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'Woodchucks' by Maxine Kumin

little bit of cyanide gas, and awake to begin eating the farmers vegetables. The verbs used to describe what the woodchucks did t...

Relationship Between Mother and Daughter in Warrior Woman by Maxine Hong Kingston

duality of the cultures are reflected in various ways by Kingston, the constant switching between myth and reality, Chinese emotio...

Maxine Hong Kingston, Thomas Pynchon and Postmodern Literature

In five pages this paper examines postmodernism in a comparative analysis of Tripmaster Monkey and His Fake Book by Maxine Hong Ki...

Connection Between Democratic Freedom and Arts Education

long held beliefs, intellectual theories, and works her way deep into the root causes, in her opinion, of much of the social and r...

Woman Warrior Memoirs of a Childhood Among Ghosts and China Man by Maxine Hong Kingston

convey false information. Instead her style is meant to expose the reader to cultural considerations in a manner which few reader...

Depiction of Asian Americans

(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...

American Daughters and Asian Mothers

In eight pages the complex relationships between Asian mothers and their American daughters as described in Maxine Hong Kingston's...

Example of an Interpretive Essay

The big red bus slowed to a stop. Wittman got off to stretch his legs for a moment. He almost bumped into the woman that he...

Contemporary Literature and How Emotions Are Portrayed

In five pages this paper examines how emotions are portrayed in the contemporary literary works The Things They Carried by Tim O'B...

'Raise the Red Lantern' and 'Woman Warrior'

This paper consisting of 5 pages compares the ideas contained in the film Raise the Red Lantern' to the text written by Maxine Hon...

Women's Invisibility

In five pages this paper analyzes 'invisible' women not by choice in No Name Woman by Maxine Hong Kingston and The Color Purple by...

Music Industry History and the Role of Women

This paper discusses music industry history in terms of female involvement in six pages which considers the articles 'Duality and ...

Female Sexuality According to Kingston and Wolf

This paper examines articles by Maxine H. Kingston and Naomi Wolf, and discusses how society reacts to female sexuality. This fiv...

Personal Narrative Essays

In five pages personal narrative essays 'Once More to the Lake' by E.B. White and 'Silence' by Maxine Hong Kingston are contrasted...

Language and the Power It Wields Demonstrated in Literature

In five pages this paper examines how the power of language is considered in Margaret Atwood's essay 'An End to Audience' and how ...

Important Post Second World War Works of Literature

Don Delillos "White Noise" and Maxine Hong Kingstons "The Woman Warrior." Invisible Man As mentioned, many argue that Ralph El...

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...

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 ...

Maxine Hong Kingston: “No Name Woman”

only author struggling with this issue; the subject is frequently explored today by people of many ethnic backgrounds. For instanc...

Leadership Attributes: Maxine Waters and Michelle Obama

Abuse Prevention Training Program; the prohibition of police strip searches for nonviolent misdemeanors; and the introduction of t...

Issues in Asian American Literature

This paper offers ten brief essays, with each essay roughly one-page in length and pertaining to issues that addressed in Asian Am...

Maxine Greene's The Dialectic of Freedom

that take place during ones life. Our free will, on the other hand, speaks to the concept of having full authority over ones aspi...

Maxine Greene's The Dialectic of Freedom

evident. By doing this, then, she draws the reader into an inner examination of what one believes and why one believes it. One is ...

Community in Maxine Hong Kingston's 'No Name Woman' and 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

actions related to their sense of community. A small agricultural community generally lives on the edge of survival. What holds t...

Maxine Hong Kingston/Warrior Woman

property rather than fellow human beings. Tourist information on St. Thomas indicates that St. Thomas Market Square is today a "...

Sense of Self in The Warrior Woman by Maxine Hong Kingston

In six pages this paper examines Kingston's autobiography in terms of how a woman's sense of self is bolstered by the author throu...

Chinese Women's Roles in Bone by Fae Myenne Ng and The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how women's roles in Chinese society and in immigrant families are depicted in the...

Culture and Women in Slavenka Drakulic's Makeup and Other Crucial Questions and Maxine Hong Kingston's No Name Woman

In six pages this essay compares and contrasts these literary works in terms of their representation of women and culture. There ...