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- 4861: Bias
- Bias What does the word bias mean? Bias is a mental predilection or prejudice. The essay "The View from the Bottom Rail" by James West Davidson and Mark Hamilton Lytle opened my eyes on how American history could be looked at as one sided and even bias. Even today there is still bias in America. In today's society, racism and stereotyping occur in all aspects of life. It can occur ... all the time. As a child, one of my uncles gave me the nick name "gringo", Spanish word for white boy. I grew up in East New York (Brooklyn, NY), which is a predominantly African American, with a few Latinos and almost no Caucasian. In East New York, the African Americans and Latinos tend to get along. For me this was not so. Being that I looked Caucasian, most of the ...
- 4862: A Violent Illumination of Salvation
- ... Awareness of God's grace does not come easily to these people. The truthful illumination of their soul may cost their own life or that of an innocent victim. As pointed out in Masterpieces of American Literature, "God's mercy is not a soothing balm[,] but a burning flame that purifies the sinner" (498). Works Cited Bain, Carl. E., Beaty, Jerome & Hunter, J.P. The Norton Introduction to Literature. 5th ed ... 1976. O'Connor, Flannery. A Good Man is Hard to Find. San diego: Harcourt, 1976. O'Connor, Flannery. Habit of Being. Ed: Sally Fitzgerald. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1979. "O'Connor." Masterpieces of American Literature. Ed. Frank N. Magil. New Jersey: Saturn, 1993. Walters, Dorothy. Flannery O'Connor. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1993.
- 4863: The Autobiographical Elements in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe
- ... had three major effects on his life: he lost his health, he lost his jobs, and he lost his dream of a magazine of his own. "Poe was the first in a long series of American authors who felt a need to drink. Alcohol ruined his life. He had no good jobs. He had no stable world. He had nothing to anchor him to reality, so he induced fantasies and drowned ... irrationality, and extreme bouts with alcoholism. His obsession with the subject of death, particularly the death of a beautiful woman, was expressed in a majority of his works. "The one thing certain is that no American writer of Poe's distinction ever died a more lonely or pathetic death" (Poulter 3).
- 4864: The Theory of Property
- ... being ripple effects both to that same culture and to all surrounding populations. Wolf uses as his chief vehicle through which he can describe his theory the fur trade with was introduced to the native American population by the Europeans in the early 17th century. As fur trade grew in popularity for numerous reasons, competition between populations grew as well. This affected not only the European traders but also every native American who provided them with fur. "The advent of the fur trade deranged accustomed social relations and cultural habits and prompted the formation of new responses-both internally...and externally." (p.161) Wolf holds that the ...
- 4865: Gary Soto's Like Mexicans: Personal Experiences
- ... to write in response to Gary Soto's work, Like Mexicans was influenced for the most part because of the similarities between myself and Gary Soto, and our families included. Gary Soto is a Mexican American male, who grew up in the San Joaquin Valley in the industrial part of a town called Fresno. His grandparents came to this Great Valley in search of creating a better life for themselves and their families. I am also a Mexican American male who was born and raised in the San Joaquin Valley in a small town called Porterville. My grandparents migrated with their children, my mother, father, and their brothers and sisters in hopes of creating ...
- 4866: The Trickster
- ... He provides comic relief to a religious myth. And he will pull off elaborate schemes to teach a moral lesson or expose the folly of men. The Trickster shares many attributes with man. In Native American stories he takes the form of the coyote. He is earthbound, like man, but is constantly trying to transcend this fate. He is always attempting to fly (which is the sign of a god to ... very same character, but we knew him as Wile Coyote. The Looney Toons character that was always after the Road Runner. The creators of him were interested in the comedic value they saw in Native American stories and adapted him into a cartoon. Wile would come up with some elaborate schemes, but in the end the result was always the same. The long fall from the cliff to the ground. The ...
- 4867: Martin Luther King and Patrick Henry: Cry for Freedom
- ... a general sense was that one calls for a change through violence and war, while the other calls for a peaceful solution. Patrick Henry's speech to the Virginia House of Burgesses calls for a revolution against Great Britain. This must have been a difficult speech for Henry to deliver because he was speaking to a group of people who were opposed to his ideals. They gave the speech pre-revolution and was an attempt to persuade the Virginia delegates to solve the colonies' problems with the British through war. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech was much different than Henry's. First of all, King ...
- 4868: Edgar Allen Poe's "Hop Frog": The Transcendence Of Frogs and Ourang-Outangs
- ... his imagery"(1091) of Hop-Frog's transcendence and the King and his seven ministers inability to transcend and recognize transcendence in others. Works Cited Hall, Donald, and Stephen Spendler. Concise Encyclopedia of English and American Poets and Poetry. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1963. 1084-1092. Hart, James D. Oxford Companion to American Literature. 5TH Ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. 323-336. Poe, Edgar Allen. "Hop Frog". The Bedford Introduction To Literature Ed. Michael Meyer. 3RD Ed. Boston: St. Martin's Press, 1996. 481-487.
- 4869: Review of John Updike's Review "It Was Sad"
- ... points out, who he feels, are the real heroes in this catastrophe. This shows he is writing from a moral perspective, relating to these works. He definitely takes the position of the lower class of American society as this time in history, and even brings up the topic of racism and sexism in the recall of the event. It seems that the ships crew and the lower class passengers were the ... to me that Updike not only wanted to review the events of the disaster, but also make a statement about social classes and their values. I feel that he presented an accurate description of the American cultural scene at that time.
- 4870: Analysis of the Works of Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Analysis of the Works of Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne are two of the most influential authors in American Literature. Both men wrote about similar themes, creating great admiration between them. The relationship that had grown between them was a source of critic and interpretation that would ultimately influence each of their works. Melville in particular was moved by Hawthorne's intellectual stimulation and inspired him to write Moby-Dick, a dramatic novel that has proved to be one of the greatest in American Literature. Moby-Dick explores the element of tragedy and how one must pursue dreams relentlessly without letting obstacles get in the way. Hawthorne wrote in The Scarlet Letter of a woman who had to face ...
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