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The Color Purple Novel by Alice Walker

sad position of a young girl who is oppressed in every possible way. Her sister, however, becomes far more educated and travels wi...

Novel and Film Adaptations of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

"Black shapes crouched, lay, sat between the trees leaning against the trunks, clinging to the earth, half coming out, half efface...

Fiction Novels, Latin and Non Latin Authors

In eight pages this paper examines novels featuring Latino characters written by Latin and non Latin author and concludes that in...

Hesse's Novel Demian

religion being interpreted, or misinterpreted, by human beings that they were no longer valid....

Novel and Film Portrayals of Frankenstein

any sense, which is the case in the novel. One similarity regarding the novel and the film involves the main characters fascina...

Themes of Good and Evil in Stowe's Novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin

There can be no doubt that Stowe intended her novel to be more of a religious than sociopolitical text. It includes close to 100 ...

Nella Larsen's Novels and Awareness of Gender and Race

begins to see herself as somehow less than the rest of humanity, a sub-human at best. This self hatred continues throughout the ...

Lewis Carroll's Poetry and Novel Styles of Writing

nonsense poem is to not try to understand it at all. In other words, reading the poem outloud, rather than reading it to oneself, ...

Fried Green Tomatoes Novel and Film Comparison

tidbits that enabled the readers to journey back in time. The film alters this setting somewhat with a present-day Evelyn Couch s...

Oscar Wilde's Gothic Novel The Picture of Dorian Gray

the landed wealthy(Frank 1981). The heroine is often too perfect and too sweet, whereas the heroes are usually young and dashing, ...

William Gibson's Cyberfiction Novel Johnny Mnemonic

The new literary genre dubbed 'cyberfiction' is considered in a five page research paper that discusses how technology's complicat...

The Amish Culture

use of or involvement with modern conveniences. Their choice to eschew the intrinsic benefits of contemporary technological advan...

Reno V American Civil Liberties Union

both verbal and physical battle; indeed, to interfere with ones inherent constitutional rights is to intrude upon the very essence...

Banned Books In California: K-12

attempt to limit access to so-called sensitive issues and concepts, radical right wing supporters have pushed their weight around ...

Ageism In America

Age discrimination has become more than a minor inconvenience throughout the twentieth century (Rupp et al, 2006); indeed, the iss...

Cultural Needs of Chinese Women in Childbirth

background and knowledge to evaluate when there is a need to consult a transcultural nurse specialist, as these specially trained ...

Youth Violence In The United States

in a society where proper parenting has become a thing of the past. Detachment of this extent can reach epic proportions when men...

Tocqueville/His Views of Blacks

of servitude that slaves adopted as indicative of their true feelings, rather than as a behavior adopted for self-protection. He s...

Rising Inequality/Threat to Democracy

on the non-working poor" and that adults should be able to support themselves (Burtless 547). However, this position overlooks the...

Jefferson & Contradictions

and a pragmatic one. From its inception, the Constitutional Convention was more concerned with economics than ideals. The majori...

Mental Issues, Mindset And Social Work

state hospitals; however, ignorance compounded the fact that "at the time of its enactment the structure and support some people w...

Stereotypes and Class

the continued existence of racism also has an effect on the African Americans, and this effect is to make them highly aware of rac...

African American Studies: Definition

job of delving deeply into the historical and cultural foundation of racial discrimination during the slave trade by effectively i...

Hollywood Depiction: Cultural Consequences Of Negative Imagery

it offers little appeal to what Hollywood filmmakers perceive their audiences want to see: cookie-cutter molds. Bach points out h...

American Popular Culture of 1951 Represented in James Jones’ Best-Selling Novel From Here to Eternity and George Stevens’ Film A Place in the Sun

in explicit language and vivid descriptions of sexuality that were shocking within the conservative cultural context of the period...

Paul Dunbar’s Use of Double Consciousness

all tears and sighs?" (Dunbar "We Wear"). In other words, the world is callous and pays no heed to the pain that it causes, but D...

The Fluidity of Identity and Consumerism

is a stable concept; shares with a social group and influenced mainly by two variables; nationality and class, but more recent the...

Life and Theoretical Contributions of Pierre de Fermat

the work of Apollonius concerning plane loci (Ball Fermat.html). In his youth, Fermat was friends with the French scientis...

Caring in Nursing Theory

paternalistic approach that has been favored by physicians. Watsons theory stresses nurses should "honor anothers becoming, autono...

Intergenerational Family Relationships

elderly population is finding it difficult to meet their own financial needs and have few choices but to pool resources with other...