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Holding the Line

The writer examines the Barbara Kingsolver book Holding the Line, which discusses the 1983 mining strike in Arizona. The book reve...

Using Structure to Develop the Story in How to Make an American Quilt and The Color Purple

This 9 page paper describes the way in which two authors use structure to develop the ideas in their books. The works under consid...

Cincinnati, Queen City of the West, 1819-1838 by Daniel Aaron

In six pages this book is considered in an informational overview that covers the book's purpose, its primary themes, the author's...

Angela's Ashes Film Version Creation

In five pages transforming Frank McCourt's autobiographical text into a screenplay is examined in terms of necessary elements and ...

Chapter Analysis of The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy's classic and best known novel, The Return of the Native, is examined in this 5 page paper. The writer analyzes each ...

The Culture in the World of Comics

perpetuate a creative and productive mind; comic books, while appearing to project little more than superficial entertainment, pro...

A Review of The Life of James Madison

encyclopedias are not used. But, considering the lack of information on Hunt, we present a brief citation from the Columbia Encycl...

David McCullough The Great Bridge

over 276 feet above the high water; and weighed an overwhelming 14,680 tons (Wright 616). For anyone who had the opportunity to s...

The Issue of Censorship and Applying it to Modern Literature

5 pages and 6 sources. This paper provides an overview of the application of censorship principles to the books of J.K. Rowling. ...

Eric Schlosser Reefer Madness

to Schlosser, the underlying thread that ties these three essays together is the "underground" (8) socioecomic subculture that per...

A History of the Holocaust by Rita Steinhardt Botwinick

which occurred in Germany after the horror had ended. Many questions are provoked by the work and some of these are posed by the...

Waldo E. Martin Jr's Brown v. Board of Education A Brief History with Documents

related to this trial. He states, "Indeed the legal cases that have influenced the status of the African Americans historically ha...

Arthur Paul Boers' 'Never Call Them Jerks'

in the end of his first chapter Boers leaves the reader with an even deeper understanding of the purpose of the book, stating, "An...

Ellen Lewin's Lesbian Mothers Accounts of Gender in American Culture

And, by presenting the reader with both sides, so to speak, a reader cannot immediately start stereotyping the results as they app...

Avi's Don't You Know There is a War On?

The experiences recounted in this book, although fictional, have their basis in the deep emotional trauma which World War II wield...

Itah Sadu's “Christopher, Please Clean Up Your Room”

will not clean his room, no matter how much he is told to do so. The room gets so out of hand that the two goldfish he owns begin ...

Themes of Death and Disease in John Donne, Thom Jones, and Margaret Edson

Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...

The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order by Ellis Hawley

kicked off something else that was interesting - the worlds first mass consumption economy. The Industrial Revolution had been und...

Where Do We Go from Here Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King Jr.

in his critical assessment of Where Do We Go From Here, "If you stand with the poor, if you experience their homes and their house...

A Review of The American Privateers by Donald Chidsey

or her to make allowances for the various aspects of the book that seem somewhat sensationalized or overblown. It will also serve ...

Comparative Analysis of Woodcut and Painting by Examining Degas and Burne-Jones

artist but later in his career he would lean more and more toward the impressionist movement which was underway. This transition ...

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

in the book we first examine the introduction. In this introduction Lewis indicates that there are many different types of Chri...

American English Compendium by Marv Rubinstein

slang and colloquialisms (of the world) smack of American English (1), and that this is true even in England. He credits this fact...

Popular Culture, Gender Constructs, and 'New Femininities'

and behaviours, and seen as being in direct opposition to "femininity", which is equally constrained in its parameters, and define...

Maxwell's There's No Such Thing As 'Business Ethics' There's Only One Rule Reviewed

As well see below, Maxwell is not highly in favor of so-called "ethical behavior," because he believes that ethics is very simply ...

Angela's Ashes

the 1940s when McCourt was a child and young adolescent. It is a story that speaks of how hard it was growing up with no one who t...

A Review of The Longest Winter

men is a rare story, and a very powerful story in the history of WWII. It is a story of humanity, as well as the lack of humanity ...

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...

A Review of The Jungle

will find the hope that America said it could offer, but also the realities that make a capitalistic society oppressive and degrad...

A Review of Call it Courage by Armstrong Sperry

decision that he will go on an adventure and seek his own courage. He is a very brave boy for even beginning this journey because ...