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Mary McCarthy's Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

the reader. McCarthys life was in and of itself heartbreaking. She was an orphan by the age of six and reared by grandparents. Th...

Sister Helen Prejean's Dead Man Walking

In four pages the book chronicling a nun's interactions with a Death Row inmate is critically reviewed along with the inclusion of...

Officer Down Code Three by Pierce R. Brooks

mixture must then be guided through the most important attributes of healthcare delivery - taking care of sick people and keeping ...

Jeffrey Reiman's The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison

In six pages this text is critically reviewed and the author's claims and proof are analyzed and evaluated. There are no other so...

Richard T. Wright and Scott H. Decker's Burglars on the Job

In seven pages this text is considered in terms of the methodology and recommendations made in the authors' hypothesis with addit...

A Gang Subculture Sociological Analysis

In this paper consisting of nine pages the text Monster The Autobiography of An L.A. Gang Member by Sanyika Shakur is examined as ...

Hemingway's Loneliness in For Whom the Bell Tolls

In five pages this novel is analyzed in terms of the character's loneliness and how they mirror the author's own. Five sources ar...

Theme and Foreshadowing in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

Sylvan Barnet?s A Short Guide To Writing About Literature, foreshadowing in literature "which [one would think] would eliminate su...

Humor in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne / Humor Through Characterization and Contrast

In six pages this paper examines how humor is employed for contrast and in characterization in the 4 stories 'Mrs. Bullfrog,' 'Mr....

Women's Roles in Works by William Faulkner and Nathaniel Hawthorne

In four pages this paper examines these authors' perceptions of women as they are represented in characterizations of sin and good...

Soul Resurrection of Edna Pontellier in The Awakening by Kate Chopin

In six pages this paper discusses the author's creation of the 'Other' soul as a way of expressing Creole political issues and how...

The Revolt of Mother by Freeman and The Awakening by Chopin

In five pages these two works are compared in terms of the author's psychological and sociological objectives and how they are exp...

Setting in 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' by Herman Melville

In five pages this research paper focuses upon the author's use of setting in this short story and how it mirrors the progressive ...

Emotion and Reason in the Wroks of Ralph Ellison, Ernest Hemingway, and Herman Melville

In ten pages this paper considers the authors' perspectives on reason and emotion as reflected in Ellison's 'Invisible Man,' Hemin...

Mark Twain's Life and Writings

In seven pages this paper discusses how the author's persona changes from his short stories such as 'The Gilded Age' and 'Innocent...

Literary Stylistic Differences Between On the Road by Jack Kerouac and Go by John Clellon Holmes

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the authors' styles of writing in these two novels. Six sources are cited in the ...

Bell Curve Propositions Defense

in a the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY), an ongoing federal project that tested over 10,0000 US citizens in 1980, wit...

War Attitudes Expressed in All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

In five pages this paper considers the author's attitudes regarding war as reflected in the First World War soldiers in the novel ...

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

in his imagination as an "experimental novel, written like a play" (Hadella 5), dramatizing the working people and their striving ...

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

In six pages this paper examines the author's purpose for his contrasts of human expression and technology in the futuristic novel...

Ethics and Characterization in Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells

In five pages the ways in which characterization develops the author's ethical position are discussed. There are no other sources...

The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad Analyzed

Though not his most famous work, Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer is a showcase for the author's command of language. This paper ...

John W. Jeffries' Wartime America The World War II Home Front

In five pages this historical text is critically analyzed with the focus being on the author's informative perspectives. There ar...

Struggles in Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life

In six pages this paper examines the author's trials and tribulations featured in This Boy's Life. There are no other sources lis...

Historical Analysis of Edward Gibbons' 'The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire,' Thucydides' 'History of the Peloponnesian War,' and Tacitus' 'The Annals'

In ten pages three ancient historical texts are analyzed in terms of author's approach to history, the representation of the past,...

Walter Mosely's American Dream Reflections in Devil in a Blue Dress

In five pages the author's reflections of the American Dream in characterizations of the novel such as that of Easy Rawlins are ex...

James McPherson's The Negro's Civil War How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union

In five pages this paper presents an overview of this American historical texts and assesses the author's arguments in terms of th...

Angela Carter's 'The Werewolf' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'Hop Frog'

These two stories are contrasted and compared in seven pages in terms of how the protagonists' emotionally appeal to the reader al...

Wartime by Paul Fussell

In five pages this paper examines the author's contentions regarding the Second World War as they are depicted in the text Wartime...

The Wilding of America by Charles Derber

and this becomes a motivation that people pursue over and above everything else. Derber asserts that we distance ourselves from s...