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American Character Essays and Term Papers
Nathanial Hawthorne. Considered to be one of the greatest American
writers of the 19th century. But did you know that he hated portraits, and
it is now thought that he was a mild manic-depressive? Born in Salem,
Massachusetts on July 4, 1804. A decendant of a long puritan line of
Hathorne's. His ancestry included ...
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John AdamsJohn Quincy Adams was the only son of a president to become president. He had an impressive political background that began at the age of fourteen. He was an intelligent and industrious individual. He was a man of strong character and high principles. By all account, his presidency should have ...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: The American Dream
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, the spokesman for the Jazz Age, ruled America’s decade of prosperity and excess, which began soon after World War 1 and ended around the time of the stock market crash of 1929. The novels and stories for which he is best known examine an ...
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Ernest Hemingway 5Ernest Hemingway best exemplifies his hero code in his novels The Sun Also Rises and The Old Man and The Sea through his protagonists Jake Barnes and Santiago. The honor code for each of these characters means avoiding and struggling against the meaninglessness of life (nada) and instead embracing ...
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The Great Gatsby 4Characters in books can reveal the authors feeling toward the world. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald suggested the moral decline of the period in America history through the interpersonal relationships among his characters. The book indicates the worthlessness of materialism, the futile quest of ...
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The Great Gatsby Is A Tragic HA tragic hero can best be defined as a person of significance, who has a tragic flaw and who meets his or her fate with courage and nobility of spirit. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is a tragic hero.
Jay Gatsby is an enormously rich man, and in the flashy years of the jazz age, wealth defined ...
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Laws Of WarThe term "" refers to the rules governing the actual conduct of armed
conflict. This idea that there actually exists rules that govern war is a
difficult concept to understand. The simple act of war in and of itself seems to
be in violation of an almost universal law prohibiting one human being ...
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Chinese Economic Reform Under Communist RuleTwo years after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, it became apparent to many of
China's leaders that economic reform was necessary. During his tenure as China's
premier, Mao had encouraged social movements such as the Great Leap Forward and
the Cultural Revolution which had had as their bases ...
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Death Of A Salesman LogArthur Miller’s tragedy is not simply detailing the failure of poor Willy Loman, a broken down salesman, but of middle-class America. Miller uses the Lomans as a vehicle to show precisely what can and does go wrong with the American Dream.
Miller uses many characters to contrast the ...
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The Great Gatsby: Moral Decline Through The Interpersonal RelationshipsCharacters in books can reveal the author feeling toward the world. In The
Great Gatsby Fitzgerald suggested the moral decline of the period in
America history through the interpersonal relationships among his
characters. The book indicates the worthlessness of materialism, the futile
quest of ...
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The Joy Luck Club: Journey To AdulthoodChildhood is the foundation of who we become when we've grown. In Amy Tan's novel "The Joy Luck Club" we see the journey to adulthood in the lives of four mothers and their daughters. These women all made sacrifices. Some earlier on in life, and some later. One woman, for the honor of her ...
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Robert E. LeeIntroduction
Few episodes in history are more painful to Americans than the Civil War,
fought between the North and the South. This biography, Great American Generals
- , by Ian Hogg, takes the reader through the life of one of the
greatest heroes of that war, Robert E. Lee. It is a thorough, in ...
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Book Report On Thomas JeffersoBook Review on Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson by Norman Risjord is a biography of the third president of the United States that takes Thomas Jefferson from his youth through his later years in the early 19th century. The purpose of this book is to give a political and social overview of the ...
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J.P. Morgan“No, sir, the first thing is character. Before money or anything
else. Money cannot buy it… Because a man I do not trust could not get money
from me on all the bonds in Christendom” (Sinclair XIII). With that line,
John Pierpont Morgan ended his career in a show-stealing manner. Indeed,
J.P. ...
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The House Of The Seven Gables-Personal Reflections of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathanial Hawthorne. Considered to be one of the greatest American writers of the 19th century. But did you know that he hated portraits, and it is now thought that he was a mild manic-depressive? Born in Salem, Massachusetts on July 4, 1804. A ...
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Edgar Allan Poe 4The short story writer, which I have chosen to research, is Edgar Allen Poe. After reading one of his works in class, I realized that his mysterious style of writing greatly appealed to me. Although many critics have different views on Poe's writing style, I think that Harold Bloom summed it up ...
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The Effect Of Uncle Tom's CabinSeldom does a one work of literature change a society or start it
down the road to cataclysmic conflict. One such catalytic work is Harriet
Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). It is considered by many, one
the most influential American works of fiction ever published. Uncle Tom's
Cabin ...
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The Dark Romantics: Poe, Hawthorne, And MelvilleThe Romantic period (1750-1870) was a time characterized by reliance on the imagination, freedom of thought and expression, and an “idealization of nature,” Along with this came a sense of romantic melancholy, and a feeling that change was indefinite and “a way of life was being threatened.” ...
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BierceServing as a union soldier in the Civil War,
learned of war' s savageness, and how stupid and degrading
it was. His writing style can be contributed to his war
time experiences. His works are blunt, brutally realistic,
and his attacks on others in the San Francisco Examiner,
(American ...
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Gender Marriage And The Cold WarMedevoy
The futuristic visions presented by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Player Piano) and Robert Heinlein (The Puppet Masters) provide the reader with differing perspectives marriage and gender. Both narratives are presented by men; moreover, both Paul Proteus and Elihu, are married (or soon to be) Both ...
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