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To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

This essay pertains to Woolf's novel and how the three main characters are presented within the context of the novel's main themes...

Johnny Tremain

maturation of the American colonies as they journey toward war and independence. The thematic context demonstrates how it is exper...

Atwood & Bradbury/Best Dystopian Tale

his needs" (Atwood 8). Atwood obviously feared the emerging strength of the religious far-right and saw in its rejection of rights...

African-American Youth Public Speaking And Community Relations

may lead to African-Americans and others dropping out at even higher rates. We know that the high school graduation rates for many...

The African-American Experience in the Short Story - James Baldwin and Langston Hughes Compared

This research report compares and contrasts the works of these two black authors. Short stories are discussed which look at how th...

Comparing Works by Richard Wright and Jo Ann G. Robinson

In five pages this research paper examines these authors' refusal to accept African American second class citizenship in a segrega...

2 Journal Articles on Hypertension Reviewed

insight regarding the details of their normal everyday life and health concerns. Boutain sets the stage by reporting that one in...

Black Marxism by Cedric Robinson

Im still struggling with any course material that is remotely mathematical. As always, my loves are history, philosophy and this s...

South Africa's Musical Cultures and the Effects of Apartheid

In two pages this paper examines how South African musical cultures are affected by social oppression and apartheid. Two sources ...

Cheikh Hamidou Kane/Ambiguous Adventure

the structural framework of the novel, as it demonstrates the authors reliance on dialogue, both between characters and also the i...

Ralph Ellison/The Dream at the end of "Battle Royal"

the leading black American of his era, gave at a primarily white audience in Atlanta in 1895. This speech became known as the "Atl...

W.E.B. Du Bois/Double Consciousness

of measuring ones soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity" (Du Bois ch. 1, para. 3). In other words,...

Storytelling in Two Native American Novels

Jimmy thinks back to his childhood. At any rate, it is a startling introduction to life as Jimmy and other Indians live it. It al...

Analyzing Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

is constantly being reminded of the process of construction, whilst being involved in the construct itself in the form of the text...

Changes in the Relationship of the Atlantic World and Western Europe in Robinson Crusoe

on a Eurocentric tone. At the same time, it seems that the protagonist is his own and has distanced himself from the church and al...

Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta Critically Analyzed

fall apart, the truth is laid open for the reader to see. In reality, it is the women who are silently stoic because theirs is the...

Thomas More - Utopia

why it has that affect. In this paper we will consider the last two paragraphs of Mores work giving an opinion on the affect it...

Analysis of Anthem by Ayn Rand

rather than "I." As he has always been taller and smarter than his peers, he has been criticized throughout his life by his teache...

Opening of Bleak House by Charles Dickens from a Structural Perspective

the novel is laid in the first five paragraphs of Chapter 1. The opening paragraph reads almost like a newspaper article (Dickens...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and the Character of Pip

those who are less fortunate. When Pip sees a group of starving and shackled convicts, he is appalled by their plight. One convi...

The Cider House Rules by John Irving Literary Review

this argument with great compassion. While Homer develops a sincere admiration for Dr. Larch, he disagrees with abortion because ...

"Huckleberry Finn" and the Rebuke of Racism

that Twain struggled with "how to reconcile the felt memory of boyhood with the cruel implications of the social system within whi...

American Son by Brian Roley

ways. At the beginning of the novel, they follow a Cain and Abel dichotomy. Gabe is the good and obedient child, "the son who is q...

Comparing The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith and Martin Eden by Jack London

In five pages these two novels' themes are contrasted and compared. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

Andrew Crumey's Second Novel fitz

fanciful conceits, the same thing that Escher has done with line and image. Interestingly enough, the comparison doesnt stop ther...

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines and Heroism

In 5 pages this paper examines the novel's depiction of heroism within the context of characters Wiggins and Jefferson. Two sourc...

Madness in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

of this mad ivory merchant, Kurtz; as part of his piloting job, he travels deep into the heart of the jungle with the idea of find...

Roughing It with Swan, Twain and the Indians

Northwest Coast by James G. Swain and Mark Twain's Roughing It are two novels which deal with the outdoors and the American west. ...

Theme of Death in Beloved by Toni Morrison and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

it we see the power of life and death in the novel and the people. However, Okonkwo did take part in the death and was warned that...

Comparative Analysis of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto

Everything tends directly to the catastrophe." We are informed that "Never is the readers attention relaxed. The rules of the dram...