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Social Conditions in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle

or migratory work. This is where the powerful social issues come into play. In Boyles work we see the main character is a suppos...

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and the Effects of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl

portrayal of some shocking events of the thirties" (French 43). Its various conflicts consider the downside of American capitalis...

Sugar in Schools

fruit cocktails at lunch, or snacks with lunch such as cookies or cake. In the end one can well argue that sugar should be banned ...

American Dream's Failure in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser, and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

This sense of optimistic euphoria was forever captured in F. Scott Fitzgeralds 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby. Its featured charact...

'Am I Blue?' by Alice Walker

used to scrawl after our stories, marked, "the end." This is true in the "thinking piece," Am I Blue. It is important for the st...

American Family and a Character Study of Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

In five pages this paper examines the Joad family matriarch featured in this classic American novel in a consideration of her role...

Cinematic Depiction of Unions in Hoffa, Wall Street, and The Grapes of Wrath

In five pages this paper examines how these films depict U.S. labor unions in an evaluation of whether or not management and labor...

William Faulkner's The Hamlet, John Steinbeck's East of Eden, and Samuel Clemens' Huckleberry Finn Compared

In eleven pages the similarities and differences that exist among the male protagonists and their parentages in these works are co...

Carol Henning and John Steinbeck's 'The Chrysanthemums'

In 9 pages this paper analyzes the short story by John Steinbeck in order to determine whether or not his wife Carol Henning was t...

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and Themes of Responsibility and Self Worth

In 12 pages this paper discusses how character relationships are used by Steinbeck to develop themes of self worth and responsibil...

Analyzing John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and The Pearl

In five pages these stories are analyzed in terms of their similarities and differences and literary elements such as themes, char...

Realism of Characters in John Steinbeck's 'Travels with Charley'

This is a 5 page papers that addresses the qualities which make the characters of Harry, the girl, and the marshals realistic. Th...

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and Curley's Wife's Death

to pet. Then Curleys wife starts to tell Lennie how soft her hair is and how she loves to brush it because it is so soft, inviting...

Sensing Time in John Steinbeck's A Dubious Battle and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's Farewell to Manzanar

that essentially considers her Caucasian, to a point, and her familys adherence to their Japanese traditions. She is simultaneousl...

American Dream in John Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat

"Tortilla Flat" set in Monterey, California tells of a tale of several wanderers who end up staying at the homes of Danny which we...

Comparison of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men

to be. Fate has other things in store for Lennie and in the end, it can be said that their friendship is tested one last time....

Ending of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men

suspects of being promiscuous. She is a flirt and immediately begins flirting with the bunk hands. Curley, a highly volatile man, ...

The Banning of The Color Purple by Alice Walker

anyone who has read the book, there are some disturbing scenes in the book that are so powerfully written and detailed that the re...

Sun Also Rises/A Banned Book

of raucous, unchecked hullabaloo, drinking binges that last from morning to night..." (Scalero 489). Hemingways heroes spend their...

Comparative Analysis of Short Stories by John Cheever and John Steinbeck

In five pages Steinbeck's 'The Chrysanthemums' is compared with Cheever's 'Country Husband' in an argument that each are about aba...

An Overview of David H. Hackworth's 'The Case for a Military Gay Ban'

This paper presents an overview of David H. Hackworth's Washington Post article from 1992 entitled The Case for a Military Gay Ban...

Discussion of Censorship

In seven pages censorship is discussed with youth and children's book censorship emphasized with a discussion of banning books eit...

A Local Smoking Ban: Controversy Verses Reason

to do so. Those of us that do not smoke resent the fact that everywhere we go we are confronted with second hand smoke. When you...

Smoking in Public Places

health risks. Children: The risk to children comes largely from secondhand smoke, derived from the tobacco products their parents...

Gay Adoption Bans: An Ethical Look

social development of an adopted child (Averett, Nalavany, & Ryan, 2009). Averett et al. (2009) were able to determine through exp...

Of Mice and Men

any closer to that dream. Lennie, being huge and developmentally disabled is like a child, and children have numerous hopes and dr...

Writers and Their Times: John Steinbeck and Susan Glaspell

Mr. Henderson; Sheriff Peters and his wife and Mr. Hale and his wife Martha. The five of them go to the Wright place the morning a...

Two Views of Love

he will bring the excitement back into her life. When she gives him a cutting from her prized mums to give to another woman (its a...

Examples of Creative Writing

ONeil play touch football with his many offspring. On a fateful Friday afternoon, Allen turned down the country lane that led to...

To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck and the Rock's Purpose

significant for him, and he can not put everything into the hands of nature in order to continually profit from his land. In the e...