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Kurt Eichenwald/The Informant

than one hundred participants," and involved examination of thousands of documents (Eichenwald 569). However, in other ways, it i...

Dreams and Authority in “The Great Gatsby”

no success at all; that belongs to the people who employ the hard workers. But the dream persists, and Gatsby seems to achieve it,...

Napoleon Bonaparte: The Influences on Him and How He Influenced the World

might say in fact that he was slightly ahead of his time. Yet, in addition to having been an important figure and brilliant strate...

Andrew Holleran/Grief

describes how he flew north, in shock, after his mother died, describing how he traveled "toward what I thought of her death as i...

1956 Film Adaptation/Moby Dick

the injustice that fate as inflicted upon him, as he has pursued the whale for years, coming close numerous times, but never actu...

Marriages: Their Eyes Were Watching God

want him to do all de wantin" (Hurston 192). Her grandmother tells her something that seems specific to all arranged marriages whe...

Themes in "Things Fall Apart"

Umuofia clan, and that Okonkwo has met those criteria. This is important later on, when Okonkwo commits a dreadful crime that gets...

Ondaatje/Anil’s Ghost

confronted some of the obstacles that define their personal an public lives. Anil has come to terms with her identity as a Sri Lan...

Comparing Search Engines; Dogpile and Kartoo

clicking on links for web, images, audio, video and news. Going to the advanced search preferences it is possible to speci...

Reading, and Writing that Lasts

Saigon; its the real-life slog of the guys out in the field, the ones who took the chance of dying every time they went on patrol....

Ondaatje and Lee, Immigrant Experience

in the only way that is culturally significant, as he would link her present to that "golden chain of male to male" (Lee 31). As...

“The Great Gatsby” in Its Historical Context

important to remember that at the time Fitzgerald wrote, "immigrants were coming to the United States by the millions because they...

“Jane Eyre” and “Wide Sargasso Sea”: Rebellion Against Patriarchy

is "large and stout for his age," meaning of course that hes much larger than the girl (Bront?, 2007). He is a glutton as well and...

Edward Jones/The Known World

As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...

The Message in Slaughterhouse-Five

him otherwise it would seem as he is tossed from one time period to another, from one culture to another, even being abducted by a...

Redemption and Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner

and accepts her even after she confides her sexual past to him. However, Amir never confesses his sin to anyone - not to his fath...

Wuthering Heights: Civilization and Anarchy

man of the house. Catherines father took Heathcliff in and ultimately one could argue he had lofty ideals, ideals that were closer...

Coupland’s Generation X

on any common basis and if anyone does they are clearly self involved people who are absorbed with their own intelligence, importa...

Slavery Commentary on Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn

In seven pages the novel's slavery commentary is examined. There are five other sources cited in the bibliography....

Overview of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

In six pages this novel's style and themes as well as literary criticism are examined in this overview. Three sources are cited i...

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines and Heroism

In 5 pages this paper examines the novel's depiction of heroism within the context of characters Wiggins and Jefferson. Two sourc...

A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe

In five pages this essay examines this Japanese novel's narrative with an emphasis on the character of Himiko, the girlfriend of t...

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and 'the Greatest Sinner'

In five pages this paper reveals the novel's greatest sinner as Hester Prynne, the wearer of 'the scarlet letter.' Three sources ...

Andrew Crumey's Second Novel fitz

fanciful conceits, the same thing that Escher has done with line and image. Interestingly enough, the comparison doesnt stop ther...

Grisham's A Time to Kill and Racism

This research paper/essay examines Grisham's novel A Time to Kill and also offers a brief overview of the author's life in order t...

Face of an Angel by Chavez

In five pages this novel's protagonist is the central focus with comparisons to the depiction of Latin American culture to America...

China Boy by Gus Lee

In eight pages this paper analyzes the novel's Chinese American boy's struggles in a consideration of masculinity as defined by th...

The Themes of Change and Aggression in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

In a paper that contains 5 pages the ways in which these themes manifest themselves in the characterizations of Okonkwo, Nwoye, an...

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...

An Overview of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

This 5 page paper gives an overview of the central themes of The Jungle, Upton Sinclair's classic novel about life in the Chicago ...