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Self Discovery in the Stories 'In Country' by Bobbie Ann Mason and 'Mules and Men' by Zora Neale Hurston

The self discovery journey and sense of place featured in these works are contrasted and compared in five pages. Two sources are ...

Using Structure to Develop the Story in How to Make an American Quilt and The Color Purple

This 9 page paper describes the way in which two authors use structure to develop the ideas in their books. The works under consid...

Opposition in The Smooth Skull of Winter by Gretel Ehrlich and Stories of Snow by P.K. Page

In five pages this paper examines opposition in a contrasting and comparison of these works. There are no other sources listed....

Language and Imagery in Depicting Opposition in Stories of Snow by P,K. Page and The Smooth Skull of Winter by Gretel Ehrlich

In five pages this comparative analysis considers how imagery and language are used to portray opposition in these works. There a...

Are There Accurate Portrayals of Hispanics in The Mark of Zorro, Lust in the Dust, and West Side Story?

In four pages this paper evaluates if the portrayal of Hispanics in these three films is accurate. Five sources are cited in the ...

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie, The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, and Postcolonialism

In five pages these texts are compared in terms of how postcolonialism manifests itself in each. Three sources are cited in the b...

Comparing The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain and The Sketch Book The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving

The temporary absence of worldly scenes and employments produces a state of mind peculiarly fitted to receive new and vivid impres...

Comparison of David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars, James Goodman's Stories of Scottsboro, and Thomas Bell's Out of This Furnace

that strongly influenced human perceptions, judicial justice and dictated socioeconomic status. As the texts of Thomas Bells Out ...

The Role Of Food In Carol Shields' Novel "Swann"

kitchen, ultimately expressing the inherent fortitude that comprises the female spirit. Beyond the gender element of food in Shie...

Last Samurai & Breakfast at Tiffany's

pain and trying to find herself as she divorces herself mentally from her poor beginnings when she was married at fifteen to a hor...

Thin Blue Line

sixteen at the time, had stolen a neighbors car and his fathers guns. Harris gave Adams a lift when his vehicle ran out of gas. H...

Plight of Labor/Bell's Furnace

in words, never in deeds. In actuality, Carnegie was totally ruthless in his business practices, coldly treating the workers as if...

"The Catcher In The Rye" - Themes

(Coles 4). "I thought what Id do was, Id pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldnt have to have any goddam stupi...

Wrongful Conviction

- if not utterly unsettling - accounts with that of the Salem witch trials where personal agenda was the sole motivation that fuel...

New York City/Bonfire of the Vanities

incredibly shallow, supercilious and caught within such a fierce atmosphere of competitiveness that they use the millions at the d...

"Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress" - Predicting Ma's Future

a very good living as a famous writer once he was able to leave behind this terrible episode in his life. Ma took his experiences...

Rowlandson & Dances With Wolves

read, she immediately attributes these events to the action of Providence. When her captors, which is a band of American Natives m...

Joan of Arc

was located within the realm of the Duke of Burgundy, but while the Burgundians were in alliance with the English, Domremy had con...

Spielberg/Catch Me If You Can

Frank Abagnale issued a statement on his companys web site that explains his perspective on the literary design of both his book a...

Huck, Emma & Asher Lev/Misfits

expected of young women in British society during this era. In Potoks novel, Asher Lev is a twentieth century boy raised in the Ha...

Catalyst for Bad Behavior at Work

Culture is the sum total of characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people. Our culture tells us what is acceptable...

Hitchcock/Rear Window & North by Northwest

film. More credits fall and slide into place, which foreshadows how Thornhill will later slide, nearly falling off the face of Lin...

Alan Ayckbourn/The Norman Conquests

neighbor. Reg, Ruth and Annie are siblings and Annie looks after their invalid mother in the family home in which they are all sta...

Oresteia

the thematic meaning by indulging in revenge and violence, the characters are behaving more in terms of instinctual, animal behavi...

The Bluest Eye & The Color Purple

that what is white is beautiful, lovable and normal, while black facial features, skin color and everything else associated with b...

Ishmael Beah/A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

verge of being reunited with his family, only to have this chance taken away by another rebel attack. He is changed by his experie...

Submissive Characters In Children's Literature: Influence Upon Self-Perception In Female Children

set down for them without making any fuss. Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen, authors of Writing and Reading Across the Curri...

Federal Shield Law: A Journalist's Right

From anonymous to citizen to professional to criminal, informants are comprised of various types of individuals who uphold an asso...

Ralph Ellison/The Dream at the end of "Battle Royal"

the leading black American of his era, gave at a primarily white audience in Atlanta in 1895. This speech became known as the "Atl...

Accuracy in the Film "Frida"

draw and paint, which is a "direct expression" of "her interior life" (Young 29). When she is finally able to walk again, she visi...