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The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815

additional examples could be presented as well. The most interesting of Dowds examples concern the leadership strategies of the t...

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...

Momaday and Alexie: Variations in the Ways Native American Authors Depict Their Culture

Americans are in actuality much more oppressed by government regulations and society as a whole than they were in this earlier tim...

Gatsby & The American Dream

her well-loved eyes" (Fitzgerald 111). As this suggests, Gatsbys many possessions and signs of extreme wealth are not important ...

The Written Word and Creating a Response to a Problem

6 pages and 2 sources. This paper considers how the written word can be used to communicate very specific things, including the r...

Analysis of a Modern Classic: "The Great Gatsby"

about the characters thoughts and motivations. So we are going to read the story and see what happened through Nicks eyes, which m...

Jay Gatsby: A Great Man?

poverty to a position of wealth. While many people who wanted this particular American Dream of wealth and material possessions ...

Modern Native American Literature and Cultural Conflict

Native American literature is interesting both in content and in the fact that it is a relatively recent phenomena. Native Americ...

American Son by Brian Roley

ways. At the beginning of the novel, they follow a Cain and Abel dichotomy. Gabe is the good and obedient child, "the son who is q...

Face of an Angel by Chavez

In five pages this novel's protagonist is the central focus with comparisons to the depiction of Latin American culture to America...

W.W. Brown/Clotel

into the pen during the day. After the best of the gang were sold off, the balance was taken to the Exchange coffee-house auction ...

Roughing It with Swan, Twain and the Indians

Northwest Coast by James G. Swain and Mark Twain's Roughing It are two novels which deal with the outdoors and the American west. ...

Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

look at each other. The story begins with the walk into a shop, where the shop assistant is weary of the narrator...

Frances E.W. Harper's Life and Work II

In nine pages this research paper considers this African American novelist, poet, and lecturer in terms of her life and work with ...

Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven and Imagination

In five pages this paper examines the author's uses of imagery in terms of characterization and plot development. There are no ot...

So-called Primitive Sustainability as Compared to Our High Tech Version

Once the Plain's Indians forged their whole culture around the great buffalo herd. Today, modern culture forges ours around elect...

Langston Hughes/Critical Response to 2 Poems

opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...

Exploring Textual Sources of “The Arabian Nights”

It appears to be based in part on Arabic, Persian and Indian folklore, and as a "unified collection, dates back at least one thous...

National Indian Identity and Mughal Emperor Akbar's Contributions

shrewd advisor who protected him and insured his safety, it is without doubt that the young prince would have seen another birthda...

"The Great Gatsby" and the Pursuit of Hollow Dreams

value into ultimately empty goals; this is indicated by the comparison of Gatsbys quest for Daisy with the "American dream" itself...

“The Great Gatsby” in Its Historical Context

important to remember that at the time Fitzgerald wrote, "immigrants were coming to the United States by the millions because they...

Dreams and Authority in “The Great Gatsby”

no success at all; that belongs to the people who employ the hard workers. But the dream persists, and Gatsby seems to achieve it,...

1956 Film Adaptation/Moby Dick

the injustice that fate as inflicted upon him, as he has pursued the whale for years, coming close numerous times, but never actu...

Fools Crow by James Welch Questions Answered

(Welch 391). In both of these instances, Welch uses descriptive language to set the tone for what Fools Crow is feeling and thinki...

Sharon Hambrick, Arby Jenkins

This book review is on a juvenile, Christian novel that features a funny, charismatic sixth grader. The write assumes the persona ...

Medieval Literature/Marie de France & Chaucer

appears to be that this text afforded him a superb creative pallet, not simply for creating memorable characters, but also for pr...

A Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Analysis)

even when told in an interesting manner, it might take quite a while to reveal the entire plot. Even with foreshadowing, telling a...

FDI Influences in India and Iraq

reduce smoking in India (Lamont and Yuk, 2010). However, this has been a controversial decision, not only was cigarette manufactu...

Short Essays on American History

Short essays are included in this three page paper with on page being a letter that is written to Winston Churchill by Indian lead...

Vietnam and American Politics During the Turning Point of 1968

achieved (McDougall, 1996). That goal was and is to establish a strong buffer state to protect the nations of Southeast Asia from ...