Essays Tagged: "love affair"

Vincent Willem Van Gogh

to the Longon Office took place in 1873.After transfering to London, England Vincent had an unhappy love affair that touched off his natrually unstable temperament, in which caused him his dismissal f ...

(2 pages) 140 0 4.2 Mar/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Fallen Souls, An essay about three people from Literature, History, or Present times that would be in "The Cantos of the Inferno" by Dante

l in theInferno will live forever in eternal suffering.I. IntroductionII. Medea and JasonA. Jason's love affair.B. Medea and the three children exiled.C. Medea's slaying of the three children and Glau ...

(3 pages) 71 0 3.7 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Fallen Souls, An essay about three people from Literature, History, or Present times that would be in "The Cantos of the Inferno" by Dante

l in theInferno will live forever in eternal suffering.I. IntroductionII. Medea and JasonA. Jason's love affair.B. Medea and the three children exiled.C. Medea's slaying of the three children and Glau ...

(3 pages) 37 0 3.0 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Peter Abelard's Heloise: On being a woman in Europe's Middle Ages.

imself. His brilliant academic career was cut short in 1118-19, however, by the consequences of his love affair with Heloise (1098-1164, his junior by 22 years), the young niece of Canon Fulbert of No ... h-tech christening). Although they married - against Heloise's will, for she preferred the title of lover to that of wife - Abelard kept the marriage secret and sent Heloise off to a convent at a time ...

(6 pages) 158 2 4.0 Apr/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Realism and how authors like Mark Twain and F. Scott Fitzgerald give a "tell it like it is" writing in the stories. An author can only write realistically about what he/she knows.

ntry to the city to make his fortune? Why does an apparently happily married woman decide to have a love affair? What leads a woman to accept or reject a particular man? In trying to answer these ques ... in Huck Finn isn't even really Huck...it's the river. Gatsby is shaped by external factors such as love, money and other people's ideals. Nothing that happens is glorified or exaggerated. In my opini ...

(7 pages) 122 0 3.3 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Financing Ballparks of Today.

The love affair between the American public and professional sports dates back more than 100 years, to t ...

(24 pages) 265 0 4.1 Nov/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

This essay has to do with Catullus' poetry. How does he feel love and hate for his lover, Lesbia?

Can a person both hate and love at the same time? In Catullus' poetry, he displays the two-sided affection he has for his lover ... try, he displays the two-sided affection he has for his lover, Lesbia. Through her, he presents the love affair in which he experiences the joy of passionate love requited and the torment of betrayal, ... the same time.On one hand, Lesbia brings Catullus nothing but happiness. He tells her to "live and love" with him without caring about what "sour old men say." The poet emphasizes her beauty and feel ...

(3 pages) 32 0 4.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

The Vision of Mary HEaton Vorse, brief biography and my opinion

Village in NYC and became a writer in the 1980's.Heaton had two tragic marriages and an even worse love affair. She had two children to which she considered she failed as a mother to. Mary Heaton cur ...

(2 pages) 22 0 3.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Sons and Lovers-Use of setting

In Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence uses setting to comment on a significant moment in the plot. The descriptive p ... ry end of the novel. Lawrence uses the setting to describe Paul Morel's release from the passionate love affair that he has with Miriam Leivers, his intense relationship with married Clare Dawes, and ... conclusion, D.H. Lawrence brilliantly uses the setting and surroundings of this passage in Sons and Lovers to display Paul Morel's desire to live through: the endless space around Paul, the descriptio ...

(2 pages) 41 1 4.5 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

When "A Nice Personality" Means Something

esman I ever met, but in today's world it should read "smaller, smoother, slower". Americans have a love affair with the automobile, but the love may be dying a slow death as the latest technology, el ...

(2 pages) 44 2 4.5 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Compare characterisation in the Age of Innocence and Poor Things

attracted to one another, and by the code of conduct of New York society Archer decides to end this love affair with Ellen and goes back to May.A brief outline of Poor Things is about Godwin Baxter gi ...

