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Asians As They Are Depicted in The Legend of Miss Sasagawara by Hisaye Yamamoto and Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn

the mid-80s, and concentrates on the chaotic Seventies, in which martial law was firmly in place. Perhaps the books most memorabl...

Film Gone With the Wind and Black Representation

darkies" (Leab 99). Focusing on the Atlanta plantation of Gerald and Ellen OHara, Gone With the Wind represented life for souther...

Sociopolitical Classes of Plato and Their Parallels

soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...

Utopian Literature's Similarities and Differences

be attacked as while many analysts will agree that Plato clearly states this in The Republic, his other works suggest other ideas....

The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

In the end, what emerges is the realization that it was quite possibly Henry VII that used various tactics to blacken the name of...

The Films Taxi Driver and Angels with Dirty Faces and the Portrayals of Antiheros

America, the concept of the antihero was revised to better reflect the attitudes of its citizens, and was defined to be an individ...

Literary Considerations of Power Abuses

In this paper consisting of six pages the realistic depiction of abuses in regards to imperialism are in Voltaire's Candide, Remar...

The Murder Machine and The Westies and the Portrayal of Mobsters as Everyday People

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares the depiction of mobsters in these texts by Jerry Capeci and T.J. English and Gen...

Racial Identity Conflicts of Antoinette in Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

is clear that Rhyss intention in Wide Sargasso Sea is to demonstrate that if black women are not placed into otherwise constrictin...

Faust by Johann von Goethe and Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

In eight pages these German and Russian works are contrasted and compared regarding their depiction of life's 'dark side.' Six so...

Classic Literature's Portrayal of Male Characters

In five pages this paper evaluates the realistic depiction of male characters in literature past and present in a consideration of...

Comparative Analysis of 'The Odyssey' by Homer and 'The Aeneid' by Virgil

In two pages this paper contrasts and compares the depictions of women and the journeys undertaken by Aeneas and Odysseus in these...

Morality, Relationships, and Motivations in Works of Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In five pages a comparison between these two authors and the depiction of morality, relationships, and motivations are considered ...

Reflections of the Nineteenth Century in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

In five pages this paper analyzes the author's depiction of marital significance, social class, and women. There are no other sou...

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare and the Tragic Hero Marcus Brutus

contradictions of his character. Certainly, Brutus is strong. Even his name conveys strength. He is idealistic, and at least in...

American Film and Hispanic Women

In eight pages this paper discusses films Evita and Selena in a consideration of the depiction of Hispanic women in U.S. cinema. ...

Lessons About War In The Film, Saving Private Ryan

This paper examines Stephen Speilberg's 1998 WWII film, Saving Private Ryan. The author discusses what lessons can be taken from ...

A Critical Analysis of the Film, Hamburger Hill

This paper examines the issue of whether or not the film, Hamburger Hill, is an accurate depiction of the life of a soldier in the...

Analysis of 'Under Milk Wood' by Dylan Thomas

In three pages this poem is analyzed in its depiction of loving women, the life cycle, death's inevitability, and the loss of inno...

The 'Essay on Man' by Alexander Pope

In fifteen pages this narrative poem is analyzed in terms of its depiction of the eighteenth century man with each of the four sec...

Man's Fall in the Works of Amelia Lanyer and John Milton

In two pages this paper contrasts the depiction of man's fall in Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum by Amelia Lanyer and the ninth book of P...

Robert Rodriguez'a Movies Desperado, El Mariachi, Ethnicity and Hollywood

In nine pages this paper examines Hollywood's frequent sacrificing of ethnicity in a consideration of the Chicano depiction in the...

Misunderstood Santeria Religion

In seven pages this paper discusses Santeria in a consideration of its origins, connection to Catholicism, and its media depiction...

'Ball of Fat' and 'The Necklace' by Guy de Maupassant

meant to be - mixing with society people and being decorated with fine jewelry. However, she ends up losing the necklace...

Four Films and Their Portrayal of Crime and Judicial Procedures

element introduced when Utah encounters Bodhi, and is made to consider rather deeper philosophical aspects of life than the straig...

The Old West As Portrayed in Frederic Remington's Art

In twelve pages the ways in which Remington's depiction of the American West in his art in terms of its identity and conjuring of ...

20th Century European Paintings and Their Depiction of Women

In five pages this research paper discusses how depictions of women in some crucial twentieth century European paintings exhibit c...

The Clinton and Lewinsky Liaison as Portrayed by the Media

The role of media politics in its depiction of this affair are examined as are the roles of propaganda and other items in this sto...

American Family Depiction in Television Situation Comedies of the 1950s and 1960s

In fourteen pages this paper discusses TV sitcoms during this time period and how they portrayed the American family with past and...

Comparing Elie Wiesel and Kurt Vonnegut's and Their Works about the Holocaust

outrage and sorrow. However, Vonneguts protagonist, Howard Campbell, is not precisely a victim in the Holocaust at all. He stress...