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Nigerian Characters in Two Novels

commanding warrior, whose exploits had become legendary among the Igbo villagers. Unfortunately, Okonkwo was more successful on...

Pop Culture and The News

Art often imitates life, particularly in American media. This paper compares the media frenzy over the Clinton-Lewinsky affair wit...

Character in 'Good Country People' by Flannery O'Connor

and the intellectual mask revealed in the changing of her name. "She considered the name her personal affair. She had arrived at...

The Cattle Industry of Argentina

months ago resulted in several of Argentinas promising industrial players exiting the country to move to lower-cost Brazil (Anonym...

Aunt Obasan and Aunt Emily in Obasan by Joy Kogawa

In five pages this paper presents a character analysis of Aunt Obasan and Aunt Emily as featured in Japanese Canadian author Joy K...

Neonaticide

The writer discusses the crime of neonaticide (killing of infants) with specific reference to the case of Amy Grossberg and Brian ...

The Writing Techniques Alice Walker Uses to Address Her Concerns

In six pages the ways in which Walker employs fiction to express her concern about specific issues and love of humanity are consid...

A Biography 'Pavlova, 1881 to 1931' by A.H. Franks

This paper contains five pages and discusses the biography based on the life of a Russian ballerina and explores how successes, fa...

'The Way of Duty' and 'Mary Silliman's War'

This paper consists of 6 pages and compares the book The Way of Duty by Joy and Richard Buel and the film version, Mary Silliman's...

Abstract and Concrete Language in Poetry

own anguish, illustrating the poets "mastery of weaving spontaneously narrative, meditative, and descriptive elements into a seemi...

A Review of an Adolescent Consumer Behavior Article

addition to parental influence, peers were also influential, just in the opposite way. Researchers in fact confirm much other lite...

Hybridized Identity and Canada's Little Tolerance

the pain and suffering forced upon the Japanese Canadians after a political panic swept through post-Pearl Harbor. Their experien...

Parr, Sutherland, and Bullen Article Analysis on Urban and Rural Children's Labor and Economic Responsibilities

or wages in order to sustain the family lifestyle. In all cases, middle and upper class children who do not have the same labor ob...

Fyodor Dostoevsky and Hermann Hesse on Consciousness's Pain and Joy

In seven pages this report examines the pain and the joy of the human consciousness as expressed in the Underground Man of Dostoev...

Childhood Loss in Obasan and The Stone Angel

Isolation, privation and loss in childhood are major themes in literature. This report discusses the work of two Canadians, Joy Ko...

Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Canadian Societal Changes

subsistence base to an industrial one set in motion a number of societal factors which had to be dealt with. Masses...

Self-Perception and Learning

however the temptation on the part of many parents, and there are even some who feel it is their right, to determine what a child ...

Madness And Depression As Common Literary Themes

for the best. Soon, however, a sudden sense of calm overcomes her as she whispers "free, free, free" (Chopin PG). Mrs. Mal...

War's Realities and Poetry

be born of patriotism and love for their country, as there are few things that would inspire the soldiers to put up with such bad ...

'Good Country People' by Flannery O'Connor and Theology

which is clearly understandable, yet she has not used her intelligence to rise above it all and find truth. She cannot exhibit kin...

Joy Concept

is anguish all the time, but there is also a sense of joy at the realization that one is inextricably bound with another. This sen...

Cultural Relativism According to Rachels and Williams

race "at the mercy of machines" (Joy, 2000). The kind of panicky point of view maintained by Joy as a result of the constantly im...

Object v. Spectator Types of Cinematic Gaze

is completely unique and no two are alike. Therefore, what takes place is a kind of power struggle between the subject and the ob...

Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Gabrielle Roy's Tin Flute

ones. It is a family where the father is always having a problem finding steady work, and a family where one of the daughters, Flo...

Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche on Joy, Will, and Knowledge

knowledge is not as important as faith. That is a significant difference between the two. At the same time, neither admits that hu...

Profile of an Equitable Math/Science Classroom

and "facilitate the integration of all member of the class into learning activities" (Wallace). A particular evocative suggestion ...

"Obasan"

work on a road gang, where his frail health will ultimately doom him, the girl is raised by her aunt and uncle, and it is this aun...

Special Education Questions

current theories and current research. Over time, changes in these theories and research and their application can have a lasting...

An analysis of Beethovern's Music in Immortal Beloved

through the use of rolling chords that softly underscore the melody line in the treble, while octaves sound in the bass like dista...

Gunther/Death Be Not Proud

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...