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Catherine Maria Sedgwick's 'Hope Leslie'

In five pages this paper considers the contents of this novel in terms of the topical issues it covers and the ways in which Nativ...

Pohl and Kornblum's Space Merchants and Edward Albee's The American Dream

In five pages these two texts are discussed in terms of their themes and presentation of social issues. There are 4 sources liste...

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...

Asian American Experience in Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen Number 2

This paper discusses how emotion is used by the author in the depiction of the Asian American experience in the novel. There are ...

The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor

In five pages this novel is analyzed in terms of its themes and portrayal of pertinent Irish American political and social issues ...

Romanticism and Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

In seven pages this paper discusses how Romanticism is evident in this early American novel with an examination of theme, characte...

Heroic Natty in Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

In three pages this paper examines the American values represented by the protagonist of James Fenimore Cooper's novel. Two sourc...

Native Americans Viewed Differently in Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan and The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

In seven pages this paper examines the role the historical time periods of the authors played in these very different glimpses of ...

Clyde Character in An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

In five pages this report presents a character analysis of Clyde as featured in Theodore Dreiser's novel An American Tragedy. The...

Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee

not only by her circumstances, but by her issues of identification. Within her marriage to Prakash, her name is changed to Jasmin...

Problems Associated with Adapting Novels into Films

This paper examines the problems involved in transferring novels from print to the big screen in twenty seven pages and includes s...

Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan

In five pages this Native American text is analyzed in terms of content, meaning, and gender relationships. There are no other so...

Literary Evidence of American Society in the Early Twentieth Century

In a paper consisting of ten pages the different perspectives of the texts The City Wilderness by Robert Woods, The Origins of the...

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century's Literary Political Obligations

In seven pages this paper examines the political obligations John Locke and early American leaders faced during this time period. ...

Native American Ritual and Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko II

In five pages this paper considers the customs and rituals of Native American culture and their influence on child development as ...

Magic of the Desert in Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

In five pages this paper examines the metaphorical significance of the desert and its magical qualities for Native Americans in Le...

Myth and Its Importance in Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

In four pages this paper examines the importance of Native American heritage and the protagonist's desire to reconnect in the nove...

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

change to the ethnic and cultural make-up of the United States. He also didnt foresee the growth of major cities, or the changes t...

Literary Modernism

In five pages The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Trial by Franz Kafka are compared in terms of European and American ...

Contrasting Criticisms of Graham Greene's The Quiet American

This paper examines contrasting criticisms of this text and concludes that it is an artistic and enduring work in five pages. Six...

'Beat Generation' Writers Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Neal Cassady

In eighteen pages this paper examines the American 'Beat Generation' literary movement popular during the 1950s in a consideration...

China and the Foreign Policy of the United States

In six pages this paper considers China and how it is regarded by American foreign policy with the administration of President Bil...

Godfrey Hodgson and Todd Gitlin's The Unraveling of American Liberal Consensus

The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert Kennedy and the substantive divisions regarding the Vietnam War all sparked ...

Comparison of Copan and Teotihuacan

In three pages these Central American locales are examined in an overview that considers their spiritual and commercial significan...

American Ethnic Communities and Religious Experience

In ten pages this paper discusses the ethnic communities in America and their religious experiences as presented in 'Go Tell It on...

American Language

In five pages this paper discusses language in the United States with a comparative analysis of two essays, 'If Black English Isn'...

First World War as Portrayed by the American Government

In four pages this paper discusses how the American government positively portrayed the First World War as addressed in Lights, Ca...

A Review of Timebends, the Autobiography of Playright Arthur Miller

In this six papge paper the writer explores Miller's autobiography and emphasizes his contributions to American theater. His cont...

An Analysis of Rossenburg's, The New American Community

This paper analyzes Jerry M. Rossenburg's book, The New American Community, A Response to the European and Asian Economic Challeng...

Soltice Celebrations and Easter

In five pages the increase and decline of 2 American holidays are discussed in terms of the significance of winter and solstice ce...