North American Essays and Term Papers
Category: / Literature / North American
"The Things They Carried" is a description of military equipment that ground soldiers carried during the Vietnam War. O'Brian provides great detail about each piece of equipment including each item's purpose, and when it was used. To more clearly…
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of a Slut" describes the conditions and circumstances in which society labels woman as being "good" or "bad" girls and the consequences that go along with each of those labels. It may or may not be morally ok to a "bad" girl. What is important…
Category: / Literature / North American
the second traveler was about fifty years old,
apparently in the same rank of life as Goodman Brown, and bearing a considerable resemblance to him, though perhaps more in expression than features"(Hawthorne 1087).
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Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams shows the reality that most American families are not perfect. There are two main themes throughout the story. The themes are the difficulty of accepting reality and the impossibility of true escape. These themes…
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if not this decade then the next. He uses Lenina and Linda to illustrate drug abuse which is happening in reality. Likewise, he uses Mond to illustrate how mind control will end up if it gets into the wrong hands. Our society is coming to a point…
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will prepare me for the career I choose to pursue and make me that best that I can be in that field. But there should be other things that I could be learning aside from calculating probabilities and writing clear and thorough essays. Then I…
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they weren't like you? There are probably not very many people in this world that can truthfully answer "no" to this question. Everyday, especially in environments such as schools, people are labeled "weird" or "different" because of the clothes…
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Hawthorne's story "The Birth-mark," Georgiana says, "My poor Aylmer!" she repeated, with a more than human tenderness. "You have aimed loftily! -you have done nobly! Do not repent, that, with so high and pure a feeling, you have rejected the best…
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is a time in history when political or cultural changes take an effect, changing a society into a different shape than what it began as. Throughout the play there is a battle between truth and deception that is set in the Protestant town of Salem, Massa…
Category: / Literature / North American
in many ways similar to that of Janie and Tea Cake Woods and in some ways different. In Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God these two relationships both involve similar age differences, the couple's…