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Mysteries of the World, 2001.
A look at three of the mysteries of the world - Loch Ness, Big Foot and the Bermuda Triangle.
778 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 2 sources, £ 18.95
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A short paper which briefly describes the background to these myths, how they first came about and what their current status is today. It examines what type of person believes in these myths and asks whether these will ever be solved.
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" Mystery and the study of the unknown has always fascinated people. The search for truth in the "inconceivable" has led to many controversies. Some believe in the "supernatural", while others simply do not. Both types of people obviously have their own reasoning for believing or disbelieving in it. There are numerous world famous mysteries that are still controversial and remain "unsolved" to this day. Some of these mysteries include the Loch Ness monster, the Abominable Snowman, and Big Foot."
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The Eleusinian Mysteries, 2004.
This paper discusses the Eleusinian Mysteries and their magical initiation rites, the celebrations of Demeter and Persephone.
1,520 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 34.95
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This paper explains that the Eleusinian Mysteries and their magical initiation rites, begun in a city called Eleusis, were held on an annual basis in honor of the most sacred ritual celebrations of all of ancient Greece. The author points out that the mysteries and the rituals that surrounded them were repeated for more than 2,000 years and were as important to those living in that time as Christmas is to Christians today. The paper relates that the only people who were allowed to participate in the rituals were those who spoke Greek and had never shed blood or had been purified after doing so.
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"Historians believe that the Eleusinian Mysteries were derived from this earlier practice. Demeter had promised if the Eleusinians built a temple to her honor she would teach them magic rituals that would create a better existence for them. They built the temple but she did not appear. The world suffered from famine and other ills. Eventually she relented and a poem was written that promised followers a rich reward in this life and in the next life as long as they remained loyal."
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"Mysteries of Udolpho" and "Northanger Abbey", 2002.
This paper examines the value of Ann Radcliffe's "Mysteries of Udolpho" in forming Austen's style.
1,761 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 39.95
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This paper identifies the ways in which Austen parodies Radcliffe's "Mysteries of Udolpho" and the Gothic genre it represents. It concludes by revealing that it is a mistake to see "Northanger Abbey" as a critique of the Gothic novel. The author claims that Austen sees works like "Mysteries of Udolpho" as metaphors for the very real danger and the very real abuses present in 18th century society.
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Anne Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho is constantly under discussion and satire within Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. Given Catherine Morland's experiences at the Abbey, it would seem that Austen is criticizing Radcliffe and her genre, yet the author's staunch defense of the value of novels seems to support the works of Radcliffe. Indeed, an argument can be made that Catherine's exposure to the Gothic prepares her for the real evil present in her society. Therefore, what is the real object of critique in Austen's parody? Many critics take Henry Tilsney as the voice of the author, however a closer look at his speeches reveals that his beliefs are actually in question. For example, Henry speaks about riots in London, giving his version of what a deranged imagination would produce: "A mob of three thousand men assembling in St. George's Fields; the Bank attacked, the Tower threatened, the streets of London flowing with blood" (101). However, the picture Henry presents as ridiculous, is actually reflective of real anxieties present in 18th C. society. There were valid fears that the French Revolution and its consequent "Reign of Terror" would spread to England. Actual plots to attack the bank were exposed at the time Austen wrote Northanger Abbey. Thus, Henry's depiction is not that ironic, and the assumption that "it can't happen here" in enlightened, modern England rings a bit false.
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Mysteries of the Universe, 2006.
A review of science versus religion, as a tool to explain the mysteries of the universe.
902 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 22.95
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This paper takes a look at the issues of science versus religion when trying to unlock the mysteries of the universe. According to the paper, religion and science are often at odds, especially regarding core issues such as the nature of time, the origins of humanity and the nature of religion itself. The paper goes on to discuss how, rather than be at odds with one another, science and religion should cultivate a shared interface, complementing each other in their mutual endeavors.
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"One of the most pressing questions in both religion and science is the nature of disease. Geneticists have been trying to unearth so-called founder mutations: one original genetic mutation that subsequently caused generations of people to carry and/or suffer from a serious illness like sickle cell anemia. Unlike many other mutations, founder mutations can be traced to one original ancestor. The discovery and study of founder mutations allows anthropologists to research the general patterns of human migration, providing a more complete understanding of history. Religion views genetic mutations in a different light. Many fundamentalist Christians, for example, might propose that disease is God-given. Yet if Mary Schweizer, an Evangelical Christian scientist, can unite religion with science then anyone can. Her devotion to fundamental Christian thought is not at odds with her scientific endeavors, according to Yeoman. In fact, Schweizer views science as a spiritual endeavor, as a means to discover the meaning of life, death, and seeming anomalies. Religion and science share common goals and objectives even when their theoretical underpinnings are in conflict with one another."
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Ann Ward Radcliffe's "The Mysteries of Udolpho", 2005.
This paper critiques the literary technique of Ann Ward Radcliffe in her book "The Mysteries of Udolpho".
