Essays 61 - 90
more interested in material rewards here and now. He expected to be rewarded for his bravery and accomplishments. This was the way...
"ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo and how NATO leaders hesitated to term planned military action as a "war." On the other hand, he also...
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 ...
in the trenches, casually mentioning the attention of their personal servant. In both cases, this suggests the lingering presence ...
working for them--and returns to the homeland: Limerick, Ireland (1774). They live there between 1934 and 1948 but Malachy still ...
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...
during that time. Whenever Honigsberg visited Bogalusa, Louisiana, where he had covert meetings with a black group, the Deacons of...
the voiceover. According to reviewer Patricia Kowal, this inclusion of a female perspective furthers the gangster genre because it...
done about those who suffered, those simple cultural people who were victims of the civilized world (Castillo 40-45). This...
91). The first threatening wave of homelessness swept America between the years 1820 and 1860, when more than five million immigr...
in Brooklyn, he met and married Angela Sheehan, another Irish transplant, and the couple wasted little time in starting a family. ...
A 3 page book review of John Gunther's memoir of his son's illness and death. The title of this book is drawn from John Donne's Me...
In five pages this paper discusses this autobiographical memoir in terms of African society and the argument that the Europeans we...
human resilience be stretched without being torn asunder, and how long can the spark of human spirit burn within when it is expose...
In five pages Gary Soto's humorous memoir about his difficult life experiences without bitterness is the focus of this essay. One...
In 10 pages this memoir considers the author's family's organized crime activities during the Prohibition era. One source is cite...
In five pages the Vietnam War's Tet Offensive is the focus of this overview of the memoir by Tobias Wolff. One source is cited in...
In five pages Bill Clinton's first Secretary of Labor offers a humorous and extremely candid insight into being a member of the in...
In five pages Frank McCourt's memoir is examined in a consideration of several of the author's life changing experiences. There a...
In a paper consisting of five pages Callahan's memoir chronicling his times adrift while attempting to sail the world in January o...
In six pages Hildegard and Guibert are considered in a discussion of the texts Hildegard of Bingen A Visionary Life and A Monk's ...
In five pages this research paper discusses how William Thornton Keep's leaders and Duchess d'Abrantes' memoirs depict the Napoleo...
white freedom and black slavery. The link between whites and blacks would change considerably between the arrival of those first ...
them after the war. In America, there would be "raisins and chocolate, cookies and dolls, white slippers and pink hair bows, all ...
the My Lai massacre and, also, traces the sociological template for young male soldiers to John Wayne. He writes, "I suppose each...
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 ...
which values the views of those Westerners engaged in that struggle over those of the native population. In other words, Herr is m...
house (Moody 44). Bruce Clayton and John Salmond, who wrote, Debating Southern History, state that during the fifties and sixties...
eating toothpaste past midnight" (Karr 8). One can imagine that the girls were starving, but perhaps a better way to look at it we...
annual sales of over $44 billion coming from the sales to over 40 million shoppers in over 1,750 stores (Economist, 1992). Before ...