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A Death in the Delta The Story of Emmett Till by Stephen J. Whitfield

a point not to let her son die in vain. As a means by which to demonstrate her sorrow and contempt toward the white race, she hel...

Chapters Twenty Two and Twenty Three of Waterworks by E.L. Doctorow

In five pages this paper discusses the author's uses of literary techniques and the development of characters in these 2 Waterwork...

Clorinda Matto de Turner's Birds Without a Nest

In five pages this book is discussed in a critical review along with a consideration of the author's intention. There are no othe...

Battle Cry by Leon Uris

This paper consists of five pages and presents a book review on the author's stirring account of the U.S. Marine Corps during the ...

Gauguin's Treatment of the Tahitian Nude

Gauguin's Tahitian Body is compared with Going Native. This comprehensive analysis includes a look at this compelling topic in a v...

Literary Stylistic Differences Between On the Road by Jack Kerouac and Go by John Clellon Holmes

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the authors' styles of writing in these two novels. Six sources are cited in the ...

Bell Curve Propositions Defense

in a the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY), an ongoing federal project that tested over 10,0000 US citizens in 1980, wit...

Walter Mosely's American Dream Reflections in Devil in a Blue Dress

In five pages the author's reflections of the American Dream in characterizations of the novel such as that of Easy Rawlins are ex...

James McPherson's The Negro's Civil War How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union

In five pages this paper presents an overview of this American historical texts and assesses the author's arguments in terms of th...

Angela Carter's 'The Werewolf' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'Hop Frog'

These two stories are contrasted and compared in seven pages in terms of how the protagonists' emotionally appeal to the reader al...

The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad Analyzed

Though not his most famous work, Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer is a showcase for the author's command of language. This paper ...

John W. Jeffries' Wartime America The World War II Home Front

In five pages this historical text is critically analyzed with the focus being on the author's informative perspectives. There ar...

Ethics and Characterization in Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells

In five pages the ways in which characterization develops the author's ethical position are discussed. There are no other sources...

The Wilding of America by Charles Derber

and this becomes a motivation that people pursue over and above everything else. Derber asserts that we distance ourselves from s...

Wartime by Paul Fussell

In five pages this paper examines the author's contentions regarding the Second World War as they are depicted in the text Wartime...

Father's Role and Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the author's feelings concerning a father's role by blurring the past and the present in thi...

The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis

In ten pages this paper examines the author's religious views, his book The Last Temptation of Christ and the subsequent film adap...

Richard Wright's Native Son

In ten pages this novel is analyzed in a consideration of aesthetics, strengths, weaknesses, development of character, and the aut...

Shelter Poverty by Michael Stone

In two and a half pages this text is examined from the author's standpoint that shelter that is affordable should be the right of ...

Night by Eli Wiesel

arrogance, but indifference. The opposite of hope is not despair, but indifference. Indifference is not the beginning of a proce...

Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson

In five pages this paper examines the author's intentions in Sexing the Cherry. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

Articles from Liberal Perspectives

"veil of ignorance" so that they are unaware of such things as their social status, friends and family, health, politics, height, ...

Aphra Behn's 'Oroonoko'

untouched. She and Oroonoko consummate their marriage but the very next morning the kings servants come to the young couple and sa...

Guerrillas Journeys in the Insurgent World by Jon Lee Anderson

as a reporter, his reputation, and his experience working all over the globe that he brings to his account of the world of guerril...

Road to Malpsychia by Joyce Milton

the importance of self-esteem has misdirected society at-large and proposes that Christian fundamentalism is more successful at ov...

Objectives and Structure of The Histories by Herodotus

As this indicates, Herodotus intended this work to be more than a history. His ambitious purpose is to capture in writing, in thei...

Article Critique on Malaysian Nonverbal Communication

(Salleh 7). While this request is generally written or spoken, it suggests how a great deal of hidden meaning is intertwined in M...

Comparison of Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz's The Divine Narcissus and Luis de Gongora's Polyphemus and Galatea

and transform his blood into a river, which flows down the sides of the volcano, Mt. Aetna, into the sea at Catana. De la Cruzs T...

Richardson and Fielding as Critics of British Society

rather than allowing her marriage to Tom. From the onset, Fielding makes it clear that his sympathies are with the young lovers an...

A Personal System of Philosophy

Even in the absence of hard and fast codes of ethics such as those that exist for some professions, there are certain basic guidel...