But though she has great justification for what she has done, and the reader must partially sympathize with her, her action injures many innocent people and cannot finally be justified. ... It seems that the only way to present honesty is through the use of satire and tragedy since no one can suffer through a completely realistic self-examination, including the author. ... The author's early work often dealt with man's internal fights with his own conscience. ...

• Word Count: 3141
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many kinds of music have come out on the American stage within the last 100 or so and have had a great impact on it. ... Native Americans, immigrants from all over the world, women...they are all able to stand up and be counted, but one group especially has had a great impact on American music: African-Americans. ... However, since many American composers were busy trying to emulate the great European composers in hopes of finding their own identities, they were almost completely blinded to what was happening in their own backyards. ...

• Word Count: 4261
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In 1986, a young Irish woman named Anne Marie Murphy boarded an El Al flight from London to Tel Aviv. She was interviewed by Israeli profilers, who became suspicious when they learned Murphy had a Palestinian fiancé. This, coupled with the fact that Anne Marie Murphy was young, pregnant, and a bi...

• Word Count: 3209
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography

These slaves were not brought by will, but by force, and they faced great oppression while giving the dominant white race the blue collar resource that they so essentially needed in order to stake their claim in the new and soon to flourish United States of America. ...

• Word Count: 3113
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

After brief service in the Civil War he started writing as a journalist and later as an author. ... The second example for miscegenation is Roxy's son Chambers, who is the product of an affair between Roxy and Colonel Cecil Burleigh Essex, a respected member of the F.F.V (First Families of Virginia). - The members of the F.F.V. attached great importance to the purity of their blood - Here, Twain touches a theme that was highly delicate in the 19th century. ...

• Word Count: 3258
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School