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Lord of the Flies by William Golding and Fragments of the Consciousness of Man

In five pages this paper examines how this novel's 4 characters represent a quartet of faculty fragmentations such as thought, sen...

Analysis of the Character Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

In seven pages this paper analyzes both the novel's 3rd person narrative as well as the main character Okonkwo. Six sources are c...

Faulkner's "The Unvanquished" - Discussion Questions

assume the role of Confederate General Pemberton in their games, dividing the role between them "or [Ringo] wouldnt play anymore" ...

Health Care Funding Alternatives

recently become one of the most controversial and important of all political discussions. Having dominated the debates surrounding...

Pierre et Jean by Guy de Maupassant

Jean, which is evident from the picture of the family friend that his mother keeps on the mantelpiece. Unaware of the torturous th...

Dumas and Life Influences on the Nove The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo is one of Alexandre Dumas's most well known and popular novels. The writer looks at the way that the au...

"The Great Gatsby" and the Pursuit of Hollow Dreams

value into ultimately empty goals; this is indicated by the comparison of Gatsbys quest for Daisy with the "American dream" itself...

"Huckleberry Finn" and the Rebuke of Racism

that Twain struggled with "how to reconcile the felt memory of boyhood with the cruel implications of the social system within whi...

Unsable Personality in Orphan Pamuk’s the White Castle

retrospective, written as a memory of event that had occurred earlier, with the narrator ever revealing his own name or identity, ...

Cuban American Community and Assimilation

the beginning of our history. According to popular belief, the U.S. has actually been more successful than other countrie...

Male Characters in Persuasion and Emma by Jane Austen

the novel, Frank Churchill, though a very important supporting character, for it is his contrast with the more refined George Knig...

Analyzing the Novel Love in the Time of Cholera

characters live lives of extremes, and the magic which pervades their lives eludes to the surreal nature of the story. The Use o...

The Concepts of Justice and Truth in Cervantes' Don Quixote

Quixote does hold some hope for the future. Cervantes was also disgruntled with the political systems as well. Just as Don Quixote...

Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn/Is It Racist?

in which the term nigger is used. Today this is a derogatory term, but it has to recognised that when Mark Twain grew up it was in...

Civil Rights Activist Al Sharpton's Life and Achievements

age of nine (2003). Hence, even his childhood was entrenched in religion and preaching. That said, he did pursue other interests w...

Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta Critically Analyzed

fall apart, the truth is laid open for the reader to see. In reality, it is the women who are silently stoic because theirs is the...

Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi and Childhood

every possible occasion. Moody was four and the uncle, angry because he would rather be running in the woods, would leave her to w...

Charles Johnson's Middle Passage A Journey

freed black man and has just hopped onboard a slaving ship headed for Africa. The ships captain is a dwarf named Ebenezer Falcon, ...

Analysis of a Page from E.M. Forster's Book Howard's End

any ideas borrowed from this research in his or her own words and to cite the Paper Store as one source for their own paper. If th...

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Racism

Congo are largely recorded in Heart of Darkness, his most famous, finest and most enigmatic story, the title of which signifies no...

Progress of the West in Paul Scott's Jewel in the Crown

educated in the finest British schools. With no knowledge of any Indian tongue, Kumar became completely an upper-class Britain, in...

Comparative Analysis of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto

Everything tends directly to the catastrophe." We are informed that "Never is the readers attention relaxed. The rules of the dram...

Film American Pie and Sex

just not appeal to me....Yes, the movie does have that somewhat annoying trait of finding gut-wrenching humor in the very existenc...

Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes

concerned with Braithwaite than Flaubert. As the narrative unfolds, Braithwaite shares with the reader his convictions on everythi...

Theme of Death in Beloved by Toni Morrison and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

it we see the power of life and death in the novel and the people. However, Okonkwo did take part in the death and was warned that...

Robert Brock's Criticism of Albert Camus' Stranger

in order to emphasize his points concerning capital punishment. Brock is particularly persuasive when he argues that Camus places ...

Okonkwo and the Minor Characters in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

it was meant to preserve" (Achebe 33). Ezeudus point is that customs do change and that the practice was consciously altered by th...

Social Problems in Hard Times

Plant nothing else, and root out everything else... Stick to Facts" (Dickens 1). For Dickens, this was an atrocity of monumental ...

Evaluating The 'Criminal Justice is Not Racist' Assertion

While the statistics obviously support the contention that there is a disproportionate representation of blacks as compared to whi...

A Review of The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.

Hitler. Hitler, of course, committed suicide near the end of World War II. Steiner placing him in the Amazon several years after ...