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My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor

This book review presents a summary of the principal features of Sotomayor's intimate memoir. Four pages in length, citations only...

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt and its Meaning

working for them--and returns to the homeland: Limerick, Ireland (1774). They live there between 1934 and 1948 but Malachy still ...

An Analysis of Angela's Ashes

it a little backward. While most Irish families came to the U.S. during the 19th century to escape the potato famine in Ireland an...

Pursuit of Happyness/Book and Film

having Christopher older, and therefore capable of understanding valuable life lessons, made it possible to dramatize the scene th...

Gender Criticism and Hand To Mouth A Chronicle of Early Failure by Paul Auster

that same world. It could be maddening to watch him in action--a man who never seemed to care what others thought of him--but it ...

Neil Simon's Comedies and Their Deeper Messages

about him that they like(attempts at creating anti-heroes aside, of course). Then, to have any kind of story at all, the protagoni...

Geisha Concept and Arthur Golden's 'Memoirs of a Geisha'

herself many times throughout the course of the novel. As a novice Geisha she not only must learn her art, and it is considered an...

Sam Walton Made in America, My Story Reviewed

annual sales of over $44 billion coming from the sales to over 40 million shoppers in over 1,750 stores (Economist, 1992). Before ...

The Liars' Club by Mary Karr

eating toothpaste past midnight" (Karr 8). One can imagine that the girls were starving, but perhaps a better way to look at it we...

Anne Moody and Civil Rights Coming of Age in Mississippi

house (Moody 44). Bruce Clayton and John Salmond, who wrote, Debating Southern History, state that during the fifties and sixties...

Harriet Jacobs, Maya Angelou, and Their Memoirs

a very large life. In the end, both of these women have shown by example, that the struggles which life presents can...

A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo

The structural basis of imagery is symbolic of Caputos intrinsic creativity and ability to see beyond the obvious. Characteristic...

The Sovereignty and Goodness of God by Mary Rowlandson

come about. At the same time, the authors depiction of the Indians is less than kind and while that is true, one can say that her ...

Questions on Joinville, Yvain, the Koran, and El Cid Answered

more interested in material rewards here and now. He expected to be rewarded for his bravery and accomplishments. This was the way...

Self Knowledge and Confessions

book is the actual confession, which turns out to be a confession to murder and many other misdeeds. This idea of knowledge is an ...

Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell

In 7 pages this early memoir penned by George Orwell is examined. There are 3 sources cited in the bibliography....

Eighteenth Century Prostitution and Eroticism in Fanny Hill by John Cleland

In twelve pages this report examines how Cleland presents prostitution and eroticism in his scandalous eighteenth century novel Me...

Comparing Works by Richard Wright and Jo Ann G. Robinson

In five pages this research paper examines these authors' refusal to accept African American second class citizenship in a segrega...

Author's Experiences Described in Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

In five pages this paper analyzes the Second World War concentration camp memoir by Viktor Frankl entitled Man's Search for Meanin...

Col. Robert L. Scott Junior's God is My Co Pilot

In five pages this paper discusses the humanistic aspects that are featured in Scott's wartime memoir. There are no other sources...

Discussion of Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren

In five pages Warren's memoirs are examined with the 'Miranda' and Brown v. Board of Education decisions being the primary focus. ...

A Literary History of Texas' Independence Movement

Erasmo Seguin, father of Juan. The elder Seguins actions were motivated by his identity as a Texan, rather than as a Mexican citiz...

Our War by David Harris

the My Lai massacre and, also, traces the sociological template for young male soldiers to John Wayne. He writes, "I suppose each...

Bronx Primitive by Kate Simon

them after the war. In America, there would be "raisins and chocolate, cookies and dolls, white slippers and pink hair bows, all ...

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

This paper examines Franklin's memoirs in terms of the ways in which it reflects Enlightenment ideals in context as well as form. ...

In My Mother's House by Kim Chernin

In five pages this paper examines the 4 female generations presented in this autobiographical memoir by Kim Chernin. There are no...

Analysis of Dan Rather's The Camera Never Blinks

In six pages this research paper examines Dan Rather's journalistic memoir that describes his coverage of such events as President...

Vietnam in A Rumor Of War by Philip Caputo

In this paper consisting of two pages Philip Caputo's memoir reflects the Vietnam War experience as a whole as it represents the s...

Death, God, and Holocaust Survivors' Attitudes

bear. For example, most of those survivors interviewed by Schindler, Spiegel, and Malachi (1992) expressed their almost desperate...

General Lundendorff's The General Staff and Its Problems, Volume 2

In ten pages this First World War German High Command General's memoirs are examined. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....