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American Society and Collectivism v. Individualism

In five pages the ongoing debate between these two opposing philosophies are considered in a discussion of the high value on indiv...

American Playwright Mercy Otis Warren

In five pages this paper discusses early American playwright Mercy Otis Warren in an overview of how she shook up the social statu...

Issues in Addiction and Maladaptive Behavior

important to understand the difference between use, abuse and dependence because these terms denote the stages of maladaptive beha...

Literary View of Creationism

is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at is worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and...

Teenage Depression A Literary View

Inn ten pages teen depression is examined by examining the Columbia University's Health Education Program guidebook Go Ask Alice a...

Two Literary Views on the Rural South

full of material and that I could get it without hurt, harm or danger" (Mules 2). However folks "dont cotton to" Hurston as easil...

Literary View of Human Calamity

bombs on the city that they created a firestorm-a self-perpetuating inferno that destroyed the city almost complete. The worst par...

American Society and Racism

in his introduction, "One of the paradoxes of a culture of fear is that serious problems remain widely ignored even though they gi...

Interpreting the American Dream

in the sense that opportunities for success are not actually equally distributed, but the ideal holds true in some sense in that t...

African American Poetry and Fiction Analysis

gender. In fact, according to what Ms. Jacobs writes, women were discriminated against by white and black men alike. Here, though...

Strange Life and Literary Journey of Hunter S. Thompson

be permanently altered when Thompson ran afoul of the law (Medenhall, 2004). A series of arrest would eventually land him...

Reflections on Several Famous Literary Works

as being mostly unforgiving of mans shortcomings, inasmuch as he implies that humanity has turned into a selfish, egotistical and ...

Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Possessions and Property

to the devastating events of WWI and they are constantly searching for something. With their characters we find their attachment t...

Native American Literature

especially true in Love Medicine, where the abandoned son attempts to brew a love medicine for his grandfather. However, he gets s...

Community in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow

in a celebration that includes dances that are a tribute to the "Old People," an annual tribute to ancestors. Avey is deeply moved...

An Overview of A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, 2001 and A Raisin in the Sun, 2001). This essay offers an in-depth overview of this Hansberry play...

Literary Interpretation and Analysis of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

the modern world was a study in contrasts between interior and exterior, so too was modernist literature. There was often the con...

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, and Presentations of Race

In six pages this paper discusses how race is presented in these African American literary works. There are no other sources cite...

Capitalism Fuels Colonial Expansion

the scene may seem sublime, it can be interpreted as a depiction of contrast between cultures. In the foreground stands the Europ...

American Author William Faulkner's Life and Writings

gloried in the proud history of the plantation South that secured a place of honor for the aristocrat, and yet he abhorred the opp...

"I'm Nobody! Who Are You?": An Analysis of a Poem by Emily Dickinson

To an admiring Bog! (846). The subject matter features a person who feels inwardly lonely who does not wish to advertise h...

"We Be Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara, and "Shiloh" by Bobbie Ann Mason and the American Dream

The thematic representation of the American dream in two literary genres (1 poem and 2 short stories) is discussed in 9 pages. Th...

Capitalism and Stereotypes in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and in James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans

In six pages this paper discusses how stereotypes and capitalism are depicted in these early American literary works. There are n...

Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson

In a paper consisting of 6 pages Emily Dickinson's life and poetry are considered with a discussion of her American literary contr...

Frederick Douglass's Narrative, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Struggle

In five pages this report discusses the importance of struggle in these nineteenth century American literary masterworks that feat...

Toni Morrison as a Stylist in Sula

bedroom and gently holds him. Then she pours kerosene over the sleeping man and burns him to death. Morrison writes that Plum ope...

Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Blues of the African-American Experience

a subtle reminder particularly to African-American women of how far they had come as a race and how much further they needed to go...

Detailed Analysis of Kate Chopin’s Short Story, ‘Desiree’s Baby’

of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...

American Renaissance

This is not to say that the influence of European authors was not discernible in the work of these authors. For example, Melvill...

An Overview of Harriet Beecher's Uncle Tom's Cabin

In five pages this American literary classic is presented in an overview. There are no other sources listed....