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519.20893 An Analysis of Setting in Only Twice I?ve Wished for Heaven by Dawn Turner Trice
This paper will examine the role of racism within Only Twice I?ve Wished for Heaven by Dawn Turner Trice. By examining her main character in the tale, we can learn why Tempestt learns to confront class poverty within her own race, and why this is important to understanding racism within her culture. Trice presents this in the settings of Chicago, creating a class issue in different levels of African American society.
Pages: 4
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Filename: 20893
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520.20948 A Lesson on Money: An Analysis of Toni Cade Bambara's ?The Lesson?
This paper will analyze a lesson on money in Toni Cade Bambara's ?The Lesson?. By observing how Sylvia learns to adapt to the high-class society that Miss Moore has placed her in, she must learn to understand class divisions between ghetto life and Fifth Avenue. In this manner, we can see a stubborn poor girl slowly begin to realize that she can too attain wealth in America.
Pages: 5
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Filename: 20948
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521.20967 The Absentee Role Model: The Role of Malachy McCourt in Frank McCourt?s Angela?s Ashes
This 4-page undergraduate essay considers the many effects Malachy McCourt has on his son Frank in Frank McCourt?s Pulitzer-Prize winning memoir, Angela?s Ashes. This essay begins by considering that we learn from many role models, and in learning through these role models, we learn what we do and so not value. This essay then moves on to a closer examination of Malachy McCourt?s role in McCourt?s book. This essay concludes that if we consider that we all learn from many role models, learning both admirable traits and disagreeable characteristics from them, we can read Frank McCourt?s memoir, Angela?s Ashes, as an examination of the effect of a father figure on the child Frank McCourt. Examining the relationship between Frank and his often-absent father, we can see the ways Malachy McCourt affects his son both positively and negatively, directly and indirectly. Malachy McCourt does intentionally teach his sons some positive lessons, stressing to them the importance of Irish culture and history and emphasizing the importance of personal dignity through direct speeches and lessons. Through his behaviour, Malachy McCourt indirectly teaches his sons about irresponsibility, the dangers of drinking, and about a certain type of callousness. Although Malachy McCourt teaches his sons gentleness and calm through his example, he also teaches them about irresponsibility. Ultimately, he teaches them to reject irresponsibility. Frank, especially, is so appalled by his father?s behaviour that he all but rejects him, imagining a different type of father figure for himself. Understanding the role of Malachy McCourt as a role model for Frank, one can see the complex and often indirect ways father figures affect their children, both for good and for ill.
Pages: 4
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Filename: 20967
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522.21147 Blanche?s Struggle: Re-Creating the Past in Tennessee William?s A Streetcar Named Desire
This 4-page undergraduate essay examines the question of how Blanche's past affects her present behaviour in Tennessee William?s play A Streetcar Named Desire. This essay examines how Blanche's relationships with all other characters and her reactions are informed by her past. This paper concludes that Blanche?s relationship to her past is a complex one. Since her past includes traumatic and humiliating sexual experiences as well as financial loss, Blanche comes to believe that she must act and avoid reality in order to avoid being hurt further. Unfortunately, her attempts at acting only anger Stanley, who sees Blanche as a threat to his agency within the home. Ultimately, Stanley brutally establishes his agency within the home by humiliating and raping Blanche, proving that her attempts at re-creating herself and her past cannot protect her. Blanche?s relationship with men is also tarnished by her past, as her suitor Mitch rejects her for her past. Further, Blanche?s relationship with her sister Stella is complicated by Blanche?s past, since Blanche?s attempts to hold onto the ideals of her past make her disapprove of her sister. This alienates the two sisters.
Pages: 4
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Filename: 21147
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523.21226 The Power of Words to Make One Free: an American Idea Shared by Frederick Douglas and Benjamin Franklin
This paper discusses elements of Frederick Douglas' "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave" and elements of the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. In this paper the ways these two men conceived of the role as members of American society and the ways they perceived their responsibilities are given consideration. This paper focuses on the shared notion of literacy.
Pages: 4
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Filename: 21226
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524.21236 Of Hogs and Dogs: McKay's Use of Simile in "If We Must Die"
This paper explicates Claude McKay's poem, "If WE Must Die." In this paper special attention is given to the similes he uses in the opening lines. These similes carry clues of how to interpret the remainder of the poem. By looking at the way he uses hogs and dogs and to whom he makes these comparisons, the reader is better able to grasp the entirety of this poem.
Pages: 5
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Filename: 21236
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525.21348 A Brief Consideration of Some Issues Raised in Harper Lee?s To Kill a Mockingbird
This 9-page undergraduate paper answers three questions about Harper Lee?s novel To Kill a Mockingbird: ?Analyze Atticus? relationship with his children. Would you consider him a good father? Explain and cite examples?; ?Examine the character of Boo Radley in both a practical and symbolic sense. What role does he play in the development of plot? What does he signify beyond his role in the novel?? and ?Does Scout gain insight and mature during the courses of the novel? Explain why or why not?. Using the novel itself, this essay concludes that Atticus is in many ways a good father, although his contradictions and oversights threaten his children. This paper also argues that Boo acts as a catalyst for the plot, as a foil and doppelgänger for Scout, and as a symbol of the good and the bad in Maycomb society. Finally, this paper argues that Scout does develop in the course of the novel, which is evident from her increasing awareness of the inequity around her and from her mature and critical reaction to that inequity.
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