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Olaudah Equiano and Frederick Douglass Lifestyles and Philosophies

the reader into the oppressive world of slavery. Indeed, it was the authors desire to bring attention to the injustices faced by ...

Background and the Stories of William Faulkner

to Murry and Maud Butler Falkner, an "old south" family that remembered the Civil War - the familys patriarch, William Clark Falkn...

Harlem Renaissance and Zora Neale Hurston

her age and a man that treats her badly. In many ways he enslaves her and she feels helpless to leave him. Finally, Janie shares t...

Biographical Overview of 'Mother of Our Country' Abigail Adams

expressed her distinct points of view ("Presidential facts," 1998). Some say her letter writing became a way of life (Bober, 1996)...

Unorthodox Writings of American Poet James Merrill

blank verse" (Traveler With a Trunk of Poetic Devices). It begins with the poem, "The Friend of the Fourth Decade," which is fram...

Nineteenth Century Romanticist Edgar Allan Poe

of instruction and inspiration, freedom of the individual, self-analysis, a high value placed on finding connections with nature a...

Overview of Author Virginia Woolf and Her Influence

breakdown" (Anonymous Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), 2002; vwoolf.htm). After the serious tragedies is when her writing truly began, ...

Consideration of Aztec Codices

people of Mexico have a very complex and elegant non-linear writing style. We call their ancient documents codices (hieroglyphic p...

Ethics and Social Studies

or world. This self serving attitude is what Gutierrez suggests the classroom teacher strive to stem. He sees the soaring crime ...

Bret Harte and the Literary Uses of Local Color

o his." (Harte NA). We find the following lines to be incredibly colorful, illustrating that Harte clearly made use of the color a...

Analyzing the Ethics of Immanuel Kant

In arguing with the Empiricists, Kant noted that the mind is necessary in order to quantify experience; that the mind isnt a blank...

World Knowledge and the Mind

Know You Know? According to Waittenmaker (1999), research has demonstrated that it is an individuals background knowledge that ha...

Ernest Hemingway's Respect for the Outdoors Reflected in His Writings

In eight pages this paper examines how the outdoors are represented in Hemingway's writings and the conflict between man and natur...

Anatomy and Psychology

psychology and sociology so far as they affect the well-being of the individual" (512). At this point he delves into what he terms...

Gender, Social Construct, and Metaphysics in the Writings of Virginia Woolf

be possible to establish what is absolute truth, and that the only way in which she can proceed with her exploration into women an...

Romantic Writings of Edgar Allan Poe

that it was like an "after-dream of the reveller upon opium...an iciness, a sinking a sickening of the heart" (Fall of the House.....

Mystery Writing and The Telling of Lies and Headhunter by Timothy Findley

and retrieve Kurtz before his evil legacy is felt throughout Toronto. Through it all, however, the reader is constantly nag...

'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 ...

Post 911 Fighting Fear and an Example of Narrative Writing

On the other hand, if the attack is primarily intended as a background setting from which the main character extrapolates their ow...

The Geography of Fiction California in the Writings of Kellerman and Mosley

5 pages and 2 sources used. This paper provides an overview of the way in which the geography of the state of California is repre...

Questionnaire Writing

In ten pages this paper considers how to compose a questionnaire and the necessary components of objectivity, validity, and reliab...

Writing a Letter to King Louis XVI of France

You will encounter many obstacles, both within your own government and from other nations. You should be careful to surround yours...

How Women Are Treated in the Writings of Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares how the social irony of women's treatment shine through in 'A Modest Proposal' by J...

Two Canadian Historical Writings Compared

In Peter MacLeods (University of Ottawa) 1996 article "Catholicism, Alliances and Amerindian Evangelists during the Seven Years Wa...

The Male Influences on the Writing of Adrienne Rich

born May 16, 1929 in Baltimore to Arnold Rich, a doctor and pathology professor and Helen Jones Rich, a pianist and composer. She ...

Comic Writing of Jane Austen

good art and literature. One of philosopher Aristotles most pronounced contentions was that art holds a mirror up to life; with t...

Science Fiction Writing and Ray Bradbury

realms that were considered science fiction. For example, one looks at his work "The Martian Chronicles" and immediately assumes...

Romanticism in the Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne

powerful issue. While Puritan thought had gotten the country this far, "Religion...was also ready for romanticism and its kind of ...

Comparing the Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne

he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...

Ancient Writings Like Epic of Gilgamesh and Ideology

purposes of taming Enkidu, the wild man (Radcliffe, 2001). Enkidu is important to the story as he exemplifies the average man in s...