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Life of an Ordinary Woman by Anne Ellis

This book reviews is on "Life of an Ordinary Woman," an autobiography by Anne Ellis. The author describes her childhood experience...

“A Life of Her Own”

or anything else although my weeping sisters did not know what to do; he just said Take care of her, put compresses on her head. I...

"The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin" - Leadership

a pertinent example of Franklins (1996) fundamental attitude for meeting a challenge. Hard work, he contended, was the lifeblood ...

Harriet Jacobs/Slave Girl

order to fully understand the structure of Jacobs narrative, it is first necessary to see it within the cultural framework provide...

Mathabane: “Kaffir Boy”

and remembers she was showing it to the children the night before and she begs Johannes to tell her where it is: "Remember the lit...

Alcoholism, Rex and Jeannette Walls' Glass Castle

threw furniture and threatened to beat up" his wife or anyone else he felt had gotten in his way (Wall 23). Research has shown t...

Wild Swans and the Realities of Communism

"Slaves Who Have No Country of Your Own-Ruled by Different Masters (1945-1947)" (Chang, 1991, p. 75). This title conveys the attit...

Mathabane/Kaffir Boy

a distinct segment of the society. In US history, anyone with even a drop of African blood was considered culturally to be "black"...

Franklin and Crockett

man who could not be respected in some manner. In the case of Franklin one sees him, at a relatively early age, beginning to teach...

Nathan McCalls' Makes Me Wanna Holler/Social Control Theory

grow ups and is exemplified when an individual feels that has a stake in their society as a whole. From the beginning of McCall...

Reporting and Reflecting on Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama Sr., who was a significant if extremely distant presence in his sons life. While a student at the University...

Middle Class According to Benjamin Franklin, Moliere, and Voltaire

notably Charles Dickens, Moliere, and Voltaire - had decidedly different and less heroic definitions of the middle class in their ...

Maxine Hong Kingston and Maya Angelou: Autobiographical Reflections of Women

and Global Perspectives. Ed. Shirley Hune et al, WA: Washington State UP, 1991. 225-38. Kingston, Maxine Hong. 1976. The Woman ...

Imagination in Development of Character and Plot

imagination. In offering the reader such a look into the individual the reader is made to see the beauty of imagination as it rela...

Marriage as a Problematic Institution

and vows that her life will be different. Due to her assimilation of the American ethos, she rejects the Judaic tenet that she is ...

Multiple Viewpoints in "The Woman Warrior"

Kingston makes much of the idea of the oral tradition, and her inability to partake in it. The ability to use language is vital fo...

Comparison: "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" and "The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks"

racism, this time not the violent confrontation of the KKK, but the institutionalized, systematic racism that is so much a part of...

Born on the Fourth of July

person that John F. Kennedy was addressing when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your co...

The Motivation for Autobiography

is a fact: White men consider themselves superior to black men. There is another fact: Black men want to prove to white men, at a...

Augustine, Aurelius And Guibert

Plato and Anselm . He talks about seeking truth and wisdom consistently throughout the text. For Augustine, "Truth is one, and Go...

Dorris’ Broken Cord/A Theoretical Perspective

layer that is closest to the child and which contains the relational features with which the child has direct contact (Paquette an...

Oral Traditions of Native Americans

saying that she has helped "to destroy" her Hopi culture? What does she mean by "breaking away" from her heritage? Looking closely...

“The Autobiography of Malcolm X”

after entering into the orphanage, he states, "As the nigger of my class, I was in fact extremely popular-I suppose partly because...

Maya Angelou/Caged Bird

was really blond, white and blue-eyed (Angelou 4). This feeling on Angelous part is highly related to the restrictions on black fr...

Autobiography and Educational Concentration

basic career goal is broad, I have a desire to implement new systems and new organizational tools as an element of business develo...

Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington

Northerners who came South to take advantage of the social chaos that characterized the region in the aftermath of the Civil War. ...

Baby Boomer's Autobiography

baby boomer, you must have been born in any year from 1946 through 1964 which has been recognized as a period of increased birth r...

Common Ground Stood on by Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X

law is no law at all" (King, 2001). Dr. King also refers to the Bible and how Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the Book of Daniel...

Malcolm X and Richard Wright

of his entire life was dedicated to helping the race. Wright was a man simply seeking his own identity and he seemed to have no re...

Humility and Benjamin Franklin

of his accomplishments, many of which are successful. One of the problems in the writings of a man outlining his own accomplishme...