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Black Boy by Richard Wright

a thousand lynchings" (Wright, 1993, p. 74). One of the many odd jobs that Wright utilized to try to help support is impoverishe...

Piety of Margery Kempe

pages 6-9 in the Book.) This was not an easy pregnancy and Margery suffered "severe attacks of illness" prior to the birth (Kempe,...

Autobiography of Helen Keller

This paper concerns the autobiography of Helen Keller, which recounts her struggle to overcome being blind and deaf. Three pages i...

Slavery Worse for Women, the Story of Harriet Jacobs

This essay is on Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. The writer describes the various ways in wh...

Franklin and Crockett

man who could not be respected in some manner. In the case of Franklin one sees him, at a relatively early age, beginning to teach...

Mathabane/Kaffir Boy

a distinct segment of the society. In US history, anyone with even a drop of African blood was considered culturally to be "black"...

Wild Swans and the Realities of Communism

"Slaves Who Have No Country of Your Own-Ruled by Different Masters (1945-1947)" (Chang, 1991, p. 75). This title conveys the attit...

Reporting and Reflecting on Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama Sr., who was a significant if extremely distant presence in his sons life. While a student at the University...

Nathan McCalls' Makes Me Wanna Holler/Social Control Theory

grow ups and is exemplified when an individual feels that has a stake in their society as a whole. From the beginning of McCall...

Life of an Ordinary Woman by Anne Ellis

This book reviews is on "Life of an Ordinary Woman," an autobiography by Anne Ellis. The author describes her childhood experience...

Readings On Children with Special Needs

This reaction paper summaries 3 texts, which are chapter six of Human Exceptionality, School, Community and Family; an autobiograp...

Middle Class According to Benjamin Franklin, Moliere, and Voltaire

notably Charles Dickens, Moliere, and Voltaire - had decidedly different and less heroic definitions of the middle class in their ...

"The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin" - Leadership

a pertinent example of Franklins (1996) fundamental attitude for meeting a challenge. Hard work, he contended, was the lifeblood ...

“A Life of Her Own”

or anything else although my weeping sisters did not know what to do; he just said Take care of her, put compresses on her head. I...

Ahmed, Satrapi/Growing up Female in the Islamic World

through her father that Ahmed first becomes aware of the conflicting political forces that shape her world, as he is hemmed in on ...

Alcoholism, Rex and Jeannette Walls' Glass Castle

threw furniture and threatened to beat up" his wife or anyone else he felt had gotten in his way (Wall 23). Research has shown t...

Mathabane: “Kaffir Boy”

and remembers she was showing it to the children the night before and she begs Johannes to tell her where it is: "Remember the lit...

Autobiography of Oladauh Equiano

own people: he points out that the rape of girls "not ten years old" resulted in the perpetrators being disciplined, but it is cle...

I Came a Stranger by Hilda Satt Polacheck

House. What may have poisoned the well for Polachecks initial impression is the fact that she unfairly compared the United States...

The Literature of Black America

has been missing in his life and that his values and priorities are backward and unfulfilling. For example, by the time Milkman jo...

An analysis from Chapter 4 of the Autobiography of Carl Jung

to that of a man and saw womens role in society as being purely to serve men. When they were "no longer willing to fill that role,...

Maxine Hong Kingston and Maya Angelou: Autobiographical Reflections of Women

and Global Perspectives. Ed. Shirley Hune et al, WA: Washington State UP, 1991. 225-38. Kingston, Maxine Hong. 1976. The Woman ...

American Realism, An Overview

nations early steel industry. Just as Charles Dickens exposed the underside of industrialization in Great Britain, Davis likewise ...

Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown

of African Americans who fled the entrenched racism of the South and migrated North, in search of a "Promised Land" where they mig...

Harriet Jacobs/Slave Girl

order to fully understand the structure of Jacobs narrative, it is first necessary to see it within the cultural framework provide...

Maya Angelou/Caged Bird

was really blond, white and blue-eyed (Angelou 4). This feeling on Angelous part is highly related to the restrictions on black fr...

“The Autobiography of Malcolm X”

after entering into the orphanage, he states, "As the nigger of my class, I was in fact extremely popular-I suppose partly because...

Multiple Viewpoints in "The Woman Warrior"

Kingston makes much of the idea of the oral tradition, and her inability to partake in it. The ability to use language is vital fo...

Marriage as a Problematic Institution

and vows that her life will be different. Due to her assimilation of the American ethos, she rejects the Judaic tenet that she is ...

Humility and Benjamin Franklin

of his accomplishments, many of which are successful. One of the problems in the writings of a man outlining his own accomplishme...