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these women to seek relief in laudanum." Laudanum was a drug and apparently many plantation mistresses were living in incredibly o...

harrowing existence would lead a mother to that sort of desperate act. But still, no matter why she did it, and even if death is b...

social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

African Americans, the Latin Americans and the Native Americans) away into the foreground the white man, so to speak, could feel t...

planned any of it, but he had to know that one day, after Macon hit her, hed see his mothers hand cover her lips as she searched w...

girl who is rejected by nearly everyone. In fact, so too is her family as the lot of them is cursed with ugliness and rejection. ...

they were dead, rather than face a fate similar to hers. She is successful in killing only one, her infant Beloved. "Sethes murder...

This 5 page paper analyzes the first chapter of Song of Solomon, a novel by Toni Morrison. The writer suggests that in this openin...

This paper addresses Toni Morrison's use of misnaming and other dramatic techniques. This six page paper has no additional source...

are somewhat consistent with superstitions followed by the slave culture of the time and a segment of the African heritage of the ...

a condition wherein the women are not slaves, we also see that the past, which involves at least Sethes enslavement, is very real ...

treated like a horse, complete with a bit in his mouth. Sethe managed to escape. In fact, because she was very pregnant and had b...

tells her that if she does marry this man, Morris, she will never receive any money from him, her father. Up till this point Cath...

the abuse of a child, however the reader may not like that. This same critic indicates how it was "Her scratching the back of her...

also alienates Sethes daughter Denver, who hates him because Beloved is interested in him; Denver wants to keep Beloved to herself...

is beautiful, acceptable, and normal while black physical characteristics, i.e., broad lips, kinky hair, flat nose and dark skin, ...

to the community, a clear case of moral ambiguity wherein Sula and her family felt they had a right and that their behavior was, o...

and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...

It is a story that could well be about any community in any part of the world. In essence, unlike many of Morrisons...

(Morrison 51). Throughout the novel, "cold statisticians," such as Schoolteacher, evaluate slaves according to "their animal ten...

white. The reader is offered clues, but then are clues that could be perceived from either direction. For example, in the beginn...

Within 3 pagess, Toni Morrison's 1979 speech at Barnard College is analyzed. Is it possible for women to survive a man's world if ...

This essay presents an overview of Donald Barthelme's "The School," Zitkala-Sa's "The School Days of an Indian Girl," and Toni Mor...

countries. This was a lengthy government investigation, however, it was found that no price fixing was occurring and that the incr...

would then include the contrast and comparison on how the characters dealt with racism and their subjectivity to it. Finally, the ...

decision that he will go on an adventure and seek his own courage. He is a very brave boy for even beginning this journey because ...

the acquisition was thought to bring value and that in hindsight the problems that were seen were only those which should have bee...

This 5 page paper summarizes Tony Morrison's novel Sula. Primary source only....

In 5 pages this paper examines the various narrative techniques these authors employ in a contrast and comparison of these novels ...