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Papers On African-American Literature
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Toni Cade Bambara's 'The Lesson'
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A 5 page essay exploring themes in The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara. The writer suggests the lesson intended by Bambara is that we all have choices in learning the lessons presented to us or ignoring them. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Lesson.wps
Toni Cade Bambara's 'The Lesson' # 2
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A 5 page paper on this story by Toni Cade Bambara. The central theme is explored and analyzed. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Less.wps
Toni Cade Bambara's 'The Lesson' # 3
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In this story we look at life's lessons. We can choose to learn them or we can choose to ignore them and go on in our ignorance, not growing, not developing as persons. These are the themes of Toni Cade Bambara's 'The Lesson' discussed in this 6 page essay.
Filename: Thelesso.wps
Toni Cade Bambara's 'The Lesson'/ Economic Inequality
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A 3 page paper on this short story by Toni Cade Bambara. The story analyzes the reactions of a group of poor children to a visit to an expensive toy store, and examines the lesson that was learned from this shocking confrontation with inequality. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: Bambara.wps
Individualism in 'The Professor's House' & 'The Red Badge of Courage'
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A 10 page paper analyzing the way individualism is perceived in these two books by Willa Cather and Stephen Crane, respectively. The paper asserts that while Cather's protagonist ends by believing that his salvation lies in his individuality, Crane's protagonist feels he is most himself when he is part of the mass-mind of the group. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: Profbad.wps
Hurston's 'Their Eyes were Watching God' vs. Alexie's 'Reservation Blues'
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There are quite a few similarities between Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie. This 5 page paper examines both the similarities and the differences of these two books. No additional sources were cited.
Filename: HurstAlx.wps
Booker T. Washington’s “Up From Slavery” & Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn”
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In his autobiography, Up From Slavery, Booker T. Washington relates what he knows of history: 'in context' and from his personal point of view. Mark Twain uses parody and fiction to express his views in Huckleberry Finn. Both criticize American society. Both held strong opinions concerning race, poverty and illiteracy. This is a 5 page paper that
examines the views of these two men through their writing. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: Huckslav.wps
African-American Literature & The Long Arm of Slavery
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A 6 page paper on the dehumanizing effects of slavery, not only to those who have been literally enslaved, but as a mindset passed down through generations and centuries to come. The paper specifically discusses female characters in Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Toni Morrison's Beloved. Bibliography lists six sources.
Filename: Longarm.wps
Harriett Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
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In 5 pages, the author discusses Harriett Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin or Life Among the Lowly. 'When considering the institution of slavery in America, one must look to one specific text in order to understand what happened during that horrific time in America's past. That work is Uncle Tom's Cabin or Life Among the Lowly, which exemplifies the injustices faced by the Black American in the 1800s. This book was written by Harriett Beecher Stowe and published in 1852. From this tome, one is able to examine how the institution of slavery and a condoning society conspired to destroy the souls of the enslaved Black Americans. As an author, Stowe appears to want the reader to comprehend those realities so that he/she can better understand how to become a human being instead of a virtual animal. Her thesis appears to be that slavery equals destruction, evil, and lack of humanity. Slavery has negative ethical, moral, and religious implications.' No other sources are cited.
Filename: PCuncl.doc
Slavery as an Economic Institution in Morrison's 'Beloved'
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A five page paper looking at Toni Morrison's novel in terms of its depiction of slavery from an economic standpoint. The paper points out that slaves suffered not only physical maltreatment but dehumanization because the emphasis was on their economic productivity, not their development as people.
Filename: KBbelov5.rtf
Women In Slavery
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The slave narrative has been a subject that has held
the interest of contemporary historians as well as literary critics. The
relative abundance of narratives of women in slavery has led to a number
of feminist perspectives. This 10 page paper explores three such
narratives: Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs, The
Narrative of Bethany Veney: A Slave Woman and Memories of Childhood's
Slavery by Annie L. Burton. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
Filename: KTwmnslv.wps
Zora Neale Hurston's 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'
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A 7 page paper that considers the importance of plot, the literary quality of the work, and the way in which the novel illustrated life in Florida in the 1930's as three signficant focuses of Hurston's work. Bibliography with 3 sources.
Filename: Theyes.wps
Richard Wright's 'Black Boy'
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A 6 page paper which examines Richard Wright's autobiographical work, Black Boy (1945), discussing the focus, content and intended target audience as well as ways in which Wright's search for success and happiness compares and contrasts with mainstream beliefs and practices.
Filename: Blackboy.wps
Richard Wright/ Black Boy
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A 5 page analysis of Richard Wright's autobiographical account of his youth, in which he recounts what it was like to grow up male and black in the South during the first half of the twentieth century. It is a story of rage, fear, and oppression. Although he lived in a culture that had a well-defined place for him, a place that was based on the assumption that blacks were inferior‹sub-human, even‹Richard Wright never assimilated into himself the idea that he was inferior in any way to the whites that surrounded him. No additional sources cited.
Filename: 99blboy.rtf
Works of Richard Wright / The Silenced Community
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A 13 page paper examining the way the black community reflected in Richard Wright's works Native Son and Black Boy actually helps support the oppressive white status quo through a massive program of self-censorship. Wright shows, particularly in Native Son, how such efforts backfire by causing bottled-up emotions to explode in violence and rage. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: Rwright.wps
Gathering of Old Men (Ernest Gaines) & Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison) : On Being Black and a 'Real' Man
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A 10 page essay comparing two books on the theme of black identity and manhood. The writer explains that both of the described elements show the importance of standing up and being proud in the wider community. Bibliography lists the two primary sources used.
Filename: Invisib.wps
Gloria Naylor's 'Women Of Brewster Place'
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In 5 pages the author discusses how the 'Women of Brewster Place' reflects the variation of the Black Women's experience.
Filename: Brewplac.wps
Gloria Naylor's 'Women Of Brewster Place' / Mattie's Betrayal
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A 5 page essay that explores the themes of men, children and women in the life of the central character, Mattie Michaels. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Brewster.wps
Racism as Seen by Moody and Douglass
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A six page paper comparing the experiences with racism of both these black writers, one writing in the mid-nineteenth century and one in the mid-twentieth. The paper asserts that racism destroys the spirit, and it is takes tremendous determination and drive to break out of that cycle. No additional sources.
Filename: KBmoody2.wps
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