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The American Dream and Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley

that "the one who dies with the most toys wins" which is illustrative of the desire so many people have to own the best house, the...

Landscapes: Duncanson and Cole

and nothing of clear importance runs off the canvas, which would carry the viewers eye off the painting and suggest other activity...

Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin

is addicted, pointing out that it was simply part of his wild nature, thus letting the reader see how the brother is being affecte...

Common Theme: Identifying with the Character

be "good" persons. But what does it mean to be "good"? I understand that to be good means to follow "their" rules, the churchs rul...

Nature Versus Industrialization

their lives and they were willing to offer such gifts to others, symbolic of their natural existence and nature as giving people....

Comparison and Contrast: Alice Walker and James Baldwin

struggle to find her identity, an African American identity, is obviously influenced by the white society. This is noted when her ...

Predicting the Advertising Budget for Blues, Inc.

simply says that its important to choose the right variable, and to review their relationship with the advertising budget. The thr...

Close Reading and Analysis: “Blues Spiritual for Mammy Prater”

a fa?ade that represents him at his best. But Mammy Prater apparently did none of this. Instead, "she waited until the technique...

Three Poets: Dickinson, Frost and Hughes

safe place: the dead are "untouched" beneath their rafters of satin and roofs of stone (Dickinson). They wait motionless for the r...

Red and Blue Chair by Gerrit Rietveld and the 'Productive Thinking' of Max Wertheimer

limitations. The law of pragnanz, which asserts that man is "innately driven to experience things in as good a gestalt as possibl...

Carl Franklin's Filmmaking and Screenwriting Works

names this "one of the great recent crime movies" (Ebert, 2002). Devil in a Blue Dress references a theme, subject and time perio...

A Trio of Actresses Jessica Lange, Meryl Streep, and Sally Field

way for actresses who were interested not simply in portraying stylish roles but were also interested in exploring characters of s...

'Blue Period' of Painter Pablo Picasso

the self portrait from 1901....showing a pale and emaciated 20-year old Picasso" (Heindorff). It is perhaps within this painting t...

Stephen Ambrose's The Wild Blue

them and service the planes from a country in which only a relatively small number of men knew anything at all about how to fly ev...

Puerto Rico Hotel and Implementing Technology

to benefit from such advances. Tourism in Puerto Rico is no exception to that rule. In fact, tourists visiting Puerto Rico may act...

An Analysis of Several Paintings by Thomas Gainsborough

as a foundation member; in 1774, he relocated for good to London where he expounded upon techniques he learned while at Bath, whic...

Blues and Spirituals

means by which oppressed African Americans could expressed their extreme frustration, melancholy and longing. Intensely moving slo...

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...

Laborer Impacts of Changes to the Economy

and early 20th centuries that workers began believing that they, too, had rights. Throughout the prosperous 20s and into the Depre...

Language in The Blue Hotel by Stephen Crane

the portals of the blue hotel" (Crane). Clearly, these adjectives promote a depth of understanding about Scully that otherwise wo...

Lazard and the Investment Banking Industry

several management models to look at the industry. Following this an investment bank can be used as a caser study agisnt this envi...

Elements of Poems by Neal Bowers, Linda Pastan, and W.H. Auden

gloves" (Auden 8). Tone As one critic states, "The tone of a poem is roughly equivalent to the mood it creates in the reader" ...

Life Experiences and Poetry Themes

ethical judgements. While the students perhaps though that these old people are no longer young and can offer nothing of value to ...

Russian Film and Sexual Politics

and destiny must have been in the air. Certainly the idea of freedom and destiny, of purpose and potential are embodied in the cha...

4 Brief Literature Essays

Pontellier, though she had married a Creole, was not thoroughly at home in the society of Creoles...There were only Creoles that s...

Life and Writings of Sherman Alexie

of community and what he can give back to the community, Sherman often can be found in the oddest venues. Sometimes he will turn d...

Tourism and Turkey

the south and the Black Sea is to the north (CIA, 2005). The majority of the country is geographically in Asia, where, to the east...

Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

This is a very unique place in our society and people who grew up in Harlem often have experiences and stories that most people co...

U.S. Culture and the Blues

the blues is slower and contains much depth of feeling. Later on, the acoustic urban would become electrified, but early on, there...

Presidential Elections from a Sociological Perspective

problem is that during the 2000 campaign, some stations projected the winner before polls closed in California. This means that so...