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Assassination of John F. Kennedy Portrayed in Libra by Don DeLillo

of certain social, political and economic strangulation that decreed all followers must abide by the same doctrines. Post-moderni...

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain and the Character of Hank Morgan

he is bound to a stake at the center of a seated multitude, walled in by four thousand people who have come to watch him be burned...

Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the Characters of Jim and Huck

shows compassion, but also seems confused at times as well. For the most part he is out to have a good time and enjoy a good adven...

The Role of Letters in Austen's Pride and Prejudice

his letter: "He must be an oddity, I think, said she. I cannot make him out.--There is something very pompous in his style.--And ...

Cinderella Contrasts and Conflicts in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

focus on her self-respect: "I hastened to drive from my mind the hateful notion I had been conceiving respecting Grace Poole; it d...

Symbolic Interaction in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

true, but there will also be certain established parameters which must not be crossed. To do so marks the individual as deviant in...

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Influence of Transcendentalism

shift from a "purely propositional, intellectual theology" to an "incarnational, emotional theology, empowered women, such as Stow...

Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin Biographical Literary Analysis

converted storeroom that features the angry sermons of the troubled preacher Gabriel Grimes, Johns father. According to critic Br...

Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie and Father and Son Relationships

son and tried to do the right thing by him, providing him what he regarded as a good upbringing and proper education, but is often...

Leadership in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

twice the size of me" (Kesey 17). As this suggests, Bromden perceives the idea of the "big" man quite literally and sees the force...

Nonconformity in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

terns of physical size. He explains to McMurphy, who is in reality shorter than Bromden, that he sees McMurphy as bigger than hims...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and Chapters 14 through 25 Summarized

there was little left of Abame. A difference of opinion develops between Uchendu and Okonkwo as to how the situation should have ...

Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford and The Pearl by John Steinbeck

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the 1650 text by William Bradford with the 1945 novel by John Steinbeck. Two sour...

Multicultural Literature Education and Gender

This carefully researched paper looks at this topic using various perspectives. Should gender be a part and parcel of a course on ...

Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Dick and Jane

of this is seen when she passes dandelions on the way to the store. "Why, she wonders, do people call them weeds? She thought they...

An Analysis of Tyson's Novel On General Agreement of Tarrif & Trade (GATT)

This paper provides an analysis of the novel, GATT, Who's Bashing Whom. The author outlines various problems associated with GATT...

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Character Development

adventurous spirit that is within man, and certainly within Huck, that allows him to pursue adventure with such fervor. Of course,...

The Hours by Michael Cunningham and Feminism

the one of the "waves" of feminism in the twentieth century. The first wave of feminism is associated with the womens suffrage mov...

Depiction of Women in Cercas' The Soldiers of Salamina

is perhaps ready to face. What the journalist finds out is that the escape of a right wing leader does not result in the leaders...

Anthony J. Bell's 'Levels and Loops: the Future of Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience'

possibilities that we have lying in store for us in the future as a diagnosis of the present. Bell concludes that:...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Contemporary World

many argue saw the true beginning of a consumeristic culture as the American Dream turned to one of material wealth as a sign of s...

Pressfield's Gates of Fire

the often did not take part in battles. It was assumed that the homefront was theirs to protect while the men moved forward. As...

Lucy in the Heat of Despair by Jamaica Kincaid

even "seeing" that in marrying a man, Lucy would not be happy (81). Lucy understands then that her mother is only concerned with L...

Fictional Reflections of Contemporary China

this concept was combined with the idea that those with superior status would educate those who were lower in status through examp...

Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell

suggests, Gaskell specifically departs from the Victorian middle-class sensibility that equated decency with cleanliness. In doing...

Social Commentary of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

understanding, Scout obviously feels that all people are alike everywhere so Miss Caroline (the teacher) should automatically unde...

Art Spiegelman's Maus, Volumes I and II and Steven Spielberg's Film Schinder's List

influence in the life of his father and a contributing factor in the suicide of his mother. Therefore, the reader comes to underst...

Analysis of Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

from this madness is to come up with a sentence that surpasses the one formulated by Nollop. By Octavia 19 (the islanders have t...

Toni Morrison's Beloved, Motherhood, and Sethe

of Denver and Sethes children, and many others.This establishes the idea that family is very important and thus we can assume that...

Understanding and the Supernatural in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Gloria Naylor's Mama Day

lived with her before her death and that Sethe sought her out after escaping from slavery. The presence of the baby girls ghost ...