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Essays 211 - 240

Southern Mythology

This paper consists of seventeen pages and examines the white supremacy and racism mythology that have always been a part of South...

History of Blackface Minstrelsy

Black minstrelsy and its role throughouth the history of Black American culture is discussed within the context of Eileen Southern...

Anne Moody and Civil Rights Coming of Age in Mississippi

house (Moody 44). Bruce Clayton and John Salmond, who wrote, Debating Southern History, state that during the fifties and sixties...

Reviewing David L. Carlton's Mill and Town in South Carolina

confrontational. Never before had an actual middle class been so established and now, with the opening of the mills, a middle cla...

Los Angeles Literature

Chandler was famous for his evocative descriptions of L.A.; the heat and light, the flowers, traffic, noise and above all the vivi...

August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone and the Character of Herald Loomis

wrong with him. Seth states, "I dont like the way he stare at everybody. Dont look at you natural like" (Wilson 232). The fact t...

Comparative Analysis of Speeches by Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt

However, educated people are not always those with the best ideas, nor are they necessarily the ones who move their hearers. Roos...

Life Experiences and the Writings of Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain

is "rooted in memory" (The West Film Project). Essay Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), who obtained fame and fortune under h...

Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

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...

August Wilson's Play Fences

powerfully fertile environment for them all. She also loves to garden and this becomes a very vital part of the theme of fences in...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Hypocrisy and Religion

particular excerpt almost seems to serve as an introduction to how religion is seen in the society of Huck Finn. The reader sees t...

The Character of Troy Maxson

affair as forgivable. Of course, that is not all he does. Still, when evaluating this character as a whole, there is a sense of mo...

The Character of Troy Maxson in August Wilson's Fences

if you could play ball then they ought to have let you play...Come telling me I come along too early. If you could play...then the...

Comedy and Satire in The Works of Mark Twain

So, while Twains comments are funny, as seen thus far, and while he himself claimed that humor was the key, we also note that he p...

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Character Development

adventurous spirit that is within man, and certainly within Huck, that allows him to pursue adventure with such fervor. Of course,...

Race and the Plays of August Wilson

focus of the story is also not necessarily on making music, but rather on the segregated and isolated and oppressed position these...

Effects of the Child Labor Act of 1916 on Woodrow Wilson's Presidency

unions had become large and powerful. In fact, Wilson ran on a progressive platform and so it would only seem natural that he woul...

Identity Searches in Literature

A.E. Housman. They are both young men who die before they age, before they have perhaps achieved a powerful greatness it would see...

Religious Diversity, Biology, and Memes

(p. 434). How evolutionary theory (via Darwin and Dawkins) aids in understanding human migration, cultural development and social...

Literature, Self, and Identity

understand that there are many wolves out there, and when she finds one she is completely controlled by him and thus loses her inn...

Nonconformist, Society, and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

reactions and evolution are rooted in the desire for individuality, which represents to Huck Finn and to Mark Twain, saying and do...

Reality and Disguise in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

from such a cultured youth. This is a very symbolic disguise and one that establishes how Huck is searching for his identity throu...

Analyzing 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg' by Mark Twain

was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation uns...

History, Recreation, and Public Administration

major thrust of this movement was to formulate a less corrupt and more responsive government -- one that could cope with the press...

'Presidential' Edith Wilson

Petticoat Presidency? 2003). Edith Wilson was a woman who had grown up in a happy home, with protective parents who adored her (E...

Teaching Racism, Historical Context and Irony Using Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

to read and teach to students, especially in the younger grades. Fishkin believes that to fully understand the work, students must...

Literary Portrayals of the Conflict Between Illusion and Reality

her book The Feminine Mystique. Not all fifties kids turned into sixties hippies. Goodwin talks about baseball and the pleasures o...

Fourteen Points of President Woodrow Wilson

a reaction to a publication put out by the Bolshevik revolutionary government in Russia regarding secret treaties of the allies ("...

'Heavenly' Jackson's Island in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In five pages Twain's use of metaphors in this novel are analyzed in a consideration of Jackson's Island and how this symbolically...

Violence, Conflicts, Contact

In five pages culture and contact, a conflict that often escalates into violence, are examined with references to three books Jiha...