Analysis Essay Examples

“Dead Man Walking” is a non-fiction work by Sister Helen Prejean, a Roman Catholic nun and one of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Medaille. This is her autobiographical account of her encounter with convicted felons Patrick Sonnier and Robert Willie. Sister Helen corresponded with Sonnier, a man who was sentenced to die by the […]

The Dawes Act is a $100,000 government created land allotment for the Native Americans. It prevented the land for being used for anything other than agricultural purposes, gave the Native Americans a choice of the land that they wanted, It prohibited the Ute Indians of Southwestern Colorado from being prevented of moving if a majority […]

God condemns for life, whose texture of the skin is black, seems to be the approach and the subject matter of this book. Ghetto is not an inspiring word, and the adjective ‘dark’ makes the case even hopeless. The explanation of the word ghetto given by the author makes an authentic ‘synopsis’ of the contents […]

Dante Aligherie’s, name itself endorses the uniqueness of the spirituality that as said by Vico, “Seems to rise suddenly, towering over the land of Italy”. (Croce, pp. 256) Dante was a divine poet but away from his divinity, there is a flow of words that immerses into our soul, the vastness of images of our […]

Philosopher Daniel Dennett’s intellectual career has been spent trying to extend the Enlightenment project of putting philosophy and morality on a scientific and naturalistic basis. His newest book, Freedom Evolves tries to answer the age-old question: Can there be freedom and free will in a deterministic world? Dennett is trying to update David Hume in […]

Damn Yankees was originally staged as a spectacular George Abbot Broadway show before it was turned into a big screen musicale by Warner Bros. in 1956. The plot of the story revolves around that All American sport known as Baseball and how one man’s obsessive love for the game led him to make a disastrous, […]

In Sylvia Plath’s poem, “Daddy”, Plath makes many connections between her stifling father and her own husband. Plath discusses her conflicts with her own father, which do not end with his death, but continue when she marries a man just like her father. Plath displays a sort of evolution of her feelings for her father, […]

Lee and Marlene Canter are husband and wife who pioneered assertive discipline as a reactive strategy (Theories of Management, n. d. ). Lee Canter is the Developer of Assertive Discipline and Classroom Management for Academic Success. He attended at California State University then pursued his master’s degree at the University of Southern California. During his […]

The documentary film Cannibal Tours (1988) captures the interaction between American and European tourists and the indigenous people along the Sepik River in Melanesia, particularly Papua New Guinea. The camera follows the tourists as they go to the different villages to be in awe of the handicrafts and haggle to buy these items. They also […]

Graduation caps fly into the air, cheers erupt, and diplomas are received. This is a typical graduation day. Not only did these ceremonial events take place for Tulane University’s class of 2009, but Ellen DeGeneres was there to congratulate them as well! This class was dubbed the “Katrina Class” for being survivors of the devastating […]

The Palette of King Narmer is a very small, flat 64 centimeters tall, shield shape palette that is believed to be used for holy ceremonies. Sculpt from smooth leveled siltstone. The siltstone is a soft yet dim color of gray. Small in scale, the palette is created with numerous intriguingly beautifully detailed carvings, and illustrations […]

The 1999 film, The Green Mile was a film that touched many. Originally this film was a novel, written in six volumes by the award-winning author Stephen King. In this film King sought out to depict the moral issues surrounding the death penalty from the beginning but as the film continues the audience is drawn […]

It is very clear from the act if you have read it. Lady Macbeth is full of evil, and is well aware of that. She is evil and she wants to be evil. She wants to forget every connection to humanity and womanhood she shares. Thats why she wants the spirits to unsex her – […]

The consequences of child abuse in Nigeria with a case study in Niger Delta. The Research aimThe aim of this study is to use grounded theory methods to develop a theory about how children are been abused and the consequences of these abuse in Nigeria with specific reference to Niger Deltaregion. The theory generated is […]

Marikina, also known as the “Shoe Capital of the Philippines,” earned this distinction for its celebrated shoe industry. The city’s shoemakers recently achieved an extraordinary feat by crafting the world’s biggest pair of shoes, officially acknowledged by the Guinness Book of Records. Additionally, Marikina’s Shoe Museum proudly exhibits the renowned assortment of iconic footwear belonging […]

Denise Levertov’s acclaimed poem ‘Weeping Woman’, accentuates the horrors of war, how the deeds of war do not discriminate. Through an array of literary techniques she captivates her readers, and provides an replication of the overwhelming flow of thoughts the faceless woman is experiencing, in the end Denise Levertov provides a strong definition, and portrays […]

The experiences of Lia Lee, a young girl who becomes a symbol of cultural clash, are chronicled by Anne Fadiman in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. Lia’s parents’ limited knowledge and understanding of the culture they find themselves in contrasts with the logical framework of Western medicine. This creates a transitional space […]

In the essay “Be Cool to the Pizza Dude,” Sarah Adams writes about the valid reasons for being cool to the pizza dude, and explains the blessings and good karma that can come from it. Adams fills her essay with four principles exampled that further explain her philosophy of being cool to the pizza dude, […]

In act one Priestly presents Shelia Birling using a variety of techniques. Firstly, during the beginning of the act, Priestly uses stage directions to present Sheila as a half-joking character with the stage direction ‘[half serious, half playful]’ to show that although the conversation may be sincere she beings a lightness to the atmosphere. In […]

Checking Out Me History alternates between two structures, marked by two different fonts. The first uses the repeated phrase “Dem tell me” to indicate the white version of history, mostly written in rhyming couplets, triplets or quatrains. Interspersed are the stories of three black historical figures: Toussaint L’Overture, Nanny de Maroon and Mary Seacole, told […]

The main character, Josh Waitzkin, in the movie Searching for Bobby Fischer, has learned about the game of chess and the consequences of winning and losing through operant and observational conditioning. Operant conditioning, according to The Free Dictionary, is “a process of behavior modification in which the likelihood of a specific behavior is increased or […]

The ‘father of modern criminology’1, the description given to Cesare Lombroso, has gained a considerable amount of attention during the end of the 19th century. Those before his time, such as Beccaria, Quetelet, Darwin, Compte and Haeckel and their theories, statistical analysis and triumphs all shaped Lombroso’s criminological perspective and laid the foundation for him […]