Parent/Child Conflict in Three Short Stories
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A 7 page paper analyzing the conflict between parental figures and youth in three stories: Frank O'Connor's 'First Confession,' 'Joy Williams' 'Taking Care,' and Ernest Gaines' 'The Sky is Gray'. The paper concludes that the job of a 'parent' is to instill qualities in a younger person that will help the young person contribute productively to society; and it is the job of the young person to break with tradition just enough to be able to achieve his own potential. No sources except books.
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Personal Transformations
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This 10 page paper considers the representations of personal transformations in the works of Chaing-Rae Lee, Diane McKinney-Whetstone. This paper considers the link between the personal transformations in The Native Speaker, Tumbling and the film Chinatown as it relates to issues like urban renewal, civil rights, work, city, family, social and sexual changes. This paper defines specific aspects of both texts along with the themes, images and language utilized in the film. No additional sources cited.
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Pietro Di Donato's "Christ In Concrete : A Novel" And Anzia Yezierska's "How I Found America : Collected Stories Of Anzia Yezierska": Dialect
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5 pages in length. Spoken language is the most fundamental form of communication between human beings, yet its origin is quite elusive. From grunts and snorts back in the Neanderthal age to the most sophisticated of speech patterns of present day, the evolution of language has incorporated myriad changes and still continues to be a work in progress. It is through a particular component of language � dialect � that myriad literary works achieve their ultimate objective: telling a tale rich with heritage and culture. Two such books that effectively utilize dialect as a means by which to lyrical include Pietro Di Donato's "Christ In Concrete : A Novel" and Anzia Yezierska's "How I Found America : Collected Stories of Anzia Yezierska." No additional sources cited.
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Poetry of the Holocaust
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A 5 page overview of Holocaust poetry. This paper emphasizes how poetry like that of Don Pagis, Paul Celan, and others have added significantly to our understanding of the horrors of this time in history, not through rote historical fact, but through the moving words of their poems. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
Filename: PPholoPm.rtf

Poetry: Dickinson And Plath
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6 pages in length. Poetry has long been a much-appreciated art form, in that it allows an individual to express a collage of innermost feelings. It has thrived throughout the centuries, entertaining the likes of kings and rulers, peasants and the general populace. As such, it is curious to think that people should wonder why poetry is such an integral part of human expression. Sylvia Plath and Emily Dickinson understood the motivational factors that poetry innately possesses, inasmuch as each poet directed her distinct style toward that which influenced her most. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Post Colonial Women Writers
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A 6 page research paper that examines the work of Bessie Head of South African and her collection of short stories, "The Collector of Treasures," and also the short story, "The Youngest Doll" by Puerto Rican writer Rosario Ferre. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Post-Colonialism in Michael Ondaatje's "The English Patient" & Salman Rushdie's "Haroun and the Sea of Stories"
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A 5 page paper which examines post-colonialism in Michael Ondaatje's "The English Patient" and Salman Rushdie's "Haroun and the Sea of Stories" in terms of the enemy, both real and allegorical; the confusion over who is the enemy in each; and the reasons for this confusion, from a post-colonial perspective. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Power and Exploitation in Four Literary Works:
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An 8 page comparison of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Alan Duff's Once Were Warriors, Russell Banks' Continental Drift, and Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal in terms of their treatment of the themes of exploitation and power. The paper asserts that it is not only those who are suffering the exploitation who suffer; the exploiters suffer morally as their actions diminish them. Similarly, the exploited morally triumph as they learn to deal with adversity and forge a renewed sense of power out of the shambles of their lives. Bibliography lists five sources.
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Questions on the Crested Kimono
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5 pages. Compares the significance of the Mother figure in the Japanese family to that of the Navajo family as indicated in the book "Kinship and Gender". Also considers the film Dadi's Family in the same context. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Reality in Literature
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This 12 page paper summarizes the plots lines of four different stories and shows how they are reflections of perceptions of reality. The stories considered are Mrs Dallaway by Virginia Wolf, Nightwood by Djuna Barnes, Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett and Jazz by Toni Morrison. The bibliography sites 4 sources.
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