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A Review of the Essay From Rosie to Lucy

the media of the time (i.e. television and movies), as well as the impact of various frames of "official" reference such as census...

Federalism and Watershed Issues in the United States

settlers and encouraged them to irrigate their farms. To this day the Shoshone and Arapaho tribes are still trying to negotiate wi...

Analyzing Steve Jobs' Ethics

ways, this is unscrupulous behavior. Xerox would sue him down the road and then when Bill Gates stole the Apple platform for his W...

The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

childs experiences in her own fantasy. A few impressions stand out vividly from the first years of my life; but "the shadows of th...

The Roosevelt Presence The Life and Legacy of FDR by Patrick J. Maney

number of secondary sources listed and subdivided into ten chapters covering Roosevelts privileged youth, his marriage and growing...

Commercial Culture of Miniature Roses

the hobbyist grower, however, rather than the grower attempting to produce miniature roses as a commercial crop. The growth...

Life Without Parole by Victor Hassine

guilty. However, Hassine did find a "voice." He happened upon some examples of prison authorship and realized that he "really di...

Insanity in Literature

In nine pages this paper examines how insanity is thematically and symbolically portrayed the short stories 'The Lottery' by Shirl...

Jilted Women in Short Stories by Katherine Anne Porter and William Faulkner

a mother to do that. As Granny closes her eyes for "just a minute," Porter us an indication of how her life has been lived. She ha...

Literature and Laughter

away in the most inaccessible part of the abbeys labyrinthine library, where it remained for decades" (Essay on The Name of the Ro...

Female Plantation Slaves and Deborah Gray's, Aren't I a Woman

the world. Their identities were constantly negated and they were devalued for nearly everything which they were. Contra...

Gambling in Sports and the Pete Rose Betting on Baseball Case

In five pages this paper discusses gambling by athletes in professional sports in this consideration of the case involving former ...

"The Jungle": Unfairness in America

them. Connor is despicable; if this were present day, Ona would have him up on charges of sexual harassment. But it is not present...

Setting in Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily

whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Goffman

that, in general, matters are what they appear to be" (Goffman 1959; 17). This essentially sets the stage for understanding some...

Gatsby & the American Dream

is when Gatsby holds out his arms toward a small green light in the distance, which the reader learns later is the green light on ...

Doris Kearns Goodwin: No Ordinary Time

than the others. It may be that they are all true. However, FDR did change his will to leave half of his fortune to Missy, antici...

Organization of Plot in A Rose for Emily by Faulkner

time reader knows the story may move on logically from her death to another consecutive event. However, after a couple of paragr...

A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Bird

was its initial audience?" The audience appears to be anyone interested in a first hand account of a place that they will likely n...

Lives of Quiet Desperation

other people, and from the conventions that bind us together. We might also consider the way in which Thoreau considers his hous...

J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye as a Personal Narrative

This research paper/essay discusses the journey of personal discovery that is described in Salinger's famous coming-of-age novel. ...

Scholarly Criticism of 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

to admit for three days that he was dead. The narrator says, "We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. W...

Joyce, Faulkner, Poe, and Their Short Stories' Gender Relationships

In five pages this paper examines the gender relationships featured in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner, 'Ligeia' by Edgar A...

Storytelling and the Past

In five pages this paper examines how perspectives on the past manifest themselves in the storytelling of 'How to Tell a True War ...

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

This 5 page paper discusses two subjects with regard to The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. One topic is the narrative structu...

Overview of Opposing Economic Perspectives

developed in order to help those who cannot help themselves. Further, this position suggests that the rich run the country in real...

Myne Own Ground by T.H. Breen and Stephen Innes

The writer discusses the book Myne Own Ground by Breen and Innes, which describes the little known communities of free black who l...

Walker Percy's The Moviegoer and the Horizontal and Vertical Search of Binx Bolling

experiences in pursuing what his aunt had referred to as his "flair for research" (42). He and his partner have enthusiastically ...

Biographical Profile of Margaret Mead

In six pages the life and work of anthropologist Margaret Mead are examined in terms of the controversies regarding her Samoa rese...

A Review of I Know This Much Is True

A 3 page review of the book by Walley Lamb. This paper analyzes the plot and discusses the emotional baggage that characterizes t...