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Patriarchal Culture, Gender, and the Works of Tayeb Salih and Gabriel Garcia Marquez

of Angela addresses the rituals that surround marriage in Latin American culture during this time. Bayardo brings Angela presents,...

Interpreting 'A Worn Path' by Eudora Welty

path reaches a dead end a new one begins. By choosing a poor elderly African-American woman as her tales protagonist, Welty is ab...

Violence and War in Michael Cimino's Film The Deer Hunter

there are individuals who either remember it or have hand one reason or another to study it. Americans themselves, in fact, held ...

An Analysis of the Graphic Portrayals of Violence in 'Saving Private Ryan'

period between September 1, 1939 (the date of Germanys invasion of Poland) and September 2, 1945 (the date of the Japanese surrend...

Advancing Age in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats

the "music" of nature and is part of a continuous cycle. This poem concludes "How can we know the dancer from the dance" (line 64)...

Alice Walker and Amy Tan

who is not incredibly involved in her one daughters life. That daughter is Dee. The other daughter, Maggie, lives with her and the...

Analysis of the Themes in The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

that saw people for who they were and was blind to the social status they maintained. For him, honor was not a learned behavior; ...

Data on U.S. Poverty

1970, 20.5 percent of poor Americans lived in the suburbs, in 2000, that had expanded to 35.9 percent and in 2004, the ratio incre...

First Four Chapters of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and the Nature versus Nurture Debate

child, the innocent and helpless creature bestowed on them by Heaven, whom to bring up to good, and whose future lot it was in the...

Sociological Structure in the Cat's Cradle

a life of fear and torment, yet this is nothing more than a fa?ade of assurance. The people have no idea that each and every enti...

Cinematic Perspectives of Society and Race

culture. "Out of Africa", for example, is a love story. It is also a story of contrasts. A Danish woman lands in the middle of K...

Douglas McGregor's The Human Side of Enterprise and Leadership

be regarded as the bible of modern leadership theory, The Human Side of Enterprise. The central theme of this work involves the u...

Olaudah Equiano's The Life of Gustavus Vassa

slavery. As such the suffering we see is very complex and all encompassing as he realizes his new position was worse than any he h...

Cinematic Depiction of Hong Kong

that it has always been a colony of sorts. Its independence is illusive and while things have changed since 1997, it seems as if H...

J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Materialism

with money, as the underlying theme is that which revolves around Gatsby using the pursuit of money, and the acquisition of money,...

Male and Female Relationships in Cane by Jean Toomer and Jonah's Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston

washed ira up jes lak he wuz gold (3). John is determined to be a good husband; he spurns Mehaleys romantic advances, saying he an...

Contrasting Views of Homer's Odysseus

sees the development of his character because this is the focus of the story and his journey. One reads as Odysseus moves through ...

Contemporary Productions and How They Have Influenced the Themes of Sophocles' Oedipus the King

to the gods, who always punish it. And that is a second theme of the play, the folly of pride. By refusing to accept his own acti...

Self Discovery Journeys in the Works of Higuchi Ichiyo, Leo Tolstoy, and Henrik Ibsen

him to commit suicide. Judge Brack discerns Heddas duplicity in Lovborgs downfall and insinuates that he will hold this over her. ...

Khaled Hosseini, Mark Twain, and Harper Lee on Childhood

I tried for a second or two to brace up and out with it, but I warnt man enough--hadnt the spunk of a rabbit. I see I was weakeni...

Proud Shoes by Pauli Murray

doctorate there in 1965 (Pauli Murray). Among other positions, Murray was a civil rights lawyer, "a professor, a college vice pres...

The Unsteady March The Rise And Decline Of Racial Equality In America by Philip Klinkner and Roger Smith

forth was at least twice that of their white counterparts, inasmuch as they knew the expectations placed upon them would be scruti...

Depiction of Women in 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

hands of male heads of families and households. Women are disenfranchised" (Kosenko 27). It is the men who are essentially in cha...

An Aesthetician's Perspective on Art

did my spirit seal; / I had no human fears: / She seemed a thing that could not feel / The touch of earthly years."1 Romance expr...

Margaret Edson's Wit and Ovarian Cancer

die, as well as informing us that humor is a large part of her inherent nature in terms of dealing with the fatal realities. In...

Baby Boy vs. White Man's Burden

Belafonte, and the two eventually become sympathetic toward each other. The movie portrays a culture which is seemingly opposite t...

Character Analysis of Iago in Othello by William Shakespeare

preferred method of service is that he cannot be trusted. He admits to being deceitful, purely for his own purposes," and we know...

Aristophanes on Democracy

to see that Aristophanes was a conservative through and through and seemed to prefer an almost aristocratic rule to a democratic o...

Threats, Conflicts, and Problems of Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

revert back to the beast rather than surpass mankind? What is the ape to a man? A laughing-stock, a thing of shame. And just so...

Overview of the Black Plague

disease he was now apparently immune to. It is interesting and informative to note that Tuchman and Defoes work exist in very d...