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Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, An Evaluation

This research paper summarizes the points made in relevant literature in order to discuss whether or not the Charter has succeeded...

Why Perform a Literature Review?

It is common practice to perform a literature review before undertaking any primary research. The writer examines how and why this...

Rohinton Mistry's Post Colonial Literature

This 8 page paper gives an overview of Rohinton Mistry's post colonial style of literature. This paper includes an introduction to...

Comparison of Joyce Carol Oates' 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been,' Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' and James Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues'

In five pages sex and conflict in terms of character development are contrasted and compared in these three stories. There are no...

'NYPD Blue' and 'NY Undercover'

This is a paper consisting of a 10 page analysis of these TV shows, discussing several episodes in order to determine why they are...

Your Blues Ain't Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell

In a paper consisting of five pages the racially imprinted code of the rural South is examined within the context of Campbell's no...

China's Cultural Revolution in Red China Blues by Jan Wong and 1984 by George Orwell

In five pages this paper discusses how Orwell predicted the Cultural Revolution of China in his 1948 novel as described in Wong's ...

'Am I Blue?' by Alice Walker

used to scrawl after our stories, marked, "the end." This is true in the "thinking piece," Am I Blue. It is important for the st...

Opening Scene of David Lynch's Film Blue Velvet Revised

In seven pages this paper proposes opening scene changes for a more powerful impact. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

American Society and Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

which seemed only willing to accept White Anglo-Saxon Protestants into its exclusive membership. The narrator of "Sonnys Blues" r...

Film Adaptation of Tom Robbins' Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

In five pages the novel and film are contrasted and compared. There ar no other sources listed....

Another Country and Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

once knew and was in which he was once a full-fledged participant. "Sonnys Blues" In "Sonnys Blues" (1957), Baldwin tells a story...

Landscape's Symbolic Uses in Chinese Movies Red Sorghum, The Blue Kite, and Yellow Earth

meant to symbolize the conditions of rural poverty in China and its openness and vastness is typical of Chinese art works which eq...

A Comparison of the Films Harold and Maude and Blue Velvet

in money, or in finding Harold a nice young woman. Harold, however, is a young man fascinated with death. This is, of course, p...

A Review of Coyote Blue

see him again he is Sam Hunter and he lives in Los Angeles, melding in with the population and the society. "Financially and socia...

Black in Blue by Nicholas Alex

of the people and in the political structure of the Criminal Justice system. Nicholas Alex found that, in 1969, police officers...

Character Analysis of Siblings in Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

In five pages this research paper presents a character analysis of the brothers featured in this short story by James Baldwin. Fi...

Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness and Race Relations by Brian Ward

post-World War II African-American music was growing up and into the mainstream, the white mainstream, of American consciousness. ...

Music and Brotherly Love in Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

to try heroin in the first place. To him it must equate with a death wish. The irrationality of Sonnys habit is quite evident at t...

Tony Hillerman's Skinwalkers and Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress

In three pages these novels are contrasted and compared in terms of how the plot movement is generated by the characters. There a...

Pain and Healing in Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

brother. This is where Baldwin sets up another beautiful metaphor: the ice. "A great block of ice got settled in my belly and kept...

Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress and the Detective Fiction Genre

In six pages this paper examines the detective genre as represented in this critical assessment of Walter Mosley's novel. There a...

Cinematographic Technique in Brother's Keeper, The Thin Blue Line, and Let's Get Lost

In this seven page essay the write explores the techniques employed by filmakers and how they vary according to time and subject. ...

The Blue Room Broadway Play Review

In two pages the review of a London play directed by Sam Mendes that found its way to Broadway is presented. Two sources are cite...

Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress and Racism

This research paper/essay examines a detective novel by Walter Mosley and whether or not an African American writer can examine co...

Blue Sky Dream by David Beers

Club served by black-skinned mess men, gold wings, an elaborate and ready made construct of self-regard" (7). But when the circum...

London's Covent Garden 'Blue-Beard'

This paper is 10 pages in length and considers the role of producer and actor John Philip Kemble as well as the theatrical spectac...

Father's Role and Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the author's feelings concerning a father's role by blurring the past and the present in thi...

Blues People Negro Music in White America by Leroi Jones

continent, yet, in many ways it has been African-American influences which have stimulated creativity in others, both within the b...

Love Letters on Blue Paper by Arnold Wesker

In a paper consisting of ten pages the ways in which the text reflects contemporary attitudes regarding dying and death are examin...