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B.T. Washington & W.E.B. Du Bois

from high school early, received an undergraduate degree from Fisk University, accepted a scholarship to attend the University of ...

American Horror Writing and the Influence of British Authors

fantasy), horror has generated the most serious study. Fright master Stephen King credits this to the acclaimed literary trilogy...

Los Angeles for Authors

for their stories. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West provides one with a sense of the cultural geography of Los Angeles in ...

Chicano Author Sergio Troncoso

can be different for different people with the interpretation being subjectvie. By looking at this work there is a reflection of...

Publishing, First Time Authors, and the Difficulties and Problems They Face

One notable hurdle for first-time authors has nothing to do with what they know, but who they know (Smith, 2002). The same applie...

Authors Embracing Marxis

respects ethics. Of course, that is not always apparent on the surface, but like much of his writings, Marx expresses a profound i...

Swift and Thoreau, Writing Style

a famous series of protest letters under the name of "M.B. Drapier." While his identity as the letter-writer was known throughout ...

"Native Son" And American History X" - Dual Racial Intolerance

indication of just how racial intolerance has guided history. Wrights (1987) "popular and perennial African-American characters" ...

The Problem Of Passing As A Metaphor For The Dynamics Of Responsibility And Coming To Terms With Oneself

MIDDLE PASSAGE Johnsons cultural and historical journey of racial divide chronicled in Middle Passage provides readers with a sig...

Biography Of Ida B. Wells

in fact, she had more gumption than most adults, refusing to allow adversity stand in the way of what she knew had to be done. He...

Ida B. Wells' "The Red Record" - Analysis

most others, however, she did not sit idly by and merely complain about the intolerable situation; as a young, black woman with a ...

Compare and Contrast Beloved by Toni Morrison and Silko by Leslie Marmon Ceremony

This 10 page paper compares and contrasts the novel Beloved by African- American author Toni Morrison and Ceremony, by Native Amer...

Comparing the Main Characters and Dark Themes of Hawthorne's The Minister's Black Veil and Young Goodman Brown.

concealed his frame and face from onlookers by wearing a black cloak, as a symbol of a fearful secret between him and them" (Barna...

An Article on Literacy Reviewed

the entire article and the question is specifically: "What do teachers in our schools value in literacy?" (Dadds, 1999, p. 9). Thi...

Shelby Foote's Shiloh and Characterization

by (22). The student may want to state that to show that everything isnt perfect in battle, Foote doesnt have Metcalfe mal...

'Against Love' by Katherine Philips, 'The Sick Rose' by William Blake and the Theme of Love

William Blake writes somberly: O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has foun...

Future Trends in Education and Technology

at a slow speed and the facilities are still run with the nine to five ideology in mind. In other words, while it is now known th...

Multiculturalism and Education

society. She comes up with a list of 26 items, some of which are valid, a few of which are a stretch (McIntosh) The point that she...

A Book Review of Modern Middle East History

purposes of his text, Cleveland defines the "Middle East" as that region that extends from Egypt in the west to Iran in the east a...

Dracula by Bram Stoker and the Themes of Sexuality and Perversity

antagonist, Count Dracula that encompasses both sexuality and perversity. In the oft-analyzed Chapter III, the unconscious Harker...

Review of Hidemi Suganami's 'Narratives of War Origins and Endings A Note On The End Of the Cold War in Millennium'

Hidemi Suganamis "Narratives of War Origins and Endings: A Note On The End Of the Cold War in Millennium" explores the causative f...

Magical Realism in the Novels of Isabel Allende

Beth E. Jorgensen defines magical realism as the "use of the literary devices of hyperbole, oxymoron, personification, flashback a...

Analyszing 'Psychological Characteristics of Children of Alcoholics' by Kenneth Sher

children of alcoholics (COAs). He explains that to a large extent most of the research in this area is based upon the interest of ...

The Four Gated City by Doris Lessing and Uses of Narrative

not follow any timeline, as it jumps around continuously from one moment to another. In the end we are left understanding the enti...

Reviewing The Book of the Torah: The Narrative Integrity of the Pentateuch by Thomas Mann

are already well acquainted with the Torah, his book provides an excellent introduction for those that are only somewhat familiar ...

Introduction to Old Testament Wisdom by Ceresko

book touches on many mundane matters. How to get through life and understand its wrath is truly lifes most contemplated topics and...

Introduction to the Old Testament by Anthony Ceresko

Old Testament as a straightforward history. Rather, both men advocate that these texts emerged as a "self-defining narrative of a ...

Human Universals by Donald E. Brown

out that this is two-way street. He writes, "...by the same token that we may seek the explanation for universals in human nature,...

Africans and Africa in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

that Africa has on the Europeans in the story. His argument, therefore, it that imperialism is wrong, not so much because of what ...

Edith Hamilton's Mythology

Chaos. Gaea, the first Titan, was the earth, itself. After she emerged from the Chaos, she gave birth to her own consort, Uranus, ...