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Southern Fiction and The Robber Bridegroom by Eudora Welty

death) (Welty 9). Tied to a surviving woman and his only surviving child, Musgrove is pushed into the wilderness by the Indians, w...

C.S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and the Elements of Fairy Tale

of some moral message in the end. Through danger the characters are made stronger, and they are developed more powerfully, truly p...

Drug Use and Vulnerability

and a culture that seemingly perpetuates drug use through its music, television content, and other lifestyle elements are extremel...

State of Doing or State of Being and Depression

with environmental factors (Field, 2002). This could indicate an interaction of being and doing, or indicate a predisposition to...

Humanities Makes Life Worth Living Through the Study of Literature, Art, and Music

their own various ways of struggling for coherence, for a compelling faith, for social vision, for an ethical position, for a sens...

Cultural Considerations for a Home-Bound African American Patient

American vernacular, the diet is one that has characterized the South and its inhabitants for generations. With a few extraordina...

History of Latin Literature

long possessed in the oral tradition. It was during the 19th century that it seems literature actually emerged in written form and...

The African American Dream of Equality

and essentially left the white population of the nation still ignoring the impact of history concerning the African American peopl...

Symbols in Gatsby, the Fading American Dream

the four most important symbols are the characters names, especially the women; the green light on Daisys dock, the so-called "val...

The 20s and 30s and Literature

out at this particular time were truly offering up new visions, realistic visions, and modern visions of life. In looking at some...

Nature of Siva in Hindu Myth

This paper is in outline form and pertains to literature promoting understanding of the nature of the god Siva in Hinduism. ...

Children's Language Development

This paper reviews and offers conclusions on empirical literature that pertains to young children's language development. Seven pa...

The Myth of Er and Scipio's Dream as They Relate to American Society

not go to reincarnation necessarily, but rather to the idea that death does not end life. On the other hand, New Ageism, Buddhism,...

Carlos Bulosan and the American Dream

xenophobic and violent, rank with discrimination and hatred for those who were different; Bulosan endured "several years of racist...

Autistic Children Interventions

autistic children (Sallows and Graupner, 2005). In Sallows and Graupner (2005), 48 percent of the group were enrolled and perfor...

A Personal Statement of the Meaning of Literature

I can find myself truly empathizing with the individual. If the story is written from the third person perspective then it is like...

Firefighting and Labor

In a literature review consisting of twenty five pages this paper considers various labor issues concerning civilian fire casualti...

Children and the Psychosocial Effects of Television Violence

to real-world violence, and thereby less empathetic to the pain and suffering of others (Chidley 37). Observations of teenagers re...

Society, Characters, and Crick Crack Monkey and Nectar in a Sieve

In two pages this paper examines the conflicts of minorities in society in a consideration of these two works of literature....

Pohl and Kornblum's Space Merchants and Edward Albee's The American Dream

In five pages these two texts are discussed in terms of their themes and presentation of social issues. There are 4 sources liste...

Medical Records Decentralization Literature Review

discusses yet another medical records software called NetVault, a software program that represents a radical departure from soluti...

American Dream Defined in Poltical, Social, and Cultural Landscape Transformations

In five pages prejudice and bias that result from behavioral and cultural differences are considered in terms of the works 'The Sp...

Holocaust Literature and the Portrayal of Children

adults, their youth and relative weakness decreased their chances of survival in the camps, where they were subjected to violence,...

Heart Disease and Saturated Fatty Acids

In five pages this literature review considers heart disease and saturates fats' role....

Peter Novick's That Noble Dream American Historical Profession

In five pages this paper critically examines the text and the views expressed by the author within. Twelve other sources are cite...

American Dream Vacation in the Hawaiian Islands

Flowers are everywhere and people wear leis or flower necklaces in Hawaii. Hawaii has Polynesian culture with the luaus and the H...

Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, Henry James' The American, and Subliminal Religion

In 6 pages this paper examines how subliminal religion is represented in these two American novels. There are no other sources li...

The Difficult Beginnings of America

"poor farmers challenged the new Republics monied elite" (Ehrenreich 66) and things in the United States was less than settled. In...

Black Folk Tradition and Black Middle Class Tension

In ten pages this paper examines the conflict between African cultural traditions and the contemporary African American middle cla...

Social Commentary In Late Nineteenth Century White Minstrelsy by Robert Toll, The Octoroon by Dionysius Lardner Boucicault, and Widow Ranter by Aphra Behn and Indian Images

What it meant to a Native American Indian through these three stories was a time of constant suppression and overwhelming conflict...