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Thomas Pynchon's V. and Gender Issues

Pynchon's first novel is addressed in the context of this well written paper. This author treated characterization for the women q...

The Truth of Cornelia's Struggle

In a paper of four pages, the author reflects on the work Cornelia's Struggle. The author writes about the issues facing the main...

Susie Taylor Experiences on Simons Island

In a paper of three pages, the author writes about the wartime experiences of Susie King Taylor. The author of this paper summariz...

Two Different Educational Systems

In a paper of fifteen pages, the author reflects upon two different educational systems, those of Canada and Kuwait. The author w...

The Application of Self-Analysis: Rational Emotive Thinking

and could not get it back. I felt like I was a bad person because I had put the project off so long. I became depressed because ...

Majority Rule, Tocqueville, Olsen

This essay refers to the writing of contemporary author Theodore Olsen and nineteenth century author Alexis de Tocqueville to argu...

Ethical Concerns of Counselors

and his parents "Jessica" and his stepfather, "Peter." The entire family came to John seeking support for the declining condition...

In the Utah Supreme Court: A Brief

Yoder, 406 U.S. 205, 92 S. Ct. 1526, 32 L. Ed. 2d 15 (1972) Statutes Religious Freedom Restoration Act, 42 U.S.C. 2000bb-1 Utah Co...

Leadership and At-Risk Learners

story. Jim was generally unable to recognize letters and could not answer questions about plot, characterizations or predicting t...

Views of a Population At Risk

women are more likely to die from lung cancer as a result of cigarette smoking than white women who develop lung cancer, primarily...

An Essay Arguing for Gay Marriage

can be viewed as a socially constructed contract, opposition to applying marriage to homosexual unions extends from the social con...

Comparing and Contrasting Foucault and Barthes

begins." In the end of his essay Barthes states, "We are now beginning to let ourselves be fooled no longer by the arrogant ant...

'The Appeal' by David Walker

faced by the black people. It was practically unheard of for a slave to buy his or her freedom in the United States, it was even ...

The Wealthy and American Criticism

"aggregate" was benefiting in this period, however, others were flailing desperately in the ever-deepening economic waters just tr...

Writing and Language in Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck

that Steinbeck models the paisanos after. This status came to Danny quite randomly...Though everyone in the group shares everythin...

James Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son

the black man as one who thinks deeply, spiritually, and intelligently. In a time when the narrator is oppressed and ridiculed ...

Comparative Analysis of Min Zhan Lu's From 'Silence to Words' and Amy Tan's 'Mother Tongue'

written. As the two essays continue they build in their complexity where language is concerned. Tan states, "a speech filled with...

Sisters and Solidarity by Julie White

where women most commonly worked were often the hardest to organize."2 Those jobs included such things as domestic service and sal...

Article Critique on Malaysian Nonverbal Communication

(Salleh 7). While this request is generally written or spoken, it suggests how a great deal of hidden meaning is intertwined in M...

Comparison of Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz's The Divine Narcissus and Luis de Gongora's Polyphemus and Galatea

and transform his blood into a river, which flows down the sides of the volcano, Mt. Aetna, into the sea at Catana. De la Cruzs T...

'I Want to Live!' by Thom Jones

a surprise! She ... knew. Of course, you always hope for the best. She heard but she didnt hear" (Jones 166). There are several ...

Hinchey on Critical Theory

discusses student teachers who assign homework simply to be assigning homework, not for any specific goal or purpose. The student ...

Comparative Analysis of Evelyn Lau’s Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid and the Anonymously Written Go Ask Alice

she had no particular interest in helping or educating others. For Lau, her diary represented the ultimately self-expression her ...

Critique of James G. Hollandsworth Jr.’s The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War

alike despite their willingness to risk their lives in combat. But as the text illustrates, racial discrimination was unfortunate...

Pa Chin's "Family" - Author's Message

both grand and far-reaching; that this conundrum proves damaging to the familys whole infrastructure speaks to the underlying mess...

Latino Author's St. Mary's Church Memories

both Rosa and Marianna attended. Father Ramirez and Sister Stevens spent long hours in that basement classroom teaching us abou...

A Look at Great Expectations in the Context of the Author's Life

1824-1827 he was a "day pupil at a school in London" (Cody). But the year in the blacking factory "haunted him all of his life" t...

Pre Stonewall America and Authors' Treatment of Gay Society Identity

government - harbored toward the homosexual population. Lumped together with such socially unsavory issues as Communism, Katz ill...

Author's Word Choices and Altered Impressions of Characters

his speech has often included long pauses with "ummm" or "well" or some other phrases to fill the void, the actual speech between ...

'Roman Fever' by Edith Wharton and the Author's Deception Cover the Uses of Control and Formality

formality and propriety was incorrect and not only have the main characters deceived each other, but Wharton has been successful i...