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Three Literary Protagonists Improving Their Lives

An analysis consisting of five pages compares the ways in which three protagonists attempt to improve their lives. The works exam...

Uses of Humor in The Crying Lot of 49 by Thomas Pynchon and White Noise by Don DeLillo

In thirteen pages this paper examines how American culture, specifically, the American Dream, is critiqued using humor in each of ...

Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun and its Depiction of American Families

and harsh conditions, these family members work together, while arguing and combating one another, to move on and make their situa...

William Faulkner Biography

Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...

Twentieth Century Immigration in America

Spanish-language rhetoric on the radio and in the cafes" (29). In addition to conveying the flavor of Latin-American life, Tobar ...

Fortune's 2 of the '100 Best Companies to Work For

diversity), and pride/camaraderie (philanthropy, celebrations)" (Levering and Moskowitz, 2005; p. 97). If news that could affect ...

The Nature Of Visual Perception

object is significantly impaired. Early visual development is both normal and rapid throughout the infants initial six months all...

Music and Song in Latin American Literature

The ideas insights and images created and represented by these three influential authors play a crucial role (Hoeg p. 95). Go...

Early American Architecture: Colonial and Georgian

the bare necessities were sufficient in the beginning. In Morrisons text he shows examples of various forms of connecting logs tog...

African American Forms of Narrative

wish to purchase his children," but this was never allowed (Jacobs 11). Her life changed forever when she came into the ownership ...

The Bluest Eye & The Color Purple

that what is white is beautiful, lovable and normal, while black facial features, skin color and everything else associated with b...

Contemporary Melting Pot and America

the great melting pot that is the United States. They will no longer be seen as outsiders, but an integral part of the society of ...

The Sociology and Social Work Perspectives of Black American Pioneers

a greater effect on African Americans than practically any other book published up until that time. William H. Ferris writes in 1...

The Impact of Globalization on Local Cultures

The dominant argument for the dilution of culture is through the spread of western ideals and values though the media as well as t...

Evolution of Assistance to the Needy

The history of human services and social welfare in the United States began long before the federal government stepped into the pi...

Capitalism Fuels Colonial Expansion

the scene may seem sublime, it can be interpreted as a depiction of contrast between cultures. In the foreground stands the Europ...

Lorna Simpson's Impact on Postmodern Feminist Art

depictions of Black women that hide their face, their central visual identity. This is the basis through which Simpson creates a ...

Langston Hughes: Work and Worldview

the dawns were / young. / I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to / sleep. / I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyram...

A Review of Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

A 6 page analysis of the societal message being presented in this work. Plot and characters are outlined and the emphasis that th...

Modern Literary Depiction of Families

In five pages this paper examines how families and their relationships are portrayed in the modern literary works White Angel by M...

Comparison of Alexander Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock' and Jane Austen's Mansfield Park

In five pages this essay presents a comparative literary analysis of these works in terms of how women's social behavior is portra...

Critical Review of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

In five pages this paper critically analyzes Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and addresses the various misconceptions often associated w...

Victorian Age Literature, Despair, and Depression

In eleven pages the Victorian era feelings of despair and depression that were the result of various religious, economic, and tech...

Feminist Ideology in Henrik Ibsen's, A Doll's House

This paper addresses the ways in which Ibsen's social, literary work, A Doll's House provides a retrospective of feminist ideology...

Edith Wharton, Charles Dickens, and Charlotte Bronte on Experience and Innocence

In 5 pages the themes of innocence and experience as they are depicted in these Victorian and post Victorian literary works The Ho...

Art Aesthetics and Freudian Revenant

In five pages this paper examines literary works 'Pied Beauty' by Gerard Manley and 'Fern Hill' by Dylan Thomas in an application ...

Demonstration of the Epic Qualities Imitated by Aristotle in 'The Odyssey,' 'The Epic of Gilgamesh, 'Beowulf,' and 'Romeo And Juliet'

previous approached, inasmuch as the components of courage, strength, power and physical prowess have as much to do with social im...

Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson

In a paper consisting of 6 pages Emily Dickinson's life and poetry are considered with a discussion of her American literary contr...

Restrictive Society in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

In five pages this paper discusses the restrictions 19th century society placed upon individuals within the context of these liter...

19th Century Social Constraints Imposed on Women and Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence and House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

In 5 pages this paper examines 19th century female social oppression within the context of these two literary works. There are 5 ...