(2 pages) 80 2 1.5 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies

Cleopatra

30 B.C., her reign as Queen of Egypt was 51-30 B.C. Many famous plays and operas were made over her love affair with Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony. In many ways Cleopatra changed the course of histor ... l favorite being the Cleopatra movie with Elizabeth Taylor, made in 1963. The movie was a beautiful love story and has entertained audiences with its elaborate sets, daring costumes, and thrilling bat ...

(4 pages) 57 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Destiny, Love, and Suffering: The Relationship between Aeneas and Dido

The wretched love affair of Aeneas and Dido is one of the most prominent events in The Aeneid by Virgil. In The A ... events in The Aeneid by Virgil. In The Aeneid, love is represented in the same manner as the gods. Love is shown as an outside force acting upon mortals, not a function of the individual's free will ... get to Italy in order to establish the Roman line and eventual Empire and because of these duties, love is something Aeneas can never fully succumb to. To Virgil, love is a force at odds with law and ...

(3 pages) 80 0 4.6 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

"The Great Gatsby" By: F. Scott Fitzgerald The tragic result of the American Dream in it's false reality

ins that all this glory will result in happiness. To get this bliss Jay chooses to use the drive of love to justify the illegal ways of reaching "the American Dream". Many of the 19th century T ... ult life trying to recapture the past and, finally, dies in its pursuit. In this pursuit, Jay had a love affair with the beautiful and enchanting Daisy Fay. Knowing he could not marry her because of t ...

(3 pages) 70 0 3.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Legend by David Gemmell, evaluation essay

the speaker's situation. Upon closer examination, Donne weaves a truly intricate tale of one man's love for another woman through the actions of a miniscule flea. Donne begins by presenting th ... ugh the actions of a miniscule flea. Donne begins by presenting the initial situation in his love affair; the introduction of the flea. In this poem, the flea literally is a representation of w ...

(3 pages) 23 0 0.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

The Great Gatsby

The characters in the book are Gatsby, a handsome, wealthy man who seems to be very lonely and lovestruck over Daisy. Daisy is now married but never got over her love for Gatsby. Nick Carraway wa ... d to be improved like Gatsby but seemed to be very sain. Tom Buchanan is married to Daisy but has a love affair with Myrtle. Myrtle is an unhappy wife of a mechanic who is very poor. The story ...

(2 pages) 24 0 3.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Ernest Hemingway- female and male

the aggressively male stereotype so dear to Hemingway. An important point that emerges from these 'love stories' in that they usually depict the love-relationship as a failure. All the stories that r ... failure. All the stories that read , none of them depicted a satisfactory lasting, mutually shared love between a man and a woman."The End of something," for instance, shows Nick breaking up his love ...

(18 pages) 81 1 5.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Analyse the first chapter of Chloe Hooper's 'A Child's True Book of Crime'.

ndport, a small town on the southern coast of Tasmania. Strangely childlike, Kate is embroiled in a love affair with the father of her most gifted student, Lucien Marne. Kate's liaison, Thomas Marne i ... the attitudes of the two are juxtaposed: Kate marvels at the luxury mansion they pull up to, "It's lovely", "Yes it is," replies Thomas... "clearly agitated".As the story develops, it is increasingly ...

(3 pages) 12 0 0.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

McDonalds case study and financial report with SWOT.

A Financial Point of View of McDonalds CorporationThe future of McDonaldsAmerica's love affair with fast food has hit a rocky patch.There is litigation in the air. Nutritionists warn ...

(9 pages) 537 0 4.5 Oct/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Paranormality & Spirituality

Who Do You Love? Comparative Essay on Ch.10 and Ch.11 in The Whole Family a book by 12 authors.

ry. Chapter ten sets up a twist on the earlier chapters for Peggy and Dr. Denbigh to have a serious love affair using the accounts of a young boy. Chapter eleven denies the love affair between Peggy a ... In Chapter ten, the reader is presented with the notion that Peggy and Dr. Denbigh have a secret love affair. The narrator, Billy, "distinctly heard him [Dr. Denbigh] say he [Dr. Denbigh] loved her ...

(3 pages) 15 0 4.4 Mar/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Comparative Essays