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This 3 page paper gives an overview of the novel by John Toole called A Confederacy of Dunces. This paper includes an examination ...

in order to emphasize his points concerning capital punishment. Brock is particularly persuasive when he argues that Camus places ...

it was meant to preserve" (Achebe 33). Ezeudus point is that customs do change and that the practice was consciously altered by th...

as Garcia Marquez. These are often too artistic to really be a novel. While these are only a few of the types of written stories...

the white race is far superior to all others. Reprogramming such ingrained concepts is not something that will ever be carried th...

son and tried to do the right thing by him, providing him what he regarded as a good upbringing and proper education, but is often...

of Jake finding purpose and meaning in life through a love relationship, as Brett makes it clear that she is unwilling to renounce...

to than I have ever known" (Dickens 351). V. Conclusion 1. Sums up prevalence of the theme of resurrection and its importance to ...

of the novel and are mentioned because of their value in understanding the conflict between Pip and Estella. Chapter 1 Dicke...

is constantly being reminded of the process of construction, whilst being involved in the construct itself in the form of the text...

for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as me...

serve as a catalyst. It is because of Zossimovs prying and prodding that the reader is able to understand what is going on inside ...

on a Eurocentric tone. At the same time, it seems that the protagonist is his own and has distanced himself from the church and al...

him--and pay for the privilege. Tom realizes that "Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and that Play consists of wha...

white police intrusion into the black community. Himes pictures Harlem as having a uniquely black character, which means that its ...

anyone who has read the book, there are some disturbing scenes in the book that are so powerfully written and detailed that the re...

understand the consequences of what he has done, and this is reflective of Prometheus who also had no idea what he was really doin...

organizations like the National Rifle Association. Where Does the Violence Come From? One of the first questions that Lazare a...

Clare is searching and there are reminders along the way that this is a good thing. That said, there are also ideas to denote the ...

Consider: "So gradually Doctor Aziz came to have a picture of Naseem in his mind, a badly fitting collage of her severally inspect...

the subcontinent ("Midnights Children"). Because the history of India is so rich and varied, the novel is multi-layered and comple...

to develop the car and solve the problems, but its clear that they wanted to make as much money as possible quickly. And that led ...

happy at the camp, the family suffers when the men cannot find work. Ma Joad insists that they move on when money and food are alm...

this be decided by "Teachers? Librarians? Parents? The government?" (Seufert 14). If any of these agencies act in a blanket manner...

for anything-they cant save, they cant take any vacations, they can barely manage to pay their bills. They cannot afford to go to ...

In this novel, Rudy "Chato" Medina, the fourteen-year-old protagonist narrates the story of events that occur during his familys l...

groomed, well mannered and looked rather ordinary. Lewis (1998) examines a variety of murderers, one of whom is in fact Ted Bundy...

In this novel it seems that the people with the power, the government, or later the Party, were those with the wealth and design. ...

of "flashes of purple dye" and the skeins of purple yarn that this produced (Jennings 524). The Aztec themselves were conqueror...

pictured offering ironic commentaries on sculpture and art, with his conversation peppered with "allusions to Samuel Johnson, Sain...