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Presentations of Colonialism

on the development of an exploitative tourist industry in Antigua. Achebe takes a very different perspective than Kincaid in tha...

Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

African author Chinua Achebe argues that the extended metaphor that Conrad uses to relate his principal theme is founded on the vi...

Kafka: Gregor Samsa and Self-Sacrifice

neither of their parents can stand to be in the same room with Gregor. Interestingly, no one ever tries to communicate with Greg...

Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" - A Symbolic Analysis

this, Samsas preeminent concern is how he will explain this difficult matter to his boss, if he is in fact even able to get to wor...

Colony of Dr. Kafka

the quest for material gain, the colony members can focus on the more important of lifes priorities, such as family, friends and p...

Boas and His Successor Levi-Strauss

its not possible to summarize them, but it seems that the consensus is that his work was principally in "kinship, myth, and a form...

"Things Fall Apart" - Feminism and Postcolonialism

is himself a figure that is somewhat alien to the experiences of many Westerners in the sense that he has "earned" three wives thr...

Achebe's "Civil Peace" and Cultural Values

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at Achebe's "Civil Peace". Iwegbu's cultural values of optimism are examined. Paper use...

Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe and Modernity v. Tradition Discourses

come together as one to protect the land during times of war (Olaniyan 22, Lindfors 23). Ezeulu was the arrow of god because the ...

Desai and Achebe A Comparison of Clear Light of Day and Things Fall Apart

5 pages 0 outside sources. This paper relates the major themes in Desai's Clear Light of Day and Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Thi...

Okonkwo's Aggression in Achebe's Things Fall Apart

5 pages No outside sources cited. This paper relates the nature of Achebe's character Okonkwo, who demonstrates distinctly aggres...

The Socioeconomic and Cultural Impacts of Apartheid in Africa

that was operative in the time of the lynchings during the 1800s and 1900s. Rather than seeing a group mentality or a societal ...

The Concept of Manifest Destiny as it Applies to Early Life in California

Yankee settlement. Only two days after the American flag rose in the center of town in July, 1846, More than two hundred Mormon s...

Business Concepts and the Process of Transformation

to mix the batter in, the scales to weight the ingredient and the oven to cook it in. The oven also needs to be heated so there is...

The Transformation of China in the 20th Century

and 3. Chinas policy towards the Soviet Union and its leaders as opposed to those it formulated in regard to the U.S. and its lea...

Defense Transformation's Affect on Force Mgmt

62). While the attack on the US that occurred on September 11, 2001 brought the urgency of the need for military transformation ...

Do Humans Control Their Own Lives?

This 7 page paper asks to what degree humans control their own lives. It uses three literary works, Metamorphosis by Kafka; The Lo...

Franz Kafka's The Trial, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, and William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and Dream or Surreal Time

In twelve pages dream or surreal time as they are represented in these literary works are examined. Five other sources are cited ...

Social Struggles and Women in Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, Charles Dickens' Hard Times, and Sarah Orne Jewett's A White Heron

Jewetts Sylvia is not far removed from the oppressive social structure Louisa is forced to endure. For Sylvia, the white heron ex...

A Foucaultian View of Kafka's The Penal Colony

Kafka story in respect to Foucaults ideas. II. Foucaults Conception of Law First, it is important to note that Foucault was ...

Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS)

Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...

Article Analysis: American Indian Societies

good for them. One of the best approaches to this subject is in Vine Deloria and Clifford Lytles excerpt, The nations within, whi...

Pentecostal Beliefs

covenant and the new way. In Acts, Luke recounts acts of the Spirit. It is believed Luke wrote this to "establish Christianity as...

Diane McKinney Whetstone, Chaing Ray Lee, and Personal Transformations

In ten pages this paper examines these works as they represent personal transformations and also examines how those manifest thems...

Epic Hero Transformation in Greek Literature

In six pages this paper examines the transformation of the epic hero in ancient Greek literary works such as Euripides' Medea, Sop...

An Analysis of John Bresnan's From Dominoes to Dynamos

This paper analyzes Bresnan's work about the transformation of Southeast Asaia. This five page paper has no additional sources l...

Four Dickens' Characters Compared

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the transformations of protagonists in four works of Charles Dickens are compared in an examinati...

The Urban Evolution of Paris

the Right Bank, this traditional barrier had to be extended by another structural wall in the fourteenth century (Diefendorf, 1991...

Anne Moody's 'Coming of Age in Mississippi'

This is a 5 page book review in which the author relates her own upbringing which is in sharp contrast to most members of American...

Antitrust Issues and Internet Explorer of Microsoft

In five pages this paper examines the Department of Justice's antitrust case against Microsoft and issues regarding the Internet E...