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Essays 301 - 330
(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...
In five pages this paper examines the themes of memory and reassimilation within the context of these Native American novels. The...
the modern world was a study in contrasts between interior and exterior, so too was modernist literature. There was often the con...
as "the best of times and the worst of times" -- those of hope and optimism, but also of disillusionment and despair. It was extr...
This sense of optimistic euphoria was forever captured in F. Scott Fitzgeralds 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby. Its featured charact...
illustrated in the frequent comparisons between the Long Island sections of East Egg and West Egg. As narrator Nick Carraway, a W...
reviewer also points out, there is simplicity and beauty to this prose that is not evident in Puzos later work. In the...
feel lonely." All characters seem to have a variant of this dream as well, whether the place is, that which will allow them to b...
In five pages this paper discusses the author's perspectives on slavery as reflected in this great American novel. Five sources a...
In twelve pages this research paper presents the argument that a greater appreciation of Hurston's classic novel can be acquired t...
In ten pages this paper discusses how American clergymen reacted to Elmer Gantry, a novel by Sinclair Lewis. Ten sources are cite...
In five pages questions on imagination, metaphysics, and naturalism, and on the marriage of Swede Levov are answered within the co...
In five pages this paper considers the customs and rituals of Native American culture and their influence on child development as ...
In four pages this paper examines the importance of Native American heritage and the protagonist's desire to reconnect in the nove...
This paper discusses how emotion is used by the author in the depiction of the Asian American experience in the novel. There are ...
In five pages this novel is analyzed in terms of its themes and portrayal of pertinent Irish American political and social issues ...
In seven pages this paper discusses how Romanticism is evident in this early American novel with an examination of theme, characte...
In three pages this paper examines the American values represented by the protagonist of James Fenimore Cooper's novel. Two sourc...
In five pages this report presents a character analysis of Clyde as featured in Theodore Dreiser's novel An American Tragedy. The...
In five pages this paper considers the contents of this novel in terms of the topical issues it covers and the ways in which Nativ...
In six pages the antiabolitionist intent of Stowe's novel is compared with the African American stereotypes it was responsible for...
In seven pages this paper examines Silko's novel from a historical context in an analysis of what Ceremony reveals about the latte...
to the settlement of the American frontier, Drums Along the Mohawk. It is the story of farmer Gil Martin and his privileged bride...
during the summer of 2006, hidden in the walls of Lenas grandmothers house" (Meland, 2007). The spirit of Ezol begins to come to L...
In five pages this research paper examines the changing of American values as represented in Fitzgerald's novel with Tom Buchanan ...
on The Great Gatsby, "As Puritan values gave way to an unrestrained craving for money, power, and other forms of gratification, th...
In five pages this report examines how Gatsby depicts a corrupted variation of the American Dream in Fitzgerald's classic 1925 nov...
In seven pages this paper examines the excesses of the American Dream and its criticisms signified by the characterization of Jay ...
In nine pages the loss of the American dream as Fitzgerald portrays it in the moral decline and incest themes in his novel is disc...
based on alcohol. And yet, the story is both hilarious and heartbreaking. After all that modern readers have heard about Fitzgeral...