SEARCH RESULTS

In five pages this paper examines the Civil War and after perspectives on slavery as viewed by John C. Calhoun, Frederick Douglass...

the post-Reconstruction era, it was Washingtons belief that the rural masses of African-Americans should apply themselves, not tow...

than "anywhere else" (Henriques 414). However, the "bad news" is that amidst Wienceks narrative there are numerous errors, as well...

and he used to fetch him down town sometimes and lay for a bet" (Twain). Smiley was a character who would trick others and come ou...

History of a Campaign That Failed" with a recounting of his interactions with another young man that was about the same age that h...

own death and running away. Along the way, he meets Jim, a runaway slave who is traveling north in hopes of freeing his family. ...

Northerners who came South to take advantage of the social chaos that characterized the region in the aftermath of the Civil War. ...

expected of young women in British society during this era. In Potoks novel, Asher Lev is a twentieth century boy raised in the Ha...

times, Washington endeavored to alleviate the fears of the white majority by emphasizing that black people were not a threat to th...

he was, I never heard of his taking the least interest in me or providing for my rearing. But I do not find especial fault with hi...

for Washington, and he would endure much conflict and strife in his lifetime as well (Perry). Perhaps then, the best measure of W...

This paper analyzes thematic elements of the short story, The Story of the Bad Little Boy by Mark Twain. The author compares this ...

In seven pages this paper examines the crimes of slavery and racial discrimination within the context of this novel by Mark Twain....

skinned and easily passes for white. This simple premise presents us with the curious question of whether or not this boy will e...

drawn eight sets of arms on the figure in her final, unfinished drawing, because she intended to later go in and remove all the se...

parable or a dream" (Dr. DoCarmo). It more often than not possesses no sentiment or emotion that would pull the reader into believ...

a nineteenth-century technological marvel, believing this would put the ineffectual Arthur and the uppity nobles in their places w...

A 4 page aper which discusses Mark Twain’s short story The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. Bibliography lists 4 source...

continues to rage well into the twenty-first century about whether The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn represents racism and should...

scene that demonstrates the main thematic thrust of the story, Huck writes to Miss Watson telling her of Jims whereabouts. After w...

claiming Twains work was a masterpiece (Smiley). Smiley then moves on to illustrate the history of Hucks writing. She indicate...

loves to play and loves to play hooky, desiring to have a good time. However, the adventure comes when Injun Joe becomes part of...

about a man he knew. Twain immediately presents the reader with the fact that he believes this particular individual may not even ...

she should behave. She goes to a home where she is treated very well and ultimately has a puppy of her own and this makes her life...

Colette and sing happy songs about flowers and birds. (point one) But, of course, flower songs are not for grown ups. Now, the so...

for a marriage proposal will cause scholars to revise previous assessments that Twain was ineffective in representing women and un...

what her life has been. This view of Granny life offers a contradiction to every misogynist preconception of womanhood that was ev...

is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at is worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and...

he knows of an undertow there which will hold her back against the gale and save her. For just pure woodcraft, or sailorcraft, or ...

matches, books and pens and become known as a man more powerful than the great Merlin (A Connecticut Yankee, 2002; Twain, 1979). T...