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Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and Characters of Lily Briscoe and Mrs. Ramsay

In five pages these two female characters are compared. There are no other sources listed....

'Mr. Calvesina Goes Home' Creative Writing Model

In four pages a character study featuring mostly dialogue is the focus of this creative writing model sample....

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....

'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...

Medoro as an Ideal Knight

that the love story between Angelica and Medoro is one that does exemplify these larger quality of which Burke speaks. First, Medo...

Epic of Gilgamesh and the Character Enkidu

wild state Enkidu represents the noble savage, the noble animal that is pure of spirit and strong. He was to balance out the negat...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 (...

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...

Abigail Adams, An American Woman by Charles W. Akers

In this paper containing five pages this insightful bibliography of an American First Lady is discussed as it reveals an accurate ...

Religious Undertones in The American by Henry James

In five pages this paper examines how religious undertones are presented in Newman's character in this consideration of The Americ...

Customs and Habits that Form the American Character

he saw. After the poverty, political and religious strife and injustice he had seen in Europe, he saw the American as "the new man...

The Magnificent Seven Film and the Cowboy Mentality

clearly an attempt to redefine the modern cowboy for modern audiences by penetrating the invincible stereotype and revealing vulne...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson and the American Dream

"well aware of the way African American identity had become irreducible to a simple set of criteria" (Favor 28). In The Autobiogr...

John Demos, Joseph Plumb Martin and Wartime Experience

one stroke" (Demos 29). Williams and his five children make it to Montreal alive. Once they arrive in Montreal, the Indians begin ...

Family in A Raisin in the Sun and American Beauty

kind of money people like Lester makes. He has all these schemes and dreams and he ultimately learns they are pointless, just as L...

A Glance at Lesbian Characters in American Cinema in the 60s, 70s, and 80s

high over the legendary kiss between two women portrayed in Morocco. Society was simply not ready for an open acknowledgement of ...

Norris' The Octopus

This essay proposes that the character of Presley in "The Octopus" by Frank Norris can be understood as quintessentially American....

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...

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...

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...

Critical Analysis of Fraser River's Descent

while in other ways in a project such as this, it could spell disaster, and very nearly did. When peoples lives are at stake such...

Yossarian in Joseph Heller's Catch 22

in a most hideous way, Yossarian pleads with Doc Daneeka to ground him on the basis of insanity. Doc Daneeka replies that Yossaria...

Comparing Dan T. Carter's The Politics of Rage With the Film The Best Years of Our Lives

meet while returning to their hometown of Boone City, are symbolic of the American social class structure (Beidler 589). Upper-cl...

Character Evidence in American Courts

is largely responsible for the direction that evidence law reform has taken over the last one hundred years. To Thayer and his co...