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 1 source, £ 55.95
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This paper analyzes a particularly evocative passage from Chapter 5, Volume 2 from Ann Ward Radcliffe's "The Mysteries of Udolpho". The author points out that this passage describes an ascent into the Apennine Mountains. The paper states that it features gothic elements, deploys and at times subverts literary conventions and generates increasing levels of dramatic tension.
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"In critically analyzing the various literary elements Ann Radcliffe incorporated into "The Mysteries of Udolpho", a particularly evocative passage describing an ascent into the Apennine Mountains bears close scrutiny, for it features gothic elements, deploys and at times subverts literary conventions, and generates increasing levels of dramatic tension."
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"The Mysteries of Paris", 2002.
An in-depth review of Eugene Sue's "The Mysteries of Paris", which is about life in the lower-class streets of Europe in the 19th century.
4,276 words (approx. 17.1 pages), 7 sources, MLA, £ 78.95
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This paper reviews Sue's work, which focuses heavily on the plight of the poor and the kinds of trials and tribulations that they were forced to undergo as a result of their socioeconomic status in 19th century Paris. It discusses how, in constructing his material, Sue is primarily concerned with expressing a political and social truth.
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"Certainly, one of the most important elements of the way that we as readers must even interact with the novels of Eugene Sue (and his Mysteries of Paris as it will be considered in the specific analysis to follow) is his indebtedness to the tradition of romanticism, which, at the time that he composed Mysteries of Paris, as well as when he engaged in the composition of many of his other works, was the dominant and most profoundly revolutionary intellectual and aesthetic trend sweeping through Europe at the time. Indeed, we can see the degree of influence and sway that Romanticism had over Sue in the very melodramatic and emotional content of his novels, whose characters tend to swing between enormous highs and lows as regards the way that they interact with fate and fortune. Indeed, this Romantic bias is not simply a stylistic issue that effects certainly elements of the plot and the embellishments of the prose; rather, Eugene Sue?s Romantic bias had a profound effect on the very choice of subject matter that he chose to engage in the formulation of his novels as well as the light and manner in which those subjects were thereafter portrayed."
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Mysteries and Detection, 2005.
This paper examines three short essays that relate to the topic of mystery and detection novels and film noir.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 9 sources, MLA, £ 32.95
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This paper provides three short essays that relate to the topic of mystery and detection novels and film noir. The paper looks at the hard boiled detective found in these genres. The paper refers to the work of Raymond Chandler, Dashiel Hammett, Walter Mosley and others, as well as to select films.
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"The novels of Raymond Chandler, hard-boiled detective fiction in the vein of Dashiel Hammett focus on the experiences of detective Philip Marlowe. If Chandler's novels featuring Marlowe like "The Big Sleep" have a moral, the moral appears to be that there are intelligent and stupid criminals and law enforcement officials and those that are the most intelligent usually wind up victorious."
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Edgar Allan Poe?s ?Mystery Man?, 2002.
An examination of the mysteries surrounding Edgar Allan Poe's strange graveyard character in ?Mystery Man?.
2,405 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 3 sources, APA, £ 50.95
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This paper examines the mysterious visitor who pays tribute to Edgar Allan Poe at his grave in Westminster Churchyard in Baltimore, Maryland.
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"Within the weathered brick walls of Westminster Churchyard, at the corner of Fayette and Greene Streets in Baltimore, Maryland, a cold marble shrine marks the final resting place of a tormented soul. 1 In life, he was haunted by torturing memories--memories of wrong and injustice and imputed dishonor and from a sense of some strange, impending doom. In death, his memory endures in the hearts of those who still honor his great literary genius as a poet who eternally searched for supernal beauty in a world filled with poverty and abandonment and produced some of the world's finest tales of the macabre and the supernatural"".
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Mystery Literature, 2004.
This paper reviews two children?s mysteries: ?The Shore Road Mystery? from Franklin W. Dixon's Hardy Boys series and ?Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Sleeping Dog? from Donald J. Sobol's Encyclopedia Brown series.
2,160 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 46.95
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This paper explains that the Hardy Boys, in 1964, in ?The Shore Road Mystery" are mere boys who can think like crafty adults, can go out and challenge crooks and thieves, and find a farmhouse to call for help with just old-fashioned land-based phones. The author points out that a young man learns that hard work and perseverance plus brainpower and the use of good instincts lead to success, even for kids. The paper relates that ?Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Sleeping Dog? leaves the reader wondering how a seemingly normal kid named Encyclopedia Brown could come up with this kind of skullduggery and carry it off.
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"The irony here is that Chet is on a research mission seeking information about car thieves, a felony crime that any kid could think about, but few could actually follow through. Still, he can?t keep his hands out of the cake Aunt Gertrude gave him to deliver. A reader learns here that young men are always young men in most predictable respects (in this case, Chet is tempted by chocolate cake, and can?t keep his hands off the cake notwithstanding the promise to deliver it); but in other areas, Chet is acting more like being a criminal investigator than a green-behind-the-ears / snot-nosed kid who can?t keep his fingers out of a chocolate cake."
