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The Concept of Home and Family in the Works of Hansberry and Walker

she can show off to society. In Hansberrys play the story involves a family who is awaiting an inheritance. They all have their ...

Three African American Novels, Recurrent Themes

This essay pertains to common themes found within "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston and "The Color Purple" and ...

Six Short Stories, Summary and Analyses

This paper presents discussion of "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan, "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, ...

Walker's To Hell With Dying

the story, the children would be summoned, and the narrators father would let them go, saying something to the effect of "to hell ...

Women Rising Above Oppression in The Color Purple

she is sent to live with another family and then goes off to Africa on missionary work with them. In essence, Celie is not only ut...

Written on the Body, The Color Purple

being suppressed both physically and emotionally for years by brutal treatment, Celie blossoms under the sunshine of Shugs love. A...

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...

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...

Alice Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

In five pages a character analysis of Alice examines within the context of Lewis Carroll's Alice Through the Looking Glass. There...

Fairytales and Their Significance

In three pages this paper examines the moral importance of fairytales in this discussion of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and T...

Literature and Expatriotism

theme of ex-patriotism is quite evident in the day to day journalings of young Hemingway, not more than twenty-two, in Paris. His ...

Major Female Characters in Mohicans and Van Winkle

Women had few meaty roles in early American literature. This report deals with Cora and Alice Munro from The Last of the Mohicans...

Feminine Voice in Walker’s The Color Purple

In a novel in which the narrator is recounting the entirety of the action after the fact, the narrator already knows everything th...

New Orleans Literature: Race, Class and Gender

law or medicine or even pure science. I even dreamed of doing something great. But there is much to be said for giving up such gra...

Appeal by David Walker

In five pages this text and Walker's liberation concepts are discussed along with an examination of the advantages and disadvantag...

"The Color Purple" - Gender and Postmodernism

philosophical movement, having been founded in direct opposition to the tenets of modernism (namely, the scientific objectivity an...

A Review of Walker's "Hollywood UK"

steps back. Critics have largely agreed on the substandard quality of British cinema in the years immediately following World War ...

Whites and Blacks as ''Natural Enemies' According to David Walker

the oppression thrust upon them by an unyielding and self-appointed superior white race. Evolution has a significant amount to do...

Adult Abuse Survivors and Theory

However, the role of temperament and personality is a critical component of crisis intervention, inasmuch as that singular individ...

US Civil War Women

In nine pages the stories of Captain Sally and Dr. Mary Walker's spy activities are chronicled in this overview of the US Civil Wa...

UK's ECE Politics and Policy

by the family after the family attacked a hospital patient. Batty (2002) provides a timeline of child protection legislatio...

Walker's Battered Women Syndrome and the Frye Rule

be categorised as admissible once it is seen as "generally acceptable" in its field. As Grossman points out, however, since the co...

Samuel Walker, the Wedding Cake, and Criminal Justice

likely to go to a full jury trial * have considerable impact on the public perception (too much?) (Chapter Topics, 2007). An exa...

Walker: "No More, No More"

in which 19th century blacks in Havana and New Orleans were able to maintain their identity and resist the misery of slavery by pa...

Alice's Neverland and Wonderland

are guards, and nothing is what it seems: "Alice thought she had never seen such a curious croquet ground in her life: it was all ...

Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows and Lewis Carrol's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

tries to find out what happened to the White Rabbit, but then, later, she is more concerned with finding her way home. At the end ...

Reality and Illusion Thematically Intertwined in 'Barbie Doll,' Edward Albee's 'The Sandbox,' and Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use'

said" (Walker). This very funny little snippet shows clearly what her mother thinks of Dee for making up what she thinks is an Af...

Wendy Darling in Peter Pan and Alice in Alice in Wonderland

equally strong reluctance to leave the comforts of childhood behind. Her childishness is seen in the fact that she seems powerles...

Nutrition and Exercise in the Treatment of Mental Illnesses

is vast, the most common being depression and anxiety. There are few comprehensive definitions of mental illness, one of the best ...

Walker's Everyday Use Compared with Welty's A Worn Path

Wangero Leewanika (formerly known as "Dee") cannot see them as such anymore than the people "Aunt Phoenix" encounters on her walk ...