175 results found, view free essays on page:
-
Mother Died Color Purple
412 words
At the tender age of fifteen, Celie, the main
character in Alice Walkers The Color Purple is
raped by whom she knows as her Pa. Pa forces
himself upon Celie and she gets big or pregnant,
not once, but twice. When Pa takes the children
away, the first a boy and the second a girl, Celie
believes that he kills them. The reader gathers
from her letters to God, that she is not very
educated, and she seems a little on the dumb side.
She does not like, or fully understand the idea of
her children being...
Free research essays on topics related to: color purple, nettie, dumb, celie, mother died
-
Young Girl Female Role
1,173 words
The story, Boys and Girls, by Alice Munro, has the
ability to absorb the reader from the very start,
not through only its remarkably gruesome yet
gripping introduction but also from its
enlightenment of how life was during the early 20
th century. Ironically, Munro's narrator and
protagonist character is a little girl whom we are
not provided the name of. However, this apparent
lack of identity does not prevent us from
discovering the young girls dynamic
characteristics such as her endurable str...
Free research essays on topics related to: family members, alongside, female role, young girl, great deal
-
Serial Killers Brain Damage
1,107 words
I hated all of my life. I hated everybody. When I
first grew up and can remember, I was dressed as a
girl by Mother. And I stayed that way for two or
three years. And after that I was treated like
what I call the dog of the family. I was beaten; I
was made to do things that no human bein would
want to do. Ive had to steal, make bootleg liquor;
Ive had to eat out of a garbage can. I grew up and
watched prostitution like that with my mother till
I was fourteen years old. Then I started to steal,
d...
Free research essays on topics related to: killers, serial, serial killers, lucas, brain damage
-
Inez And Estelle Inference About The Literary Period Garcin
1,607 words
SUMMARY: In the play, No Exit, Sartre describes an
emotional merry-go-round in which Garcin, Inez,
and Estelle love one another, but the love must
remain unrequited. Inez is attracted to Estelle
who is completely turned off by her. Estelle would
like to flirt with Garcin who does not care for
her. Garcin wants friendship from Inez, while she
despises him. These three characters are stuck
with one another, without any means of escape. In
the beginning of the play we are introduced to
Garcin. He c...
Free research essays on topics related to: inez, locked, estelle, real reason, garcin
-
York Longman 1999 Reading Across The Curriculum
1,241 words
My high school was relatively small. To put it
into perspective, I graduated with eighty-six
people. In my class there were the usual cliques.
There were the smart kids, the athletes, the
cheerleaders, the drug users, and the slackers.
But somehow I didn't fit into all of this. I
wasn't, and still am not, the smartest person in
the history of the world. I'm way too clumsy to
play any sports. I wasn't the right size to be a
cheerleader. I wouldn't even consider using drugs,
and I certainly am not...
Free research essays on topics related to: writing and reading, reading across the curriculum, york longman 1999, laurence behrens, thing in the world
-
One Of The Greatest War Hero
1,076 words
Alexander the Great is said to be one of the
greatest conquerors of all time, and yet, his
significance in battle showed up late in his life.
His early years were spent in poverty, and as the
years progressed, his dream of being a war hero
grew dimmer and dimmer. Ironically, while he was
later known as a war hero, he was still feared by
all because of his reputation as a drinker and
murderer. But first, his background. He was born
in 356 BC. His parents were Philip, the brother of
King Perdiccas...
Free research essays on topics related to: alexander, war hero, one occasion, philip, one of the greatest
-
John F Kennedy President Kennedy
1,223 words
... ital only four miles away. When the limousine
pulled up to the hospital entrance, Jackie held
her husband protectively. Realizing she could not
bear for others to see her mutilated husband, a
secret service agent removed his jacket and handed
it to Jackie to wrap around the president's head.
President Kennedy was placed on a stretcher and
carried into the hospital, his wife running
alongside to keep the jacket in place. At 1: 00,
the doctor pulled a sheet over Kennedy's face.
During the moto...
Free research essays on topics related to: white house, john h, president kennedy, john f kennedy, first lady
-
Day She Died Care Of Her Mother Film
730 words
The film, Like Water for Chocolate, represents a
story through incorporating the idea of food as
feelings and expressing the woman's roles during
the Mexican Revolution. The film is a
romantic-comedy showing many joking ways of hard
times and soft issues and the way of life. The
most striking and theme seems to be how women seem
to be in charge rather then males; during this
time period, I thought that men were more likely
to be the head of the household and in charge.
Throughout the film, the m...
Free research essays on topics related to: hated, charge, tita, mexican revolution, pedro
-
The Autobiography Of An Ex Colored Man
1,725 words
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Although
the book title The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored
Man might suggest that this is a true story, this
is a fictional story written by James Weldon
Johnson about a biracial man referred in the book
as an Ex-Colored Man. The book was written in 1912
and its story line is based on the time period of
the post reconstruction era of the late nineteenth
century and the beginning of the twentieth century
and deals with the forced choice the biracial man
has ...
Free research essays on topics related to: james weldon johnson, southern whites, colored man, social standing, black people
-
Analytical On Ramona By Helen Hunt Jackson
1,105 words
Analytical Essay on Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson
America is considered to be a multi-cultural
country. For a long time people of different
nations came there. Thats why the problems
concerning with racial difference have been
existing during a long period of American history.
It is known from the history that after the Civil
War there were three main counter-forces in the
state: Mexicans, Indians and White people
(Americans). Especially in the southern areas such
as California the withstanding w...
