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African American Playwright August Wilson

as befits an author who had been writing virtually one play a year since Ma Rainey had its first reading in 1982 at the Eugene ONe...

Three Stories and the Damage of Social Stereotypes and Prejudice

is duly noted is with the different names that people of all ethnic origins - including African-Americans themselves - use to iden...

Literature, Self, and Identity

understand that there are many wolves out there, and when she finds one she is completely controlled by him and thus loses her inn...

Identity Searches in Literature

A.E. Housman. They are both young men who die before they age, before they have perhaps achieved a powerful greatness it would see...

The Character of Troy Maxson

affair as forgivable. Of course, that is not all he does. Still, when evaluating this character as a whole, there is a sense of mo...

August Wilson: Fences: The Relationship between Cory and Troy

Troy illustrates that at one point in his childhood, when he was 14, he became a man and stood up against his father, no longer fe...

Women in Othello and Fences

he doubts her, believing the words of others, one can see that he is a very insecure man where his love is concerned. In the cas...

Fences by August Wilson

Introduction The character of Troy Maxson, in August Wilsons play Fences, is a man who is relatively empty and perhaps desperate....

The Truly Disadvantaged by William Wilson

William Wilson's socioeconomic policies featured in The Truly Disadvantaged are examined in 6 pages....

Educational Analysis

While she maintains the separation of teacher and pupil, at the same time she is able to transcend that barrier to reside within t...

Classroom Observation Analysis

Slattery and Steinberg, 1999). Dewey promoted social experiences and having students solve problems in group settings (Kincheloe...

Lesson Plans Kindergarten-First Grade

There are two complete lesson plans presented in this essay. The focus is early language and literacy development. One of the less...

Troy and Cory: Wilson's Fences

This essay pertains to "Fences" by August Wilson. The writer focuses on the relationship between protagonist Troy Maxson and his s...

Letter to Brunstein

This 3 page paper gives an example of a letter from the perspective of W.E.B. Du Bois and August Wilson sent to the critic Bruntei...

August Wilson and Leo Tolstoy

This 4 page paper compares and contrasts the protagonists of The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy and Fences by August Wilson. ...

Literature and Music Expressed in the Nationalist Culture of African Americans

In six pages this paper discusses the expression of cultural nationalism in African American literature and music as depicted in t...

A Review of Fences

An 8 page review of the book by August Wilson. This paper focuses on the theme of oppression, a theme that affects not just Afric...

United Parcel Service Strike of 1997

still be successful when the issues are real and when they stick together. On August 4, 1997, 185,000 United Parcel Service (U...

Collectivism and Commitment; Implications for Cross Cultural Management

tools such as 5 Ss and Six Sigma through to the general approaches of co-operative management (Katz and Darbishire, 2002). One ...

Lanford Wilson/Rimers of Eldritch

A 3 page research paper/essay that discusses Lanford Wilson's play Rimers of Eldritch, which, on the surface, concerns a murder ...

Anzia Yezierska and Woodrow Wilson's Vies of 'the American Dream'

In five pages this paper examines how the American Dream is viewed by Anzia Yezierska and Woodrow Wilson in a comparative analysis...

Consilience by Edward O. Wilson

entirely supportive of its possibilities. Others, either had insightful dreams the night before, or had experienced more trial an...

Piano's Development

loud" (History of the Piano...Grover). In its shape and general construction, it resembled a harpsichord, however, there were ma...

Chopin, Beethoven, and Debussy

alternation provides a canvas to the "rich ricercar" variation technique, which Debussy employs (Schmitz 102). The second "image...

The Life and Work of August Wilson

In eight pages the ways in which Wilson's work seems to reflect his life are explored. Three sources are cited in the bibliograph...

Woodrow Wilson by August Heckscher

researching this topic will undoubtedly appreciate the insight that Heckscher provides in this early section as to the family infl...

Rachmaninov, Mozart, and Bach Concertos Compared

In ten pages this research paper examines and compares 'Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor' by Rachmaninov, 'Piano Concerto No. 21 in...

August Wilson: "Fences"

needs a loan; and Cory is the ruthless side of Troy, determined to stand on his own. The two boys are reflections of the way Troys...

The Use of Irony in Fences by August Wilson

have been no time called too early" (Wilson 9). This statement indicates the major theme of the play, which is Troys rage at the i...

Dvorak and Brahms' Piano Quintets

any of his contemporaries, captured the "intimate communion that is the essence of chamber-music style" (Machlis, 1970, p. 128). T...