SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Coming to America A Memoir

Essays 121 - 150

Overview of Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs

truths and mysteries of life in his sometimes stifling family constructs. Eugene is a boy who is driven by his two great loves in...

Self Knowledge and Confessions

book is the actual confession, which turns out to be a confession to murder and many other misdeeds. This idea of knowledge is an ...

Anne Moody and Civil Rights Coming of Age in Mississippi

house (Moody 44). Bruce Clayton and John Salmond, who wrote, Debating Southern History, state that during the fifties and sixties...

Harriet Jacobs, Maya Angelou, and Their Memoirs

a very large life. In the end, both of these women have shown by example, that the struggles which life presents can...

Neil Simon's Comedies and Their Deeper Messages

about him that they like(attempts at creating anti-heroes aside, of course). Then, to have any kind of story at all, the protagoni...

Robert F. Kennedy's 13 Days Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

saw a moment in time when the world may well have seen utter chaos with the dropping of nuclear weapons. Chapter One begins thi...

Geisha Concept and Arthur Golden's 'Memoirs of a Geisha'

herself many times throughout the course of the novel. As a novice Geisha she not only must learn her art, and it is considered an...

The Liars' Club by Mary Karr

eating toothpaste past midnight" (Karr 8). One can imagine that the girls were starving, but perhaps a better way to look at it we...

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...

Sam Walton Made in America, My Story Reviewed

annual sales of over $44 billion coming from the sales to over 40 million shoppers in over 1,750 stores (Economist, 1992). Before ...

A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo

The structural basis of imagery is symbolic of Caputos intrinsic creativity and ability to see beyond the obvious. Characteristic...

Review of Abu-Jaber's The Language of Baklava

a memory. He cook to remember" (Abu-Jaber 190). Food is also a means of conveying love-"To my mind, this is the best way to show...

Pursuit of Happyness/Book and Film

having Christopher older, and therefore capable of understanding valuable life lessons, made it possible to dramatize the scene th...

My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor

This book review presents a summary of the principal features of Sotomayor's intimate memoir. Four pages in length, citations only...

Anne Moody's 1968 Memoir

Anne Moody was raised in the rural South where she suffered extreme racism throughout school and beyond. She was a very active mem...

Recovery from Child Abuse, Pelzer's Memoir

This research paper relates "The Lost Boy," a memoir by David Pelzer, with research that pertains to child abuse. Nine pages in le...

Reaction Papers for Two Work

This 5 page paper gives an example of two reaction papers. This paper includes a paper on both writings, A Post-Racial Society in ...

Reflection on Two Diverse Articles

This essay summarizes the highlights of two documents: a bibliographic memoir of Roger Williams Brown, father of developmental psy...

The Memoir of Author Nahid Rachlin

she was nine years old, her father went to bring her back home in a forceful manner (Bender). She was taken from the only mother s...

Philip Caputo’s Policy Paper to Richard Nixon’s 1968 Presidential Campaign on Vietnam

The following represents what Caputos policy paper to the Nixon campaign about the conduct of the conflict might have looked like....

Learned Gender

woman or man; the roles allotted to the sexes and similar issues. McCloskey enjoys being a woman, so much so that she is somethin...

Ishmael Beah/A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

verge of being reunited with his family, only to have this chance taken away by another rebel attack. He is changed by his experie...

Depiction of Indians and Puritans in Captivity and Restoration by Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

In seven pages this paper examines how Puritans and Indian captors are portrayed by Mary Rowlandson in her early colonial memoir o...

bell hooks “Bone Black”

What hooks has described with all the innocence of childhood is the ugly reality of busing, a controversial and still roundly disl...

John Demos, Joseph Plumb Martin and Wartime Experience

one stroke" (Demos 29). Williams and his five children make it to Montreal alive. Once they arrive in Montreal, the Indians begin ...

Book Report on Alvin Kernan’s Memoir Crossing the Line: A Bluejacket’s World War II Odyssey

San Diego, California. For a young farm boy, the transition was nothing short of culture shock. The boot camp of 1941 was design...

The Appeal Of Howard Stern

and political components have had upon the masses is more than superficial according to Stern; rather, this power has rendered soc...

Lincoln And Sumner: Equality

the fundamental purpose for doing so. While Sumner places governmental involvement with the quest for equality at the bottom of t...

U.S. Intervention in Central America

over the world-Iraq is merely the latest in a long list of interventionist adventures-but hes one of the most articulate. Chomsky ...

Johnson & Johnson as an Investment Option

managing director of Ortho-Cilag Pharmaceutical Limited in the United Kingdom in 1986; in 2001 he unofficially took over daily ope...