-
Mother Died Color Purple
412 wordsAt 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 wordsThe 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 wordsI 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 wordsSUMMARY: 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 wordsMy 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 wordsAlexander 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsAnalytical 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 wordsThe 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 wordsAt 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 wordsThe 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 wordsPlease 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThis 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 wordsBlack 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 wordsGeorge 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 wordsThrough 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 wordsWithout 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
Customer center
