While Gatsby is foreign to his class and thus he must put on a show to fit in, being foreign in America can also be difficult, but it also one of the places that I feel most at home because this is a place created by immigrants and the idea that eve Continue Reading...
American Literature-Marge Piercy's poem "What's That Smell in the Kitchen?" How figurative language is used in the poem to evoke vivid images. In the poem "What's That Smell in the Kitchen?" Piercy analyzes her mundane routine duties as an exhauste Continue Reading...
1920s / Automobile & Modern Advertising Perhaps the most famous American novel of the 1920s, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, contains two memorable images. One is the vast billboard by a car repair shop, with a pair of "blue and giganti Continue Reading...
A professor of English at Waynesburg College, Roberts may have glossed over some of the raw and even vulgar remarks and actions taken by the characters. At one point a newspaper editor -- angered by the violence and killing conducted by Tony's gang Continue Reading...
Gender as Prison At first reading, Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale seem to have little to do with each other except for the very general fact that both novels have elements of social and political commentary in th Continue Reading...
In real life, the social whirl Dick and Nicole create in a backwater French resort area parallels the real life story of the Murphys, who were American expatriates who lived in "Villa America" on the French Rivera long before it became fashionable ( Continue Reading...
Winter Dreams The American Dream is a concept uniquely American which says that if a person is willing to work hard enough, and then they can climb up from their birth station and become successful. This is true except that a person who is self-made Continue Reading...
Therefore, the totalitarian threat does not just replace the first president with Hitler, but also removes any possibility of difference or ambiguity. The multiple, varied, and multifaceted portraits of Washington are replaced entirely by a single, Continue Reading...
James Baldwin's Sonny's Blues applying historcal criticism method. To begin developing thesis, helpful review sections chapter Critical Theory Today list "Some questions…critics literary texts. James Baldwin's 1957 short story "Sonny's Blues" Continue Reading...
Black No More There is a book I used to read when I was younger by Dr. Seuss called The Sneetches. The main plot is about two groups of Sneetches: "The Star-Bell Sneetches," who "had bellies with stars," and "the Plain-Belly Sneetches" who "had non Continue Reading...
Flapper Movement The Effect of the Flappers on Today's Women The 1920's in the U.S. And UK can be described as a period of great change, both socially and economically. During this period the image of the women completely changed and a "new women" Continue Reading...
Mark Twain's realism in fully discovered in the novel The adventures of Huckleberry Finn, book which is known to most of readers since high school, but which has a deeper moral and educational meaning than a simple teenage adventure story. The simpli Continue Reading...
Nearly all failing schools fit this description (Six Secrets of School Success 2000)." If a country is to overcome educational problems, they must take into account the mentality that poverty creates and how that mentality deteriorates the wherewith Continue Reading...
detection and intervention in childhood mental health help prevent mental health problems in adult life? Disregarding the mental well-being requirements of children is an intolerable violation of our basic undertaking to protect their well-being. U Continue Reading...
