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Inside by Michael Santos

by working as prostitutes within the jail (Santos 17). However, horrible conditions and high violence are not indicative of all ja...

Hospitality in the Telemachy

(Thorburn 370). This is the custom that plays a prominent role throughout the Telemachy and the Odyssey as a whole. The Telemach...

Examples of Theodicies

boils and sores but Job continues to praise God. Jobs wife tries to get him to curse God. Then, friends suggest he is being punish...

OSTLER’S VIEWS ON THE BLACK HILLS AND THE LAKOTAS: AN OVERVIEW AND CRITICAL REVIEW

"dem dar hills." As tourists examine Mount Rushmore, Ostler points out, "few visitors to the site give much thought to the previou...

Sheila Baxter's Still Raising Hell

In five pages this book report discusses the discrimination against individuals who are obese or impoverished as depicted in Still...

The Definition of Utopia

movements for social change that were around and attempting to give them as concrete a form as possible so it would seem real" ("M...

Problems Associated with Adapting Novels into Films

This paper examines the problems involved in transferring novels from print to the big screen in twenty seven pages and includes s...

Nickel Mountain by John Gardner

A book review of Nickel Mountain by John Gardner is presented in six pages. Eight sources are cited in the bibliography....

Jocelyn Fey's Daughter of Time

In five pages the title is discussed along with an examination of the book, its characters, and historical counterparts. There ar...

Social Conditions as a Backdrop to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

This 4 page paper discusses the relationship of the text of the book The Jungle to the actual conditions of the Chicago packinghou...

The Paradox of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

This 5 page paper argues that Upton Sinclair's purpose in writing The Jungle was to argue on behalf of the benefits of socialism, ...

Middle Passage by Charles Johnson

In five pages this book is considered in terms of the slave trade and the African Americans' factual and historical accounts conta...

'Middle Passage' by Charles Johnson

he will not ultimately be sold for labor. Johnsons portrayal of Calhouns paralyzing fear is assessed over and over again througho...

In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason and the Film Less Than Zero

In four pages this book and the 1986 film are contrasted and compared. There is no bibliography included....

Maxine Hong Kingston, Thomas Pynchon and Postmodern Literature

In five pages this paper examines postmodernism in a comparative analysis of Tripmaster Monkey and His Fake Book by Maxine Hong Ki...

Once and Forever King by T.H. White

The Once and Forever King by T.H. White is the focus of this book report consisting of ten pages in which topics including knighth...

Peter Rachleff Hard-Pressed in the Heartland

The writer examines the Peter Rachleff book Hard-Pressed in the Heartland and analyzes Rachleff's main points, opinions, ideas and...

Microbiological Comparison between Cook's Outbreak Film and Richard Preston's Hot Zone Novel

In four pages this paper contrasts and compares how the Marburg and Ebola viruses are depicted in this movie and book. Seven sour...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig

most exciting part of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance for it is that journey that has kept the book popular over twenty ...

The Forbidden Zone by Whitley Strieber

A book report on this text consists of five pages and includes the continuum between time and spaces, reality constant's instabili...

Characterization and Realism in the Dickens Classic Great Expectations

This work is discussed in depth and realism is the focus of attention along with a look at characterization. This paper looks at h...

We All Got History by Nick Salvatore

In five pages this paper presents a summary and analysis of the memory books of Amos Webber as portrayed by historian Nick Salvato...

Eckert - Twilight of Empire

This 5 page paper analyzes Allan Eckert's book Twilight of Empire and its significance in describing an important period in Americ...

Margery Kempe's Personality and Psychosis

In 8 pages the narrator's personality and psychosis are examined in an analysis of The Book of Margery Kempe. There are no other ...

An Analysis of Hansberry's, Raisin In The Sun

This paper analyzes Lorraine Hansberry's book, Raisin In The Sun. This eight page paper has no additional sources listed in the b...

Willa Cather's My Antonia

whole adventure of their childhood in Nebraska. As a result, the reader immediately understands that the story is not to be one o...

Betrayal of Mattie in Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor

In five pages this paper examines the book within the context of its primary character Mattie Michaels and her betrayal is conside...

Lilliput, Satire, and Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

This essay consists of five pages and examines the first book of Gulliver's Travels in terms of how Swift satirizes eighteenth cen...

Yahoos and Houyhnhnms in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

In five pages this paper examines the fourth book of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels in its satirical portrayal of Yahoo brute...

Martin Duberman's Stonewall

In a paper consisting of three pages the gay uprising that occurred in New York from June to July 1969 is examined in the text and...