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The Motivation for Autobiography

is a fact: White men consider themselves superior to black men. There is another fact: Black men want to prove to white men, at a...

Augustine, Aurelius And Guibert

Plato and Anselm . He talks about seeking truth and wisdom consistently throughout the text. For Augustine, "Truth is one, and Go...

Dorris’ Broken Cord/A Theoretical Perspective

layer that is closest to the child and which contains the relational features with which the child has direct contact (Paquette an...

Robert W. Howard's "The Shrinking Of Social Studies" - Reaction

learning through more evenhanded methods. Howard (2003) duly points out how standardization benefits no one but the bureaucrats w...

Slavery Worse for Women, the Story of Harriet Jacobs

This essay is on Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. The writer describes the various ways in wh...

Autobiography of Helen Keller

This paper concerns the autobiography of Helen Keller, which recounts her struggle to overcome being blind and deaf. Three pages i...

Obama and a Story of Race

In a paper of three pages, the author reflects on the autobiography about Barack Obama's childhood and his development. The autho...

Life of an Ordinary Woman by Anne Ellis

This book reviews is on "Life of an Ordinary Woman," an autobiography by Anne Ellis. The author describes her childhood experience...

American Realism, An Overview

nations early steel industry. Just as Charles Dickens exposed the underside of industrialization in Great Britain, Davis likewise ...

Reflective Ethical Autobiography

not faced with that many ethical dilemmas in our personal lives. In our professional lives as counselors, there are more times whe...

Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown

of African Americans who fled the entrenched racism of the South and migrated North, in search of a "Promised Land" where they mig...

Piety of Margery Kempe

pages 6-9 in the Book.) This was not an easy pregnancy and Margery suffered "severe attacks of illness" prior to the birth (Kempe,...

Black Boy by Richard Wright

a thousand lynchings" (Wright, 1993, p. 74). One of the many odd jobs that Wright utilized to try to help support is impoverishe...

Middle Class According to Benjamin Franklin, Moliere, and Voltaire

notably Charles Dickens, Moliere, and Voltaire - had decidedly different and less heroic definitions of the middle class in their ...

Alcoholism, Rex and Jeannette Walls' Glass Castle

threw furniture and threatened to beat up" his wife or anyone else he felt had gotten in his way (Wall 23). Research has shown t...

Nathan McCalls' Makes Me Wanna Holler/Social Control Theory

grow ups and is exemplified when an individual feels that has a stake in their society as a whole. From the beginning of McCall...

Reporting and Reflecting on Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama Sr., who was a significant if extremely distant presence in his sons life. While a student at the University...

“A Life of Her Own”

or anything else although my weeping sisters did not know what to do; he just said Take care of her, put compresses on her head. I...

Marriage as a Problematic Institution

and vows that her life will be different. Due to her assimilation of the American ethos, she rejects the Judaic tenet that she is ...

Maxine Hong Kingston and Maya Angelou: Autobiographical Reflections of Women

and Global Perspectives. Ed. Shirley Hune et al, WA: Washington State UP, 1991. 225-38. Kingston, Maxine Hong. 1976. The Woman ...

Imagination in Development of Character and Plot

imagination. In offering the reader such a look into the individual the reader is made to see the beauty of imagination as it rela...

Mathabane/Kaffir Boy

a distinct segment of the society. In US history, anyone with even a drop of African blood was considered culturally to be "black"...

Franklin and Crockett

man who could not be respected in some manner. In the case of Franklin one sees him, at a relatively early age, beginning to teach...

Wild Swans and the Realities of Communism

"Slaves Who Have No Country of Your Own-Ruled by Different Masters (1945-1947)" (Chang, 1991, p. 75). This title conveys the attit...

Mathabane: “Kaffir Boy”

and remembers she was showing it to the children the night before and she begs Johannes to tell her where it is: "Remember the lit...

Ahmed, Satrapi/Growing up Female in the Islamic World

through her father that Ahmed first becomes aware of the conflicting political forces that shape her world, as he is hemmed in on ...

Thoughts and Philosophies of Benjamin Franklin

In five pages Franklin's thoughts and beliefs regarding such topics as politics, religion, and business are discussed within the c...

Ford, Chrysler, and Lee Iacocca

In six pages this paper discusses Lee Iacocca's incredible career as an auto executive who served as president of both Ford and Ch...

Autobiography of Lee Iacocca

In thirteen pages the Chrysler executive's 1994 autobiography is reviewed and analyzed with safety and environmental issues are am...

Zora Neale Hurston's Autobiography Dust Tracks on a Road

This research paper critically reevaluates Zora Neale Hurston's autobiography Dust Tracks on a Road originally published in 1942 i...