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Maya Angelou/All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
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A 5 page analysis of All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou, which is the fifth volume in her serial autobiography. This volume is an account of Angelou's experiences in Ghana in the early 1960s. This narrative relates how Angelou found a job teaching at the University of Ghana and began working as an editor. While the narrative naturally includes the details of where Angelou worked, and the major details of her life, the motivating force behind the book is how Angelou worked to relate emotionally to Ghana and her African heritage. No additional sources cited.
Filename: 99agcnts.rtf
Searching for Identity Through Ralph Waldo Emerson:
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This five-page-paper discusses the search for identity by the narrator in the classic tale 'Invisible Man' by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Bibliography lists one source.
Filename: CWinvisa.wps
Literature Reflects Concept of God
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This is a 5 page paper that examines the books; 'Black Elk Speaks,' 'The Scarlet Letter' and 'Typee' in respect to religious/spiritual aspects. Each book is analyzed to determine how the concept of God or a higher power is viewed. The paper concludes with a brief comparison of these beliefs with the development of religious acceptance in the United States. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Literature Reflects Racism
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This is a 5 page paper that examines 'Black Elk Speaks,' 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' and 'Typee' in respect to racism as it is represented for the period the books were written. Each book is analyzed to determine how racism is viewed and the role it plays in the development of the book. The conclusion asks and answers the question: 'How, then, are these three works of literature indicative of the development of racism in the United States?' Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: Racelit.wps
'Heart of Darkness' and 'An Image of Africa'
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3 pages in length. Authors Joseph Conrad and Chinua Achebe take us on emotional journeys into their works. The writer describes the talent with which these two authors transport us into their world. We read about the real people of Africa, their emotions and sometimes violent tendencies in their daily survival. These are books about real life; while the characters may be fictional, one infers from the emotions that drive both authors that most of these things have happened or could easily happen and are not simply fantasy. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: JGAacheb.wps
A Summer Tragedy By Arna W. Bontemps
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A 5 page research paper on the work of America's first and foremost African-American children's writer, Arna W. Bontemps. The writer gives biographical detail on the Bontemps, and also focuses on his greatest piece of adult fiction, 'A Summer Tragedy.' No additional sources cited.
Filename: Bontempos.wps
Alice Walker's 'The Color Purple'/ Character Of Nettie
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A 4 page character analysis of Nettie in Walker's 'The Color Purple.' The writer attempts to prove the thesis that Nettie was one of the story's only characters with a strong sense of values. No Bibliography.
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All is Never Said
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A 5 page sociological look at the book, 'All is Never Said: The Narrative of Odette Harper Hines,' by Judith Rollins. In this book the woman, a black woman, describes her life as an activist. The sociological terms examined, in relevancy to the book, are; role theory, reference group theory, social map, symbolic interactionism, and social stratification. All of these terms are especially relevant to the biography of this woman for she was unique in that she was born in 1914, to an affluent class African American family. this was a rarity and offers the reader a truly different look into the issues and terms being discussed. No additional sources provided.
Filename: Hinesaid.wps
Anne Radcliffe's 'The Castles Of Athlin And Dunbayne' And Toni Morrison's
'Beloved': Social Class Prejudice
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5 pages in length. Assessing the prejudicial differences that exist between Anne Radcliffe's 'The Castles Of Athlin And Dunbayne' and Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' is to address the issue of social class. The reality of
Scottish white privilege as it is bestowed upon Radcliffe's Mary is entirely separate and apart from the ravages of Morrison's enslaved Sethe. The writer discusses that the
manner by which each character is influenced by prejudice of social class implores the reader to envision the glaring contrarieties between a white British woman a black African American female. No additional sources cited.
Filename: TLCpreju.wps
Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
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This 2 page paper considers some
of the central issues presented in James Weldon Johnson's The
Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man. This paper specifically considers
factors that influence a view of the author's class biases, including
two specific scenarios in which these biases are outlined within the
narrator's commentary. No additional sources cited.
Filename: MHWeldo_.wps
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