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Thomas Wolfe's Autobiographical Writings

In eight pages this paper considers the autobiographical nature of Thomas Wolfe's writings. Five sources are listed in the biblio...

A Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

South Africa as a whole, where black people were treated as second-class citizens in all aspects of society. He was qualified in l...

Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng

and the murder of her daughter, were horrible factors that, regardless of their horror, could not defeat the most elemental aspect...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Slave System Logic Logic

In five pages this paper examines the construction of a logical system within the context of slavery as described in Frederick Dou...

October Sky Film and Rocket Boys Text Comparison

Creek Missile Agency as an homage to their hero Dr. Werner von Braun of the Army Ballistic Agency and built their first missile ou...

Civil Rights' Activist Anne Moody

Moody's autobiographical text Coming of Age in Mississippi is the subject of this analysis of five pages in which the author's own...

An Overview of Roots by Alex Haley

In a book report that contains five pages Haley's 'autobiographical fiction' is discussed. There are no other sources listed in t...

Overview of Walden by Henry David Thoreau

theirs. Thoreau wanted to follow natures example, to "see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, ...

Jonathan Edwards' Narrative and Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography

In three pages Rev. Edwards' ecclesiastical focus is compared and contrasted with Franklin's individual focuses in their autobiogr...

Guy Chapman A Passionate Prodigality

The writer describes the Guy Chapman book A Passionate Prodigality, which is an extremely emotional autobiographical account of th...

Voice of the Witness in Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi

In six pages this paper examines the author's calm witness voice in describing Auschwitz oppression by the Nazis in the autobiogra...

Life and Works of William Faulkner

below. The Faulknerian characters viewpoint is that ...of a passenger looking backward from a speeding car, who sees, flowing aw...

Alfred de Musset's Confession d'Enfant du Siecle and A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov

their respective societies and portrayed these ills through frequent metaphors of malaise. They made several references to suffer...

Race Relations in Kankakee, Illinois

been brewing in Kankakee that is connected to a "personal matter" concerning Dr. Brian Ali, the Superintendent of Kankakee School ...

Comparative Analysis of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” and Leo Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilych”

nearly twenty years without complaint. Should that not account for something? As his pain intensifies, Ivan Ilych begins feeling...

Ahmed, Satrapi/Growing up Female in the Islamic World

through her father that Ahmed first becomes aware of the conflicting political forces that shape her world, as he is hemmed in on ...

Poverty Theme in Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell

fact that the book was originally rejected by publisher T.S. Eliot presumably because of the grim and hopeless picture which was p...

The Development of Autobiographical Memory

after having given birth to several children, the events which occurred at one birth may blur into the others, so that it is diffi...

Personal Life Experiences in Civil Rights' Championn Anne Moody's Memoir Coming of Age in Mississippi

a good student. After graduating from high school, she received a basketball scholarship to Natchez Junior College, which she atte...

Woman Warrior Memoirs of a Childhood Among Ghosts and China Man by Maxine Hong Kingston

convey false information. Instead her style is meant to expose the reader to cultural considerations in a manner which few reader...

Character Comparison of James and Ruth in The Color of Water by James McBride

the South and its prejudices behind to escape the sexual abuse of her father, a one-time rabbi turned shopkeeper, whose racism fou...

Reaction Essay on Wild Swans Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

her family were forced to abide by Communist principles even - and especially - when they did not condone them from a personal per...

Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment and Their Autobiographical Elements

at first but find increasing happiness and fulfillment as their relationship deepens over time. The desperation and despair of one...

'Shooting an Elephant' by George Orwell

he would not be getting any scholarships for furthering his education, he "joined the Indian Imperial Police Burma" (George Orwell...

It's Always Something by Gilda Radner

with hypochondria is that if someone really has an illness, they will think it is all in their heads. In any event, things were mi...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'A Threat In His Mind'

ill person - a person who might easily be Poe himself. Poes preoccupation with humanitys darker side could very well have perpetu...

Autobiographical Memories and Review of a Psychological Article

memories will be based on more negative aspects of their lives, this does not effect the more negative nature of their life that l...

Depression According to Kay Redfield Jamison and William Styron

before the author has a chance to build a life with him. However, what comes across in Jamisons account is how this relationship p...

Comparative Analysis of the Autobiographical Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam and the Film October Sky

but that it was shared by his friends. For clarity and to avoid further explanation of detail, the rocket academy they formed in t...

Maxine Hong Kingston and Maya Angelou: Autobiographical Reflections of Women

and Global Perspectives. Ed. Shirley Hune et al, WA: Washington State UP, 1991. 225-38. Kingston, Maxine Hong. 1976. The Woman ...