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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

This paper examines Franklin's memoirs in terms of the ways in which it reflects Enlightenment ideals in context as well as form. ...

In My Mother's House by Kim Chernin

In five pages this paper examines the 4 female generations presented in this autobiographical memoir by Kim Chernin. There are no...

Overview of Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs

truths and mysteries of life in his sometimes stifling family constructs. Eugene is a boy who is driven by his two great loves in...

The Liars' Club by Mary Karr

eating toothpaste past midnight" (Karr 8). One can imagine that the girls were starving, but perhaps a better way to look at it we...

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...

Harriet Jacobs, Maya Angelou, and Their Memoirs

a very large life. In the end, both of these women have shown by example, that the struggles which life presents can...

Neil Simon's Comedies and Their Deeper Messages

about him that they like(attempts at creating anti-heroes aside, of course). Then, to have any kind of story at all, the protagoni...

Robert F. Kennedy's 13 Days Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

saw a moment in time when the world may well have seen utter chaos with the dropping of nuclear weapons. Chapter One begins thi...

Geisha Concept and Arthur Golden's 'Memoirs of a Geisha'

herself many times throughout the course of the novel. As a novice Geisha she not only must learn her art, and it is considered an...

Woman Warrior Memoirs of a Childhood Among Ghosts and China Man by Maxine Hong Kingston

convey false information. Instead her style is meant to expose the reader to cultural considerations in a manner which few reader...

Sam Walton Made in America, My Story Reviewed

annual sales of over $44 billion coming from the sales to over 40 million shoppers in over 1,750 stores (Economist, 1992). Before ...

A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo

The structural basis of imagery is symbolic of Caputos intrinsic creativity and ability to see beyond the obvious. Characteristic...

Death According to Mitch Albom

he is also far removed from Judaism (Schulweis, 2001). Albom describes Morrie as a "spiritual mutt," having gleaned the makings f...

Napoleonic Era from 2 Perspectives

In five pages this research paper discusses how William Thornton Keep's leaders and Duchess d'Abrantes' memoirs depict the Napoleo...

Robert F. Kennedy's Thirteen Days, A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

on military and political levels but also on an influential level. Kennedy writes:...

Slavery Reactions of Black Women

white freedom and black slavery. The link between whites and blacks would change considerably between the arrival of those first ...

Bronx Primitive by Kate Simon

them after the war. In America, there would be "raisins and chocolate, cookies and dolls, white slippers and pink hair bows, all ...

Our War by David Harris

the My Lai massacre and, also, traces the sociological template for young male soldiers to John Wayne. He writes, "I suppose each...

'The Rains Came' and 'Memoirs of a Female Physician'

is condemned even by her own mother. Throughout the...

Gender Criticism and Hand To Mouth A Chronicle of Early Failure by Paul Auster

that same world. It could be maddening to watch him in action--a man who never seemed to care what others thought of him--but it ...

Dispatches by Michael Herr

which values the views of those Westerners engaged in that struggle over those of the native population. In other words, Herr is m...

Film Review of Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas

the voiceover. According to reviewer Patricia Kowal, this inclusion of a female perspective furthers the gangster genre because it...

Poetry of Natives

done about those who suffered, those simple cultural people who were victims of the civilized world (Castillo 40-45). This...

Definition of an American and Homelessness

91). The first threatening wave of homelessness swept America between the years 1820 and 1860, when more than five million immigr...

Elements of Good and Evil in Frank McCourt's, Angela's Ashes.

in Brooklyn, he met and married Angela Sheehan, another Irish transplant, and the couple wasted little time in starting a family. ...

Memoir: "A Beautiful Mind"

reach intellectual successes even those of sound minds have difficulty achieving. That Nash realizes such tremendous accomplishme...

"Desert Exile"

and wound up in camps. The Issei often simply went along obediently, as was their tradition; but the Nisei were not as willing to ...

Gunther/Death Be Not Proud

A 3 page book review of John Gunther's memoir of his son's illness and death. The title of this book is drawn from John Donne's Me...

Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes and Growing Up Too Fast

He says thats nice language to be using in front of the children and she says never mind the language, food on the table is what s...

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt and its Meaning

working for them--and returns to the homeland: Limerick, Ireland (1774). They live there between 1934 and 1948 but Malachy still ...