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Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher and Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

In five pages these texts are contrasted and compared as they portray the pressures of contemporary American culture on young wome...

Beloved by Toni Morrison

this 5 page paper summarizes the main issues Toni Morrison discusses in her award-winning novel Beloved. In particular, the writer...

African Slave Trade and its Impact

that that seen in the Americas and the different reactions and interactions that were seen....

How America's Schools Cheat Girls

The sad reality is that we are not, some of the overt gender bias may have changed but it is alive and well in most schools, and u...

A Review of Freedom Road

A 5 page overview of the book Howard Fast. The focus is on the reconstruction era. Although the slaves had been freed, black whi...

Reviewing Charles T. Davis's Black Is the Color of the Cosmos Essays on Afro-American Literature and Culture

In a five page review black literature during the 1960s and '70s is discussed and comparisons are made with slave narratives and t...

Are Male or Female Vampires More Romantic?

In five pages this comparative analysis evaluates whether male or female vampires are more romantic in a consideration of females ...

How Mass Media Can Impact Teenage Girls.

In our parents time it may have been: the brains, the geeks and the jocks. In a 1999 report entitled, "Girls, media, and the nego...

Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball

In five pages Ball's text is the subject of a book review with the author's relevance also evaluated. Four sources are cited in t...

Slave Culture Euro American and African Style

This paper consisting of five pages discusses by way of Nathan Irvin Huggins' 'Black Odyssey' how the combination of African and E...

Realism of Characters in John Steinbeck's 'Travels with Charley'

This is a 5 page papers that addresses the qualities which make the characters of Harry, the girl, and the marshals realistic. Th...

Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat

In five pages Danticat's novel about the coming of age of a young Haitian girl is summarized and analyzed. Three sources are cite...

Virginia, Cuba, and the Practice of Slavery

In fifteen pages this paper contrasts and compares how slavery was practiced in these two areas with slave treatment by each count...

Arna Bontemps' Black Thunder and the Richmond Slave Revolt of 1800

In eleven pages the differences between Bontemps' novel and other historical accounts of this slave revolt are examined. Six sour...

Childhood Loss in Obasan and The Stone Angel

Isolation, privation and loss in childhood are major themes in literature. This report discusses the work of two Canadians, Joy Ko...

African American Slave Resistance

In four pages this research paper discusses African American resistance to slavery during America's antebellum period. One source...

Early American History

In three pages US history from 1776 until the end of the Civil War in 1865 is examined in a consideration of events including the ...

A New Sibling in the Family

In a personal experience creative essay of six pages the changes represented by a new baby sister in the life of a ten year old gi...

Frederick Douglass' Successful Speeches

In five pages this paper examines these successful speech methods employed by Frederick Douglass in terms of heightening emotions ...

Analysis of 2 Poems Written by Women

read into the poem a bit more and might surmise that this boy is rather insecure and needs his girl to be seen by others in a posi...

Slave Narratives and Indian Captivity Narratives

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares slave narratives with Indian captivity narratives in a consideration of the simila...

Critically Reviewing the City State of Athens in Ancient Greece

In a paper consisting of seven pages the Athenian democracy represented by this Greek city state is considered along with an asses...

Media's Role in Teenage Girls with Eating Disorders

A girl or young woman begins to systematically starve herself and sometimes exercise compulsively as well. Her weight falls and he...

American History and the Price of Freedom

In four pages this paper discusses the high price tag attached to freedom for slaves, women, and soldiers throughout American hist...

Colonial America, England and Atlantic Slave Trade's Role

early seventeen hundreds that the slave population was sufficient enough to make an economic impact, and hen it was centered prima...

William Faulkner, Stephen Crane, and Family Values

In 5 pages the young protagonists in Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' short story and Crane's Maggie A Girl on the Streets novel are con...

Beloved by Toni Morrison and Sixo

In five pages this character analysis of Sixo assesses how valid the Dysaesthesia Aethiopica was for wayward slaves in 1851. Two...

Slave Culture and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

In five pages Douglass's Narrative is assessed with examinations of slave culture and slavery's psychological effects included in ...

A Cultural Perspective of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

In five pages this paper argues that language is used metaphorically by the author to represent cultural assimilation. There are ...

Four Examples of Minority Literature

This paper examines four stories from the genre, including Bambara's Medley, Kingston's, No Name Woman, Chavez's The Last of the M...