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Dispossessing the Wilderness by Mark Spence

traces of people from it. The book drips with interesting stories, case histories and fascinating tidbits about how Native America...

Book Review of Management Accounting

But what, exactly, is management accounting information? The authors point out that, according to the Institute of Management Acco...

Literature's Classic Adventure

far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy" (Homer The Odyssey PG). The Odyssey was written in 800 B.C. and woven in...

Real and Metaphorical Staircases

In five pages this paper discusses staircases in terms of symbolism and reality as represented in a chapel in New Mexico's stairs,...

Gone with the Wind, Patriarchy, and Gender Roles of the Antebellum South

also of the survivors of the overall destruction of this exclusive caste system. Shortly after the initial publication of Gon...

Race and Social Class in Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith, The Romantic Comedians by Ellen Glasgow, and A Lifetime Burning by Ellen Douglas

In six pages this paper discusses how this trio of Southern novels represent these themes. Six sources are cited in the bibliogra...

The Unvanquished by William Faulkner and Perceptions of Southern Women's Roles

Northerners make such a big deal out of something that wasnt originally a big deal to Southerners at all. Bayards Granny, like man...

Presence of the Dead Father in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

In seven pages this paper examines how the social oppression of Southern women is represented through the constrictions Emily stil...

Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition

Chestnutt skilfully exposes the irony of these attitudes through the interaction between the various family members, where the dis...

Southern Fiction and The Robber Bridegroom by Eudora Welty

death) (Welty 9). Tied to a surviving woman and his only surviving child, Musgrove is pushed into the wilderness by the Indians, w...

Anne Moody and Civil Rights Coming of Age in Mississippi

house (Moody 44). Bruce Clayton and John Salmond, who wrote, Debating Southern History, state that during the fifties and sixties...

Significance of Jesus Christ’s Death and Resurrection as Decay and Renewal in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury

and one from their devoted black servant Dilsey Gibson and read like the gospels of the Bible in that observations of actual event...

Allegory and Symbolism in the American Gothic Short Stories "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner and "Ligeia" and "The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allan Poe

wife Virginias slow death, the narrator focuses on every detail of his wife Ligeia as she lies dying: "The pale fingers became of ...

Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" - Southern Society and the Grotesque

pertinent thematic statement about social conditions in the old South; namely, that the reliance upon a superficial standard of mo...

Analysis of 4 poems by Robert Frost

imagery perfectly sums up the pressures modern age, as the narrator is too pressed for time to pause and appreciate nature more th...

An Example of Investment Appraisal Using NPV

Net present value is a method used to compare and contrast different potential investments. The process discount future net cash ...

Contrasting and Comparing "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien with "Luck" by Mark Twain

A seemingly reliable third-person narrator tells these stories. In "Luck," a clergyman tells Mr. Clemens about a revered Crimean ...

Analyzing 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg' by Mark Twain

was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation uns...

Tom's Character and the Thematic Development of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

This paper examines how thematic development is achieved through Tom's characterization in Pudd'nhead Wilson in terms of scientifi...

Racism in Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain and Classism in Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

away. He stands as a man of a higher social class who has integrity. His mother, however, represents all that is bad in the upper ...

Comedy and Satire in The Works of Mark Twain

So, while Twains comments are funny, as seen thus far, and while he himself claimed that humor was the key, we also note that he p...

Balance of Philosophy and Nursing Values

not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely woul...

Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

him--and pay for the privilege. Tom realizes that "Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and that Play consists of wha...

Life Experiences and the Writings of Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain

is "rooted in memory" (The West Film Project). Essay Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), who obtained fame and fortune under h...

Values in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In five pages this research paper examines the changing of American values as represented in Fitzgerald's novel with Tom Buchanan ...

Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain and Discipline

In seven pages this paper considers how discipline is depicted in the novle with Tom's Aunt Pol appearing to be very harsh but who...

Chapter X of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

In five pages this chapter is examined in a structural analysis that discusses the conflict between death and fear imagery and Tom...

Evil According to Mark Twain, Flannery O'Connor, and Henry James

battling with his conscious for some time, Huck writes a letter to Miss Watson, who is Jims owner that tell where Jim is. Afterwar...

Marie de France by Dante

In three pages this essay considers how the passion Marie de France and her lover share is compared with her contention God suppor...

Comparing Mark Twain Novels Life on the Mississippi and Roughing It

In seven pages the ways in which Mississippi River people and towns are presented in Twain's Life on the Mississippi are compared ...