Essays Tagged: "struggles"

Charles Dickens' novel, Hard Times

Charles Dickens' novel, Hard Times, is a story of two struggles--the struggle offact versus imagination and the struggle between two classes. It takes pla ...

(1 pages) 98 1 4.7 Feb/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens

Frederick Douglass' Autoboigraphy

ch merit as a tale of political struggle, it seems to be charged more with the complications of the struggles endured in the attempt to progress on a spiritual level. This realm of spiritual developme ... as having value and definition beyond the term of 'slave.' Again, this only takes place as Douglass struggles to tolerate and eventually rise above the physical injustices he met with in his life. In ...

(11 pages) 175 1 4.1 Jan/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

Equality

only gained access to jobs outside of thehome, but also fought for equality in the work place. Thesestruggles have not been easy by any means. Women have overcomemany obstacles in there journey into t ... g forBrown to find a Protestant Church that would allow her to beordained. Finally after all of her struggles Antoinette Brownwas ordained the first protestant female minister in America.'Women in the ...

(5 pages) 130 1 4.8 Dec/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

"Fill The Hole"

ent, but Angel, stubborn to the core, was not going down without a fight. Through seemingly endless struggles, Mr. Escalante endures hardships and insults to try and save the students and the school. ...

(2 pages) 44 0 4.0 Oct/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

A review of Gone to Soldiers

kes history exciting by making each character really experience love and hate and the mundane daily struggles of the individual. I completely enjoyed Gone to Soldiers, because several main char ... nderstanding of the cultural and social issues of the World War two era. I learned about the little struggles of working American women, such as the unavailability of stockings and society's negative ...

(2 pages) 39 0 4.2 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Is it a Violation? Sterilization of women.

A poor family in a run-down neighborhood struggles to make ends meet. Since the cost of daycare is too expensive for the family to even consi ...

(2 pages) 74 1 4.2 Mar/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Joseph Conrad "Heart of Darkess" This essay describes the "human tendencies toward evil" found in conrad's work the heart of darkness.

, existing especially in an environment lacking any rules, creates turmoil in the human soul, as it struggles between its conscience and its tendencies towards evil. Kurtz confides in Marlow near the ... e wilderness, it had looked within itself, and....it had gone mad "(146). Marlow observes how Kurtz struggles with himself, and the horrors of the wilderness that he had given in to.Furthermore, when ...

(4 pages) 320 0 3.4 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

Similarities in Kafkas "Metamorphosis" and "The Trial"

whoever, changed Gregor Samsa into an insect. In The Trial, the struggle is more complex. Joseph K struggles to find the true meaning behind his arrest. He searches for answers related to his case, b ...

(3 pages) 81 0 2.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

James Wait's Downfalls in Kurt Vonnegut's Galapagos

ey now hold the job to repopulate the earth. James Wait, one of the main characters on this voyage, struggles with problems and difficulties in his life, but in the end he reaches peace and a golden h ...

(3 pages) 33 0 4.5 May/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Huckleberry Finn's Struggle With Conscience

ng. The "adventures" appeal to readers who had to make some of the same tough decisions Huck did in struggles with conscience.When readers first meet Huck, he is living with the Widow Douglas and tryi ... who was a good human being in general. It is this change from a boy into a man through a series of struggles with conscience that makes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn a favorite of people of all ages.

(3 pages) 99 0 3.7 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Mark Twain

"Ceremony," a story about Tayo, A Native American World War II Veteran

the story about Tayo, A Native American World War II Veteran, and his struggle to find himself. He struggles to adapt to a world where his people have to fight between the what 'whites' say is the tr ...

(3 pages) 76 0 1.9 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Confuciniasm in The US today

, in order to really suit the needs of the countries people. Thegovernment could narrow down on the struggles of each part of the country. Ithink they would find a good number of the struggles to be s ...

(1 pages) 58 0 4.6 Feb/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

Mao and his intolerance to criticism

the sands of time.- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)History: His story. The story of man, his struggles, his progresses; his achievements and his downfalls. History is made by the unfolding yarn ...

(12 pages) 206 3 4.3 Mar/1997

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

The Two-Wheel Drive Bicycle

to an article out of Ebony Magazine that describes Becoat's invention, how he developed it, and the struggles that came along the way. My problem of finding a topic was solved, and I had a lot of fun ...

(5 pages) 73 0 4.4 Oct/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Hemingway's Nada. The philosophy of Hemingway's litterature and how he views Nada

a boxersymbolizes a Jesus figure for a woman called Alice. Alice, a 350pound, unpleasant prostitute struggles with her current life. Hercentral being focuses at the belief that she had a sexualrelatio ...

(3 pages) 62 0 3.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Ernest Hemingway

Why we cant wait, Martin Luther King Jr. This is basically about the book, although I have thrown in a few desciptions of the times in which he lived, to better understand the era.

otesting, and it would be ignorant of me to think that I could. This book was essentially about the struggles of the African-Americans in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963. To be black, and in Alabama at t ...

(5 pages) 138 1 4.0 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

How peer pressure affects my social behavior.

y young people in this day and age are tying to look act, and overall seem older. I deal with these struggles everyday in my life. Kids face many dilemmas in their trek to adulthood yet, they still tr ...

(4 pages) 241 1 3.8 May/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Romantic sonnets. Mentiones Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth

ournful temper' of his or her soul (ll.4, 7,8). While much Romantic writing dealt with love and the struggles endured due to love, there was also emphasis placed on isolation, as seen in the emotions ...

(4 pages) 71 0 5.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

David Letterman

ng the novel, 'David Letterman: On Stage and Off' by Rosemarie Lennon, I have learned about all his struggles and joys. Because of this book, I feel sorry towards one of the funniest people on Earth, ...

(4 pages) 47 0 4.7 Jan/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Analyzing the struggle for power in four novels. "1984" by George Orwell, In the novel "Fahrenheit 451", by Ray Bradbury, "Invisible Man", a novel by Ralph Ellison

er over a country; or in some cases, even power over the minds of others. These not at all uncommon struggles for power are what keep us interested in the plot of a book. The ongoing battle between a ... read the Invisible Man, a novel by Ralph Ellison, in lies one of the most incredible and wonderful struggles for power that very possibly this world has ever seen. It involves the struggle of a black ...

(4 pages) 63 0 3.0 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers