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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...

Blood In, Blood Out

applied to the characters at different times, but the two that seem most effective are Merton, and Shaw and MacKay. The term "Amer...

Detailed Analysis of Kate Chopin’s Short Story, ‘Desiree’s Baby’

of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...

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...

Lost Direction of Fowler in Graham Greene's The Quiet American

Phuong. In this we see he has no real love for Phuong and he has no real desires other than simple comfort. He is unhappy with the...

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 (...

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...

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 ...

Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds' Hero Lieutenant Aldo Raine

lessons in humanity. Nazis aint got no humanity. Theyre the foot soldiers of a Jew hatin, mass murderin maniac, and they need to ...

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...

Franklin and Crockett

man who could not be respected in some manner. In the case of Franklin one sees him, at a relatively early age, beginning to teach...

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...

Fragile Glory by Richard Bernstein

In eight pages questions are answered relevant to this text on France and include comparisons between French politics and American...

Josiah Royce's California A Study of American Character

than favorable. Royces work set out to discover all aspects of California and its history, to discover "the dark side of Californi...

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 ...

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...

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

metaphorically complex narrative that has been interpreted in a variety of ways. The story itself is deceptively simple. The narra...

Norris' The Octopus

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

A Review of The Final Days by Authors Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

In this five paper paper the writer explores the captivating book by Woodward and Bernstein. The focus is the final days of the N...

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...

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...

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...

Gatsby & The American Dream

her well-loved eyes" (Fitzgerald 111). As this suggests, Gatsbys many possessions and signs of extreme wealth are not important ...