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Men and Women in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

gender identities not only to themselves but also for society (Samuels 104). In The Last of the Mohicans, womens roles had evolve...

Marquez and Silko, Two Views of Colonialism

alone in the beginning of the novel and they will be alone again in the end as the efforts to truly colonize this little region pr...

Self and Suppressing Black Feminist Thought

Jacobs offers a depiction of slavery life that mirrors the inherent struggle women faced at the hands of their while slave owners....

At Risk African American Male Learning and a Discussion of Cognition and its Cultural Influences

2004). "The majority of reporting states-26 out of the 46 responding to the latest survey-have dropout rates ranging from 4.0% to...

U.S. Democracy and Worldviews

of 19th century philosophers. Alexis de Tocqueville recognized that democracy, though touted as a distinct government defined by ...

Healthcare Disparities, African American Residents of West Virginia

This research paper discusses disparities in health outcomes that characterize the African American population of Mineral County, ...

HTN and Transcultural Nursing

a discussion and review of literature that focuses on hypertension (HTN) among minority ethnic groups, with a particular emphasis ...

HIV and African Americans

This research paper offers an overview of the significance of HIV/AIDS within the black American community. The discussion focuses...

Survival, Religious Faith, and Family in 'Go Tell It on the Mountain' by James Baldwin and 'Black Boy' by Richard Wright

to be a human being. These representations illustrate how and why a person acts the way he or she does, how moods, feelings and e...

Cancer and Minorities

The study also shows evidence that Asian Americans run an increased risk of stomach and liver cancer, and that Hispanic American a...

The Largest Retail Store and OB

Wal-Mart is the largest retailer in the world. It is criticized in the United States for low wages, lack of health and welfare ben...

The Stigma Borne by Muslim Women

Muslim women who are living in mainstream US society in many cases struggle with a definite societal stigma....

American Realism, An Overview

nations early steel industry. Just as Charles Dickens exposed the underside of industrialization in Great Britain, Davis likewise ...

Hemmingway, Farewell to Arms, and the Lost Generation

from the Lost Generation. Consider, for example, Ernest Hemmingways "A Farewell to Arms". "A Farewell to Arms" is a story of the...

Effects of an Older Population

is, the generation of Americans born directly after World War II who are now entering their retirement years (Takamura, 1999). Thi...

Southern Literature and Communication

What is particularly interesting about these observations as they relate to such works as Carson McCullers A Member of the Wedding...

American Literature Trends

Nathaniel Hawthornes writing focused on a narrow range of psychological themes that reflected that heritage - "the consequences of...

Colonial to Romantic Period American Literature

In five pages this paper examines how American literature evolved from he colonial times of Jonathan Edwards, John Winthrop, Benja...

Major Female Characters in Mohicans and Van Winkle

Women had few meaty roles in early American literature. This report deals with Cora and Alice Munro from The Last of the Mohicans...

Analyzing 'To a Waterfowl' and 'Thanaptopsis' by William Cullen Bryant

In five pages the ways in which these poems represent the development of American literature and how they reflect the 19th century...

American Literature Overview

In five pages this research paper examines American literature from the late 18th century through the 20th century with such autho...

American Literary Progress from 1500 until 1940

In six pages this paper charts the course of American literature in a consideration of popular movements with examples and a focus...

American Literature as Defined by Edgar Allan Poe

In three pages a consideration of the short stories 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Imp of the Perverse,' and 'Ligeia' reve...

American Identity Development

In three pages the ways in which literature reflects the development of an American identity are examined in the works of such aut...

Early Culture of West Africa

This paper compares the Native American culture with the culture of West Africa in an overview of sculpture, dance, music, poetry,...

Reawakening and Art of the Harlem Renaissance

In five pages this paper argues that literature of the Harlem Renaissance was responsible for commencing an artistic, intellectual...

Affirmative Action and Why People Support It

Based on the premise of meeting social inequalities with civil rights, Affirmative Action sometimes appears to embrace and support...

American Literature and the Impact of Benjamin Franklin

of subjects. Franklin had an insatiable need to know, and at an early age, he recognized that through words, he could positively ...

Establishment of Literature in America

In six pages American literature and its establishment are considered in a discussion of various authors from Mark Twain to Carl S...

Two Female Characters in U.S. Fiction

5 pages and 2 sources used. This paper provides an overview and a comparison of the lives and characteristics of two central fema...