Papers On American Literature
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"The Yellow Wallpaper"/Historical Significance
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A 7 page research paper that explores the historical significance of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's famous short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892). The writer discusses how the story dramatizes the effects of patriarchal medical opinions, which were popular in the late nineteenth century, and how they affected Gilman's protagonist, who slowly goes insane while being treated for her "nerves." Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: khgilhis.rtf
"The Yellow Wallpaper": A Historical Critique of the 1892 Short Story by
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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A 7 page overview of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story. Written in 1892 the story traces the treatment of a woman who descends from depression to madness in the male-imposed psychiatric confinement of her room. She finds solitude in the pattern of the wallpaper and eventually is able to recover. Emphasizes the historic conditions of the time which resulted in this work. Identifies the 1890s as one of the most important periods for feminist literature. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: PPyellow.wps
"To Kill a Mockingbird": Law Cannot Alter Social Injustices
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A 5 page paper which
discusses the book "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, illustrating how it indicates
that no law can truly change the social injustices experienced by those who are the victim
of racism. Bibliography lists 2 additional sources.
Filename: RAmckng.rtf
"Traditionalists and Revivalists in Jazz" by Chip Deffaa
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A 12 page book review which considers the book's chronicle of 14 important performers who are frequently overlooked in popular jazz texts. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: TGtrarev.wps
"Travels with Charley": Realism of Characters
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"Travels with Charley": Realism of Characters : A 5 page paper which discusses the a
couple of the characters presented in John Steinbeck's novel "Travels with Charley." The
paper addresses the qualities of the characters which makes them realistic. The characters
discussed are Harry, and the marshals and the girl. No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAcharley.wps
"Two Kinds": An Unnecessary Ending
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A 5 page paper which discusses the last few
paragraphs of Amy Tan's story "Two Kinds," arguing that the last few paragraphs were
perhaps quite unnecessary in presenting the story to the reader. No additional source cited.
Filename: RAtankinds.wps
"Wallace Stevens' 'Americana' and the American Renaissance"
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A five page paper showing how this poem, written in 1950, reflects back on authors of the American Renaissance such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman. The paper explores Stevens' belief that in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans grew to justify materialism and conformity on the mistaken belief that it's the American way, when in fact the writers of the American Renaissance held quite a different philosophy. No additional sources.
Filename: KBamren.wps
"What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?" And "Ar'n't I A Woman?": Compare/Contrast
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5 pages in length. As two of the most outspoken and unforgettable figures in black history, Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass both sought to bring about cultural, social and gender change to an otherwise intolerant white society. Their literary efforts, forever bound and protected by time, have chronicled the struggles inherent to black Americans since the beginning of the slave trade; that their personal experiences mirror the horrors taught from schoolbooks all across the country make their respective appeals for racial equity that much more poignant. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: TLCArnt.rtf
"White Noise": A Critical Essay on the Book by Don DeLillo
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Describes this book as a testament to the cultural void in which we conduct our contemporary lives. The book is centered around the life of a family who is, to say the least, an odd assortment of individuals who appear to attract the company of even odder individuals. These lives are shaped to a large degree by an ever present consumerism and the ironic and philosophical view of death. No additional sources are listed.
Filename: PPwhtNoi.wps
"Young Goodman Brown" and Puritanism
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A 5 page paper which examines the
presence of Puritanism and the occult in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman
Brown." Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: RAgdmbrn.rtf
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