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American Dream in Death of a Salesman

more and more about Willys life, than it is not some innate tragic flaw in his character which has led to his misfortune, but a co...

Emma Lazarus' Life and Times

rejection highly influenced Lazaruss "Spagnoletto," which provided Lazarus with the "literary props" to effectively represent the ...

American Culture Literary Comparison of Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne

and... evokes that stage of Puritanism when a diminished conviction was beginning to be replaced by a somewhat hypocritical moral ...

Essays on American History

In a paper of four pages, the author reflects on some questions about slavery and the American Civil War. The author looks at the ...

Emigration and Migration

high socioeconomic standing in their home country may find that they are limited in relation to both resources and career choices ...

Fleming's View on America's Rise to Power

But it raises a lot of questions for the future. How did events alter the perception of Americans as the U.S. started its journey ...

Critique of William Loren Katz’s The Black West

recognize the black women of the Western frontier including the talented but overlooked poet Lucy Prince, the freed slave and Colo...

Toni Morrison as a Stylist in Sula

bedroom and gently holds him. Then she pours kerosene over the sleeping man and burns him to death. Morrison writes that Plum ope...

Overview and Analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

hit-and-run death of Toms mistress, the married Myrtle Wilson. Her widower is deceived into thinking Gatsby caused the accident, ...

Gender Roles in American Culture

beyond the domestic sphere into virtually every profession and job category from which they were once barred, they have had to con...

Theology of C.S. Lewis

seen in the Narnia series. For example, in the Narnia stories, a principal character is Aslan, the "Lord of the Wood," is a "Chri...

Backwoods of Canada by Catharine Parr Traill

For example, she is intrigued when the ship passes islands that have herd of cattle grazing on them. The captain explained that lo...

Black American Feminism

7 pages. This paper provides an overview of the authorship of four significant African American authors, Maria Stewart, Anna Juli...

“Keeping Promises: What Is Sovereignty and Other Questions About Indian Country”

the United States, the problems facing Native Americans remained essentially be the same but instead of dealing with a European ba...

Pa Chin's "Family" - Author's Message

both grand and far-reaching; that this conundrum proves damaging to the familys whole infrastructure speaks to the underlying mess...

'Roman Fever' by Edith Wharton and the Author's Deception Cover the Uses of Control and Formality

formality and propriety was incorrect and not only have the main characters deceived each other, but Wharton has been successful i...

Hiroshima by John Berger and Rhetoric

This does not, however, imply that Berger is attempting to spark a superficial or sentimental response: despite the...

Analysis of 19th Century European Painting by Lorenz Eitner

to the German artists of the time, yet his bias is clearly French; French Romantics, French Landscape (despite the fact that there...

Author's Word Choices and Altered Impressions of Characters

his speech has often included long pauses with "ummm" or "well" or some other phrases to fill the void, the actual speech between ...

British Army and Sinn Fein Influences on Northern Ireland

revolt against the United Kingdom occurred in 1916, over a decade after the formation of the group. While the first revolt was su...

Author's Intentions and Objectives in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

as the defining characteristic of an unmarried woman. In other words, according to the cultural definition of femininity a "good" ...

The Heritage Crusade And The Spoils Of History by David Lowenthal

the ancestral ties associated with the male gender were as strong as steel. However, not all men were deemed acceptable to adopt ...

John Morton Blum's V Was for Victory Reviewed

the culture of the times. One way in which government and politics became involved in directing cultural mores was through ...

An 18th Century Authors' Overview

is just one example, but he is still an example of a writer who characterized a generation. Swifts humor and sarcasm demonstrates ...

American Diversity

and economic issues must be considered along with positions of ethnic and religious minorities as well as issues that go to enviro...

William Faulkner Biography

Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...

Possible Scenarios for Settlement in Colonial America

settled the Chesapeake the reasons were not so simple or peaceful. One author provides us the following in relationship to the rea...

Pre Stonewall America and Authors' Treatment of Gay Society Identity

government - harbored toward the homosexual population. Lumped together with such socially unsavory issues as Communism, Katz ill...

Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem A Report on the Banality of Evil

who did what he was told, but did it with a passion and determination. He was a result of a system that commended people for obeyi...

The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815

additional examples could be presented as well. The most interesting of Dowds examples concern the leadership strategies of the t...