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Waging Modern War by General Wesley Clark

"ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo and how NATO leaders hesitated to term planned military action as a "war." On the other hand, he also...

Questions on Joinville, Yvain, the Koran, and El Cid Answered

more interested in material rewards here and now. He expected to be rewarded for his bravery and accomplishments. This was the way...

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt and its Meaning

working for them--and returns to the homeland: Limerick, Ireland (1774). They live there between 1934 and 1948 but Malachy still ...

Thirty Years in a Red House Memoir by Zhu Xiao Di

that is, the "bourgeois," were not always a despised class in China. In 1949, when the Communist took over the government, they na...

'Crossing Border Street' by Peter Honigsberg

during that time. Whenever Honigsberg visited Bogalusa, Louisiana, where he had covert meetings with a black group, the Deacons of...

An Analysis of Angela's Ashes

it a little backward. While most Irish families came to the U.S. during the 19th century to escape the potato famine in Ireland an...

Film Review of Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas

the voiceover. According to reviewer Patricia Kowal, this inclusion of a female perspective furthers the gangster genre because it...

Hildegard of Bingen and Guibert of Nogent

In six pages Hildegard and Guibert are considered in a discussion of the texts Hildegard of Bingen A Visionary Life and A Monk's ...

Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes and Events That Are Life Changing

In five pages Frank McCourt's memoir is examined in a consideration of several of the author's life changing experiences. There a...

Steven Callahan's 76 Days Lost at Sea

In a paper consisting of five pages Callahan's memoir chronicling his times adrift while attempting to sail the world in January o...

Napoleonic Era from 2 Perspectives

In five pages this research paper discusses how William Thornton Keep's leaders and Duchess d'Abrantes' memoirs depict the Napoleo...

bell hooks “Bone Black”

What hooks has described with all the innocence of childhood is the ugly reality of busing, a controversial and still roundly disl...

John Demos, Joseph Plumb Martin and Wartime Experience

one stroke" (Demos 29). Williams and his five children make it to Montreal alive. Once they arrive in Montreal, the Indians begin ...

The Memoir of Author Nahid Rachlin

she was nine years old, her father went to bring her back home in a forceful manner (Bender). She was taken from the only mother s...

Philip Caputo’s Policy Paper to Richard Nixon’s 1968 Presidential Campaign on Vietnam

The following represents what Caputos policy paper to the Nixon campaign about the conduct of the conflict might have looked like....

Learned Gender

woman or man; the roles allotted to the sexes and similar issues. McCloskey enjoys being a woman, so much so that she is somethin...

Depiction of Indians and Puritans in Captivity and Restoration by Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

In seven pages this paper examines how Puritans and Indian captors are portrayed by Mary Rowlandson in her early colonial memoir o...

Coming to America, A Memoir

way in which people routinely act in public. I am currently employed in the Bronx as a home care provider and I have few friends...

Review of Abu-Jaber's The Language of Baklava

a memory. He cook to remember" (Abu-Jaber 190). Food is also a means of conveying love-"To my mind, this is the best way to show...

Poetry of Natives

done about those who suffered, those simple cultural people who were victims of the civilized world (Castillo 40-45). This...

Definition of an American and Homelessness

91). The first threatening wave of homelessness swept America between the years 1820 and 1860, when more than five million immigr...

Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes and Growing Up Too Fast

He says thats nice language to be using in front of the children and she says never mind the language, food on the table is what s...

Elements of Good and Evil in Frank McCourt's, Angela's Ashes.

in Brooklyn, he met and married Angela Sheehan, another Irish transplant, and the couple wasted little time in starting a family. ...

Gunther/Death Be Not Proud

A 3 page book review of John Gunther's memoir of his son's illness and death. The title of this book is drawn from John Donne's Me...

Memoir: "A Beautiful Mind"

reach intellectual successes even those of sound minds have difficulty achieving. That Nash realizes such tremendous accomplishme...

"Desert Exile"

and wound up in camps. The Issei often simply went along obediently, as was their tradition; but the Nisei were not as willing to ...

Analysis of Dan Rather's The Camera Never Blinks

In six pages this research paper examines Dan Rather's journalistic memoir that describes his coverage of such events as President...

Vietnam in A Rumor Of War by Philip Caputo

In this paper consisting of two pages Philip Caputo's memoir reflects the Vietnam War experience as a whole as it represents the s...

Death, God, and Holocaust Survivors' Attitudes

bear. For example, most of those survivors interviewed by Schindler, Spiegel, and Malachi (1992) expressed their almost desperate...

General Lundendorff's The General Staff and Its Problems, Volume 2

In ten pages this First World War German High Command General's memoirs are examined. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....