999 Search Results for American Literature Comparing and Contrasting
Rather, the reader is only exposed to the short, choppy explanations of a first person narrator. Very little explanation is given as to why the events are happening or who the characters really are underneath their outward expressions and appearance Continue Reading...
Gender, in some ways may determine the difference of the narrative arc in these two memoirs. A male, Tang fought for the cause militarily, while Elliot married an American and traced her associations with the war through her family roots, rather th Continue Reading...
But there are also similarities in the characters, the setting, the plot, themes and the use of metaphor and symbolism. For example, the setting of the story is in another village, namely, Greenwich Village in New York City, where the main character Continue Reading...
Smith may dislike the stereotype, but she cannot help internalizing it. She feels unfinished because she is regarded as unfinished, and even members of her community urge her to straighten her hair. This is completely different from the joyous, affi Continue Reading...
The Oxsoralen he took to change the color of his skin may have hastened his death. Why did he do it? "If I could take on the skin of a black man, live whatever might happen and then share that experience with others, perhaps at the level of shared Continue Reading...
The spider is working upon a canvas, referring to it as an "Arc of White" (Dickinson 3) and the mood of the poem is that the spider is quite content to be this way. The spider is working at night and it is the only thing that can contribute to his p Continue Reading...
Eichelberger states that Morrison's work shows that the novel "in its particular cultural setting portrays domineering aggression as the true motivation for many cultural conditions that are commonly regarded as agents of freedom" (2). This ideology Continue Reading...
Indeed, the trajectory of the narrative involves exacting revenge on those who prevented her marriage from taking place.
Although the Bride's marital aspirations might suggest that she holds a conservative sensibility, this is far from the case and Continue Reading...
Death and Dying in "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"
and "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"
Death is a common theme in poetry and has been written about and personified throughout history. Among some of the most recognizable poems that deal Continue Reading...
Smith & Walker
Both Smith and Walker who write about the plight of black people and the feelings of inevitability and racism can invoke in Black people and in their lives. A significant difference between the poem and the short story is the gen Continue Reading...
Discrimination and Madness: Examining Motifs in the Short Stories of Faulkner and Gillman
"The Yellow Wallpaper," by Charlotte Perkins Gillman and "A Rose for Emily," by William Faulkner, though remarkably different in style and voice, feature stori Continue Reading...
The strangeness of the judicial system whereby confession lead to freedom and truth lead to death was accurate in spirit in the Miller play, as were some aspects of the accusations, such as favoring older women to accuse and pressing one man to deat Continue Reading...
motion picture industry has played a pivotal role in the lives of many Americans. Films have captivated audiences around the world with their information, cinematic, acting, and story. Many films illuminate a particular aspect of society that needs Continue Reading...
Autobiographies
A memoir or autobiography can take on a myriad of different literary forms; for both Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway self-reflection is best achieved through the eyes of other people. The impact of Hemingway's A Moveable Feast an Continue Reading...
Racism
Time changes everything; reading these two pieces of work reminds the author of that fact and so much more. Both The Welcome Table, by Alice Walker, and the poem What it's Like to be a Black Girl, by Smith speak out of the dust of the past to Continue Reading...
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 in reducing fraudulent financial reporting
Introduction to Fraudulent Financial Reporting
Available research on financial statement fraud relies mostly on anecdotal evidence (for example, Wells, 2001, 2002, 2004a, and 20 Continue Reading...
Huckleberry Finn's violent, alcoholic father, after Finn escapes from the Widow, is an extremely negative paternal force of socialization. Finn, rather than be integrated into society like Emma, must leave society and find his own values, rather tha Continue Reading...
" (Line 19) Her art creates joy but she still has to exist in the mundane world of everyday strife and problems.
We also find this concern with the strife and woes of the world in the second poem "The Weary Blues." In this poem the art form is music Continue Reading...
Blood by Suzan-Lori Sparks expands on the main theme of society's unfair disregard for its people of low condition in general, for women, and for adulterers. Hester La Negrita, the protagonist, is an African-American woman who struggles to survive i Continue Reading...
Art
"Howl" and "Guernica" Outline
The paper demonstrates the ways in which both pieces of art contemplate and express multiple themes, including those of religion, morality, happiness, life-affirmation, and freedom.
"Howl" is a poem that is both a Continue Reading...
