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The Depression as Backdrop

for anything-they cant save, they cant take any vacations, they can barely manage to pay their bills. They cannot afford to go to ...

Multiculturalism & Mexican-Americans

In this novel, Rudy "Chato" Medina, the fourteen-year-old protagonist narrates the story of events that occur during his familys l...

Le Guin/Left Hand of Darkness

eyes," but finds this awkward as he "self-consciously" sees a Gethenian "first as a man, then as a woman, forcing him into those c...

Morality in The Scarlet Letter

sin and transgression. For example, this discussion could bring out the ways in which both Hester and her daughter Pearl are socia...

Sun Also Rises/A Banned Book

of raucous, unchecked hullabaloo, drinking binges that last from morning to night..." (Scalero 489). Hemingways heroes spend their...

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair: Reform

nature of the work, at one point in the novel the narrator states how, "That blizzard knocked many a man out, for the crowd outsid...

Nabokov & Use of Language

that fit with their role within the novels "deck." Martha Dreyer, Nabokovs "Queen," is a calculating woman with sharp intelligence...

Wier/Tehano

is one that ties the two brothers together, although neither one of them realizes it. Each fears his own cowardice and has to ov...

Fitzgerald's Literary Influences, and His Influence on Literature

and actually wrote several novels and short stories during the period ("F. Scott Fitzgerald"). Interestingly, his novels were neve...

Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

him--and pay for the privilege. Tom realizes that "Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and that Play consists of wha...

The Banning of The Color Purple by Alice Walker

anyone who has read the book, there are some disturbing scenes in the book that are so powerfully written and detailed that the re...

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

work of fiction to which Alvarez brings her skills as a novelist in creating characterization for each sister. The book is divided...

Subtitle Significance of 'The Modern Prometheus' in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

understand the consequences of what he has done, and this is reflective of Prometheus who also had no idea what he was really doin...

Abeng by Michelle and Confusion Resulting from Clare's Obsession

Clare is searching and there are reminders along the way that this is a good thing. That said, there are also ideas to denote the ...

Marriages: Their Eyes Were Watching God

want him to do all de wantin" (Hurston 192). Her grandmother tells her something that seems specific to all arranged marriages whe...

Themes in "Things Fall Apart"

Umuofia clan, and that Okonkwo has met those criteria. This is important later on, when Okonkwo commits a dreadful crime that gets...

Imagery & Dialect/Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God

nothin" but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have t...

Butler & Eliot

the rights of plants: "And when we call plant stupid for not understanding out business, how capable do we show ourselves of under...

Orwell’s 1984: Relevancy and Social Work

In this novel it seems that the people with the power, the government, or later the Party, were those with the wealth and design. ...

1956 Film Adaptation/Moby Dick

the injustice that fate as inflicted upon him, as he has pursued the whale for years, coming close numerous times, but never actu...

Jennings/Aztec/Summation of Latter Half

of "flashes of purple dye" and the skeins of purple yarn that this produced (Jennings 524). The Aztec themselves were conqueror...

Frederick Henry in Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms

pictured offering ironic commentaries on sculpture and art, with his conversation peppered with "allusions to Samuel Johnson, Sain...

Pushkin/Moor of Peter the Great

the thirteenth century and a Prussian nobleman who came to Russia that time (Driver 21). Therefore, if the familys claims are corr...

Orwell/1984 Overview

and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...

Taiwan and the US/Comparing Domestic Violence

domestic violence, offering comparison to the legal standard on this issue in the US. In 1993, a horrific incident, the stabbing ...

Comparison of An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea and Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz

In eight pages these texts are contrasted and compared. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Leader's Political Role in King Henry V by William Shakespeare

In his political discourse, The Prince, Nicolo Machiavelli believed that political prowess that leads inherently to victory is ine...

Public Administration v. Private Administration

In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares private and public administration with similarities and differences discussed....

Emily Grierson in William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Phoenix Jackson in Eudora Welty's 'A Worn Path'

did not try to respect her or help her, indicating they merely thought she was odd. No one bothered to try to understand her neces...

Literary Modernism in 'The Waste Land' by T.S. Eliot, Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

In 9 pages these modernist examples are compared. There are 4 sources cited in the bibliography....