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For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls by Christopher Durang

Durang's satire of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie is considered in this report of five pages in which the author's succes...

'The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality' by Bernard Williams

almost visceral, level. Whether or not the student agrees or not will generally be based on a personal belief system, ideology, re...

Biography of William Morris

forever jolting him by its sheer majesty, giving him what we would now call an almost spiritual global sense" (Wise-Lawrence, 2003...

Comparative Analysis of the Poetry of William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman

For example, in verse six, Whitman is ". . . Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms/strong and content I tra...

William Faulkner Biography

Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...

Eleanor Roosevelt A Personal and Public Life by J. William T. Youngs

not only who she was as a person, but to also put her contributions and her legacy into a proper perspective. The book details sp...

Biographical Profile of Flannery O'Connor

In 7 pages a biography of this major 20th century American author and how she triumphed over adversity through faith are presented...

Rebellion of Daniel Shays

A biography of Daniel Shays is presented in six pages along with a description of his rebellion, its accomplishments, and where it...

Biographies of 3 Influential African Americans Lorraine Hansberry, Anne Moody, and Gordon Parks

were taught to value honor, education, equality, and the importance of telling the truth. Parks childhood instilled in him a fierc...

Baseball's Color Barrier and Jackie Robinson

Astonishingly, he stole 40 bases and scored 113 runs (Olsen, 1974). From the beginning, Jackie Robinson proved himself not only ...

The Life and Works of Lorraine Hansberry

scars that never healed (Hansberry, 52). Lorraine felt that the scars were academic as well; she was convinced that there ...

Langston Hughes, An Overview

this became the most well known poem by Hughes and appeared in his first volume of poetry, The Weary Blues, which was published in...

The Significance of H.L. Mencken

Mencken biography). His criticism was skewed by his attitude toward it, "for he sacrificed discrimination for immediate attention ...

Book Review of Joseph J. Ellis’ His Excellency: George Washington

that George Washington was fueled foremost by ambition. He wrote, "Ambitions this gargantuan were only glorious if harnessed to a...

Philip Guston

Guston, painting, by its very nature is "impure...We are image-makers and image-ridden" ("Books and Arts" 109). Analyses of 5 wor...

Languages of Native Americans and Their Importance in Cultural Relativity and Promoting Diversity

languages are a significant cultural resource, a cultural resource which is too often overlooked by mainstream America. He emphas...

Biography of William Faulkner

This was only the first of many contradictions that would emerge in William Faulkner that would make his life more difficult than ...

Biography of 19th Century British Romantic Poet William Blake

begin studying engraving and it would be here that his genius would find a purchase. As a young man, some biographies state,...

Thinking Big with Dr. Ben Carson

with her poor education, she could barely read what they had written (B.S. Carson, MD, 2005). Thanks to all the outside reading h...

Children, Stress Fractures, and Tennis

will break. Repetitive stress fractures occur from the same principle. In other words, it is not the movement, per se, that causes...

Australia and Tennis

helpful, and some may construe it as essential to conduct business (1996). In other words, small talk in Australia seems to revolv...

The Components of a Tennis Forehand Stroke

contact and ended with completion of the swing. This was further sub-divided into early follow-through (the first 25%) and late fo...

Tennis Serve Biomechanics

are supported by specific skeletal structures and musculature. Range of motion within the outlining of the tennis swing is not on...

Biography of American Playwright Romulus Linney

in the North Carolina mountains in the 1840s, is a "Gothic tale of terror and pagan violence" (Walser 284). Linney has written th...

Learning to Focus in Sports and Other Life Pursuits

original publication but today the techniques he advocates are widely recognized in a diversity of disciplines. Those techniques ...

Forehand Ground Stroke in Tennis and its Kinesiology

In ten pages this paper analyzes the forehand ground stroke in tennis in terms of its kinesiology or the motion that is involved. ...

Contemporary Sports and Women

In twenty six pages this paper examines contemporary sports and the participation of women with former tennis star Martina Navrati...

Tennis and a Kinetic Analysis of a Forehand Ground Stroke

This paper provides an overview of the kinesis involved in tennis' forehand ground stroke, requiring over one-hundred and thirty m...

Tennis and Physical Education

In twelve pages this paper discusses improving a tennis forehand swing through the development of a clinical exercise physical edu...

Sneakers and Their History

tended to be rigid and lacked any color, and could be described as utilitarian but hardly fashionable (Flusser, 2003). It wasnt u...