Curious Case of Filming Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: 1920 versus 2008
Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has evolved into one of the most acclaimed pieces of modern literature. One aspect of this phenomenon is a continual spark of interes Continue Reading...
Diversity and Global Understanding -- Irish & Dutch Immigration
What were the contributions of the Dutch and Irish immigrants to America by the 1870s? What was the pattern of the Dutch immigration into the new country and what was the pattern of Continue Reading...
Thematic Use of Power and Responsibility in Three Short Stories
How can anyone possibly imagine how difficult waging war is without experiencing firsthand the horrors of being on the battlefield? The classics of Western literature have invariably be Continue Reading...
Southern Stories Revelation of the Intrigues of Classism and Racism
The two stories, William Faulkner's A Rose for Emily and Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man is hard to find are southern literature. Southern literature share common elements such as fa Continue Reading...
In the third chapter of Flight, Zits describes who is perhaps "the only real friend of [his] life" as a "pretty white boy" who "doesn't even like or respect Jesus -- or Allah or Buddha or LeBron James or any other God" (Alexie 24). In what is otherw Continue Reading...
However, these themes were conveyed through non-traditional forms or structures, like Whitman and Dickinson's poetry. Apart from these two poets of the postmodernist tradition, other poets who have created works in the postmodernist form are DH Lawr Continue Reading...
Good Man Hard Find," short film, "Black Hearts Bleed Red." http://www.
Flannery O'Conner's short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and Jari Cain Rossi's motion picture "Black Hearts Bleed Red" both address an account involving a dysfunctional Amer Continue Reading...
However, because of Gilgamesh's thought that he may be invincible, he is actually putting his friend's life at risk by going on his adventure. In his attempt to prove that he is brave and that he would rather die for a cause, he actually indirectly Continue Reading...
Eventually, Esther sneaks into the cellar with a bottle of sleeping pills -- prescribed to her for the insomnia she was experiencing, without any other real attempts to understand or solve the underlying problems of her mental upset -- having left a Continue Reading...
Being of nature, a supposedly passive entity does not necessarily stime the female poet, it can also, in Bishop's construcion, empower her as a speaker.
Yet, there is one caveat -- for Bishop's poem remains tantalizingly silent about her own gender Continue Reading...
Olaudah Equiano / Prince Slave Stories
The story of Olaudah Equiano began in Nigeria in 1745, when he was born; by the age of 11 Equiano was a victim of kidnapping and was sold to slave traders. His fate was not to be nearly as harsh as millions of Continue Reading...
jean-Jacques rousseau Confessions and others and Frederick Douglas Narrative of the Life
Upon first impression, few similarities appear between Confessions, the autobiography of Jean Jacques Rousseau, and The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Doug Continue Reading...
The film is also more delicate in spirit and gentle, as befits a pure fantasy rather than a fantastic satire. Instead of rolling and careening about crushing evil people like the aunts and destroying things in its wake like James' former house, the Continue Reading...
Hughes developed, through his poetry, an artistic movement and a fresh new view of Black culture. During his lifetime, especially in his youth, Blacks in America were not regularly treated as equals, and Black literature and art went rather unapprec Continue Reading...
Catherine the Great vs. Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I of England and Catherine II or Catherine the Great of Russia were both of noble birth. Elizabeth was the only surviving child of Henry VIII and his second queen, Anne Boleyn (911 Encyclopedia 2004). Sh Continue Reading...
Vietnam War which was a legacy of the inability of the French to suppress the nationalist movement in Indochina. The article contains five references.
The Vietnam War was a legacy of the inability of the French to suppress the nationalist movement Continue Reading...
Spotlighting Samplings 4 Qualitative Research
Research Choices 6 the Phenomenology Method
The Ethnography Method
DEPTH
Four Qualitative Approach Comparison
Strengths and Critiques of Case Studies
"A research design indicates the full research p Continue Reading...
That is precisely what generates the shock when readers realize, only at the end of the story, that all of those mundane descriptions were actually the prelude and preparation for murder. Both works involve the manner in which otherwise ordinary com Continue Reading...
"The upper lip and gum and teeth were gone. The man's head was cocked at a wrong angle..." (O'Brien 126).
At the same time, the author juxtaposes the image of war and horror with symbols and images of beauty.
The young man's head was wrenched side Continue Reading...