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Lois W. Johnson/Trouble at Wild River

her mothers home country of Sweden. Ben had the "America fever" and stole the money in order to obtain passage to the US (Johnson ...

Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the ways in which the author employs mood and foreshadowing in the generation of suspense but als...

An Analysis of Richard Hughes' Novella, A High Wind in Jamaica

This paper analyzes various literary aspects of this short novel by Richard Hughes. This three page paper has no additional sourc...

Ishmael Beah/A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

verge of being reunited with his family, only to have this chance taken away by another rebel attack. He is changed by his experie...

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Born on the Fourth of July

person that John F. Kennedy was addressing when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your co...

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...

Comparison: "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" and "The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks"

racism, this time not the violent confrontation of the KKK, but the institutionalized, systematic racism that is so much a part of...

Multiple Viewpoints in "The Woman Warrior"

Kingston makes much of the idea of the oral tradition, and her inability to partake in it. The ability to use language is vital fo...

Harriet Jacobs/Slave Girl

order to fully understand the structure of Jacobs narrative, it is first necessary to see it within the cultural framework provide...

Leadership Qualities According to Schwarzkopf, Pagonis, and Drucker

for leadership in logistics in the Persian Gulf would be the utmost importance. He entrusted Pagonis for the job, and he came thro...

Oral Traditions of Native Americans

saying that she has helped "to destroy" her Hopi culture? What does she mean by "breaking away" from her heritage? Looking closely...

“The Autobiography of Malcolm X”

after entering into the orphanage, he states, "As the nigger of my class, I was in fact extremely popular-I suppose partly because...

Maya Angelou/Caged Bird

was really blond, white and blue-eyed (Angelou 4). This feeling on Angelous part is highly related to the restrictions on black fr...

“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...

"The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin" - Leadership

a pertinent example of Franklins (1996) fundamental attitude for meeting a challenge. Hard work, he contended, was the lifeblood ...

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...