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How Ruth Younger and Linda Loman Support Their Men

in his own quest to find his own American Dream, squanders an inheritance on a one-shot deal that goes bad. And in the old adage t...

A Raisin in the Sun Analysis

out, and if there will actually be a winner in the end. Most viewers will hope that Mama will be the one to decide. She is the w...

Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun: Dreams

dreaming all their lives for one thing or another the arrival of the insurance money is something that makes the possibility of ac...

Raisin in the Sun

the family has placed high hopes on having a better future with the insurance money. The beginning of the play establishes the cha...

Walter and Ruth in A Raisin in the Sun

that the African American male is simply not given the same opportunities, or not as many opportunities, as the white man. This pl...

Hansberry/Setting in ”Raisin in the Sun”

of escaping poverty and racism (Fanuzzi). Their lives in improved in some ways from life in the South, but they found that if they...

A Doll’s House and A Raisin in the Sun

in this case. The setting of the plays could also be associated with the setting that relates to money. In both plays one of the...

Hansberry Family and the Impact of Racism

In ten pages this paper discusses the effects of racism on African American activist Carl Hansberry and his daughter Lorraine, awa...

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Money's Meaning

Friday. (Gleefully) Check coming tomorrow , huh?" (Hansberry 8). Ruth simply replies, "You get your mind off money and eat your br...

Money and the Role it Plays in A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

involves the American Dream. These people all have a dream that they wish to achieve, and for the most part their dreams involve m...

Black Issues in Pre-Civil Rights Chicago

Combss performance, specifically that he never fully develops Walter, who is the central character; this vacuum at the center of t...

The Glass Menagerie and A Raisin in the Sun

these women are not too controlling in relationship to every move their children make. This does not mean that one or the other wi...

A Raisin in the Sun: Dreams

to make sure that this dream, whatever the dream may be, is not deferred. There are moments, however, when each of the dreams seem...

Lorraine Hansberry and Langston Hughes

expecting insurance money and all the characters have their hopes and dreams associated with it. One character who drives much of ...

The Concept of Home and Family in the Works of Hansberry and Walker

she can show off to society. In Hansberrys play the story involves a family who is awaiting an inheritance. They all have their ...

Review and Critique, "Raisin in the Sun"

This paper reviews and critiques "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry and discusses its relevancy to race relations. Five p...

African American Women Playwrights

In five pages the ways in which black female playwrights confront sexist behaviors and conventional stereotypes in their female ch...

The Time Period of A Raisin in the Sun

The writer explains several points that help to identify the time and societal values extant when Lorraine Hansberry wrote “A Rais...

Les Blancs, A Raisin in the Sun and Presentation of Black Culture in Drama

In five pages black culture is examined in terms of the distinction from Afrocentrism is discussed within the context of these two...

Biographies of 3 Influential African Americans Lorraine Hansberry, Anne Moody, and Gordon Parks

were taught to value honor, education, equality, and the importance of telling the truth. Parks childhood instilled in him a fierc...

An Overview of A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, 2001 and A Raisin in the Sun, 2001). This essay offers an in-depth overview of this Hansberry play...

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

class. It may not even be that the author attempts to make it about that, but it is there in the lifeblood of the play and somethi...

Analyzing A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

This is his attempt at asserting himself and struggling to find his own way. Clearly he is trying to gain his independence but th...

Michelangelo: His Life and Works

wanted to be something other than a banker or a merchant as his father desired (Michelangelo: Artist and Aristocrat: A Biography, ...

W.E.B. DuBois

that time Great Barrington had perhaps 25, but not more than 50, Black people out of a population of about 5,000" (Hynes, 2007). T...

Christo: Life and Works

Galerie Schmela, D?sseldorf" (The-Artists.org., 2007). Then in 1964 he moved to New York where he began what was called his "store...

Billy Collins

many different ways. For example, one author illustrates how, "You can read a Billy Collins poem to someone who hates poetry and t...

Malcolm X

was no realistic goal for a nigger, Malcolm lost interest in school" and thus dropped out of school (Estate of Malcolm X, 2008). I...

Life and Works of Charles Babbage

emphasis on manufacture and engineering in that region which initiated his own interest in the subjects....

Tragic Masterpiece Antigone by Sophocles

In seven pages this paper examines the life and works of Sophocles with the emphasis upon Antigone....