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"Pride and Prejudice": A Mystery Novel, 1996.
An analysis of the element of mystery in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice".
1,958 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 0 sources, £ 43.95
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This paper reviews Jane Austen's novel "Pride and Prejudice" with an emphasis on how the element of mystery in it serves to give depth and development to the characters. It examines how the related mysteries of "Pride and Prejudice" are the Wickham-Darcy relationship and the "mystery of character." It is no mystery from the beginning that Elizabeth Bennet and Darcy are fated to be together, the mystery is their feelings and motivations and their characters, as they evolve and are revealed throughout the novel. It shows how, like many a mystery novelist, Austen leaves ample clues from which the reader could discern that all is not what it seems, which seem obvious only on a second reading.
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"There are two central and intertwined mysteries in the novel: the traditional mystery of Wickham?s relationship to Darcy, and the more subtle mystery of Darcy?s (and Elizabeth?s) true character. The author?s treatment of the Wickham mystery is not that of the conventional mystery story, as a modern reader might understand it. The clues Austen gives are not material to the direct verification of one side?s or the other?s story, but to the respectability and trustworthiness of Wickham and Darcy. We are not given, for example, accounts of Wickham?s behavior in London while he is pretending to study law. It is only through an understanding of the two men?s characters that we discover the truth of their relationship."
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"The Big Bow Mystery" - A Locked Room Puzzle., 2002.
An analysis of Israel Zangwill's mystery novel "The Big Bow Mystery".
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 1 source, £ 42.95
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This paper dissects Israel Zangwill's mystery novel The Big Bow Mystery and analyzes it in terms of other mystery-novel standards: logical consistency, character evenness, and distraction (e.g. "red herrings"). It concludes that although the novel also functions as a critique of Victorian society, the novel itself has great worth as a mystery due to its supreme internal consistency, hard to achieve in the "locked room" subgenre.
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?The Mystery of Edwin Drood?, 2002.
Discusses the mystery element in Charles Dickens' novel.
1,500 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 34.95
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One of the mysteries of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" is the question that lies at the heart of all mysteries ? Whodunnit? But there is another, at least as compelling question at the heart of this mystery, which is: How did author Charles Dickens intend for this novel to end? And, why does this unfinished novel read so very much like a finished novel? The paper shows that despite the fact that the story is often performed by theater companies that allow the audience to guess what the intended ending might have been ? thus emphasizing the unfinished nature of the book ? the novel itself seems oddly complete. This paper proposes one possible solution to the unfinished novel ? one that is consonant with the tone and intent of what Dickens himself wrote.
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"This improvised ending takes up where Dickens laid down his pen and assumes ? as do many of the proposed endings to this novel ? that Edwin is not really dead. To understand why this is the logical solution, we must go back in time to John Jasper?s Christmas Eve party. During this party, Neville finds his antagonism toward Edwin diminishing because of Edwin?s own friendliness and disarming openness to Neville. They are also drawn together by the fact that each of them believes that there is something peculiar about Jasper: Their increasing distrust of him draws the two of them together."
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World Mythology, 2007.
An analysis of the ancient Egyptians' concept of the after-life, as described by world mythology.
1,184 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 27.95
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This paper discusses the mysterious and captivating aspect of world mythology that involves the numerous theories surrounding the beliefs that an individual holds regarding what occurs after death. Specifically, it analyzes and interprets the aspect of world mythology regarding the ancient Egyptians' concept of the after-life. The paper concludes with a brief explanation of the writer's personal beliefs on this topic.
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"World mythology, religion and cultural beliefs will always remain an enticing mystery, as people search and yearn for something to believe in. Death and what occurs afterwards is one of the most fascinating aspects of any religion. The beliefs of the ancient Egyptians differ from many present-day theories of what occurs after death. Most people currently believe in some form of "heaven" or "hell," but very few actually spend their lives preparing for the after-life of their "leaders" or family members as the Egyptians did. I do not fully believe in the ancient Egyptians' concept of the after-life because my beliefs are comparable to those of the Roman Catholics, for that is the way that I was raised when I was a child. However, I do believe in a "heaven" and a "hell," ideas that originated with Greek philosophers who strongly influenced the early apostate Christian thinkers."
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Mystery Religions, 2004.
This paper examines how the mystery religions have influenced Christianity.
2,260 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 10 sources, MLA, £ 54.95
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In this article, the writer discusses how the mystery religions influenced the religion of Christianity. The writer explores a number of the ancient mystery religions. The secret rituals of these mystery religions as well as their similarities are discussed. Most importantly, the writer examines the impact of these religions on Christianity and discusses why they are no longer practiced.
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"By the end of the first century small communities of Christians could be found in many of places in the Greco-Roman world. According to Jeffrey Sheler, writing for U.S. News World Report as the movement expanded during the second and third centuries, it proved to be anything but simple to deliver a consistent message. The early Christian church was torn by persecution and internal division as Christians struggled to understand and apply the meaning of Jesus' life, death and resurrection in the religious ... "
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