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Toni Cade Bambara's Community of African American Women’s Identity in ’s Gorilla, My Love Short Stories

a political fundraiser with a blind man named Bovanne. She shocks her daughters by behavior they regard as unbefitting for a woma...

Senior Citizen Interview

when they were all expected to be at home, go to church together and then share in a Sunday dinner. Chips absence caused a lot of...

Pariarchy and the Repression of Women: Reflections in Literature

Mrs. Mallards husband. She describes the "sudden wild abandonment" (Chopin 394) that Louise Mallard felt upon hearing this news. ...

Sex Crimes, Blame, and Perceptions of Society

Understandably, such an action might be interpreted as a willingness on her part but in reality this action, even though Arnold ne...

Life After Retirement

was in her teens throughout the final years of the Great Depression, 1929 - 1939. Her father was a barber whose business was not ...

'An Ounce of Cure' by Alice Munro

about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...

Followup Ending to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

could have begotten a son like Nwoye, degenerate and effeminate(Achebe 143). In fact, the barbaric way in which the women are bea...

Protection for the Rights of the Individual in the U.S. Constitution

and prohibits someone from being tried twice for the same crime (Findlaw.com (a), 2002). In addition, this amendment states that n...

The Yellow Wallpaper and The Story of an Hour and the Female Characters they Include

world that she is a success. This character then stands as a powerful example of women from that era who were given few choices b...

Love and Cinderella in Four Fairytale Interpretations

castle where he runs into a surly servant girl: Danielle(who beans him with an apple). Later, when he sees her in some of her si...

Neurosis in 'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin, Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

In ten pages this research paper contrasts and compares the neuroses that characterizes the protagonists Edna, Hedda, and Emma in ...

Lessing's To Room Nineteen and Conventionality and Freedom

This research report examines this story and talks about the difficultly of separating in terms of emotional needs and expectation...

Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston on Female Power

In six pages this paper examines women's power and how it is portrayed in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Are Watching God and Ric...

Analysis of Kate Chopin's Short Story 'The Story of an Hour'

In five pages this paper presents an analysis of this short story in terms of how imagery, similes, foreshadowing and parallelism ...

Female's Changing Role in the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

In fifteen pages women's roles are contrasted as they relate to the Hemingway short stories 'A Canary for One,' 'Che Ti Dice La Pa...

'The Youngest Doll' by Rosario Ferre

In five pages this short story is analyzed in terms of women's desires and their positioning in the aristocratic patriarchy of Pue...

Kate Chopin Tackling Taboo and Controversial Subjects in 'The Story of an Hour, 'A Respectable Woman,' and 'Desiree's Baby'

This paper examines how women's sexuality, divorce, and miscegenation are addressed by Kate Chopin in this trio of short stories i...

Dhammapada's Social Lessons

In nine pages this paper examines women's role as conceptualized by Dhammapada in a consideration of the Buddha's 'five beauties' ...

Societal Suppression in A Rose for Emily and The Story of an Hour

utterly free. When Emily discovers that her boyfriend is gay, her instant fear of what the community would think of her leads he...

Women’s Rights and Hills Like White Elephants

women: "During the early 20th century the term new woman came to be used in the popular press. More young women than ever were goi...

Corn Woman and Brave Wolf

kept her alive and ultimately took her home to her family who then took it upon themselves to address the violence that Brave Wolf...

Art of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries and the Representation of the Human Figure

figures themselves seem soft despite the tension within the painting. It is also very romantic looking painting because of its sof...

Industrialization and Its Social Impacts at the End of the Nineteenth Century

The Gilded Age was a time of many industrial and sociological changes. Not all of the changes that were ushered in were positive....

Socioeconomic Inequality in Nineteenth Century US

The author discusses the importance of Congressional action, court decisions, and various factors relating to gender and race in t...

Women’s Liberation of the 1960s

taking place within and beyond our national borders" (NOW). In this statement one sees that the organizations aim was to fight for...

Developments in Medicine during the latter part of the Nineteenth Century

that it did was that it would give physicians a direction in which to focus as they looked for the etiology of various illnesses (...

Germany of the Late Nineteenth Century

In eight pages the political mass market that emerged in the Germany of the late 19th century is among the topics discussed in thi...

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Black Rights

whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction...

Factory Work in the Latter Nineteenth Century

were the primary representative of the factory worker. Women of all ages were attracted to the mills from a primarily domestic ba...

US Imperialism: The Transition Between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Venezuelan border would become a point of contention with Great Britain and ownership of Cuba would become the focus of the Spanis...