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Identity: “The Story of an Hour”

she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...

Tan, Orwell and Baldwin: Language

truths with incredible power. For example, Hitler used language in an incredibly powerful way, playing on the truths of the people...

Reading as a Form of Resistance

imagine a more severe disparity of power than the one that exists in present-day Iran since its revolution and the institution of ...

Seventh Day Adventist: Identity Crisis

numbered at 117,000 and this number grew to 325,000 by 1960..."600,000 by 1980, finally reaching the 1 million mark in 2004" (Norr...

Society and Media

In five pages this paper examines social identity and how it is produced by the media with the public policy effects resulting fro...

Overview of the Black Family The Black Family / Structure, Gender Roles & Individual Community Identity

In five pages this paper presents an overview of the black family in a consideration of community identity of the individual, gend...

Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors and the Element of Tragedy

An analysis of the element of tragedy in Ephesus as presented in this classic work by William Shakespeare. The author of this pap...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Crisis of Identity

In five pages this paper discusses Prince Hamlet's identity search within the course of Shakespeare's play. There are no other so...

Identity Search of the Protagonist in King Lear by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper examines how King Lear's identity search fuels the plot for this Shakespearean tragedy. There are no oth...

Erik Erikson on Life Cycles and Identity

In five pages this essay considers Erik Erikson's theories on life cycles and stages in identity development. Two sources are cit...

Identity in William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure and Hamlet

In five pages this paper examines the power of identity in the similarities and differences that exist among characters Mariana in...

Human Sexuality and Gender Identity

In three pages the psychodynamic, evolutionary, and social constructionist schools of thought are contrasted and compared in this ...

Misogyny and the Male Identity

This paper addresses the concept of misogyny as it applies to the male identity, social equality, violence, homophobia, and others...

Classical Literature Identity Questions

In five pages this paper examines the definition of identity in the works of Euripides, Sophocles, Sappho's poetry, the Oresteia, ...

The Element of Tragedy in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors

An analysis of the element of tragedy in this classic by William Shakespeare. Mistaken identity and familial relationships are de...

'Sleeping Beauty' Fairytale and Psychoanalysis

reach the real world, they are rudely awakened to the fact that life is nothing like it had been portrayed in the well-worn fairy ...

Athletes and Sports

In twelve pages this paper discusses child development and achieving an identity through sports in a consideration of pressures, r...

Understanding and Perception of Self

to Marable (1997), the most important thing people can do for themselves is to define who they are. Identity begins with naming an...

Identity in No No Boy, The Invisible Man, and Beloved

In a paper consisting of five pages the shared theme of an identity search as reflected in these texts by John Okada, Ralph Elliso...

Nationalism, National Identity, and Political Culture

(Marable 71). In other words, political culture refers to the means by which groups of people within a country affect that country...

Joseph Heller's Catch 22

In five pages the ways in which death is portrayed in Heller's novel are examined in hopes of determining the identity of 'the ene...

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man

This paper examines the issue of identity and 'passing' within the context of James Weldon's The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Ma...

Identity Testing and DNA

known, and "probability of identity" applies only to the father. Genetic Profiles (1998), a laboratory specializing in DNA ...

Overview of Sexual Identity Determination

This paper consists of five pages and argues that the sexual identity of an individual is determined neither sociocultually nor bi...

Skinner and Erikson Theories of Personality

- 35: Intimacy versus isolation. Form intimate relationships. 7. Middle age, ages 35 - 60: Generativity versus stagnation. Goes be...

Nineteenth Century American Identity Development

of those character traits became a part of what most Americans like to think of as an uniquely American point of view, as well as ...

1865 to 1900 Reconstruction in the American South

In three pages this paper examines the U.S. South in terms of the effects of the Reconstruction period upon its sociopolitical ide...

Does Switzerland Have a Neutral National Identity?

In eight pages this paper questions whether or not Switzerland's national identity is as neutral as it is purported to be. Five s...

The Color Purple by Alice Walker and Relationships

In five pages this paper examines how Celie's identity was molded by her relationships in Alice Walker's The Color Purple. There ...

Being Black and Being a Man in Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' and Ernest Gaines' Gathering of Old Men

In ten pages this essay presents a comparative analysis of these works in a discussion of manhood as it relates to black identity ...