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Essays 1261 - 1290
In five pages the Vietnam War's Tet Offensive is the focus of this overview of the memoir by Tobias Wolff. One source is cited in...
In five pages Bill Clinton's first Secretary of Labor offers a humorous and extremely candid insight into being a member of the in...
In six pages Hildegard and Guibert are considered in a discussion of the texts Hildegard of Bingen A Visionary Life and A Monk's ...
In five pages Frank McCourt's memoir is examined in a consideration of several of the author's life changing experiences. There a...
In a paper consisting of five pages Callahan's memoir chronicling his times adrift while attempting to sail the world in January o...
that is, the "bourgeois," were not always a despised class in China. In 1949, when the Communist took over the government, they na...
working for them--and returns to the homeland: Limerick, Ireland (1774). They live there between 1934 and 1948 but Malachy still ...
during that time. Whenever Honigsberg visited Bogalusa, Louisiana, where he had covert meetings with a black group, the Deacons of...
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...
come about. At the same time, the authors depiction of the Indians is less than kind and while that is true, one can say that her ...
"ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo and how NATO leaders hesitated to term planned military action as a "war." On the other hand, he also...
in the trenches, casually mentioning the attention of their personal servant. In both cases, this suggests the lingering presence ...
more interested in material rewards here and now. He expected to be rewarded for his bravery and accomplishments. This was the way...
book is the actual confession, which turns out to be a confession to murder and many other misdeeds. This idea of knowledge is an ...
the voiceover. According to reviewer Patricia Kowal, this inclusion of a female perspective furthers the gangster genre because it...
done about those who suffered, those simple cultural people who were victims of the civilized world (Castillo 40-45). This...
the My Lai massacre and, also, traces the sociological template for young male soldiers to John Wayne. He writes, "I suppose each...
them after the war. In America, there would be "raisins and chocolate, cookies and dolls, white slippers and pink hair bows, all ...
What hooks has described with all the innocence of childhood is the ugly reality of busing, a controversial and still roundly disl...
one stroke" (Demos 29). Williams and his five children make it to Montreal alive. Once they arrive in Montreal, the Indians begin ...
reach intellectual successes even those of sound minds have difficulty achieving. That Nash realizes such tremendous accomplishme...
and wound up in camps. The Issei often simply went along obediently, as was their tradition; but the Nisei were not as willing to ...
in Brooklyn, he met and married Angela Sheehan, another Irish transplant, and the couple wasted little time in starting a family. ...
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...
that same world. It could be maddening to watch him in action--a man who never seemed to care what others thought of him--but it ...
which values the views of those Westerners engaged in that struggle over those of the native population. In other words, Herr is m...
eating toothpaste past midnight" (Karr 8). One can imagine that the girls were starving, but perhaps a better way to look at it we...
herself many times throughout the course of the novel. As a novice Geisha she not only must learn her art, and it is considered an...
about him that they like(attempts at creating anti-heroes aside, of course). Then, to have any kind of story at all, the protagoni...
a very large life. In the end, both of these women have shown by example, that the struggles which life presents can...