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James McBride's The Color of Water

he confesses. What the reader comes to learn is that Ruth McBride was born Ruth Shilsky and that she and her family immigrated fro...

A Review of The Colors of the Mountain

see from the beginning that this story will not be one about a family who lived well during the changes in China, but a family tha...

Sofia in 'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker

is told that Sofia is a woman who does not know her place. She should not be allowed to talk back to her husband, or state her own...

The Banning of The Color Purple by Alice Walker

anyone who has read the book, there are some disturbing scenes in the book that are so powerfully written and detailed that the re...

The Color Purple by Alice Walker and Black Women Overcoming Oppression

Ultimately, "It is through their friendships, their love, their shared oppression... that they collectively gain the strength to s...

The What Color is Your Parachute Flower Petal Exercise Example

4. Photography 5. Mathematics 6. Astrology. This can be written in the Flower by copying the appropriate pages in the Bolles boo...

A Look at James and Ruth in The Color of Water

been honest and open, and perhaps this is a reflection of how he was raised. While true, there is a stark difference...

The National Association for Colored People

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) holds the distinction of being...

Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Reservation Blues

(Johnson). The narrator relates with obvious pride he learned the "names of the notes in both clefs," as a young child and could ...

Feminine Voice in Walker’s The Color Purple

In a novel in which the narrator is recounting the entirety of the action after the fact, the narrator already knows everything th...

The Effects of Daily Watering on Grass Growth and Color

The owner of House B might use fertilizer, while the owner of House B may not. The soil conditions might also differ. The owner ...

Characterization in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

some sense out of her life. There is also the close, intimate relationship that she has with her younger sister, Nettie. T...

Comparing Novel and Film Versions of The Color Purple

in particular is feminism and its religious heterodoxy" (12). An examination of the film and novel amply supports this observation...

Barney, Sesame Street, and the Colors Yellow and Purple

and love, was nothing like Sesame Street. Instead of the sophistication of Sesame Street (which, interestingly enough, had gone fr...

Joe Klein's Primary Colors, Edwin O'Connor's The Last Hurrah, and Politics

In seven pages the political approaches and statements contained within these novels are discussed. Six sources are cited in the ...

Comparative Analysis of Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road and Alice Walker's The Color Purple

In six pages these southern novels are contrasted and compared. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

Othello by William Shakespeare and the Significance of the Color White

In five pages this paper examines the symbolic meaning of white in this tragedy by William Shakespeare. Four sources are cited in...

Injustice in Alice Walker's 'The Color Purple' and Victor Hugo's 'Les Miserables'

This paper consisting of 6 pages explores the injustice that Celie and Jean Valjean experience in these literary texts. No additi...

'The Doctor's Wife' and 'The Color Purple'

In this 7 page paper, there are six similarities and six differences between these texts authored by Sawako Ariyoshi and Alice Wal...

Schools Not Color Blind Yet

In spite of all attempts to remove race as a determining factor in American schools, it continues to be a problem. This paper argu...

Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

about prejudice first hand, and when a teacher separated the white and black children, he would go with the white. She corrected h...

Women of Color and Print Media

and Cosmopolitan. While both magazines market their product to a primarily female audience, it can readily be argued that Black B...

The Color Purple by Alice Walker and Celie's Self Discovery

by her contemporaries. These women will weave a rich fabric of friendship, which is symbolically referred to in the novel through...

Society and How Color Functions

a personal discrimination and not a discrimination against his race as a whole. And, they are quick to point out that the sufferin...

Lydia Chavez' The Color Blind California's Battle to End Affirmative Action

gives certain people preferential treatment. Interestingly, this book reveals, with significant candor, both sides of this now co...

Analyzing Martha Stewart Everyday Colors® Advertisement

which begins, "We have 256 wonderful paint colors. You have infinite possibilities" (Martha Stewart Everyday Colors, 2003; p. 45)...

Virginia Woolf's 'The New Dress,' Alice Walker's 'The Color Purple,' and Gender Themes

that they tend to destroy themselves from within. This inner destruction of the community toward one another is also symbolic of ...

Women's Relationships in Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Toni Morrison's Sula

forbidden to them, they have set about creating something else to be" (Morrison 52). For example, Sula would go to Nels house to s...

James McBride's The Color of Water and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

a woman with a very strong sense of the Chinese culture. It is, in these respects, a novel that speaks of searching for identity a...

Edwin O'Connor's The Last Hurrah, Joe Klein's Primary Colors, and Political Ethics

lesser of the two evils approach, but yet an approach that clearly illustrates how far the lack of ethics and morals in the politi...