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Obama and a Story of Race

In a paper of three pages, the author reflects on the autobiography about Barack Obama's childhood and his development. The autho...

Setting in Stories by Joyce, Oates and Boyle

This essay pertains to setting in of James Joyce's "Araby," Joyce Carol Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been," and T. ...

Slavery Worse for Women, the Story of Harriet Jacobs

This essay is on Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. The writer describes the various ways in wh...

"Music Within," The Story of Richard Pimentel

This essay presents a movie review of "Music Within," (2007, directed by Steven Sawalich). The film stars Ron Livingston as Richa...

The Lottery, A Classic Horror Story

anthologized works in literature and for good reason. The story is simple, follows a linear structure, and within that basic frame...

Imperialism & Conrad's Heart of Darkness

complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves" (Bowers 91). Marlow is discouraged by other Europeans who work for the enigm...

Sense and Sensibility/Novel v. Film

mother, Elinor and Marianne (who are both young women) and younger sister Margaret, by beginning with the death of Henry Dashwood,...

Buero Vallejo: “Story of a Stairway”

active service with the Republicans, though not as a soldier but as a medical corpsman (Donahue). Although such a position was a "...

Societal Suppression in A Rose for Emily and The Story of an Hour

utterly free. When Emily discovers that her boyfriend is gay, her instant fear of what the community would think of her leads he...

Otherness in the Framing of News Stories

the approached adopted in the investigation and in the article that there is a separation of the events into a cultural context, p...

Crash, A Cinematic Parable

his motivation for stealing Jean and Ricks car. However, in committing grand theft auto, Anthony objectifies Jean and Rick just as...

Chopin’s Story of an Hour

dies "of heart disease--of the joy that kills" (Chopin). Her position in the story seems to be one of a woman who has simply res...

The Jesse Logan Story

verbal assaults as the final straws that led to her daughters death. Even Cynthia Logan maintained that she had no idea that th...

UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES: THE TRUE STORY

another job. There are those who are out of work, who have given up looking for a job. There are those who are out of work, who ha...

The Google Story

set their sights high, despite being rejected early on by some potential business partners and investors, and their enthusiasm con...

Sexual Orientation and Race Relations in Greer's Story of Marriage

Holland was a shell of a soldier, sitting on a bench at the beach in San Francisco when Pearlie saw him and recognized him instant...

Setting in The Story of an Hour

her and is keeping her emotions and thoughts to herself, never letting them in. In fact the only one who is allowed in is the read...

Hannah and O'Brien's War Stories: The Sacred and the Mundane

Whitelaw from their hometown, and the narrator imbues this physical artifact with a great deal of emotional significance. In parti...

Melton McLaurin's Celia, A Slave A True Story

issues raised in "Celia, a Slave: A True Story", however, were not confined to the South alone, nor were they limited to the rela...

Postmodern Artifact Film A Chinese Ghost Story

and contexts will merge in the production of the film. In examining the film as a post-modern artefact it may be argued that as...

Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son Stories

title we need to consider the parallels between the narrator in this story and Jesus, as seen in the bible. It could be argued tha...

Stories by Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner

chose to make his sentences histories of actual perceptions and thoughts, an accomplishment recognized by biographer Carlos Baker,...

3 Fictional Stories Analyzed

reflecting the exact opposite of those ruled by determinism. Having adequately grasped the meaning behind Jewetts perspectives, i...

James Joyce's 'Eveline' and Kate Chopin's 'Story of an Hour'

A slightly different perspective on family life is offered in Joyces Eveline. Here, the protagonist is not only...

War Stories and Fear

purpose, changes due to his experience in war. In OBriens work, similar elements are shown, but not in terms of how war affects on...

Dark Stories of Gaitskill and Braverman_

track marks still showed. The fact that Lenny articulates the protagonists hidden thoughts and desires provides substantiation th...

Comparative Analysis of Latino Films Mi Vida Loca and West Side Story

in 1980, Puerto Ricans organized a protest outside the theater in order to draw attention to the stereotypical images of Latinos ...

Stories by Adam Haslett

Dad might claim to be perfectly lucid, but we soon learn that his 27 patent filings have come to naught, he has undergone electros...

Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down A Story of Modern War

it devotes practically all of its attention to a bullet-by-bullet account of the fighting surrounding the downing of the American ...

Different Interpretations of Biblical Events Lord Byron's View of the Story of Cain and Abel

that neither knowledge nor life are two evils to be chosen between, but that they are both good. Why would God care to call either...