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A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca

over other sleeping drunks as he tottered to the bars of the cell (Baca 2001). He father tried to take his hand, but his mother "y...

Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

rules. Dr. Jekyll was the perfect example of such a man, a man who did the right things, acted in the correct manner, and never st...

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

This essay pertains to Woolf's novel and how the three main characters are presented within the context of the novel's main themes...

Hunter Thompson/Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

downers, screamers, (and) laughers (Thompson 4). Additionally, their arsenal against sober perception also includes "a quart of te...

Legacy of Conquest/The American West

the conquest era continue to shape current realities. Limericks text shows that the history of the American West is rooted primari...

Major Thematic Examination of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

heros funeral and will have forever the respect of his people, who will remember him in their folktales. This is the singular goa...

Supporting Character Chief Bromden in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

In five pages this essay discusses the importance of the Chief to the novel's structure, plot, and flow of the action....

C.S. Forester's Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

In five pages this novel's imagery uses are analyzed. There are no other sources listed....

Sherri Tepper's The Gate to Women's Country

play and the customs of Womens Country. At ten, she accompanies her mother Morgot and older sister Myra to take her five-year-old ...

Cherokee Influences on Colonial Settlers

This paper addresses Native American Culture and its impact on colonial American society. The author discusses various ways in wh...

An Analysis of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's El Colonel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba

the story it is without the elements of death and resurrection. It is through this simple connection to their son, to life, that t...

Austen, Northanger Abbey

this regard. The following discussion of Austens Northanger Abbey will explore the way that Austen depicts the nature of emotion a...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Home Alone 3

In five pages this essay compares the film with the novel by Mark Twain in the commonality of the popular theme in each of childre...

The Villa San Girolamo Setting of The English Patient

true despite the fact that it has been hurt by war. It stands. The people are in some way in a sense of a denial. The author goe...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Themes of Power and Gender

All the women are intrigued with Darcy and the potential marriage material he represents, however he is nonplused by what he consi...

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

bombardier, Yossarian. It is as the Chaplain believes: "there was really no way of knowing anything ... not even that there was no...

Beloved by Toni Morrison

seems as if Beloved, the baby Sethe killed long ago, had come back in various forms, and with a vengeance. Although this seems to ...

Reinscribe and Resist in David Walker's Appeal and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

the text of the pamphlet by Sean Wilentz, the chief aim of Walkers Appeal was to inspire American blacks "with a vision of hope an...

Vindication of Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

In five pages this paper discusses how Jane Austen's once dismissed and critically panned novel has vindicated itself because of t...

Themes of Reality and Illusion in Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews

In five pages this paper examines how Fielding presents the popular literary theme of illusion and reality within the context of t...

Artemis Fowl The Opal Deception Book Four by Eoin Colfer Overview

assumed that both Haven City and the fairy universe are safe from Opal because she has been locked away in a psychiatric ward at J...

Nonconformity in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

terns of physical size. He explains to McMurphy, who is in reality shorter than Bromden, that he sees McMurphy as bigger than hims...

Prison Overcrowding, as a Flaw in Criminal Justice

This paper focuses on prison overcrowding as an ethical issue that affects the American criminal justice system Three pages in len...

Nineteenth Century U.S. Labor

Workers included men, women and children. The fact that children worked in incredibly dangerous situations and conditions furthe...

A Review of An Hour Before Daylight

and gather a crop. "Good or bad fortune for owners of smaller farms would inevitably be shared by their tenants," Carter noted....

Lessons from “The Sopranos”

can be explained by the growing acceptance in our culture of anything that is off color, illegal, or even immoral. The type of gl...

Haas Dyson/Writing Superheroes

to explaining how children make use of semiotic resources is how this body of research relates the purposes played by oral languag...

Analyzing Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

is constantly being reminded of the process of construction, whilst being involved in the construct itself in the form of the text...

Multiculturalism & Mexican-Americans

In this novel, Rudy "Chato" Medina, the fourteen-year-old protagonist narrates the story of events that occur during his familys l...

Popular American Mythological Hero Forrest Gump

In eight pages this paper examines the popular movie character in terms of the qualities he embodies as a popular mythological her...