Essays 781 - 810
playing ball, wrestling, running foot-races, fiddling, dancing, and drinking whisky; and this latter mode of spending the time was...
his time. Another intriguing aspect of the story illustrates how Equiano was not born into slavery, but rather born into a free...
her experience offers rare insight into the feelings of Puritans regarding the Native Americans and their relationship with the wh...
At the beginning of this extended speech, the representative from Corcyra prefaces his narrative of events with an appeal that is ...
of all our family, which, in its entirety, lives only in my memory and in memory of those few siblings who managed to survive the ...
it is not always easy to let go of what is of this earth; worldly possessions are so hard to come by, some people make them the fo...
Indeed, Douglass (1960) book portrays a man living within himself in order to escape the atrocities of a nonliberal life; if not a...
inferior didnt hold up in the light of his personal story. Equianos work showed the American slave owners and traders how hypocrit...
Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines, like Harper Lees classic To Kill A Mockingbird, concerns the fate of an African American man...
In five pages this report discusses the importance of struggle in these nineteenth century American literary masterworks that feat...
A 5 page consideration of the societal restrictions in play in these books. This paper questions whether those restrictions impac...
In five pages this research essay discusses the language mastery of Frederick Douglass as a tool of survival and changing percepti...
This research paper/essay discusses the journey of personal discovery that is described in Salinger's famous coming-of-age novel. ...
the notion of female spectatorship. Psycho is a good example of this, inasmuch as Norman Bates only appears to exist secondarily ...
This 6 page paper summarizes this groundbreaking work by one of the first influential black men in the U.S. This paper suggests t...
In two pages this paper discusses the stages of alarm, resistance, and exhaustion that accompany a stressful situation. There is ...
In three pages Rev. Edwards' ecclesiastical focus is compared and contrasted with Franklin's individual focuses in their autobiogr...
in just a week and I didnt know anyone - no teachers, no other kids, no one. My fear turned into resentment as I focused my panic...
in the physical form of Robbie. This is accomplished through broad strokes of story lines in the book and long film shots intermix...
and sorrow" (Prince; 1). She was soon sold off to a master and then began to learn about being beaten and abused as a slave. Sh...
son, to God is record in Genesis 22. God instructed Abraham to take "your son, your only son, whom you love-Isaac-and go to the re...
we had a helper who came in during the day and a nurse at night. Both of them were kind, experienced and very caring, and I could ...
human being was not only wrong, but dangerously so. Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me. When I went there, she wa...
This essay offers a comparison between Sherman Alexie's "The Trial of Thomas Builds-The-Fire" and "Turtle Lake" by Gloria Bird. Th...
This essay presents a hypothetical example of how a nursing student might discuss past and future roles. Three pages in length, fo...
Fidel Castro. A useful, comprehensive, and scholar text, Gray offers an ideal introduction to the Jose Marti historiography. Fe...
The writer argues that legends are stories that are likely to have their beginnings in fact, but over time, are added to and re-to...
on the period of slavery in the United States. When one reads of the life of this chattel, he or she is forced to see the total i...
This essay pertains to Mary Rowlandson's seventeenth century account of her capture by Indians. The writer discusses its contempor...
point became critical to interpreting the story, and some authors such as Faulkner even began to tell stories from a multitude of ...