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John Walker Lindh

have carried life sentences, and agreed to consider letting him serve his sentence in a prison close to his family, who still live...

Dante's 9th Circle/A Contemporary Vision

household. As a teen, he became enthralled with Islam and converted. Lindh came to reject everything America stands for. By active...

Walker: “Everyday Use”

as the fact that Dee has left home and created a new persona for herself, thus trying to deny who and what she is. She is no longe...

'Am I Blue?' by Alice Walker

used to scrawl after our stories, marked, "the end." This is true in the "thinking piece," Am I Blue. It is important for the st...

The Language and the Quilt in 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

In seven pages the use of language and the symbolism of the quilt are examined within the context of Walker's short story....

Protagonist Monologues

there are certain things a person must do, certain things a man must feel and never turn away from. So many men were lost in their...

Using Structure to Develop the Story in How to Make an American Quilt and The Color Purple

This 9 page paper describes the way in which two authors use structure to develop the ideas in their books. The works under consid...

Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Women's Roles

is the world of the domestic. That is domestic in the terms of one who serves, as well as domestic in the terms of limited to hou...

The Resurrection

This paper consists of five pages and discusses claims made by both theologians, John Dominic Crossan and Caroline Walker Bynum, ...

St. John The Baptist

in their fathers footsteps. Like Jesus, John began preaching at the age of 30 (Catholic Online, 2007). His location was the banks...

Meridian by Alice Walker

along the way. They have ideals, perhaps because it was popular at the time, and then "grow up." Or they are individuals with gran...

Writing Style in Alice Walker's When the Other Dancer is the Self

me turn on the one child at the school who continually calls me one-eyed bitch" (Walker). Her story is powerful, intimate, and inc...

Everyday Use and Maggie

reader the distinct impression that she is listening to everything that everyone says. This is borne out when Dee says that shes g...

The Color Purple

about life, meeting Shug who is her husbands lover. She grows stronger and more intelligent as the story progresses and in the end...

A Review of Walker's "Hollywood UK"

steps back. Critics have largely agreed on the substandard quality of British cinema in the years immediately following World War ...

"The Color Purple" - Gender and Postmodernism

philosophical movement, having been founded in direct opposition to the tenets of modernism (namely, the scientific objectivity an...

The Color Purple by Alice Walker, A Critical Analysis

This essay offers critical analysis of Alice Walker's The Color Purple. The writer draws on supporting sources to argue that siste...

The Color Purple, Comparing 2 Critical Approaches

This essay contrasts that similarities and differences between the way that Shanym Fiske and Sonal Singh and Sushma Gupta address...

Hurston's Feminist Influence for Alice Walker

This essay discusses the influence of Zora Neale Hurston in regards to Alice Walker's perspective on black oral tradition and femi...

Discussion of Ways of Knowing

This essay pertains to Margaret Edson's play "Wit," and Alice Walker's short story "Everyday Use." The writer argues that each of ...

Alice Walker’s Coming Apart

pleasure he has enjoyed is a violation of his rights" (Walker). As a man he is ignorantly assuming that he has the right to have s...

Walker: "No More, No More"

in which 19th century blacks in Havana and New Orleans were able to maintain their identity and resist the misery of slavery by pa...

Alice Walker's Crusade Against Female Genital Mutilation

This paper examines the crusade against female genital mutilation. The author cites Alice Walker's book, Anything We Love Can Be ...

Appeal by David Walker

In five pages this text and Walker's liberation concepts are discussed along with an examination of the advantages and disadvantag...

US Civil War Women

In nine pages the stories of Captain Sally and Dr. Mary Walker's spy activities are chronicled in this overview of the US Civil Wa...

African American and Feminist Themes in Walker's The Color Purple

This paper addresses the ways in which Alice Walker's, The Color Purple portrays different feminist points of view, as well as tho...

Alice Walker's Activist Message that Anything We Love Can be Saved as a Call to Arms

This is a critical analysis of a pair of essays contained in Alice Walker's collection of activist messages, Anything We Love Can ...

The Afrocentricism of Dee in 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

then her family and has been divorcing herself from them for quite sometime. When Dee arrives she is decked out in bright...

Human Nature and Animal Rights in 'Am I Blue?' by Alice Walker

In four pages this paper argues that Walker's sentimentality serves to anthropomorphize the horse which prevents its animal nature...

Slavery's 'Long Arm' and the Literature of African Americans

In six pages the enslavement of African American females as depicted in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Toni Mo...