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Discussion of Autobiography of Malcolm X

In four pages Malcolm X's autobiography is examined and then is contrasted with Martin Luther King's philosophy. Four sources are...

An Examination of Red Azalea by Anchee Min

in Shanghai and how quickly she had to take responsibility. She writes, "I was an adult since the age of five" (1). She goes on to...

Dust Tracks on a Road Autobiography by Zora Neale Hurston

home at an early age. Hurston described this period of her life as "a series of wanderings." She did occasional work as a wardrobe...

Excerpts from the Autobiography of Abelard

In five pages this paper analyzes an excerpt from the autobiography of Abelard. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Jean Jacques Rousseau's Confessions, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Elements of Autobiography

In a paper consisting of five pages Barbara Johnson's theory that autobiography involves a child's narrative as symbolically killi...

The Life and Foreign Struggle View of Assata Shakur

In three pages Assata Shakur's autobiography is discussed in terms of the linkage between her personal exile and struggles can be ...

A Cinematic Analysis of 'Bound For Glory'

A research paper consisting of 4 pages that concentrates asks 5 questions relating to the film and on opening and closing scenes o...

Brian Bosworth

In six pages analytical, psychodynamic, and personality paradigms are applied to former professional athlete Brian Bosworth as dep...

1830s' Lives of American Women

In five pages this paper considers the differences in 2 autobiographies and 1 diary chronicles the varied experiences of 1830s' Am...

A Review of Timebends, the Autobiography of Playright Arthur Miller

In this six papge paper the writer explores Miller's autobiography and emphasizes his contributions to American theater. His cont...

Analysis of Narrative in the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

on the period of slavery in the United States. When one reads of the life of this chattel, he or she is forced to see the total i...

Sense of Self in The Warrior Woman by Maxine Hong Kingston

In six pages this paper examines Kingston's autobiography in terms of how a woman's sense of self is bolstered by the author throu...

'Shame' from Dick Gregory's Autobiography

his own money, earned from doing odd jobs. With trepidation, Gregory describes waiting for his change to give, but the teacher doe...

Teddy Roosevelt's Autobiography

belief in a strong and efficient National Government and Jeffersonian in their belief in the people as the ultimate authority, and...

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man and Identity

go in terms of his adherence to one race or another. He admires both African and white cultures and people in different ways. For ...

Slavery and Phillis Wheatley's 'To the University of Cambridge, in New England' and Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

as, first of all knows her place, and, secondly was divinely inspired. In the antebellum era, it was illegal for slaves to be tau...

The Prodigal Son in Augustine's Confessions

tale was reduced to feeding pigs in order to survive. Augustine writes, "Where then, wast thou and how far from me? Far, indeed, w...

GE CEO Jack Welch and Lessons Learned from His Autobiography

This paper examines the corporate leadership climb of Jack Welch and the management techniques his autobiography provides with com...

A Drinking Life by Pete Hamill

time at home with his wife and family. It is his father who will introduce young Pete to alcohol, and Hamill will write of it as ...

Overview of Professional Football Player Bill Goldberg

period of time. It is this reality-based conception that is now being utilized in more of the films produced in the twentieth cent...

Book Report on Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

down his memoirs to convey his personal experiences as a slave. One wonders how much of Douglasss memoirs were tainted by the cont...

Katherine Lumpkin's The Making of a Southerner

student in the 1920s she became a civil rights activist on the University of Georgias campus. Lumpkin shows in her book that p...

Temple Grandin's Emergence

is now known to be neurological. The memory capacity of autistic children develops in a different way from others: in effect, they...

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Types of Discovery

plantation, where she was put to raise the children of the younger women. I had therefore been, until now, out of the way of the b...

Controversy of I, Rigoberta Menchu

benefits which had been gained from the experience, since this would be counter-productive in terms of the effect on the reader....

An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison

them from the depths of depression, it also "deadens" the maniac side Of course, Jamison balances her account of the exhilaration ...

Belfast Address of John Tyndall

into something of a "naturphilosophisch romantic pantheist" (Biography of John Tyndall, 2002). Basically he focused his studies o...

Free Will and Fate

of an omnipotent God, and therefore there is considerable debate as to whether the actions of a human being can be genuinely consi...

Nineteenth Century Social Relationships

century - this from a man who actually lived it. In fact, his account puts to rest any romantic notions one might harbor about su...

Mad Love by Andre Breton

Mad Love, Breton attempts to accomplish the impossible - to textually recreate the basic emotions of passion and desire, which mov...