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HURRICANE KATRINA AND THE FACTORY SHIP

better protected, with individuals warned that flood waters were coming and they should evacuate. Its likely that a wealthier 9th ...

Walter Scott's Ivanhoe and Chivalry

in his disguise as the Black Knight, praises Locksley/Robin Hood, as he says that a man who "does good, having the unlimited power...

Review of the Film Version of Stephen King's The Green Mile

we see an older man who doesnt sleep well at night any more; his long walks and an old clip of Fred and Ginger dressed in their fi...

General Tilney in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey

we are talking of a coming of age story it is appropriate that this character serves as a foil for the young lady in question. The...

Sula by Toni Morrison

This 5 page paper summarizes Tony Morrison's novel Sula. Primary source only....

Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine and the 'Letter'

my learning and my moving through the world. You may remember that I was the fifth daughter of nine children. My mother loved me...

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev's Fathers and Sons

this novel within an American historical time frame it would have been published while some were embroiled in the Civil War, and o...

Richard Peck's 1985 Novel Remembering the Good Times

friendship. This is initially an easy friendship with each friend having their own characteristics and having their own share of ...

Racism, Imagination, and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

segments correlates with the seasons. The section about "See Jane," is really about Pecola, as opposite a presentation from the w...

1995 Novel Blindness by Jose Saramago

those few, see no apparent cause for the malady, and it does not leave people in the darkness, but rather in a white light - a wh...

Comparative Thematic Analysis of Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye and T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land'

and all through the power of words. Eliot doesnt start slowly as his first four lines parody the first four lines of Chaucers fif...

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

This 5 page paper examines some of the themes in Tolstoy's classic novel of love, betrayal, social ostracism and death....

The Bluest Eye & The Color Purple

that what is white is beautiful, lovable and normal, while black facial features, skin color and everything else associated with b...

Kenneth Roberts/Arundel

find and rescue her. Early on, the reader is also introduced to Cap Huff, an adult friend of the Nason family, and Phoebe Marvin, ...

John Okada/No-No Boy

in an internment camp and two years in prison. It charts his efforts at reintegration into American society. From this perspective...

Toni Morrison as a Stylist in Sula

bedroom and gently holds him. Then she pours kerosene over the sleeping man and burns him to death. Morrison writes that Plum ope...

'Lost Generation' and the American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

who does not exhibit the same or nearly the same amount of wealth and material possessions. The lost generation of America is ext...

Abraham Cahan/Yekl

of antecedents, tastes, habits, inclinations, and speaking all sorts of sub-dialects of the same jargon, thrown pell-mell into one...

Contemporary America and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

London societys most important government agency was Hatcheries and Conditioning, and its Director seemed to wield more power than...

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and Immorality

won the Nobel Prize for Literature (The National Steinbeck Center, 2002). John Steinbeck was very talented at creating s...

Yossarian in Joseph Heller's Catch 22

in a most hideous way, Yossarian pleads with Doc Daneeka to ground him on the basis of insanity. Doc Daneeka replies that Yossaria...

The Parallels Between the Progressive Era and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

the bosses, the police, the politicians, and a myriad of other players. Sinclair reveals a dream which is interlaced by theft, pr...

Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and Love

emotional release. This may be seen as giving the different types of love a balance. This book was published in 1913, a...

Insight into Family Therapy as is Provided in Bone by Fae Myenne Ng

living sisters, felt trapped between the obligations imposed on her by the world of her parents and the conflicting concepts prese...

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and the American Dream

They knew they could find workers who would work for almost nothing, and if they failed there would be perhaps 50 more waiting in ...

Cold World Impacts Documented in Underworld by Don Delillo

mind is obviously occupied with more important matters than baseball yet the stadium is coming unseated all around him and indeed,...

Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh

soldiers virtually disappear. During World War I, German and Allied soldiers both endured the horrors of trench warfare on oppo...

Women's Literature Contributions of Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street

Street. In this classic work, Cisnero embraces and illuminates those feelings that she felt as a child growing up, those feelings ...

Analyzing the Novel Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry

consider the color of that persons skin nor do they rationalize the behavior with a variety of preconceived notions which society ...

American Values Found Within The Scarlet Letter

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the story The Scarlet Letter. This paper includes how the theme and parts of the novel refl...