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Colonialism in the Works of Chinua Achebe and Kojima Nobuo

of American reaction to Japans surrender is wrong. While undoubtedly many Americans stationed in Japan still hated the Japanese be...

American Families v. Chinese Families

the woman more "desirable" and therefore more likely to marry and not be a burden on her family any longer (Family Structure, 2003...

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Themes of Class and Racial Prejudice

and to happiness (Fitzgerald, 1995). The story that unfolds is actually quite sad. Jay is obsessed with recreating the p...

Past and Present War Propaganda and the Media

has essentially been an ineffective battle so far. In other words, while the media and government espouses the "was on terrorism"...

Psychoanalytic Theory and Marxism

dreamed. At the same time, there is much opposition. Dominant trends in feminism and postmodernism for example categorically rejec...

Life and Times of Colin Powell

them, it has to be thought. He was a well educated black man, successful, who spoke out firmly against affirmative action. Powell ...

Style and Language of The Great Railway Car by Paul Theroux and Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne Compared

the sample passage from Chapter X is a good example of the formal style and language. In regards to formal language, the...

Segments and Their Significance

and habits. Therefore, to target internet marketing, if not seeking a niche market there is necessity to look at who is likely to ...

Comparison of Private Enterprise and Public Sector Compensation

affects plans for retirement (2001). Even in respect to long-term government workers, plan enhancements, and employer match progra...

Conservative and Liberal Views on Abortion

"a fetus is not a person, and hence not the sort of entity to which it is proper to ascribe full moral rights" (Warren, 1996, p. 8...

Responsibility According to John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant, and Aristotle

his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...

Ethnicity in Paradise by Toni Morrison, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, and Quicksand by Nella Larsen

is the daughter of a white mother and a black father. Although her father does not take an active role in her life his presence i...

Asia, the United States, and Blue Jeans

few wore them. Although jeans are considered an all-American item, they were actually invented by German immigrant Levi Strauss du...

Great Depression and What it Was Like to Be a Teenager

We also had to write a lot of compositions. There was a lot of attention to grammar, spelling and composition, but sometimes it s...

Optimism Defined and Described

more. This is a dismal view and the antithesis of what an optimist will think. To an optimist, every cloud has a sliver lining. Ev...

Women's Relationships in Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Toni Morrison's Sula

forbidden to them, they have set about creating something else to be" (Morrison 52). For example, Sula would go to Nels house to s...

Real Estate and IRS Customer Quality Control Survey

by vote, but few if any could be expected to say that they like dealing with the IRS. Stories of abuse of power and of taxpayers ...

Relationship Mistakes in Rope and The Man in a Case

actions, or lack of actions. In Rope, by Katherine Anne Porter, some of the same issues arise between the two characters who are ...

Wales and Englands' Trial by Jury System

It is this generalised and random nature of the jury that is often criticised. Those making the judgment have no special qualifica...

Comparative Analysis of the Financial Performance of Target and Wal Mart

common stock (Target, 2003). The 1970s saw both growth and innovation. In 1971 the revenues hit $1 billion (Target, 2003). The i...

A Business Overview of the AOL Time Warner Entertainment Conglomerate

average of 15.11 (Yahoo Finance, 2003). However there are some more favourable points, the revenue per employee is higher than ave...

Comparisons Between Biometrics and Electronic Access Security Systems

experts note that customers want products that can be integrated seamlessly with technology and infrastructure they already have (...

'The Interesting Narrative' by Olaudah Equiano and 'Things Fall Apart' by Chinua Achebe

they do not inflict slavery upon the people, they do inflict oppression that is very similar to slavery. In the first chapter o...

Personality Approaches East and West

notes, in other words, people are constantly changing and re-inventing aspects of themselves in order to adapt to the equivalent c...

Nadine Gordimer vs. Kate Chopin, Two Works

there are at least servants that are black, if not actual slaves. This would indicate, for the most part, that the setting is the ...

Comparative Analysis of the Poetry of Robert Frost and Walt Whitman

and regular stress would at first strike his reader with incredulous amazement. But he was hardly prepared for the storm of abuse ...

William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Other Examples of Eccentricity

are similar to Emilys. The characters discussed are Carrie, from the film "Carrie," Norman Bates from the film "Psycho," Eleanor f...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and its Historical Accuracy

They Carried, this influence and perspective are most evident. OBrien mentions that most of the guys there called their life in A...

Translations of Dante

both the keys." They begin to differ when they denote to what the keys belong. Singleton chooses to say "Fredericks heart," while ...

Poetic Comparison of Robert Frost's 'Meeting and Passing,' 'The Road Not Taken,' and 'An Old Man's Winter Night'

it was / That brought him to that creaking room was age. / He stood with barrels round him -- at a loss. / And having scared the c...