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inferior didnt hold up in the light of his personal story. Equianos work showed the American slave owners and traders how hypocrit...

as they did writing about Gates (Blankenborn, 1993; Manes and Andrews, 1993). Despite the focus mainly on Gates years with Micros...

could neither read nor write. Most were still slaves and white Southerners viewed Douglass as somewhat of an anomaly. An educated ...

other international symbol, art strips away the barriers inherent to the limitations dominant orthodoxies of Church and State have...

would come as a result of the rapid expansion westward and the overnight development of commerce in growing townships. For the mo...

in the continuing fight for womens rights. With the very first line, Truth exposes her defiance toward the systems rules, which, ...

be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...

life, which he describes as "solitary, without comradeship" (Mann 9). He makes a choice to experience beauty in his highest form,...

not something that had occurred to him earlier. The murder appears to stem solely from the fact that the narrator has the power in...

24 apartments had been filled. Owners were concerned that they had misread the local market (Knoxville, Tennessee) and that perha...

structure. "First Confession" recounts the events of a brief period in Jackies life. Therefore, Jackies perspective does not alter...

Boston, After Having Been Absent Almost Thirteen Years" was published and Hammon was considered not only the earliest known Africa...

Pavlovna is having a party where Prince Vasily, Prince Andrei, Pierre and others are gathered to enjoy the evenings festivities. H...

that she had organized her wards to the utmost efficiency. At the same time, her best friend Jessica had written to her brother in...

plantation, where she was put to raise the children of the younger women. I had therefore been, until now, out of the way of the b...

them, the more the author desperately wanted to remove himself from such circumstances. "In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-...

benefits which had been gained from the experience, since this would be counter-productive in terms of the effect on the reader....

an "observant Jew," which means that he is at odds with his own culture because "observant Jews do not paint at all" (Potok 3). H...

that his novel is not fictitious, but, on the other hand, he also states that everything only happened more or less thus restricti...

and understood in many different ways. We are not only given one perspective but two that work together in different and powerful ...

them up for scrutiny. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, these romantic medieval values clashed with the new emphasis on re...

son, Hally, who is young and in desperate need of both attention and guidance. In this regard, Sam plays the role of a surrogate ...

thinking" (Wittkowski 2). The main thrust of such interpretations is that Santiago, in his actions, is in fact an "imitatio Christ...

eras and toward different genders. The slave narratives of Douglass and Jacobs Douglass Narrative is the best known first-hand a...

discussed here are narrative, dialectic and dramaturgical. Narrative Narrative theory is that which addresses communication...

in this film provides a means of relating the voyage that takes place without actually showing scene after scene of constant motio...

human condition then and now. Throughout the course of the story, Gilgamesh takes several physical journeys. However, the one mo...

would help me become a self-employed entrepreneur, and the tasks that used take me hours complete would now be simply a matter of ...

narrative is to provide a means to facilitate the assimilation of new members. This is accomplished as hearing stories allows new ...

certainty. I might as well take a shower. I hurried, in an effort to at least reduce the amount of time I would walk into the door...