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Characterization in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

some sense out of her life. There is also the close, intimate relationship that she has with her younger sister, Nettie. T...

Issues of Multiple Identity as They Relate to Nationalism and Individualism

both a person who is unique in his own right and a member of society. It seems that individualism as a concept...

Welfare Reform Issues and Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed

In five pages this essay discusses U.S. welfare reform in a consideration of the working poor observations made by Barbara Ehrenre...

Cross My Heart

A 5 page review of the book by Maureen McCarthy. The focus is the character Michelle and the essay is presented in the form of a ...

Robert A. Orsi's Madonna of 115th Street and Catholic Identity

reader see that the various gestures and postures of the people, as well as the kinds of prayers said, and the way in which they w...

Violence in 'How to Tell a True War Story' by Tim O'Brien and 'Battle Royal' by Ralph Ellison

attention of the white community and gets him an invitation to deliver the speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citize...

Character Analysis of Ross E. Dunn's The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveller of the 14th Century

This paper consists of 5 pages and examines how the protagonist attempted to make a living during a 29-year travelling odyssey. T...

Harriet Goldhor Lerner's 'he Dance of Anger'

a psychological understanding to the reader. Anger, serving as one of the most powerful emotions, an emotion which serves to influ...

Literature for Young Adults and Homosexuality

a the most heinous of sins "against nature" and others who believe it is of no more relevance than the color of ones eyes. And, of...

The Theme of Poverty in The Man of Feeling and The London Merchant

of feeling" (Anonymous Man of Feeling, 2001; 0192840320.html). The main character of the story is a man of feeling. He is a man...

Fear Levels in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

of my being" (Frankenstein). As with any newborn, his sensory impressions of the world are at first indistinct. He began to attemp...

Stephen Jay Gould Panda's Thumb

socially constructed food choices-and the availability of manufacturing plants, the creation of new food products and marketing-th...

Voltaire, Moliere and Social Satire

money, not religion. Organ, a simplistic, but good man, has allowed Tartuffe to come into his home and take dominance over his fam...

Racism within the Context of Literature

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

'February Afternoon' by Edward Thomas

themes of love, this became the preferred style of World War I poets like Edward Thomas. One of his most poignant verses is "Febr...

An Analysis of The Metamorphosis and The Stranger

Gregors father who would rather his son did not exist. And, there is Gregors mother who is of a similar opinion as the father. The...

Richard Wright and Alice Munro's Perspectives on Women

contrasted against the life of her sister, Nora, who is not as down-to-earth as Clara and considered the prettier of the two. Nor...

'An Ounce of Cure' by Alice Munro

about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...

Bernard L. Marthaler's 'The Creed'

that interpretation is tantamount to both translating and understanding the Nicene Creed, noting that "the meaning of words change...

Dreams and the Poetry of John Keats

poem is that while he had read Homer before encountering the Chapman translation, when he read Chapmans Homer, he felt the same th...

Choices Made by Othello

at odds with the reality that one human being can never know for certain the inner most thoughts and desires of another (Vanita, 1...

Evil and Pride in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Alexander Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock'

of Belindas bedroom, and how Ariel, her guardian sylph, awakens her. Pope describes the other sylphs that also guard Belinda and t...

A Review of of Beloved by Toni Morrison

seeking forgiveness. That Sethe suffers from guilt and hopes to assuage it, however, is evident in her submission first to the ant...

Mexican Drama and Xavier Villaurrutia

to Pirandellos play. Villaurrutia was obviously interested in the Italian playwrights concepts and this preoccupation becomes clea...

Literary Portrayals of the Conflict Between Illusion and Reality

her book The Feminine Mystique. Not all fifties kids turned into sixties hippies. Goodwin talks about baseball and the pleasures o...

What is Communitarianism?

simply not possible. Not surprisingly, given the focus on community, communitarians typically stress the value of specifically ...

Poverty Perspectives of House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

tragic death of her sister Rosa, who was Estebans fiance. Clara does not love Esteban , but her psychic ability leads her to belie...

A Consideration of The Rape of the Lock

since the Middle Ages as the models for literature at its grandest" (McDaniel 1-15pope.htm). It is a general consensus that Popes ...

Language and the Power It Wields Demonstrated in Literature

In five pages this paper examines how the power of language is considered in Margaret Atwood's essay 'An End to Audience' and how ...

A Small Good Thing

This 8 page essay reviews to Raymond Carver's style in this work in relationship to his style in other works. 4 sources are cited...