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Overview of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

In six pages this novel's style and themes as well as literary criticism are examined in this overview. Three sources are cited i...

Gus Lee's China Boy

Relationships in Lee's text are considered in terms of those between Edna and Kai and Toussaint and Kai. There are no other sourc...

Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

In five pages this text is compared with Olaudah Equiano's novel and analyzed in terms of answering questions pertaining the audie...

Rian Malan's My Traitor's Heart and Mark Mathabane's Kaffir Boy

In five pages the South African apartheid experiences in these texts are contrasted and compared. There are no other sources list...

The Novel Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro

the determinedly conventional housewife role that her best friend, Naomi, so enthusiastically adopts and righteously defends. The...

Elementary Aged Boys and Self Esteem Project Proposal

In ten pages a project proposal to evaluate these self esteem issues as well as suggested intervention measures are discussed. Th...

Autobiographical 'Black Boy' by Richard Wright

hunger and pain on a visceral level. One sees that Wright was oppressed not only by racial issues, but also by issues of gender. W...

Richard Wright's Black Boy and William Faulkner's Light in August and Black Identity

white society or in any way "rock the boat". As Jennifer Poulos observes, they are, in particular, taught to be quiet, and to refr...

Alice Munro's Hired Girl

In five pages Munro's book is summarized in a discussion of its setting, theme, plot, and characterization. There are no other so...

Athol Fugard's 'Master Harold' and the Boys Life Epiphanies

In six pages the epiphanies learned along the life journeys of Hally, Sam, and Willie throughout the course of the play and how th...

Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents

In three pages Americanization is one of the thematic aspects considered in this analysis of Julia Alvarez's novel. There is 1 so...

Identity in No No Boy, The Invisible Man, and Beloved

In a paper consisting of five pages the shared theme of an identity search as reflected in these texts by John Okada, Ralph Elliso...

William Blake's Poem 'The Little Black Boy'

In three pages this paper presents a thematic explication of this William Blake poem as it portrays lacking worth, faith, and inno...

The Girl by Meridel Le Sueur and The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

In eight pages this paper compares these works in a discussion of collective community's importance over the individual and the ho...

Historical Value of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

In three pages this essay considers the historical value of this text in terms of its firsthand descriptions of slave oppression. ...

The Attic in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

In five pages this paper examines the attic or tiny crawl space in which the author was forced to hide for 7 years to escape abuse...

Feminine Relationships in 'The Girl' by Le Sueur

In four pages this essay discusses the feminist movement in terms of the story's portrayal of women's relations and mother and dau...

Issues of Women's Rights and Maggie A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

In five pages this text is analyzed in terms of how it represents the late nineteenth century issues involving impoverished women ...

'Black Boy' by Richard Wright

In six pages this paper discusses the text's intended audience, content, and focus....

Analysis of Howard Hawks' Film His Girl Friday

In five pages this paper analyzes Howard Hawks' 1939 film in terms of how objectives and goals are addressed by the featured chara...

Poor Little Rich Girl Shirley Temple Film

In five pages this paper presents a critical analysis of a Mary Pickford film remake featuring popular 1930s' child star Shirley T...

Racism in The Long Walk Home and 4 Little Girls

A five page paper exploring the them of racism as it existed in the decade preceeding the Civil Rights Movement. These films serv...

Feminist Theatre as Reflected in Caryl Churchill's Top Girls

of the feminist critical theory. The author has a long history of reaching out and inviting her audience to experience with her t...

Contrasting Modern Psychiatry with Treatments Featured in 'Girl Interrupted' and 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'

Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest", produced during the 1970s. "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" presents a bleak yet amusing picture of ...

'Maggie A Girl From the Street' and 'Native Son'

This 8 page essay compares and contrasts Maggie in Stephen Crane's novel with Richard Wright's protagonist of Bigger. There are a...

Golden Boy by Clifford Odets

has some boxing success, the protagonist Joe Bonaparte hurts his hands enough that he can no longer play the violin. In this work...

Editor's Review of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

form of Yolanda. There is an understanding of the problems as well as a wondering at why these events have hit the family, with so...

Baby Boy Film by John Singleton

vulnerable in all their humanity - authentically reveal their most personal hopes and aspirations. Ten years after Boyz N T...

A Cultural Perspective of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

In five pages this paper argues that language is used metaphorically by the author to represent cultural assimilation. There are ...

Comparison of Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Octavia Butler's Kindred

perspective. Furthermore, the perception of people as human chattel is examined, as is the role of a patriarchal American Souther...