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Depiction of Indians and Puritans in Captivity and Restoration by Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

In seven pages this paper examines how Puritans and Indian captors are portrayed by Mary Rowlandson in her early colonial memoir o...

The Memoir of Author Nahid Rachlin

she was nine years old, her father went to bring her back home in a forceful manner (Bender). She was taken from the only mother s...

Homer Hickam/October Sky

of this minister, and "his belief in Gods sense of humor and His fondness for neer-do-wells," inspired Sonny, as this fueled the ...

Book Report on Alvin Kernan’s Memoir Crossing the Line: A Bluejacket’s World War II Odyssey

San Diego, California. For a young farm boy, the transition was nothing short of culture shock. The boot camp of 1941 was design...

'The Rains Came' and 'Memoirs of a Female Physician'

is condemned even by her own mother. Throughout the...

Gender Criticism and Hand To Mouth A Chronicle of Early Failure by Paul Auster

that same world. It could be maddening to watch him in action--a man who never seemed to care what others thought of him--but it ...

Dispatches by Michael Herr

which values the views of those Westerners engaged in that struggle over those of the native population. In other words, Herr is m...

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...

Harriet Jacobs, Maya Angelou, and Their Memoirs

a very large life. In the end, both of these women have shown by example, that the struggles which life presents can...

Neil Simon's Comedies and Their Deeper Messages

about him that they like(attempts at creating anti-heroes aside, of course). Then, to have any kind of story at all, the protagoni...

Robert F. Kennedy's 13 Days Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

saw a moment in time when the world may well have seen utter chaos with the dropping of nuclear weapons. Chapter One begins thi...

A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo

The structural basis of imagery is symbolic of Caputos intrinsic creativity and ability to see beyond the obvious. Characteristic...

Woman Warrior Memoirs of a Childhood Among Ghosts and China Man by Maxine Hong Kingston

convey false information. Instead her style is meant to expose the reader to cultural considerations in a manner which few reader...

Sam Walton Made in America, My Story Reviewed

annual sales of over $44 billion coming from the sales to over 40 million shoppers in over 1,750 stores (Economist, 1992). Before ...

Geisha Concept and Arthur Golden's 'Memoirs of a Geisha'

herself many times throughout the course of the novel. As a novice Geisha she not only must learn her art, and it is considered an...

The Liars' Club by Mary Karr

eating toothpaste past midnight" (Karr 8). One can imagine that the girls were starving, but perhaps a better way to look at it we...

Death According to Mitch Albom

he is also far removed from Judaism (Schulweis, 2001). Albom describes Morrie as a "spiritual mutt," having gleaned the makings f...

An Analysis of Giovanni's A Memoir Of War

of violence and vengeance. The author explains that it was when she was in Maglaj that she came to a full understanding of war; t...

Waging Modern War by General Wesley Clark

"ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo and how NATO leaders hesitated to term planned military action as a "war." On the other hand, he also...

The Sovereignty and Goodness of God by Mary Rowlandson

come about. At the same time, the authors depiction of the Indians is less than kind and while that is true, one can say that her ...

Questions on Joinville, Yvain, the Koran, and El Cid Answered

more interested in material rewards here and now. He expected to be rewarded for his bravery and accomplishments. This was the way...

Self Knowledge and Confessions

book is the actual confession, which turns out to be a confession to murder and many other misdeeds. This idea of knowledge is an ...

Overview of Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs

truths and mysteries of life in his sometimes stifling family constructs. Eugene is a boy who is driven by his two great loves in...

'Crossing Border Street' by Peter Honigsberg

during that time. Whenever Honigsberg visited Bogalusa, Louisiana, where he had covert meetings with a black group, the Deacons of...

Film Review of Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas

the voiceover. According to reviewer Patricia Kowal, this inclusion of a female perspective furthers the gangster genre because it...

First World War from 2 Perspectives

in the trenches, casually mentioning the attention of their personal servant. In both cases, this suggests the lingering presence ...

Vera Figner's Memoirs of a Revolutionist, Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons and Radical Russian Intelligentsia Images

with what respect that principle is surrounded" (Turgenev, 1996, p. 7). Although the...

Thirty Years in a Red House Memoir by Zhu Xiao Di

that is, the "bourgeois," were not always a despised class in China. In 1949, when the Communist took over the government, they na...

Rae Yang's Spider Eaters A Memoir

best-known works. In that work, Chairman Mao taught that "a revolutionary should be a pure person, a noble person, a virtuous per...

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt and its Meaning

working for them--and returns to the homeland: Limerick, Ireland (1774). They live there between 1934 and 1948 but Malachy still ...