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English Language: Tan and Baldwin

because when I was growing up, my mothers limited English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English. I believed t...

James Baldwin/The Fire Next Time

redemptive for the entire country. He saw a possible alternative to the "fire" predicted in the Negro spiritual, in that, he envis...

Still Burning Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

trend of black militancy, which would blossom into full-flower during the 1960s, decrying it as little more than a "peculiar form ...

Father's Eulogy in Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

known. In part, "Notes of a Native Son" became particularly well-known since it was, what Allen refers to as being "... an oblique...

DeLillo, Baldwin, and Kushner Literature Examination

people who cannot suffer can never grow up, can never discover who they are. That man who is forced each day to snatch his manhood...

Essays and Poetry on Racial Diversity

and might even change the future history for succeeding generations. He states that he remembers the Trail of Tears, yet qualifies...

Comparison of Joyce Carol Oates' 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been,' Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' and James Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues'

In five pages sex and conflict in terms of character development are contrasted and compared in these three stories. There are no...

James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room

In five pages this paper examines Baldwin's characters and the evidence of self deception that exists within them. There is one s...

James Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son

the black man as one who thinks deeply, spiritually, and intelligently. In a time when the narrator is oppressed and ridiculed ...

Langston Hughes' Blues Poetry

and white, life and death, happiness and sadness, rich (white majority) and poor (black minority) to express social injustice and ...

African American Theater and Blues and the Influential Works of Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes

a line stating the mood of the singer repeated three times. The stress and variation is carried by the tune and the whole thing w...

James Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues,' Joyce Carol Oates' 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' and Maturity

In three pages this paper contrasts and compares how the maturity theme is featured in each of these stories....

A Blue Care Network Analysis

Michigan with a family of products that has been around since the middle of the 1970s ("Company," 2002). There was a time when BCN...

Compare and Contrast: Jazz by Toni Morrison and Black and Blue by Louis Armstrong

This 5 page paper compares and contrasts Toni Morrison's book Jazz with Louis Armstrong's song Black and Blue....

The Origins of the Blues

In many ways, the blues have a very "rich sense of origin" for a variety of reasons (Encyclopedia of Chicago, 2007). \...

Miller, Hughes, and Baldwin

play about a man who had everything but was still unhappy. Then there was the infamous Death of a Salesman, which is clearly a sto...

Language as a Key to Inner Landscapes

another persons mind and perception. We each live isolated lives with only language as a bridge to understanding the worldview and...

Tan, Orwell and Baldwin: Language

truths with incredible power. For example, Hitler used language in an incredibly powerful way, playing on the truths of the people...

Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin

In two pages this paper discusses the themes of self identity and Black culture as they pertain to African American men as reflect...

Selfhood in the Writings of James Baldwin and Paule Marshall

In five pages this paper discusses the emergence of selfhood in Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin and Brown Girl, Browns...

American Ethnic Communities and Religious Experience

In ten pages this paper discusses the ethnic communities in America and their religious experiences as presented in 'Go Tell It on...

American Language

In five pages this paper discusses language in the United States with a comparative analysis of two essays, 'If Black English Isn'...

Commonality of Family Dysfunction in 'Go Tell It On the Mountain' by James Baldwin

In 5 pages the common themes of family dysfunction and religion's 'being saved' are examined within the context of this story by J...

Life and Writings of James Baldwin

In six pages this paper celebrates the life and literary works of James Baldwin in a consideration of his writings' enduring impac...

Reviewing Charles T. Davis's Black Is the Color of the Cosmos Essays on Afro-American Literature and Culture

In a five page review black literature during the 1960s and '70s is discussed and comparisons are made with slave narratives and t...

'Nightmare of History'

In three pages this paper examines the observation by J. Baldwin that James Joyce 'is right about history being a nightmare--But i...

Timothy Egan's The Good Rain

In four pages the author's exploration of the Pacific Northwest is the focus of this text summary....

Interplanetary Exploration and AI Development

The ways in which artificial intelligence can be applied to space exploration are examined in six pages....

The Civil War: The Burning of Atlanta

Confederacy. The events leading up the planning and execution of the Atlanta Campaign, however, were much more complex than many ...

Equilibrium and Drinking Water Purification

surface waters but also her groundwaters. One of the most pressing of the groundwater concerns facing our chemist, of cou...