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Historical Reviews of Literature Featuring Native Americans, Black Women, and the Poor

one can take from this article is a one-sided story told from the point of view of the Native Americans. However, this...

Vassalage and Magna Carta and The Song Of Roland

power over the peasants in order to maintain the established hierarchy. By instituting yet a second person to enforce the code of...

Huckleberry Finn's Character

into the world and into society. He plays with different roles because he can in light of the fact that everyone thinks he is dead...

'When We Dead Awaken Writing As Re-Vision' by Adrienne Rich

the female gender could be perceived within the myriad components of existence, the early feminist movement served to establish a ...

William Shakespeare's Macbeth and the Stages of Decline

a man who is perhaps willing to sit back and let prophecy go its own course, without intervention from him. This is evidenced when...

America and Changing Freedom

these new people to found a land where they would have such freedoms from Europe. However, at the same time, "The problem with thi...

Analyzing Robert Coover's The Brother

this adds information to the reader. One of the main purposes of this is that is further aids in making the reader feel as if he ...

Political Power of Feminists in the US

at the time at the mercy of men. Women had no say so in the political outlook of the country in any shape, form or fashion. Oppr...

Aspects of the Multiple Heritage Seen in Africa

born in Kenya, educated in Britain and currently teaching at Binghamton University, New York knows of what he studies (Binghamton,...

Blue Velvet and the Surrealistic Vision of Filmmaker David Lynch

everyday life" (Gott, 1993, p. 126). However, the surrealists were not only disturbed by the horrors of war. They were equally tro...

Happiness and Wisdom in Philosophy

of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...

Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence

men who have affairs gain the tacit approval of their peers, whereas women are condemned. As Deter (2002) points out, Mr Beauforts...

Society, Power, Gender and Sexuality

equality. In that sense, womens rights are not a universal good; neither are they timeless" (Luh PG). The 1920s represente...

Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling and Protagonist Harvey Cheyne

direct order--never, at least, without long, and sometimes tearful, explanations of the advantages of obedience and the reasons fo...

History and Issues Pertaining to Women and Children

or sold, as any possession might be. If a woman and her children are homeless, the situation is little changed. When homelessness...

My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

to the bed and lay on it with my eyes closed. Now there was ice and darkness inside me. I could feel the cold darkness moving sl...

Biblical Imagery in Moby Dick by Herman Melville

journey. Immediately, the reader is shocked by Ahabs assertion and assumption that he is like God, that he holds the ultimate po...

Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote

service...sweep so evil a breed from off the face of the earth" (Cervantes). One of his next foes is a flock of sheep. Don Quixot...

The Red and the Black by Stendhal and the Characters Mathilde and Julien

him in a more manipulative and frequently hypocritical light....

Othello by William Shakespeare and Jealousy

but on their bonds with other men who guarantee their honor and reputation" (Bloom 89). This is demonstrated through the characte...

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice and Homoeroticism

It all started when Lestat, a very old vampire, gives Louis the choice to either die or have eternal life as a vampire (Berardinel...

The 1990s and Ageism

a good salary, job security and a life of leisure. Now, they found that their companies, when faced with the necessity for trimmin...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and a Symbolic Motif Analysis

Jesus Christ is especially compelling in the character of Jimmy Cross. His initials of J.C. and his surname are calculated refere...

Identity Search of Denmark's Prince Hamlet

fact that this protagonist seems to have an identity through his blood. He seeks revenge, but he also seeks to find out who he is ...

Odysseus' Maturation and the Epic 'The Odyssey' by Homer

In five pages this paper discusses the maturation Odysseus underwent throughout the course of 'The Odyssey.' Three sources are ci...

Billy Pilgrim's Changes in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five

000 souls. Partnering with Opposites Throughout the novel there are many "partnerings" with opposites. If an image repeats itsel...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and an Analysis of East versus West

illustrated in the frequent comparisons between the Long Island sections of East Egg and West Egg. As narrator Nick Carraway, a W...

Warped Portrayals of Reality in the Media

This paper examines the use of deceptive advertising techniques in the media throughout history. This six page paper has five sou...

Celie's Maturation Process in Alice Walker's The Color Purple

In six pages this paper examines the importance of Celie's maturation throughout the course of the novel The Color Purple by Alice...

Coming of Age, a Fictional Rendition

This paper is a fictional account of a young African-American coming of age and his travels throughout South Africa and the US. Th...