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Harvey Fierstein's On Tidy Endings

The bleakness of the apartment also reflects the prospective bleakness of the survivors lives, since both have been left to cope w...

'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe, Dualism and Literary Parallels

In five pages this paper examines how sense, characters, and event are connected by Edgar Allan Poe through dualism and literary p...

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann von Goethe and the Character of Lotte

In a paper consisting of five pages the character of Lotte as featured in Goethe's 1774 novel is presented....

Shark Slayer

and so on. But what really sets Oscar apart is his style-or lack thereof. He wants to be cool and hip, but hes actually pretty sil...

Comparisons Between A Hero of Our Times by Lermontov and Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky

tries to conceal his guilt before hes forced to acknowledge it or go insane (fortunately for him, the love of a good woman "saves"...

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and the Characters of Bernard and Biff

who has always studied hard and done what is right in order to get ahead. He has gone to college and is a successful lawyer. In es...

African Americans and the Lack of Mental Health Resources In African-American Communities Has Created A Mental Health Crisis, Especially The Incarceration Of African-American Males

for decades to be a disease of the insane, mental conditions like depression that intensify juvenile delinquency have finally been...

Compare and Contrast Beloved by Toni Morrison and Silko by Leslie Marmon Ceremony

This 10 page paper compares and contrasts the novel Beloved by African- American author Toni Morrison and Ceremony, by Native Amer...

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...

Reviewing Closing of the American Mind Closing of the American Mind / Book Review

In The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom decries the lapse of teaching of traditional American values in American universi...

Reducing Prejudice

contemporary forms of prejudice" (Dovidio et al, 1999, pp. 101-105). Intergroup contact as a method of reducing prejudice ...

Modern Americans' and Native Americans' Rites of Passage

In seven pages this paper compares the contemporary American teenager with Tukuna, Okrika, and Okiek Native American counterparts ...

Overview of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

some of lifes toughest questions, questions that are still asked by todays family. Those questions include family values, abuse an...

Lena, the American Dream, and Willa Cather's My Antonia

seeing her dressed up for she was obviously a young woman who was bare foot and bore unkempt hair. When the conversation progre...

Opportunities for Women of Color in the American West

school systems and particularly in the realm of higher education at a time when only those with financial means were able to atten...

Nick Carraway, the American Dream, and The Great Gatsby

in the promised land did so through the exploitation of the land, its resources, and its natives" as is the case with Jay Gatsby (...

American Character and Habits of the Heart by Robert N. Bellah

In six pages this paper relates Bellah's text to Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville in terms of charting the evolutiona...

U.S. Democracy's Character

In four pages this paper examines the identity, character, and theory rooted in U.S. Democracy with references also made to the Am...

Analyzing Colonel Fitts in American Beauty

Burnham and his mid-life angst., a compelling subplot provides a telling commentary on the manner in which homosexuality is percei...

Loman and Gatsby Compared and the American Dream Evaluated

Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is compared and contrasted with F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby character. The Ame...

Easy Rider

This 5 page paper delineates the importance of political expression as it manifests in this blockbuster movie. Mainstream cultur...

Comparison Between Coretta Scott King Award and John Newbery Award

In twenty four pages this research paper presents a comparison between 3 C.S. King award winning books with 3 that are John Newber...

American Beauty - A Character Analysis

derived from ancient thinkers, as well as the modern conjectures of psychologists and mental health specialists. It is this that m...

Puritanism and the Formation of the American Character

and that the Puritans did not come to America to seek their freedom, but to "improve their economic well-being."3 At least that wa...

A Review of Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

A 6 page analysis of the societal message being presented in this work. Plot and characters are outlined and the emphasis that th...

American Farmer Letters and Characters

that this is a new country where breeding and birth rights are nit of primary concern in the formation of society, it is a land of...

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and American Transcendentalism

The American transcendentalism philosophy and how it is represented by the character of Jim Casy are discussed in this analysis of...

Death of a Salesman - Willy Loman and the Betrayal of the American Dream

This 6 page paper discusses the concept of true and false values in the play Death of a Salesman. The writer argues that Willy Lom...

Analyzing the Kiss Between Ally and Ling in the Television Series Ally McBeal

The kiss between female characters Ally and Ling is analyzed psychologically and socially in this paper consisting of eight pages ...

Clyde Character in An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

In five pages this report presents a character analysis of Clyde as featured in Theodore Dreiser's novel An American Tragedy. The...