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Zora Neale Hurston's 'The Gilded Six Bits' and Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use'

are putting their own histories together, and finding out about who they really are. Mamas relationship with her two daugh...

'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner, 'Desiree's Baby' by Kate Chopin and Social Class

she formally received the Valmonde name, although according to the locals, "The prevailing belief was that she had been purposely ...

Immoral Actions and Henry Kissinger

there has been real "tension between Americas much-vaulted ethical and legal principles and its practical policy interests" (2000,...

American Dream and Ernest Hemingway's Story 'A Clean Well Lighted Place' and John Ford's Film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

sometimes the only way to achieve peace. Doniphon admires the idealism of Stoddard and the two form an unlikely bond. The movie cl...

American Horror Writing and the Influence of British Authors

fantasy), horror has generated the most serious study. Fright master Stephen King credits this to the acclaimed literary trilogy...

Comparative Analysis of 'Where are You Going, Where Have You Been?' by Joyce Carol Oates and 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

a young woman who feels that beauty and frivolity are the most important things in life. She does not see that life is not as simp...

Mark Twain's 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg' and Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown'

wronged by the people sets out to uncover just how dishonest they truly are, how they do not possess righteousness and that they a...

Cognitive Cinema Theory and Narration

night light. It sits in bedrooms and living rooms but has become something one does in place of nothing. Rather than sitting and r...

Wealth and Success Stories

that there is really no future in India, especially with current political and economic problems. The family gathers together enou...

Social Patriarchy in William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Kate Chopin's 'Story of an Hour'

says she is experiencing anything but sorrow and despair. During the times that this story takes place, a woman was not expected...

Viewing US History Differently

statement elsewhere, but, to the best of my recollection, there was never any serious attempt to turn Native Americans into a work...

Colin Powell's 1995 Text My American Journey

and judging the enemy. I therefore advised Cheney to accept Norms (Schwarzkopf) recommendation." What he is referring to in this ...

Sherman Alexie's Smoke Signals, and 'It's a good day to be indigenous'

determine the dramatic strengths and weaknesses of one version compared to another. The movie This is a "coming of age" story and...

The Fortunate Pilgrim by Mario Puzo

reviewer also points out, there is simplicity and beauty to this prose that is not evident in Puzos later work. In the...

Analysis of Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

In five pages the success story that was Benjamin Franklin and his American Dream of a life from his 1706 birth until 1757 is dis...

Culture of the American South in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner'

In six pages this paper discusses the profound impact of the culture of the American South upon Emily Grierson in the short story ...

Life and Writings of Isaac Bashevis Singer

In nine pages this paper discusses Yiddish American writer Isaac Bashevis Singer's life and writings including 'The Lecture' and '...

How Japanese Americans Experienced a Cultural Loss During World War II

The true story of 'Nisei Daughter' by Monica Stone is utilized in this paper consisting of six pages as the social and cultural pr...

A Personal View of The End of Victory Culture

In this five page paper the writer explores the book by Tom Engelhardt from a personal perspective. Insight is provided as to how...

Social Mobility in Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger

In five pages this paper examines the importance of social mobility in this Alger tale that defined the story of the American conc...

American Romanticism and the Writings of Washington Irving

This paper discusses how American Romanticism is represented in 'Rip Van Winkle,' a short story by Washington Irving in three page...

The Afrocentricism of Dee in 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

then her family and has been divorcing herself from them for quite sometime. When Dee arrives she is decked out in bright...

'To Build a Fire' by Jack London and 'The Storm' by Kate Chopin

In five pages these 2 American short stories are contrasted and compared. There are no other sources listed....

American Cultural Connection and 'The Celestial Railroad' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In six pages this paper examines how American culture is reflected in this short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Eight sources are ...

Song's Chinatown

3 pages and 1 source used. This paper provides an overview of Cathy Song's poem Chinatown. This paper outlines the viewpoint of ...

Short Story Writer O. Henry

In five pages this paper examines the life of William Sydney Porter, a famous American writer of short stories who became more com...

Nonconformist Americans in 'Hills Like White Elephants' and 'A Man of the World' by Ernest Hemingway

In five pages this report discusses the American nonconformism Hemingway represents in thest 2 short stories. Three sources are c...

American Literature as Defined by Edgar Allan Poe

In three pages a consideration of the short stories 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Imp of the Perverse,' and 'Ligeia' reve...

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

In five pages this story is examined in a discussion of the importance of identity in American society and its problems with racis...

The African-American Experience in the Short Story - James Baldwin and Langston Hughes Compared

This research report compares and contrasts the works of these two black authors. Short stories are discussed which look at how th...