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Wangero’s Betrayal

shows the dilemma of those who seek to build a new life for themselves, at the cost of betraying their heritage. This paper discus...

Alice Walker and George Orwell

of these introductory lines the reader is made privy to who the individual is in some way, where they are, and ultimately what the...

Where are You Going, Where Have You Been and Everyday Things

say to her" (Walker,56). Maggie views herself as mentally inferior to Dee or as Walker puts it "she knows she...

Everyday Use by Alice Walker

This essay presents an analysis of "Everyday Use, " a short story, by Alice Walker. Nine pages in length, seven sources are cited....

Six Short Stories, Summary and Analyses

This paper presents discussion of "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan, "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, ...

Secret of Joy by Alice Walker

This essay pertains to "Possessing the Secret of Joy" by Alice Walker. A summary of the plot is given and the writer also discusse...

"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker

a profoundly moving parable that centers around values and what is valuable. Through the voice of Mama, a large, heavy, hard-worki...

Representations of Black Women in Media

black women and women of color. There is a saying that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," which attests to the epistemologi...

Barney, Sesame Street, and the Colors Yellow and Purple

and love, was nothing like Sesame Street. Instead of the sophistication of Sesame Street (which, interestingly enough, had gone fr...

Richard Wright and Alice Munro's Perspectives on Women

contrasted against the life of her sister, Nora, who is not as down-to-earth as Clara and considered the prettier of the two. Nor...

Color of Words and the Stroop Effect

suggests the interference occurs due to the fact that naming colors entails additional attention when compared to that of merely r...

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift and Relations Between Tenant and Landlord

In 5 pages this paper discusses Swift's satirical depiction of Anglo Irish landlord and Irish peasant tenant relations in A Modest...

Writing Style of Nathaniel Hawthorne in The Scarlet Letter

In nine pages this paper examines the writing style featured in this novel in a consideration of characterization structure and de...

Excalibur, Beowulf, and the Concepts of the Chosen and Divine Kingship

protect and guard the warrior, but in this case, it represents the king protecting and guarding the nation against all intruders t...

Behavior and Mood Influences

In ten pages this paper discusses mood and behavioral influences including perceptions of others, climate, and color....

Textile Manufacturing and Accurate Measuring of Color

This paper considers the importance of measuring color accurately in the textile manufacturing industry in ten apges....

Anything We Love Can Be Saved A Writer's Activism by Alice Walker

In six pages Walker takes inspiration from Winnie Mandela and Zora Neale Hurston in presenting her own personal interpretation of ...

Sexuality and Gender Dichotomy Deconstruction

the homosexual and heterosexual dichotomy gained acceptance as both sexuality and personal identity became central to our culture"...

The Genuineness of 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

dress so loud it hurt my eyes...yellows and oranges enough to throw back the light of the sun" (Everyday...Walker). As this sugge...

Depiction of Women in D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love and James Joyce's Ulysses

the chapter "Penelope", the readers is somehow seduced into believing that Mollys thoughts and monologue are somehow unmediated (S...

'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker and the Character of Dee

her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one...

'The Rocking Horse Winner' by D.H. Lawrence, 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker and Families

even though her sister will not appreciate them in a real way as Maggie will. Maggie is one of those people who is easily used and...

A Symbolism Analysis of 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

Dee struggles mentally to understand the world in which she has never truly fit. These mental struggles take a number of manifest...

An Examination of The Third Life of Grange Copeland by Alice Walker

as Grange becomes unhappy with his simple life. He leaves behind this wife and child in order to find something better. And, it is...

Contemporary Southern Literature and Women

In nine pages this paper examines how women's changing roles are reflected in the literary works Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons, A S...

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...

The Disturbing Conflict in Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker

without struggle: she recognizes that if she chooses to participate in this damaging physical ritual that she will define herself...

The Life, Works and Philosophy of Alice Walker

shacks they were forced to live in to the yield from their crops. From a very young age, Walker experienced the racism of the Sout...

'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker, 'El Tonto del Barrio by Jose Armas and Values

Material objects and work as intrinsic and extrinsic values are discussed in a comparative analysis of these stories consisting of...

The Short Story Voice of Alice Walker

In this paper consisting of five pages the 'voice' Walker uses in constructing her short stories as expressed in sentence structur...