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Equality and the Birth of the United States

of Virginia going so far to offer slaves of anti-British masters their freedom if theyd desert their masters (Blackburn, 1991). Bu...

Novel Analysis of Ender's Game

power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you cant...

Reasons for the American Civil War by Bruce Levin

saw slavery as absolutely essential to their economy, Levine argues that American workers viewed the institution of slavery as con...

Racist Text Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

to his inferior status. Tom laments, "That ar hurt me more than sellin, it did. Mebbe it might have been natural for him, but t ...

Characters of Bertha and Clarissa Dalloway in Katherine Mansfield's Bliss and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway

who thinks about her own weaknesses, yet also truly sees what she perhaps should be. We note how Clarissa, though strong and se...

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton and Irony

most of the scandals and mysteries that had smouldered under the unruffled surface of New York society within the last fifty years...

Spirituality and Religion in Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo

hopefulness here in Comala; instead, the air is heavy with an oppressive guilt that is positively stifling. It soon becomes readi...

Great Britain and Nazism in Remains of the Day

were emphatically not members of the aristocracy that it was almost impossible for them to transcend their conditioning and upbrin...

Sofia in 'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker

is told that Sofia is a woman who does not know her place. She should not be allowed to talk back to her husband, or state her own...

Realism and Fantasy in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

way of interacting with the world around her. Is this a...

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Manipulation of Narrative

of the novel, the other narratives, we do not simply see him as a kind and gentle creature. We also have the narrative that com...

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson and the Character of Ishmael

man who may have once possessed dreams, but today is an angry and bitter individual. "He was a man of thirty-one with a hardened f...

Bleak House by Charles Dickens and the English Court System

novel and helps us see some of the critical sarcasm which Dickens offers in the preface to his novel. In the preface to this nov...

The Character of Alex in A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess and in Stanley Kubrick's Film Adaptation

primary theme within the whole novel, as well as the film, is that which asks us to look at ourselves, and our society, and see ho...

Thematic Elements in Celine's Novel, North

in. . .evening dress required? hell no! The vivisection of the wounded!. . .Thats it! so much art, centuries of so-called masterpi...

War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk

for. When Pug was about to resume command of the U.S.S. California, he was, in a sense, home: "The iron deck underfoot felt good....

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...

3 Novels and Q and A

In four pages student posed questions on the novels Conrad's The Light in the Forest, Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, and Steinbeck's T...

Blues, Growth, and Cultural Wisdom in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

a reference to "St. Louis Blues" by W.C. Handy which is one of the very first, and most popular, of blues songs (Morrison 25). F...

The Sovereignty and Goodness of God by Mary Rowlandson

come about. At the same time, the authors depiction of the Indians is less than kind and while that is true, one can say that her ...

Flicker in the Porthole Glass by Desautels

cinematic and visual in their orientation. She describes, first of all, a night when Ruineux allows her into the projection booth ...

The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815

additional examples could be presented as well. The most interesting of Dowds examples concern the leadership strategies of the t...

1984 by George Orwell and Language's Power

everyone gets the aggressive tendencies out of their system in a controlled fashion) the Ministry of Truth is really full of decei...

Toni Morrison's Beloved, Motherhood, and Sethe

of Denver and Sethes children, and many others.This establishes the idea that family is very important and thus we can assume that...

Final Lines of the Novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

they go on another trip, but Lolita runs away with another man. Humbert finds her years later, when she is 18 and married and preg...

White Values versus Values of Native Americans

include any consideration of an alternate opinion to their worldview. They fully expected the Native Americans to accept that it w...

The Sociology and Social Work Perspectives of Black American Pioneers

a greater effect on African Americans than practically any other book published up until that time. William H. Ferris writes in 1...

Sula by Toni Morrison and Childhood Homes

the ease and comfort of old friends. Because each had discovered that they were neither white nor male, and that all freedom and t...

Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie and Father and Son Relationships

son and tried to do the right thing by him, providing him what he regarded as a good upbringing and proper education, but is often...

1786's Fort Finney Treaty

take place at the fort (2005). The Shawnees did not accept the land which was set aside by the Fort McIntosh agreement ("Treaty...