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In five pages this essay considers nonconformity and conformity as it is depicted in Girl by Jamaica Kincaid, Black Boy by Richard...

no avail. Her father explained that the antidote would actually kill her, but she did not want to live being poisonous anyway. The...

to the role of an international statesman; through his efforts, he ultimately ended up as a role model for many American youths wh...

The information, however, should prove sufficient for further investigation on the part of the student. Tales and Sketches: Scie...

indescribable evil. Symbols always present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Hawthornes repea...

close to his sister, one has to contemplate the possibility of incest which adds to the seductiveness that many authors attribute ...

of America in its beginnings and resulted in the development of a genre that has come to be known as transcendentalist literature....

In 5 pages this paper examines how the horror short story genre was developed in 'Rappaccini's Daughter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne an...

In five pages this paper discusses the English Romantic movement and how American Romanticism is characterized the works of Nathan...

A 5 page consideration of the societal restrictions in play in these books. This paper questions whether those restrictions impac...

In eleven pages Franklin Pierce's life and undistinguished presidential administration are discussed and include his friendship wi...

In fifteen pages this paper considers how women were treated in this famous novel as well as their portrayal in the short stories ...

In eight pages Margaret Fuller's writings are among the topics considered in this analysis of how 19th century feminism was influe...

This essay summarizes the highlights of two documents: a bibliographic memoir of Roger Williams Brown, father of developmental psy...

attending Bowdoin College. While some of his work was published, this did not provide him with enough income to live on and he ear...

Introduction The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a story filled with many images and many forms of symbolism. It is a ri...

religious fervour had already given the earnest of high eminence in his profession. He was a person of very striking aspect, with...

find her own identity. In this we can see her as sad, lonely, loving, determined, or ignorant. All of these minute characteristics...

believe that everyone (even women) should learn to read and write because the reading of the scriptures was thought to be one of t...

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

would have no doubt preferred. She stays and makes a life for herself and Pearl as a seamstress and though her scarlet letter def...

repressed. Sexuality, gender, cultural practice, ideology, and narrativity, among other things are represented within art as appe...

truly fulfilled, and in fact he likens this fulfillment to a nearly spiritual ideal. On the other hand, there was...

punishes her by labeling her with the letter "A" and through social ostracism. Thoreaus argument with the state in "Civil Disobe...

symbolistic, human type greenhouse. That the girl is as rare a beauty as any of the doctors flowers, is evident when Giovanni, a s...

his studies had no definite object, either of public advantage or personal ambition; a gentleman, high bred and fastidiously delic...

ordinary and therefore the townspeople find it frightening. They have tried on several occasions to discover why the minister wear...

in the goodness of man and the mans natural state is in nature and is burdened by civilization (Campbell). The doctrine of sensibi...

of the Puritan ideal that humans born into the world had a tendency to sin and he went on further to theorize that the human subco...

This book reviews pertains to Tony Horwitz's text "Midnight Rising, John Brown and the raid that sparked the Civil War," which des...