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who has always studied hard and done what is right in order to get ahead. He has gone to college and is a successful lawyer. In es...

This essay offers a comparison between "Hamlet and "Death of a Salesman," which draws upon the Aristotelian criteria for tragedy....

position to that of management, or even to that of an incredibly successful salesman/employee. His character was weak, and his int...

This 5 page paper discusses the central theme of Toni Cade Bambara's story The Lesson #2....

This 6 page paper discusses the theme of growth as explored by Toni Cade Bambara in The Lesson #3....

he has always valued charisma over actual skill or knowledge. This point is shown in a flashback in which Willy asks his oldest ...

is beautiful, acceptable, and normal while black physical characteristics, i.e., broad lips, kinky hair, flat nose and dark skin, ...

under the chinaberry tree until its over: "... while inside she knew the cold river was creeping up and up to extinguish that eye ...

Awakening: Marriage and Independence In Kate Chopins controversial novel The Awakening, which was first published in 1899, the n...

relationship to his own sense of honor and integrity. In the beginning he had no doubts about getting his stepfather alone and kil...

to convey the importance of unquestioning obedience to the will of the gods; and, secondly, to emphasize the importance of familia...

end, giving us a young woman who was never able to come to terms with her race, her sexuality, or her gender. She is the character...

the ease and comfort of old friends. Because each had discovered that they were neither white nor male, and that all freedom and t...

Nel and Sula. Nel is light-skinned and lives in a tidy, respectable middle class home. Sula is deep brown and lives in a disrep...

became indentured servants, but this was rare (Faragher, et al 57). Because of the institution of indentured service, "New world s...

"blackness" and the sense that the darker a person is, the less worthy they are of gaining social acceptance. In fact, Pecola is ...

depictions of Black America" (Nobelprize.org). Another critic notes that, "Morrison powerfully evokes in her fiction the legacies ...

In three pages this fictitious autobiographical essay from Billy's perspective explores his zoo experience featuring the circulari...

This 5 page paper discusses the struggles African-Americans face as they move from a rural setting to an urban one, as portrayed i...

This 6 page paper compares and contrasts two novels, The Wedding by Dorothy West and Jazz by Toni Morrison. The novels are the onl...

In a paper consisting of five pages the shared theme of an identity search as reflected in these texts by John Okada, Ralph Elliso...

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses the relationship between black poetry and literature with jazz and blues music with...

This 5 page paper analyzes The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and the way in which she observes the standards of beauty society sets,...

shod. Geraldine did not talk to him, coo to him, or indulge him in kissing bouts, but she saw that every other desire was fulfill...

mass culture for anyone who is not included in it and for African-Americans especially, usually requires a leaving of ones own sel...

This 10 page paper analyzes the Toni Morrison story Sula and then discusses it with reference to her novel The Bluest Eye. There a...

In 4 pages this paper examines the struggles of Nell and Sula in contending with apathy and evil in this novel by Toni Morrison. ...

However, each contact with the white community in the town below reminds the reader of the constraints established by racial bigot...

friendship: conflict between human beings. The exact manner in which Morrison reveals this conflict is an integral component to t...

where people were loud as they danced and sung amidst a house that was less than perfectly organized. As we can see in this very s...