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Gender and Narratives: Rowlandson and Jacobs

two they took and carried away alive" (Rowlandson). In this she is clearly just presenting the facts, as anyone would do, be they ...

Stereotypes in Frederick Douglass’s Narrative

Chapter 1, Douglass reveals two facts that have come to be considered typical of slaves: he doesnt know how old he is, and his fat...

Sojourner's 'Plain-Speaking' Truth

291). While still a slave of John Dumonts, Isabella married fellow slave Thomas and subsequently gave birth to five children. A ...

The Narrative of Harriet Jacobs

1861). The influence of the Flints: Dr. Flint and his wife were Harriets master and mistress, and they deserve the name Flint for...

Narrative Unreliability in Atwood and James

This paragraph helps the student begin to assess how trust is established in Atwoods text. Atwoods "Alias Grace" is something of a...

Nonviolent Philosophies of Cesar Chavez, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Henry David Thoreau

a mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never wear off, whose gilding Nature continually repairs" (Thoreau 188)....

Cesar Chavez, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Henry David Thoreau on Nonviolence

perhaps argue that Thoreau was not a great supporter of government rule, and that anarchy was perhaps the most desirable goal, ass...

Paula G. Allen's Spider Woman's Granddaughters and Gordon Henry Jr.'s Light People

impetus of Oskinaways desire to learn of his own origins provides as catalyst that results in as series of interconnected tales th...

Comparative Analysis of 2 Slave Narratives

and sorrow" (Prince; 1). She was soon sold off to a master and then began to learn about being beaten and abused as a slave. Sh...

France's King Louis the Fourteenth

in Europe. Most of the other countries were busy fighting and maintaining borders, or were battling internal disorder from warring...

Civil Disobedience from the Perspectives of Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King Jr.

as Thoreau gets. If anything Thoreau gives us a warning about excessive public involvement: He who gives himself entirely to hi...

Synopsis of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones

In five pages this paper discusses Henry Fielding's Tom Jones series, analyzes its narrative and ranks the effectiveness of the en...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Slave System Logic Logic

In five pages this paper examines the construction of a logical system within the context of slavery as described in Frederick Dou...

Survival of Native Americans and the Importance of Memory

In five pages this paper examines the importance of memory to the Native American cultural experience in a consideration of memory...

Jonathan Swift, Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, and Martin Luther King Jr. on Responsibility and Freedom

In five pages the historical definitions of responsibility and freedom and how they have changed are featured in the works 'A Mode...

School Prayer and the Perspectives of Socrates, Henry David Thoreau, and Martin Luther King Jr.

In 5 pages this paper examines the reactions to public school prayer by this trio of social philosophers and what advice each woul...

The Anheuser Busch Brewery Company

change its organizational structure as it moves into the 21st century. Anheuser-Busch makes three major objectives its prim...

Analysis of Narrative in the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

on the period of slavery in the United States. When one reads of the life of this chattel, he or she is forced to see the total i...

Style of Classic Hollywood

In five pages filmmaking in the style of classic Hollywood is examined with illustrations of basic format and narrative. Three so...

Comparative Analysis of the Narratives in Henry Fielding's History of Tom Jones and Samuel Richardson's Clarissa

In eight pages this paper contrasts and compares how narrative techniques are utilized in these literary works. There are no othe...

Analyzing the Epic Poem 'Beowulf'

In four pages the classic Medieval poem is analyzed. There is no bibliography included....

Comparing 2 Short Stories by Franz Kafka

In nine pages Kafka's 1913 short story 'The Judgment' is compared with his classic 1915 work 'The Metamorphosis.'...

'Aeneid' and 'The Odyssey' Number Three

In four pages this paper examines evaluates the acceptability of the protagonists' actions in these classic literary works by Virg...

Her Land by Gilman

A paper which takes a personal perspective on Gilman's classic text. Gilman presents a Utopia populated entirely by women, in a na...

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....

Tolkein and Fellowship of the Ring

tale is primarily told in a book titled "The Hobbit," wherein he has many adventures and comes into possession of the one ring of ...

Establishing a Genre Movie in 'Singin' In The Rain'

This 9 page essay considers how the theatrical presence in the film is developed stylistically through textural characteristics of...

A Comparison of Communist Manifesto and Candide

proletariat. Marx notes firstly that the interests of communists do not differ from the interests of the proletariat as a class; t...

An Overview of Fellowship of the Ring

result of Bilbos leaving, is given possession of the ring. He is informed by Gandalf, a wizard and friend, that he must keep the r...

Forms, Immortal Soul, and Defining Virtue in Phaedo and Meno by Plato

different aspects of individual virtue can be seen to be included. Meno offers the suggestion that virtue can be defined as the wi...