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The Concepts of Slavery and Motherhood in Toni Morrison's Novel Beloved

This 8 page paper considers Sethe's sense of what it means to be a mother in Toni Morrison's novel Beloved. The writer argues that...

The Afrocentricism of Dee in 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

then her family and has been divorcing herself from them for quite sometime. When Dee arrives she is decked out in bright...

Alice Walker's Emphasis on Womanism

This nine page essay explores the theme of womanism that characterizes both Alice Walker's life and her writings. Meaning and app...

Analysis of The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

In five pages this paper discusses character, meaning, and settings in this analysis of Sandra Cisneros' novel. There are no othe...

Short Stories and Cultural Attitudes

In five pages the cultural attitudes reflected in John McMurtry's 'Kill'em, Crush ‘em, Eat ‘em Raw' and Roland Barthes...

Damien by Herman Hesse

In four pages Damien is reviewed in a consideration of novel characteristics, meanings, metaphors, structure, character, and theme...

Dante's Characterization in 'Inferno'

In six pages the reasons why Dante elected to utilize himself as protagonist in 'Divine Comedy' are analyzed in a consideration of...

Beatrice's Character in 'Inferno' by Dante

Divine Comedy is examined in six pages in terms of the tales 4 meaning levels, considers why Dante selected Beatrice as the primar...

Overview of Modern Medicine

In nine pages this research paper examines the term modern medicine and what it means. Eight sources are cited in the bibliograph...

The Dance Sequence from Singin' In the Rain

This writer offers a detailed analysis of the Gotta Dance/Broadway Melody scene from the 1952 film Singin' In the Rain. These scen...

The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper

into my own playtime. Whenever I was about to say the contracted word "cant," the little engine would come to mind and Id hear my ...

The Sweet Herafter

In this six page report the writer provides an overview of the movie and book renditions of the school bus accident that took the ...

Rainbow Importance in the Native American Poem 'The Vision'

to Literature. 11th ed. Eds. Barnet, Sylvan, et al. New York: Longman, 1997. 723-724. RESEARCH OWNED & PUBLISHED GLOBALLY BY THE P...

Exegesis on Matthew 5:43-48

In six pages a passage from Matthew's gospel is presented in terms of its background, meaning, and literary analysis. There are f...

Crime, Justice, and Changing Lenses by Howard Zehr

of their crimes against individuals and communities by holding them directly accountable for making amends to for the damages comm...

Books I, II, and III of Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

In a paper consisting of five pages the concepts of human good, the 'doctrine of the mean,' and 'phronesis' as presented in Books ...

Chapter 5 'Equality and Impartiality' in Utilitarianism by J.S. Mill

In five pages this paper discusses this work's concluding paragraph in an analysis of its meaning regarding equality and happiness...

Electronics, Utilitarianism, and Happiness

In two pages this essay examines the acquisition of happiness through electronic means and also considers what the father of Utili...

Late 19th Century Leisure

the end of face-to-face communication (Stone, 1995). There were both positive and negative social side effects of the new technolo...

1930s' 'Dust Bowl' in America

In five pages this paper examines 1930s' America in a consideration of what is meant by 'the Dust Bowl,' its causes and its effect...

American Graffiti During World War II 'Kilroy Was Here'

The meaning and impact of this popular phrase regarding soldiers during World War II is assessed in a paper that is 15 pages in le...

UnAmerican and Unpatriotic Dissent

In three pages this report examines how the practice of dissent has come to mean unpatriotic and unAmerican in the United States. ...

Allowance of Police Chases at High Speed

In five pages this essay argues in favor of aggressive law enforcement in nearly all circumstances even if this means there may be...

Student Degredation and Oppression Canon

In five pages this argumentative essay implies that the academic canon represents oppression and degradation for contemporary stud...

Overview of the Theories of Austrian Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl

excused them, did not live to see them practised in the gas chambers of Auschwitz (Freud died in 1939). Dr Frankls father, mother,...

Mass Media and Christianity

In five pages mass media and the impact of Christianity are considered in a fifty year forecast with a discussion of Christian the...

Future Role of IT and Telecommunication Companies

In twenty pages this paper discusses the connection between information technology and telecommunications companies in a considera...

Contemporary Society, the Workplace, and Sexism

usually has some sort of grudge against the member of the opposite sex, or at least feels that the opposite sex in general is infe...

How Beauty Pageants are Related to the Image of Women

This essay that contains no outside sources examines the beauty pageant and its meaning in the world today. The idea that they dem...

Walt Whitman vs. Emily Dickinson

each individual word. Yet, paradoxically, poetry is that art form in which what is unsaid is often as important--or more importan...