Breaking the Pressure of Silence in Ba’s So Long a Letter
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Time, place, expectation, disappointment, surrender, rebellion, desired commitment and buried anger all surface in women of every culture, but when Mariama Ba applies them to her African marriage culture in So Long a Letter, she goes a phase deeper into female existence. It is that silent partner, always a step behind, always there, always observing, not quite doing and not quite asserting itself into the whole. From this part of herself, Ba breaks the final barrier to silence. Bibliography lists 1 source. jvBALong.rtf
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Censorship in Children's Literature
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This 10 page paper provides an overview of the literature on censorship in children's literature. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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Chaim Potok's "My Name Is Asher Lev": The Struggle To Be True To Oneself
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5 pages in length. The primary theme throughout the literary artistry of author Chaim Potok revolves around Jewish pride, familial relationships and accepting one's heritage. A strained cultural home life complicated by Lev's need to exhibit his pain through art in "My Name is Asher Lev" effectively illustrates how Potok is quite successful at telling tales of cultural struggle and the inherent commitment that accompanies it. In portraying the characterization of these various bonds and relationships, the author's quintessential components are to draw together the very basic qualities that exist within the confines of Jewish and Christian cultures. No additional sources cited.
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Characterization in 2 Sci.Fi. Stories
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A 3 page essay that discusses 2 short stories. George Martin, a science fiction writer, expressed in an interview (Locus, December 2005, 69) that he felt that too often science fiction and fantasy fiction paints characters as being black-and-white and, furthermore, that to humanize them with shades of gray requires multiple viewpoints on a conflict. Two fantasy stories that illustrate Martin's point and offer complex characterization are Poul Anderson's "A Tale of Hauk" and Judith Tarr's "Death and the Lady." In both of these short stories, the characters take on depth and nuance because the authors skillfully show that their main characters have self-doubt and faults, as well as heroic virtues. No additional sources cited.
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Chikamatsu/His Plays & Cultural Ideals
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A 3 page essay that analyzes the sexual and religious ideas in the Japanese seventeenth century plays of Chikamatsu. Then, the writer compares these ideals to Hindu, Jewish, Roman Catholic and American perspectives. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Chinua Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart': Heroism
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5 pages in length. One can reasonably assert that there existed a sequence of social change as a means by which to describe the impact of the intrusive European culture upon the indigenous culture of Umuofia. Having viewed Umuofia's culture as tending to be relatively stationary as well as harboring unstable equilibrium, one can explain the validity of such a statement by describing various events of social heroism that occur in the novel which can effectively justify its truth. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” and a Revaluation of Values
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This 7 page report discusses Chinua Achebe’s 1958 novel about a village in pre-colonial Nigeria. The concept of things falling apart in “Things Fall Apart” comes from the many ways in which the life of the main character, Okonkwo, changes in ways he is powerless to understand. “Things” are simply not the way Okonkwo believes they should be and they certainly are not the way they were in the “good ol’ days.” Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart”: A View of the Impacts of Imperialism
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A 5 page overview of this book based on a tale from 1958 Nigeria, a tale revolving around a multitude of social and political issues which consume modern-day Africa. The roots of these issues, however, reach well back into the history of Africa, or more specifically into the history of Nigeria and the colonial powers who overtook her. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Class and Gender in Strindberg’s “Miss Julie”
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A 3 page paper which examines the elements of class and gender in August Strindberg’s “Miss Julie.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Comparative Analysis of Two Stories From Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Interpreter of Maladies” Compilation of Short Stories
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A 5 page paper which compares and contrasts the stories “A Temporary Matter” and “The Interpreter of Maladies.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Comparing Expatriate Writers With Their Works:
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This 10 page paper discusses 3 authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemmingway, and Henry James all of whom were expatriates in seach of 'truth' amid their disillusionment. Furthermore, these writers are discussed in terms of how their personal feelings are reflected in their literary works. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Confinement in Henrik Ibsen's Plays "A Doll's House" and "Hedda Gabler"
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A 5 page paper which examines how confinement (physical, emotional, financial, social and psychological) is a central theme in the Henrik Ibsen plays "A Doll's House" and "Hedda Gabler," the nature of this confinement, and whether or not the characters are ultimately able to break free, in terms of change or maturation, or whether they remain confined as far as resisting or being denied meaningful change. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Considering “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”
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This 8 page paper considers the complex relationship between Tomas and Tereza in the novel “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” by Milan Kundera. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Construction of Njal's Saga
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A 5 page research paper that analyzes an Icelandic medieval saga. The writer focuses on the structure of this work and argues that it was composed for the purpose of being read aloud to people confined on isolated farms during Iceland's long winter. This purpose accounts for the informal tone of the work, its "artless style," and its emphasis on kinship relationships. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Contextual, Cultural, and Historical Influences on Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 Social Drama, A Doll’s House
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In eight pages this paper examines the various events that were taking place at the time Henrik Ibsen wrote A Doll’s House in order to gain a greater contextual understanding of the nineteenth century play and how it was influenced by the cultural issues and historical events that took place during this period. Six sources are listed in the bibliography.
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Critical Analysis of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner
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In six pages this paper critically analyzes Khaled Hosseini’s debut novel in a block outline that includes an introduction, summary, cultural and historic information as they pertain to the story, assesses the effectiveness and ineffectiveness of the author’s thematic development, and compares and contrasts three characters, considering their actions, motivations, and goals. Three sources are listed in the bibliography.
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