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Influential Literary Work The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

experience of slavery (Anonymous The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789) By Olaudah Equiano bvbooks.asp?Bo...

Slave Narratives and Indian Captivity Narratives

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares slave narratives with Indian captivity narratives in a consideration of the simila...

Description in Part 4 of Gulliver's Travels

can bring himself to sit at the same table with his wife. Swift sets the stage for making this reaction from Gulliver believable ...

Sramana Tradition & Hinduism

of Hinduism, and it is generally revered and considered to be the source of dharma.5 "Veda" can be translated literally as "knowl...

Scripture and Tradition in Roman Catholic Teaching

God. Achieving that goal also requires the instruction found in revelations made from God to various Catholic leaders over the ce...

The Concept of the “Virtuous Person” in Socratic and Buddhist Tradition

I was speaking have a superhuman wisdom, which I may fail to describe, because I have it not myself; and he who says that I have, ...

Sundiata: The Text and the Man

in Africa. The importance of the character in the book is that he becomes a true hero. Conde frames the story of Sundiata "with g...

Archaeology, Traditional Cultures and Oral History

and a cultural object" (Romer, 2006, p. 735). In her book, Sofaer "discusses the way skeletal material in the mortuary context act...

Cultural Practices Reflecting the Unity Between the Spritual and Material World Among the Indigenenous Cultures of Africa and the Americas

however, a rich oral tradition. Many who study this oral tradition, unfortunately, tend to lump all of these cultures stories und...

Structure of Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

he feels totally disconnected from the world - everything is "other." This disconnection from reality is integrally tied to the ea...

Oral Traditions of Native Americans

saying that she has helped "to destroy" her Hopi culture? What does she mean by "breaking away" from her heritage? Looking closely...

Intellectual Development and Don Quixote, The Mali Epic of Son Jara, and The Epic of Gilgamesh

regard to the acceptance of reality, issues of morality and, perhaps above all, the concept of divine judgment and human guilt. I...

The Commonalities and Influences of African Mythology

the changes which have occurred vary according to the specific African culture being discussed, there are certain commonalities wh...

An Arabic Language Overview

In ten pages the language of Arabic is considered in terms of development that is not different according to socioeconomic classes...

Epic Oral Poetry Tradition

In seven pages this paper examines the epic 'Beowulf' in a consideration of the poetic oral tradition. Seven sources are cited in...

Oral Traditions and Outside Resistance of the Hopi

In eight pages this paper discusses the Hopi culture in terms of its oral religious traditions as well as its steadfast resistance...

The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday

such as the coyote tales which are only told in winter. Not only is the story repeated according to the inflections, drama and hu...

Frederick Douglass' Narrative and an African American Slave's Life

In 6 pages this paper examines the problems confronting enslaved African Americans within the context of Narrative of the Life of ...

African Literature's Oral Culture and Tradition

In five pages this paper examines the oral cultural traditions of Africa in a short story analysis of 'Talk' recounted by Courland...

Writing and Speech in Novels by Camara Laye and Ousmane Sembene

In one page this paper examines Third World Africa in a contrast between written language and oral tradition as represented in G...

Hurston's Feminist Influence for Alice Walker

This essay discusses the influence of Zora Neale Hurston in regards to Alice Walker's perspective on black oral tradition and femi...

Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy

by employing a chauffeur. Miss Daisy has strict ideas of what is right and proper, and having been brought up in Jewish social cul...

Nick Carraway/The Great Gatsby

through Nicks eyes Nick provides the voice by which the other characters are heard. As such, he serves as a "translator of the dr...

Learning About The Weather - Annotated Bibliography

explanations of the different seasons of the northern and southern hemispheres in words children can understand. Lin, Grace & McKn...

Cause And Effects Of Reconstruction Period Between 1865 And 1896

to the whites blatant disregard for such legal safeguards. Fear resided at the crux of this indifference toward the law, inasmuch...

Holocaust Testimonies by Lawrence Langer

In five pages this text is reviewed in terms of self, memory, and how these processes are represented in Holocaust survivors' oral...

Reflections On Writing and on E.B. White's Essay

This paper is made up of two parts. The first section describes the writing process that the writer/tutor utilizes and this can be...

Huckleberry Finn and Don Quixote

In four pages this research paper examines each work as it represents the picaresque tradition classification....

Film & Graphic Novel/Diabolique & Persepolis

staff and the students (Diabolique). The camera perspective enters the school. It is break time and other characters make their ...

Frances Anne Kemble's "Journal Of A Residence On A Georgian Plantation" - What Influence Does The Institution Of Slavery Have On The Slaves?

smallest nuance of kindness or understanding Kemble (1984) displayed was embellished into a lifesaving gesture speaks to the extra...