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Essays 601 - 630

Six Short Stories, Summary and Analyses

This paper presents discussion of "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan, "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, ...

Equal Pay

The past molds and conditions us yet few of us have an understanding of women's struggle for equality. Beginning in the early- to ...

Secret of Joy by Alice Walker

This essay pertains to "Possessing the Secret of Joy" by Alice Walker. A summary of the plot is given and the writer also discusse...

Hurston's Feminist Influence for Alice Walker

This essay discusses the influence of Zora Neale Hurston in regards to Alice Walker's perspective on black oral tradition and femi...

Three African American Novels, Recurrent Themes

This essay pertains to common themes found within "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston and "The Color Purple" and ...

Alice Walker and George Orwell

of these introductory lines the reader is made privy to who the individual is in some way, where they are, and ultimately what the...

Where are You Going, Where Have You Been and Everyday Things

say to her" (Walker,56). Maggie views herself as mentally inferior to Dee or as Walker puts it "she knows she...

“Everyday Use” - The Importance of the Story’s Title

charming and funny and sad, all at the same time. This paper explains the significance of the title by examining it using the diff...

"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker

a profoundly moving parable that centers around values and what is valuable. Through the voice of Mama, a large, heavy, hard-worki...

Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions

the way in which females, both girls and women, use their bodies as a means of protesting both the restrictions of patriarchy and ...

Everyday Use and Maggie

reader the distinct impression that she is listening to everything that everyone says. This is borne out when Dee says that shes g...

The French Lieutenant's Woman

fact is not as clear in the film. The film is allowed the benefit of constant juxtapositions out of place and time. The book depen...

Hills Like White Elephants and Everyday Use

are giving in to another, and also demonstrating how they are not necessarily self confident or overly concerned about themselves ...

Wangero’s Betrayal

shows the dilemma of those who seek to build a new life for themselves, at the cost of betraying their heritage. This paper discus...

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" - Kesey's Use of Gender and Race

Chief Bromdens mother, whom he remembers as continuously emotionally abusing his father, "emasculating" him (Kesey 1963). This had...

Feminist Perspectives on Frankenstein Being Symbolic of Women’s Fate

that each person compose a ghost story (Gilbert and Gubar 239). Marys story was transformed into the novel Frankenstein; Or, the ...

Women in “The Things They Carried”

war (OBrien). Martha is a symbol of what we might call the "all-American girl." Cross speculates endlessly on whether or not she ...

Women's Suffrage Movement In Canada

women voting was by no means in the best interest of the country at large and the family unit in particular. Clearly, at the foun...

Runaway Mothers: Reasons For Leaving

sent them scrambling to revise the law to include only infants. This was also a lesson for other states offering or considering t...

Reading Romantic Fantasy and Living Reality in Don Quixote and Madame Bovary

lifetime - to become the knight-errant hero like those of the Round Table he always fantasized being. The life of a 50-year-old w...

History of Women in Aviation

record of 512 miles, from Chicago, Illinois to Hornell, New York (Bilstein, 2001; House, 2006). When America entered the First Wo...

“Interpreter of Maladies” and “The Woman Warrior”

the U.S. Maxine Hong Kingston was born in the U.S.; her parents emigrated from Hong Kong. But even though she is American, the pul...

Sexual Harassment Case - Co-Workers

be defined as a sexual act and it made Peggy uncomfortable. According to the law, it is up to Peggy to do certain things before s...

An Alien Life Form's Speculation on Mankind

This paper speculates how an alien life form would view earthlings if he or she visited the planet in the year ten-thousand A.D. a...

Seneca Falls and the Women’s Movement

simply did an overview of the movement. One of the things that is most striking about the Seneca Falls convention is that the Dec...

The Fantasy of Romance in Three Novels

of the characters faces so that we can see, for instance, how Mr. Darcy reacts to Elizabeths snub or the reaction of the Bennett w...

Great Expectations

It seems that no matter what biography you read about Dickens the primary point, in relationship to his childhood, was that he was...

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

implications about the similarities and differences between religious faiths. The heated debate between the wise men illustrates t...

Life of Ernest Hemingway Reflected in his Art

Uncle Sam finally entered the First World War in 1917, Hemingway tried to enlist, but was constantly rejected because of his poor ...

Anzia Yezierska and Her Novel Bread Givers

no problem taking their wages to support himself, even as the rest of the family scrimps and saves and slips further into poverty....