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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...

Political Practices, Women's Suffrage and Changes in California

5 pages and 8 sources used. This paper provides an overview of the political environment of California in the early 20th century ...

Barbara Ann Stolz's Still Struggling America's Low Income Working Women Confronting the 1980's

issues Stolz raises is the issue of the working mother. Firstly, if a woman became pregnant she was urged to quit and stay home wi...

Homeland Security, INS and Epidemiology

problems, but refugees are perhaps most at risk, since many of them "come from areas where disease control, diagnosis and treatmen...

Greensboro Sit-Ins

turned into many as the protest continued for almost 6 months.5 In addition, it sparked many other protests throughout the South a...

Showalter, Culture and Literature

formalist-structuralist critics have evaded the issue of sexual identity entirely or dismissed it as irrelevant and subjective" (S...

Civil Rights Movement and Civil Disobedience

being obedient. As the key Civil Rights moments mentioned above illustrate, civil disobedience is characterized by an abs...

Adult Learning Theories, An Article Summary/Chen

This article summary describes a study, Chen (2014), which pertains to nontraditional adult students and the application of adult ...

The Color Purple by Alice Walker and Celie's Self Discovery

by her contemporaries. These women will weave a rich fabric of friendship, which is symbolically referred to in the novel through...

A Comparison of The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and The Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris

world with it" (Morrison PG). Morrison shows how overcoming stereotypical racial images is not an easy accomplishment in Pecolas...

Social Status and Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens, Emma by Jane Austen, and Beloved by Toni Morrison

do not possess social status, a reality that makes for a tragedy waiting to happen in her efforts to match Harriet with someone be...

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as me...

Baggage in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

Bowker has faced tremendous adversity within his life; having addressed his combat circumstances with a combination of strength an...

Two Versions of Frankenstein

and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...

Gender Narrative in "Midnight's Children"

Consider: "So gradually Doctor Aziz came to have a picture of Naseem in his mind, a badly fitting collage of her severally inspect...

Individual Choice and The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk and Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

In five pages this essay compares and contrasts these novels that considers the negative choices an individual struggles with and ...

Characterization in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

some sense out of her life. There is also the close, intimate relationship that she has with her younger sister, Nettie. T...

Thomas Pynchon's V. and Gender Issues

Pynchon's first novel is addressed in the context of this well written paper. This author treated characterization for the women q...

Evil Underpinnings in Sula by Toni Morrison

In 4 pages this paper examines the struggles of Nell and Sula in contending with apathy and evil in this novel by Toni Morrison. ...

A Review of Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck

A 5 page essay detailing the interaction between husband and wife that preoccupies this novel. The wifes struggle to carve out he...

Working Life in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

held a dance as a means by which to temporarily relieve their minds of the perpetual anxiety that intrinsically accompanies povert...

Analysis of Old Mortality by Sir Walter Scott

In five pages this early 19th century historical fiction novel is analyzed in terms of the freedom struggles of the Covenanters ...

Idea of Freedom and Things Fall Apart

In four pages Chinua Achebe's novel is considered within the context of freedom and how its quest is represented in protagonist Ok...

Cinematic Version of Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange and the Problems Faced by Director Stanley Kubrick

In eight pages this paper discusses the problems filmmaker Stanley Kubrick struggled with while making his big screen adaptation o...

Utopia or Feminism in 'Herland' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In five pages this report discusses Gilman's 1915 novel in terms of tis feminist aspects and the situations that either suppressed...

Melodrama and Gender Conflicts in Society and Film

This paper examines the efficacy of portraying the struggles of women in various films. This five page paper has six sources list...

Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner

last comment is an example of Brookners sense of humor, which one can presume is the main appeal of the book, if it coincides with...

Women in Three Hardy Novels

This 6 page paper explores the status of women in the Victorian era by examining the way they are presented in three Hardy novels,...

Analyzing 'The Joys of Motherhood' by Buchi Emecheta

find "something she was good at" (Holmes PG). Much of the young Buchi Emecheta can be found in the female protagonist, Nnu Ego, i...

Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood and the Sociopolitical Redefinition of Women's Roles

In one page this paper examines the African society's redefining of women's social and political roles as represented in this nove...