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Human Nature and the Writings of Lee K. Abbott

In eleven pages Lee K. Abbott's quirky exploration of human nature in the short stories collection Living After Midnight is examin...

What it Takes to Change

5 pages and 2 sources. This paper provides an overview of what it might take to change the future and improve a life. Though man...

The 'Other' America in Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here

This paper consisting of five pages investigates the environment that two young African American boys experience in their Chicago ...

American Dream as Represented by Frederick Douglass and Benjamin Franklin

In five pages this paper examines how these important men's lives reflect the concept of the American Dream as depicted within Nar...

Eleanor Roosevelt's Influence

In five pages the text Eleanor Roosevelt A Personal and Public Life is used to study the life and contributions of this influenti...

Frederick Douglass and Harriet Ann Jacobs on Male and Female Slaves

knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. My father was a carpenter, and considered so intelligent and skilful in...

The Daily Lives of Ancient Egyptians

or when (Montet, 1968). There is some historical text which has been deciphered giving some of the details of ancient Egypt. Mon...

Comparison of Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass

of the public social sphere, keeping themselves completely within the domestic sphere. The "good" or "true" woman was passive, dep...

African Americans and Their Evolution in Fiction and Nonfiction

social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...

Jackie Kay's 'Trumpet'

The world as a whole, in fact, was not privy to that information. It would only be when Joss died and his body was processed thro...

The Legacy of Billie Holiday

music, which she may have initially embraced as a kind of personal salvation.3 While male lovers would betray her, seductive jazz...

Women in Athens During the Fifth Century

dilemma for his children, Orestes and Electra, who have to choose between not avenging their father and murdering their mother (18...

Living By A Code, Ethics, Liberty, and Morality

things, some of which were not the original intent of Jeffersons vision. Having money has come to be equated with a sense of free...

Film Analysis, Style, and Composition

Ulmer relied on things like voiceover and dark shots that create a very powerful sense of darkness. There are the close ups and th...

The Life and Times of Federico Garcia Lorca

This paper discusses the life of Spanish dramatist and lyricist Federico Garcia Lorca. The author examines how his life was affec...

Emily Dickinson's Views on Death Expressed in Her Poetry

In a paper consisting of 5 pages Emily Dickinson's contention that one should live life to the fullest and not be constrained by f...

The American Revolution from a Female's Perspective

In an essay consisting of two pages the fictional account of life for a white colonial Patriot living in New York State during the...

Life and Faith of Mohandas K. Gandhi

This paper consists of nine pages and examines how faith led the life's journey of Mahatma Gandhi. Five sources are cited in the ...

Hispanic Cultures in the United States

different and tied to their country of origin. II. Mexican Americans Mexican Americans, as well as Puerto Rican and Cuban Amer...

Gunther/Death Be Not Proud

A 3 page book review of John Gunther's memoir of his son's illness and death. The title of this book is drawn from John Donne's Me...

Persistent Vegetative State Patients and Ethical Decision Making

the balloon, and certain gestures, were definite responses to the environment and evidence of consciousness, but the doctors disag...

Baudelaire In Savannah

and captivating. History indicates that this has always been true. General William Tecumseh Sherman was so taken with the city o...

Galway Kinnell's Life and Poetry

In three pages this research paper examines the life and poetry of Galway Kinnel with an explication of 'When One Has Lived a Long...

Abortion According to Ronald Dworkin

In five pages this paper discusses Life's Dominion An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia and Individual Freedom by Ronald Dworki...

Viktor Frankl's Theories and Meaning in Macbeth and King Lear by William Shakespeare

In six pages this paper examines how life's meaning and human suffering's relationship is represented by these William Shakespeare...

Caesar Germanicus

with them since his days as a little boy when he went with his father. In fact, it was because he used to march around the camps i...

2 Poems by Robert Herrick Analyzed

of the seasons, which have been going on their course throughout all of history. "And Titan on the eastern hill / Retires himself,...

'A Small Good Thing' by Raymond Carver

In five pages this report examines how existential reality and daily life's transitory nature are depicted in the 1983 short story...

Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Its Life Parallels

In nine pages this paper analyzes the life parallels between the society of the 1950s and as the play reflected the life of playwr...

Life and its Meaning

In five pages this paper examines life's meaning in a consideration of such philosophies as Albert Camus' French existentialism, s...