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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....

'The Pardoner's Tale' and Avarice

Before he begins the tale, he explains that he is a greedy devil, and it is through his physicality and his voice that they are di...

Grace Nichol's Collection The Fat Black Woman's Poems

seems to address in her works include that of lost culture and a sense of longing to return to a time which is perceived to be mor...

Bleak Human Condition in Metamorphosis and In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

In six pages this analysis of Kafka's works focuses on the themes of fate's ironies and the human condition....

Iris M. Young's Justice and the Politics of Difference and Susan M. Okin's Justice, Gender and the Family

home. Labor divisions are held in check by the marriage contract and the historic or traditional nature of the family. 2.In Chapt...

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

This 5 page paper examines some of the themes in Tolstoy's classic novel of love, betrayal, social ostracism and death....

Martin Scorsese Cinematic Comparison

In nine pages Bringing Out the Dead and Taxi Driver are contrasted and compared in terms of themes, characterization, and cinemati...

Renaissance Themes

rather than singular pleasures. He had an obligation to answer grievances, to hear both sides of a story and to reach some type o...

Chamber of Blood Stories by Angela Carter

that many writers have used familiar themes and offered a new way of seeing the traditional elements of plot and character; howeve...

Journeys in Dante's 'Inferno' and Homer's 'Odyssey'

and his courage will constantly be tested. Without going into great detail, and there is a large amount of it in this classic, we ...

An Examination of 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In five pages, the author's employment of voice, imagery, and gender themes are considered....

Theme for English By Langston Hughes

This essay analyzes the meaning of Langston Hughes' poem "Theme for English B." Three pages n length, two sources are cited. ...

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini and Collective Theme of Class Hate, Guilty Conscience, and Redemption

mud hut where Hassan lived with his father" (Hosseini 6). While there was certainly hatred both expressed and suppressed among th...

A Review of The Laramie Project and Indian Killer

the white race is far superior to all others. Reprogramming such ingrained concepts is not something that will ever be carried th...

A Review of Dancing at Lughnasa

Michael is illegitimate, a revelation that he accepts cheerfully-a very strange thing for a Catholic priest to do (Dancing at Lugh...

Langston Hughes’ Theme for English B

that everything he says is truth and thus at this point his analyzing is only supporting that truth. He assumes, or infers...

Armstrong’s “Functionalism” as It Relates to Matthews’ Discussion of Being Alive and Being Conscious

likelihood that both mind and body operate on a physico-chemical level, that they are subject to the same laws of physics as non-o...

Functionalism and Education

means of indoctrinating children and young people with the values that constitute the norm of their society. For Functionalists, t...

Comparing Structuralism, Functionalism and Evolutionism

A 3 page research paper that briefly contrasts and compares these three early psychological theories, which were formulated soon ...

Structuralism, Functionalism and Behavioralism

this state functions, that is, "the role it plays," within the system to which the individual belongs (Levin, 2004). For example...

Blacks' Relationship to Whites/Sociological Analysis

this was the stance of antebellum Southerners who saw slavery as a functional and crucial part of their economic system. Propon...

Functionalism and the Relationship between the Individual and Society

(Edwards and Neutzling, 2001). Radcliffe-Brown, who is probably closer to what we want to look at, studied social structure, and ...

Black Experience in W.E.B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk

In three pages this essay examines the black experience as represented in this text by W.E.B. Du Bois. One source is cited in the...

William Kornblum's Sociology The Central Questions and Functionalism, Conflict, and Interactionism

Moreover, it should be remembered that the system will not stay together by itself -- it requires maintenance, and persons are bor...

Black Civil Rights Advocacy and Differences in Black Authors' Styles

In six pages the differences that exist between the styles of African American authors and civil rights activists Cornel West, Fre...

Black Community and the Impact of Black Sports Figuresty

talk to other tribes in North Dakota about education, lifestyle choices, success, character and health. Others will establish gr...

Functionalism, Conflict Theory, and Neo-Marxism

economic advantage to such a system. In spite of Marxs (1998) negative claims with regard to the influence of capitalism, it can ...

The Mind, Functionalism, and Consciousness

This paper provides a synopsis of the views of Paul Churchland and Todd Moody as they apply to elements of human mental evolution,...

Richard Wright's Black Boy and William Faulkner's Light in August and Black Identity

white society or in any way "rock the boat". As Jennifer Poulos observes, they are, in particular, taught to be quiet, and to refr...

Black on Black Pottery of Maria Martinez

In five pages Tewa potter Maria Martinez's amazing life and are are explored. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....