Thomas A. Wofford Essays

  • Home is Where the Heart Is

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    Home is Where the Heart Is There is a familiar saying, which is along the lines of, "Home is where the heart is." This is true for most, but often, people are forced to leave their homes and relocate. Often, this causes a sense of uprootedness and confusion. One's most precious memories are often left behind. Confusion results from the loss of familiarity and a sense of having little or no ties to a new place. Sometimes, the changing of homes may be quite devastating, but eventually overcome

  • The Brothers Menaechmus and Comedy of Errors

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    the literal. Characters who adhere too closely to the literal rules of words and customs tend to find themselves in dire straits, and translators of comedy should take their cue from this... ... middle of paper ... ...ity Press, 1966. Greene, Thomas M. The Light in Troy. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1982. Plautus. “The Brothers Menaechmus.” Trans. E.F. Watling. The Pot of Gold and Other Plays. Ed. Betty Radice. London, England: Penguin Classics, 1965. 97-146. Shakespeare, William

  • Martin Luther King: Redefining Social Action

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    Martin Luther King Jr: Redefining Social Action in the 20th century Civil Right Movement of Nonviolence Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary Martin Luther King Jr: Redefining Social Action in the 20th century Civil Right Movement of Nonviolence A Paper Submitted to Dr. Kenneth Cleaver In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Course American Christianity CHHI 660-B01 By James E. Whitaker July 3, 2015 TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION 2 2. HISTORICAL

  • The Epic of Gilgamesh is Truly an Epic

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    kill the Guardian of the Cedar Forest, Humbaba. This is... ... middle of paper ... ..., Ltd., 1999. 21-48. Print. "Gilgamesh." The Norton Anthology of World Literature. Sarah Lawall. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1984. Print. Greene, Thomas. "The Norms of Epic." Comparative Literature 13.3 (1962): 193-207. Web. 22 Dec 2010. Kramer, S.N. "The Death of Gilgamesh." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (1944): 2-12. Web. 21 Dec 2010. Tigay, Jeffery. The Evolution of the

  • Beauty as Portrayed in Literature

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    The novel, The Bluest Eye, written by Toni Morrison is about a year in the life of an eleven year old girl from Ohio, Pecola Breedlove, who undergoes feelings of rejection, inferiority and self-deprecation because of the racism in her society. Toni Morrison presents with this, the notion that America lives under a stereotype which suggests that to be accepted in a community, one has to be what society considers beautiful, in this case, white. It was written in 1970, therefore is considered a part

  • Madness in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Hamlet"

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    of Melancholy. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1927. Holland, Thomas. Notes on Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Hungry Minds Inc., 1974 Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Viking, 1962. Partridge, Eric. Shakespeare's Bawdy. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1969. Peden, William. "Gray Regions of the Mind." Saturday Review 14 April 1962: 17. Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Ed. By Susanne L. Wofford. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1994. Wilson, J