incorporates the work of Richard Hoggart into his own
WaitressRobert Reese2004analysis of Jan Beatty's A Waitress's Instructions on Tipping or Get the Cash Up and Don't Waste My Time
Machiavellis PrinceRobert Reese1999essay outlining Niccolò Machiavellis political views reflected in The Prince
Hemingway's MasculinityRobert Reese2004an essay that shows how Hemingway's ideal of masculinity shows up in The Sun Also Rises
Flannery O'Connor's Support of the DevilRobert Reese2004an essay arguing that O'Connor is truly on the devil's side while writing Wise Blood
Three WivesRobert Reese2005an essay about Isaac Bashevis Singer's novel Enemies, A Love Story
Walter Mitty's RealityRobert Reese2004analysis of James Thurber's The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Legs as a Building BlockRobert Reese2003essay describing how the novel Legs serves as the foundation for the novel Billy Bathgate
Illegal Immigration is Harming AmericaAmy Reese2007an essay describing the problems caused by illegal Mexican immigrants to the U.S.
Election ReformsRobert Reese2003essay calling for reforms to the American presidential elections
GravityMatt Stoltz2003essay criticizing David Henry Hwangs play, M Butterfly
Mean God or Nice God?Robert Reese1998essay describing how The Scarlet Letter depicted God as an angry and vengeful being
The Garden of FettersMatt Stoltz2005an essay
Komödie und Friedrich DürrenmattMatt Stoltz2007en essay, in German
Class Status in Jane EyreRobert Reese2004an essay describing the way Charolette Bronte uses Jane Eyre as an example of a character that is able to transcend class boundaries
Should Huck be on the Shelf?Robert Reese1998essay defending The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a book that should be allowed in public schools
Abrigos de Piel Son un AsesinatoRobert Reese2002short essay about the ethical problems associated with the fur industry (en español)
Why Fire?Robert Reese2005a short essay about the short story
Ezeulu's Tragic Encounter with ColonialismRobert Reese2003essay describing the way in which colonialism destroyed the life of Ezeulu in Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God
Bowen's "Demon Lover"Robert Reese2004analysis of Elizabeth Bowen's short story
The Characters of Hard TimesRobert Reese2000essay explaining how the characters in Charles Dickens Hard Times represented the English social castes
1984 and LoveRobert Reese2004an essay describing the types of love displayed in George Orwell's 1984
The Ambivalence of the ColonizedRobert Reese2003essay explaining the way in which colonized people are forced to become like their colonizers, but are prevented from every successfully doing so
The Irony of RacismRobert Reese2004analysis of Wole Soyinka's use of irony in his poem Telephone Conversation
The Use of Simile in GeertzMatt Stoltz2005an essay
Narratives in Western ReligionsVinod Suresh2002religion final essay describing the way society identifies religions through stories and naratives
Marxist Theory in The MetamorphosisRobert Reese2004essay exploring the link between Franz Kafka's novella and the communist theories of Karl Marx
On CandideRobert Reese2000essay documenting Voltaires attacks on religion in Candide
Overcoming Divisions in A Passage to IndiaRobert Reese2004an essay about E. M. Forster's classic novel
Literary Descendants of the Colonial NativeRobert Reese2003comparison of colonial literature's native characters and post-colonial literature's European characters
Everyone is a HinduVinod Suresh2002essay exploring the universality of Hinduism
The Power of the Duke in "My Last Duchess"Robert Reese2004analysis of Robert Browning's poem
Relations Between Los Hermanos Penitentes and the Catholic ChurchRobert Reese2005a research paper analyzing the way the Penitentes and the Catholic Church have interacted with each other over time
Bernadette Peters: Star of the Many Avenues of Show BusinessVinod Suresh2002research paper describing the life and carreer of actress Burnadette Peters
Utopian SchoolRobert Reese2003essay describing what I see as the perfect school system
CheeseRobert Reese2005an informal essay about the history of cheese, cheesemaking, and other random cheese related information
The Creole Slave Rebellion: Fact and FictionRobert Reese2004comparison of the historial Creole slave ship rebellion and Frederick Douglass' retelling of it in The Heroic Slave
Chiasmus in Douglass' NarrativeRobert Reese2004essay documenting Frederick Douglass' use of the rhetorial device chiasmus in his autobiography
Wonder and GreenblattMatt Stoltz2005an essay
Different Yet the Same: Kami and ShenRobert Reese2003an essay exploring the relationship between Chinese shen and Japanese kami
Characteristics of the Heroic SlaveRobert Reese2004essay exploring the characteristics that all heroic slaves possessed
The Hundred Years WarRobert Reese1999essay about The Hundred Years War fought by England and France
The Battle of the Greek PoolRobert Reese2005an essay about David Bezmozgis' story
Misdirection & Excess in Ginsberg, Larkin, and BerrymanMatt Stoltz2005an essay discussing the misdirection and excess of the poets Ginsberg, Larkin, and Berryman
Freire the DepositorRobert Reese2002essay explaining how Freires own writing fails to be in the spirit of his problem-posing education ideals
Orientalism in Jane EyreRobert Reese2004an essay examining the use of race in Jane Eyre
Rosa's Past, Present, and FutureRobert Reese2005an essay about Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl
Berryman's VoiceMatt Stoltz2006Matt's thesis paper discussing the poetry of John Berryman
Kuhn and the Nature of Normal ScienceMatt Stoltz2005an essay
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