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existence. Thus, he sees himself as something more than a victim. He simply has a less desirable fate than some of his peers. Yet,...

getting the opportunity to visit the beach, alone, for a day. She was still five miles away from the ocean, yet the air seemed d...

most masters tried to keep their slaves ignorant on this matter, as it was regarded as a sign of a "restless spirit" for slaves to...

on a large truck, often driven by hired men they do not know. It is scary to have to leave everything one owns in one place and ha...

behaviors. The behavioral component of CBT also teaches the patient how to calm mind and body in order to feel better, think more ...

were incapable of having the same feelings, the same needs, the same emotional attachments to loved ones that white people maintai...

maintain that women often do not perceive the need to negotiate as a driving force for their personal change, and so they are like...

are used to match up, such as a person getting out of a chair and then being shown form a different angle entering a room. The use...

of Douglass work one author, unknown, notes the following in relationship to Douglass and why he undertook the project of writing ...

of the Rigger Bar" (Erdrich 1). From this moment her short story continues until she is alone and wandering in heavy falling sno...

others, some are more memorable than others. A persons own stories are like this. Each individual decides what is truth and what i...

bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story" (Wharton). Its his c...

Fidel Castro. A useful, comprehensive, and scholar text, Gray offers an ideal introduction to the Jose Marti historiography. Fe...

because of her pride seldom uttered a complaint. Like most Filipino girls, she married and became a housewife. Her husband (my L...

plantation, where she was put to raise the children of the younger women. I had therefore been, until now, out of the way of the b...

they do not inflict slavery upon the people, they do inflict oppression that is very similar to slavery. In the first chapter o...

hard to draw oppositions between Travis and the Villain, Sport, as both are strong males who use forceful methods and generally th...

shown in his marriage to Rosamond. She is from a very wealthy family and insists that Lyndgate keep her in a manner to which she h...

down his memoirs to convey his personal experiences as a slave. One wonders how much of Douglasss memoirs were tainted by the cont...

deals with the concepts of virtue, and with womens attempts to transcend the social and cultural mores which restricted their inde...

or excited by his account because overall he states that "I believe there are few events in my life, which have not happened to ma...

preachers come away from some sermons with a sense of satisfaction in knowing that a specific sermon was "good," but without means...

could neither read nor write. Most were still slaves and white Southerners viewed Douglass as somewhat of an anomaly. An educated ...

be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...

the story written from a different perspective would have been worse, or better, is to ignore the fact that with a different form ...

told with the simple vocabulary and simple sentences of a young child, often fusing ungrammatical language and childrens slang tha...

critic notes that, "Whether in a brief novella or in an epic tome, one common technique utilized by many writers is a framing of a...

focusing especially graphically on his Aunt Hesters assault by her master, and the abandonment of his grandmother by the master af...

of all our family, which, in its entirety, lives only in my memory and in memory of those few siblings who managed to survive the ...

and she is burned as witch (evoking images of Joan of Arc, and martyrdom). Lang portrays, therefore, a society in which not only i...