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The Homecoming and Blue Winds Dancing

home to beauty, serenity, love and happiness. In the case of Pinters story there is a family comprised of five men and then one of...

Alice Walker and George Orwell

of these introductory lines the reader is made privy to who the individual is in some way, where they are, and ultimately what the...

Analysis of Excerpt from Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

be that" (Bloom 17). The Bluest Eye fulfills this need, as it describes life from Pecola perspective, which includes how Pecola, a...

Culture and Personality, African Americans

a significant subculture in American society as a whole, as it accounts for 41.1 million American or roughly 13.5 percent of the p...

Young Women, Heartbreak and the Blues

This essay offers analysis on Liz Phair's "F*ck and Run," Janis Ian's "At Seventeen," Joan Baez's "Diamonds and Rust" and Ruth Br...

Blue Collar Work and Assumptions of Intelligence

This 3 page paper gives an explanation of the essay by Mike Rose about blue-collar workers and intelligence. This paper includes e...

Blue and Red Oceans

The writer outlines the concept of blue oceans and red oceans. The model proposed by Kim and Mauborgne is then critiqued to deter...

A Look at Blue Bloods

A recent episode of Blue Bloods is examined in light of actual police work. Is it realistic? There are three sources cited in the ...

Little Girl in a Blue Armchair by Cassatt

This essay pertains to Little Girl in a Blue Armchair by Mary Cassatt. This work, along with Cassatt's biography, is described. Th...

Comparison of Joyce Carol Oates' 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been,' Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' and James Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues'

In five pages sex and conflict in terms of character development are contrasted and compared in these three stories. There are no...

China's Cultural Revolution in Red China Blues by Jan Wong and 1984 by George Orwell

In five pages this paper discusses how Orwell predicted the Cultural Revolution of China in his 1948 novel as described in Wong's ...

'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...

American Society and Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

which seemed only willing to accept White Anglo-Saxon Protestants into its exclusive membership. The narrator of "Sonnys Blues" r...

Film Adaptation of Tom Robbins' Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

In five pages the novel and film are contrasted and compared. There ar no other sources listed....

Opening Scene of David Lynch's Film Blue Velvet Revised

In seven pages this paper proposes opening scene changes for a more powerful impact. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress and Racism

This research paper/essay examines a detective novel by Walter Mosley and whether or not an African American writer can examine co...

'NYPD Blue' and 'NY Undercover'

This is a paper consisting of a 10 page analysis of these TV shows, discussing several episodes in order to determine why they are...

Your Blues Ain't Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell

In a paper consisting of five pages the racially imprinted code of the rural South is examined within the context of Campbell's no...

Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness and Race Relations by Brian Ward

post-World War II African-American music was growing up and into the mainstream, the white mainstream, of American consciousness. ...

Character Analysis of Siblings in Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

In five pages this research paper presents a character analysis of the brothers featured in this short story by James Baldwin. Fi...

Black in Blue by Nicholas Alex

of the people and in the political structure of the Criminal Justice system. Nicholas Alex found that, in 1969, police officers...

A Comparison of the Films Harold and Maude and Blue Velvet

in money, or in finding Harold a nice young woman. Harold, however, is a young man fascinated with death. This is, of course, p...

A Review of Coyote Blue

see him again he is Sam Hunter and he lives in Los Angeles, melding in with the population and the society. "Financially and socia...

Tony Hillerman's Skinwalkers and Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress

In three pages these novels are contrasted and compared in terms of how the plot movement is generated by the characters. There a...

Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress and the Detective Fiction Genre

In six pages this paper examines the detective genre as represented in this critical assessment of Walter Mosley's novel. There a...

Pain and Healing in Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

brother. This is where Baldwin sets up another beautiful metaphor: the ice. "A great block of ice got settled in my belly and kept...

Cinematographic Technique in Brother's Keeper, The Thin Blue Line, and Let's Get Lost

In this seven page essay the write explores the techniques employed by filmakers and how they vary according to time and subject. ...

The Blue Room Broadway Play Review

In two pages the review of a London play directed by Sam Mendes that found its way to Broadway is presented. Two sources are cite...

Father's Role and Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the author's feelings concerning a father's role by blurring the past and the present in thi...

Love Letters on Blue Paper by Arnold Wesker

In a paper consisting of ten pages the ways in which the text reflects contemporary attitudes regarding dying and death are examin...