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Comparing "Mother Tongue" And "You're Short, Besides"

the company of literary associates and her readership, her English transforms to what she deems "broken, as if it were damaged and...

Kate Chopin: “The Storm” and “Desiree’s Baby”

but will not be arriving soon. The wife, existing in a space with her children, is happy for this news for she and her children ar...

Maxine Hong Kingston/Warrior Woman

property rather than fellow human beings. Tourist information on St. Thomas indicates that St. Thomas Market Square is today a "...

Tan, Orwell and Baldwin: Language

truths with incredible power. For example, Hitler used language in an incredibly powerful way, playing on the truths of the people...

Multicultural Writing and Exile

In seven pages th is paper discusses how exile is thematically developed in such multicultural writings as Goodbyes by Pablo Nerud...

English Language: Tan and Baldwin

because when I was growing up, my mothers limited English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English. I believed t...

Demetria Martinez Speaks the Mother Tongue

her heritage is (Diaz, 1999). Because she is still wandering, Jos? Luis represents something wonderful to her: a man who is commit...

Finding Love and Meaning in the Mother Tongue

Luis, and it is foreshadowed from the first sentence of the book. Mary is at the airport to meet him, a refugee from El Salvador t...

Mothers and Daughters in the Works of Dorothy Allison, Sylvia Plath, and Edith Wharton

Relationships between mothers and daughters are contrasted and compared as they are represented in Bastard Out of Carolina by Doro...

'Speaking in Tongues' or Glossolalia

more comprehensive understanding of the phenomenon as well as addressing the components of both faith and human psychology. Psycho...

William Shakespeare's 'Absent' Mothers in Six Plays

"What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see / She is your treasure, she must have a husband; / I must dance bare-foot on her we...

Comparative Analysis of Richard Connell's 'The Most Dangerous Game' and Thomas Wolfe's 'Child By Tiger'

an accident with a drunk man. It is the drunks fault that the cars collided but the drunk man is belligerent and begins to hit Dic...

Comparing 2 Short Stories by Franz Kafka

In nine pages Kafka's 1913 short story 'The Judgment' is compared with his classic 1915 work 'The Metamorphosis.'...

'The Hunger Artist' by Franz Kafka

In four pages Kafka's effective tongue in cheek literary style is examined within the context of this humorous short story. There...

Importance of the Mother to D.H. Lawrence's 'The Rocking Horse Winner'

clear that there are some very mysterious things taking place within the story. We note this first in the presence of the house wh...

Two Mothers

by her husband and left to raise four small children alone. In order to do so she had to work, so she had to find people to take c...

Comparative Analysis of Min Zhan Lu's From 'Silence to Words' and Amy Tan's 'Mother Tongue'

written. As the two essays continue they build in their complexity where language is concerned. Tan states, "a speech filled with...

Another Mother Tongue by Judy Grahn

In eight pages this paper attempts to provide a place in history for gays and lesbians they have long been denied. There are no o...

"Mother To Son" - Reader Response Criticism

Hughes mother who says "So, boy, dont you turn back. Dont you set down on the steps. Cause you finds its kinder hard," mine was ...

Working Mothers and Stay at Home Mothers

and work long hours" (Jost, 2008). In terms of hours spent working, it appears as though they both work approximately the same a...

'My Tongue is Broken' by Sappho

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares M. Barnard's interpretation of 'My Tongue is Broken' with Sappho's original versio...

Analyzing the Tribute by Augustine to Monica, His Mother

debate in terms of wanting a peaceful and inner spiritual life and letting go of his past indiscretions (St. Augustine, Bishop of ...

Identity Formation for Girls

A 3 page essay on 3 narratives. There is a bond between mothers and daughters that is typically more intense throughout the lifesp...

Huck Finn and Sound and Fury, A Comparison

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. While vastly different in tone, each author addresses the fact that slavery and the le...

2 Films on the Holocaust

sole survivor out of the eight people who lived for three years in the lofts tiny space. The film flashes back to Otto explaining ...

Significance of Language, ELL Instruction

This research paper/essay pertains to the repercussions of what it would be like if all other languages besides English became ext...

Motherhood and Race, Michelle Obama, Lesbian and Gay Parents

This 10 page paper gives an explanation to many homework answers concerning motherhood and African Americans. This paper includes ...

Kim Chernin's In My Mother's House

shtetl, the Jewish ghetto, had become unbearable under Tsarist rule. Chernin recognized that the women of her family had an abund...

She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb

that of her mother because they are both gluttonous. Mrs. Price is gluttonous because she puts up with Mr. Prices philandering. ...

Sexual Activity and Pregnancy in Adolescents

In six pages these two articles pertaining to the many aspects of sexual activity and pregnancy are presented 'Early adolescent se...