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…The poem, "The Flea," by John Donne, is an example of a monologue. However, instead of being a dramatic monologue, it is known as a dramatic lyric. Through the ideas of the speaker being a man, who is addressing his poem to a woman, and the use…

…John Y. McKane began his career as a corrupt politician in a very modest way. As a young man he started a small construction business in the village of Sheepshead Bay. He kept busy building ramshackle bathing establishments and lager-beer saloons…

…Political Thought: Readings from Machiavelli to Nietzsche. Indianapolis: Hacket, 1996. 2. Yolton, John. Locke an Introduction Oxford, Blackwell, 1985. 3. "Locke, John." Brittanica Online Encyclopedia, 1999 4. Hentrich, Charles. Sources…

…John Milton’s Satan People argue about who the hero is of Paradise Lost: Satan, Adam or Christ, the Son? Since Milton’s overall theme stated in the opening lines of Book I is to relate ‘Man’s first disobedience’…

…John Fitzgerald Kennedy- John Fitzgerald Kennedy 35th president of the United States, the youngest person ever to be elected president. He was also the first Roman Catholic president and the first president to be born in the 20th century. Kennedy…

…Sir John Suckling was an English, Cavalier poet who was born in Twickenham, Middlesex, on February 10, 1609. His mother died in 1613, when he was four years of age. His father, descendant of a prominent Norfolk family, was appointed Comptroller…

…The book that I have read that has really stayed with me is "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck. I really enjoyed reading it which is unusual because I usually don't enjoy reading too much. There was something about George and Lennie's friendship…

…A Separate Peace (Compare and Contrast Finny and Gene) Have you ever had a best friend who was the complete the opposite of you? The novel, A Separate Peace, by John Knowles, tells of a pair of best friends who vary quite a bit from one another…

…Hiroshima John Hersey Copyright 1946 Non-fiction At 8:15 in the morning of August 6, 1945 the atomic bomb named "little boy" was dropped upon the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the Boeing B-29 bomber known as the Enola Gay. This event was a means…

…The Good Morrow John Donne's poem the "Good Morrow" is a classic example of how social values were developing in the 17th century. From poems such as Wyatt's "Whoso List to Hunt" in the 16th century, describing women as something worth hunting…