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and a pragmatic one. From its inception, the Constitutional Convention was more concerned with economics than ideals. The majori...
of servitude that slaves adopted as indicative of their true feelings, rather than as a behavior adopted for self-protection. He s...
it offers little appeal to what Hollywood filmmakers perceive their audiences want to see: cookie-cutter molds. Bach points out h...
on the non-working poor" and that adults should be able to support themselves (Burtless 547). However, this position overlooks the...
state hospitals; however, ignorance compounded the fact that "at the time of its enactment the structure and support some people w...
scholarship addressing the character of Pearl have seen her as the "sin-child, the unholy result" of an adulterous love and a symb...
where Irish American presence was predominant well into the 1980s. The organized crime studies that discuss connections between n...
finds it difficult to escape from his lifetime habit of dichotomous thinking when it comes to gender. Therefore, he tends to think...
incredibly shallow, supercilious and caught within such a fierce atmosphere of competitiveness that they use the millions at the d...
expected of young women in British society during this era. In Potoks novel, Asher Lev is a twentieth century boy raised in the Ha...
researching this topic should relate some incident/knowledge that he/she gained from personal experience versus formal education. ...
in the only way that is culturally significant, as he would link her present to that "golden chain of male to male" (Lee 31). As...
"own kind" in terms of the patients she serves, meaning donors who were raised, as she was, at Hailsham or one of the other estate...
of consumerism - the perpetual wanting of more and more materialistic tangibles until there is nothing left to appreciate - reside...
on the development of an exploitative tourist industry in Antigua. Achebe takes a very different perspective than Kincaid in tha...
African author Chinua Achebe argues that the extended metaphor that Conrad uses to relate his principal theme is founded on the vi...
heritage, a mulata, she would "do just about anything to deny her real lineage," and is attracted to Juanis father primarily becau...
complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves" (Bowers 91). Marlow is discouraged by other Europeans who work for the enigm...
adopted Korean daughter of mixed racial heritage. Hata also was originally Korean, but was adopted by a Japanese family. Through f...
is a poor, but virtuous servant employed within the estate of the nobleman, her master, whom she refers to as Mr. B. This narrativ...
on the nature of the fourth dimension, i.e., time, as well as the astronomical features and evolutionary development that he obser...
the story opens, Tom is owned by Arthur Shelby but as the story unfolds, he is sold, where he befriends a white woman, even saving...
swayed by the setting to which he is born. In fact, it seems that Emma and Huck learn those lessons too. The self-reliance they ea...
named "Geek" explains, "Its like a death gene, sir. A self-destruct mechanism. They splice it into the DNA of a plant and trigger ...
of fruit trees and beyond the plain the mountains were brown and bare. There was fighting in the mountains" (Hemingway 3). The t...
only three and doctors are only able to save one eye. He spends months in the hospital, which proves to be a grueling experience t...
the nonfiction novel, he appears nowhere in the text, despite the fact that all of the information contained within is based on hi...
work around the reality of war, both writing of war and the times after a way. He was a drinker, a fisherman, an adventurer and a ...
with the arrival of Stellas sister, Blanche, a delusional middle-aged woman that despite pious airs is the female equivalent of St...
marriage is highlighted in the intriguing book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez entitled Love in the Time of Cholera. Love in the Time o...