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Corruption of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In four pages this paper examines how the theme of corruption is represented within the context of Fitzgerald's 1925 novel masterp...

Great American Frederick Douglass

In six pages this research paper celebrates Frederick Douglass's life and achievements as he transformed himself from illiterate s...

American Economy Growth and Changes After the Great Depression

standard was to let prices and wages fall. The Government Steps In By 1932 hundreds of banks had failed, hundreds of manufa...

American Dream in Death of a Salesman and The Great Gatsby

as "The Jazz Age." When not numbing themselves with superficial pleasures, young people were pursuing the American Dream, as tran...

England and African Immigration

even two decades ago and London has changed completely. It is a challenge for both immigrants and natives to accommodate each othe...

Beti/Poor Christ of Bomba

see the truth, that is, that the Talas supposed conversion to Christianity is a delusion. A principal focus of Drumonts evangeli...

The Difference between Perceived and Real Cultural Understanding

Using a scenario provided by the student where an Australian teacher is tutoring a South African student in a higher education set...

In My Father's House by Anthony Appiah

traveler would have felt that there were "profoundly different impulses, ideas and forms of life" (174). In short, Appiah makes ...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Social and Political Theory

In 9 pages this paper discusses Achebe's novel as it relates to African social and political theory considered in The Dual Mandate...

African Slave Trade and the Wait That Continues for Racial Equality

In six pages this paper discusses the impact of the African slave trade upon the African people who still continue to wait for rac...

Modern Americans' and Native Americans' Rites of Passage

In seven pages this paper compares the contemporary American teenager with Tukuna, Okrika, and Okiek Native American counterparts ...

African Women and their Changing Roles

people, the Khoena, were "irredeemable savages" while to "black nationalist writers, such as Khoena historian, Yvette Abrahams, sh...

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Racism

Congo are largely recorded in Heart of Darkness, his most famous, finest and most enigmatic story, the title of which signifies no...

African Slave Trade and its Impact

that that seen in the Americas and the different reactions and interactions that were seen....

Questions about the African Continent

5 pages and 2 sources. This paper relates the answers to some specific questions about the African contintent, including the infl...

Religious Beliefs of Indigenous Africans

having the "same" culture.4 The slave-trading colonial powers saw this vast territory as a single place, a single country occupied...

Pan Africanism and 2 Visions

the Caribbean thought of themselves as members of a single "Negro" race, of which W.E.B. DuBois wrote about (Appiah, 2002). During...

Has Free Speech Gone Too Far

Many would agree that free speech has gone way too far. There are just too many incidents of people claiming their words that are ...

Using Facebook, Twitter, and Other Tools at Work

First Amendments rights for free speech seem to always be in the news. There are cases when this issue is confusing-exactly what i...

West African and East African Slave Trade

than one hundred slaves at a time and usually carried other type trading goods on their ships as well, such as ivory, spices, and ...

Gender Roles and African Women in African and French Literature

This paper examines the depiction of African Women in Camara Laye's The Dark Child and Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood in fiv...

Heart Failure Readmissions

The incidence of heart failure is so great, it has become a public health concern. The readmission rates are very high for heart f...

Issues Concerning Children Identified as Gifted

There has been a great deal of research about gifted children over the last decade or so. They may not become eminent but they wil...

COMPARISONS BETWEEN THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND GREAT RECESSION

few jobs were created and a general malaise was prevalent. One negative effect of the Great Depression was unemployment - by 1933,...

Leadership Theories

people and meanings including emotions, while managers work at a lower level of emotion and do not look for meaning, focusing on t...

Matthew 28:19 Making Disciples

disciples to do. Dr. Gene Bunkowske wrote that when he consulted the original Greek, he found that the primary verb is disciple (F...

Macbeth: Villain or Not?

we see him. At a military camp of King Duncans, a soldier is brought in who tells of the battle in which he was injured, and in wh...

F. Scott Fitzgerald as Jay Gatsby’s Alter Ego

Jazz Age"). Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda were a sort of American "royalty," known as much for their "madcap antics as for his wri...

Charles Dickens' Estella and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Daisy

none of the women in Gatsby are particularly likeable, but even so, the book retains its power. Daisy Buchanan Lets start with Da...