Free research essays on topics related to: native americans, helen hunt jackson, white man, main hero, real truth
-
Couple Of Days People
566 words
The Catcher in the Rye The main character in this
book is Holden Caulfield. He is a young man that
has just recently attended and flunked out of, or
as he says, got the ax from Pencey prep school, in
Pennsylvania. The book starts out with his last
days at the school, and kind of gives a
description of the environment of the school, and
the kind of people that attended with him. It
starts with him getting in a fight with his
roommate, Stradlater, over this girl Stradlater
went out with, who is Ho...
Free research essays on topics related to: holden, couple of days, stradlater, hated, phony
-
Thought She Was Ugly Celie Children
416 words
At the tender age of fifteen, Celie, the main
character in Alice Walker? s The Color Purple is
raped by she knows as her Pa. Pa forces himself
upon Celie and she gets? big? or pregnant, not
once, but twice. When Pa takes the children away,
the first a boy and the second a girl, Celie
believes that he kills them. The reader gathers
from her letters to God, that she is not very
educated, and she seems a little on the dumb side.
She does not like, or fully understand the idea of
her children being ...
Free research essays on topics related to: mother died, dumb, ugly, celie, nettie
-
Physical Appearance De Lacey
671 words
The Frankenstein Paradigm Frankenstein, by Mary
Shelley is a complex novel that was written during
the age of Romanticism. It contains many typical
themes of a common Romantic novel such as dark
laboratories, the moon, and a monster. However,
Frankenstein is anything but a common novel. Many
lessons are embedded into this novel, including
how society acts towards the different. The
monster fell victim to the system commonly used to
characterize a person by only his or her outer
appearance. Wheth...
Free research essays on topics related to: de lacey, first encounter, frankenstein, monster, physical appearance
-
Mcdonalds Sister Didnt
396 words
Please relate one or more experiences or
circumstances that have contributed to your
personal and / or academic development. Why I will
never eat at McDonalds, again I was seven years
old and we were on a trip to Olean to go shopping.
We were about ten minutes from Olean and as usual
I was fighting with my sister in the backseat and
for the tenth time this trip my dad was
threatening to pull the car over if we didnt stop.
I hated shopping when I was younger, and I always
looked forward to our st...
Free research essays on topics related to: usual, shopping, toy, mcdonalds, finished
-
Hope For The Future Soviet Union
2,516 words
The Chechens always despised being ruled by the
Russians, likewise, Russia loathed them ranked
them among the most ruthless and severe criminals
of the former Soviet Union (Roskin 285). Stalin
deported the Chechens to Kazakhstan in 1944,
claiming they were German collaborators. When the
remaining Muslim Chechens were permitted back into
their homeland, they returned feeling bitter and
helpless without any available resources on which
to survive. Since their repatriation, the people
of Chechnya h...
Free research essays on topics related to: holy war, first place, single handedly, hope for the future, soviet union
-
Blah Blah Ext Ext Life
612 words
This is my Life Well I guess this is an
autobiography about me, written by me, so I will
try to make it as boring as I can so you don? t
get to interested in my overly exiting life. Well,
I was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania at
approximately 3: 05 in the afternoon and I was 5
lb. 3 oz. The doctor said I would always be a
small, quiet kid, but boy did I disappoint him. I
guess you could say I was a little wild when I was
small, but not very. (Lolololol, ya right. ) I
have lived in many differen...
Free research essays on topics related to: min, blah blah, san, grade, blah
-
White People Black Boy
537 words
Black Boy From the early days of Richard s
childhood, Richard was always alienated from his
environment. Even though he tried to distance
himself from the prejudice all around him, the
white people still tried to turn him into the
stereotypical southern black person. However,
throughout the story Richard is also alienated by
his own people and perhaps even more then from the
white people. Richard was always a rebel, from his
boyhood to his older teenage years. Richard s
grandmother was always ex...
Free research essays on topics related to: white people, alienated, black people, black boy, principal
-
World War Ii Twentieth Century
915 words
George Orwell was not only a writer, but also an
important political reformer. Orwell was born in
India in 1903. He considered his family a
lower-middle class family. He said this because
his family was a part of the middle class, but had
little money. His father worked for the British
government and was able to be apart of the middle
class without money. Orwell lived in Britain and
went to boarding school there on scholarships. He
was the poorest student among many wealthy
children. Orwell felt...
Free research essays on topics related to: twentieth century, ruling party, george orwell, world war ii, main character
-
Good Or Bad Alter Ego
1,297 words
Through the character Rorschach, The Watchmen
explores the issues of nature verses nurture for
him. Moore adds that a super hero, can be a
psychological argument. A super hero is neither
born nor shaped by environment, it is the creation
of an alter ego to suppress childhood conflicting
inner issues. Rorschach dealt with issues as a
young child that rationalized in his mind to hide
behind a costume and a mask in order to live. The
first character the book introduces to the reader
to is Rorschach...
Free research essays on topics related to: good or bad, didn t, walter, alter ego, chap
-
Thousand Dollars Three Thousand
1,119 words
Without a doubt Paul s case was a bad case, but a
bad case of what? Paul was a young man who never
had time for the average, dull life. He spent most
of his life in a dream world that comforted and
accepted him. Never did Paul feel embarrassed or
not liked in his imagination. It was the only
place that he felt at peace; but where would he go
if his sanctuary were suddenly taken from him?
What would a boy do in order to get it back? What
would you do if you learned that there was no
going back? P...
Free research essays on topics related to: wasn t, three thousand, thousand dollars, handle, didn t
175 results found, view free essays on page: