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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...

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...

Characters Pyle and Tunner in The Quiet American and The Sheltering Sky

These novel characters are contrasted and compared in five pages with their responsibility for suffering and innocence evaluated. ...

Hosea Easton's Legacy

In 5 pages this paper discusses the achievements of Hosea Easton, an African American abolitionist author in a consideration of su...

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...

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...

Easy Rider

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

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...

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...

Norris' The Octopus

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 (...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Willy in Death of a Salesman

major events that shaped his life. This shows that, from early childhood, Willy had no father figure on which to base his ideas of...