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498.16941 Urban Americans and Rural Americans: A Brief Overview of the Small Town/Big City Divide in American Literature
This 3-page undergraduate essay provides a synthetic account of the role played by the small town/big city opposition in the history of American Literature. Focussing particularly on the prose works of the period 1915-1945, this essay considers the ways that towns and cities have been used symbolically in American literature. Towns have been associated with the past, family, tradition, and entrapment, while cities were used to represent opportunity, individualism, fragmentation, and danger. However, as this essay points out, this method of representation became more complex during the early twentieth century, as Americans moved increasingly into cities, making rural areas even more idealized. At the same time, the differences between the two changed, so that suburban and urban areas were modelled on some aspects of rural communities, while rural areas became more modernized and more connected to the big cities.
Pages: 3
Bibliography: 3 source(s) listed
Filename: 16941 American Literature Synthesis.doc
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499.16967 Finding Blame and Responsibility in Stephen King?s Carrie
From the opening salvo of ?You?re bleeding, you big dumb pudding,? (King 6) to the end ?the Congregational Church on Carlin Street is gone, swept away by fire? (178), Carrie is a novel about blame and responsibility and the dangers of too much of one, and too little of the other. Carrie, without a doubt, was a ?special? girl. While her talents happened to be of the telekinetic sort, they were talents nonetheless. An outcast from her social circles, the child of a single, quite insane, religiously zealous mother, Carrie had very little in the way of tools needed to deal with the kind of horrors that would be inflicted upon her by the girls and boys of her school. Some might say that she was a target, that she brought the storm of teasing and torture on herself by sheer power of her ?weirdness?. But, it might be more accurate to say that the destruction of the school, the death of all those children and adults, and the near destruction of the town came about because no-one took responsibility for their own actions, and everyone pointed their finger of blame to someone else.
Pages: 3
Bibliography: 1 source(s) listed
Filename: 16967 Stephen King Carrie.doc
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500.16975 An Analysis Freewill and Fate in Grendel by John Gardner
This paper will seek to define the elements of free will and fate in existential thought in Grendel by John Gardner. By understanding the character of Grendel, we can learn how he disrupts mankind's sense of order and religious morality. By analyzing Grendel's sense of free will, we can learn how this character exists outside of man's laws and moral dogma; a destined fate. These are the existential aspects explored in this study.
501.16977 Cultural Assimilation in New American Families in The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan and The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
This paper will to examine the nature of immigrants in American life, as they arise in The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan and The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. By fully understanding the Mexican and Chinese views of cultural assimilation, we can identify how both of these authors relate their experience in American life from a foreign perspective.
Pages: 5
Bibliography: 6 source(s) listed
Filename: 16977 Tan Cisneros Community.doc
Price: US$44.75
502.19999 An Analysis of Romance in A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
This paper will discuss the ideas of romance in the book A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin. By relating the elements of setting, plot, character development, and conflict, we can understand why Le Guin used romance themes in her sixties styled epic of wizards and dragons. In this format, we can learn why Le Guin constructed this classically orientated tale.
Pages: 5
Bibliography: 5 source(s) listed
Filename: 19999 Leguin Fantasy Earthsea.doc
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503.20046 Tall Tales in the United States: What Are the Reasons That Tall Tales Have Become Historical Fact
This paper explores five tall tales and places them in a historical and social context. The tales are John Henry, Davy Crockett, Paul Bunyan, Casey Jones, and Johnny Appleseed. This paper suggests that the use of the tall tale helped Americans to adapt to concepts that were alien or frightening to them, such as the movement from East to West in the 1900s.
Pages: 17
Bibliography: 8 source(s) listed
Filename: 20046 Tall Tales Bunyan.doc
Price: US$152.15
504.20133 John Berryman's Op. Posth. No 8
This essay examines the structure of one of the poet's Op. posth., a cycle within the poet's larger opus The Dream Song. The close tretual analysis sheds light on some of the poetic conceits and themes found throughout the larger, more scattered, open-ended work that otherwise might be hard take in, assimilate and come to the ralization ultimately, the poem
is bout the fragmented, ever-elusive self.
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