O'Neill's prime example of this is in his play "Long Days Journey Into Night,"" which is as biographical as you can get. ... "Long Days Journey Into Night,"" was one of his later plays, that was not to be produced or published until all close relatives had passed away. ... "Long Days Journey Into Night,"" is one day in the life of the Tyrone's. ... We see this in the process during "Long Day's Journey into Night."" ...

• Word Count: 2767
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• Grade Level: High School

This scene early in the book Linden Hills lays the groundwork for a journey through the neighborhood with Lester and his friend Willie that reveals the negative impact when a society focuses on things and status and loses touch with it's sense of community and family. ...

• Word Count: 2802
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Loss of identity, self realization and identity reconstruction are common themes found in both of the novels , Sirens of Baghdad and The Attack by Yasmina Khadra. These three stages are integral to our protagonist's notions of self conception, which both characters exhibit and demonstrate within the novels. Regaining one's loss of identity is important for the characters within both novels to undergo. This process causes them to think about who they are and what they are, as they no longer can relate to their past identities or former selves. The notion of identity reconstruction mus...

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Everyday Life In Colonial America The eighteenth century was a very interesting time in our nation's history because our nation was born through the hard work and the dedication of those who lived during those times. When one refers to the eighteenth century, however, he must realize that there w...

• Word Count: 2981
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the book "All God's Children" author Fox Butterfield delivered his point of view and his theory on the Bosket family and the American tradition of violence. Fox Butterfield was born in 1939 in Lancaster PA, graduating from Harvard University, Fox Butterfield became a famous journalist and author working with Times bureau chief in Saigon, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Boston and as a correspondent in Washington and New York. Around that time Butterfield was honored with the Pulitzer Prize as a member of The New York Times team that published the Pentagon Papers, the Pentagon...

• Word Count: 3198
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Han Nolan in my view is a wonderful author, she has written books that reflect on the harsh problems people face in their lives. Nolan is the author of "Born Blue" which tells the story of a child growing up and making her life a mess. Janie was four years old when she had almost drowned. As sh...

• Word Count: 2988
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Kindertransport was a rescue operation that saved about 10,000 Jewish children in Germany from December 1, 1938 to September 1, 1939 (Gallant, 199, 203). There were however restrictions to the selection process. For example to prevent re-immigration there needed to be someone who would be willin...

• Word Count: 3014
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Mother Savage In the short story of Mother Savage by Guy de Maupassant, we learn of what life was like for a widowed mother whose only son goes off to war, the setting taking place in Virelogne, France during the Franco-Prussian war. Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) lived during this time and participated in the war himself. Through Historical, Biographical, and New Historical critical analysis of the author, and the time period, we will see that the effects of the war and how it greatly influenced this piece of literature. Formally known as Guy de (Henri René Albert) Maupassant, ...

• Word Count: 2584
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• Grade Level: High School

The cultural and developmental aspects of American history in the 17th and 18th centuries are certainly among the most important and influential factors in the shaping of this country's long and storied history. The society that existed at that time had very different views on life and how it should occur. The daily routines were unlike ours even though it may be hard to believe. Even families, which seem to be a non-changing in history, were also distinct in size and order. A big change that occurred was the growth of the country. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Although Albany tells him that he will be one of the rulers of the realm, Kent is not interested in that, instead he hints at his death by saying " I have a journey, sir, shortly to go; my master calls me, I must not say no-. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Janice Wilkinson is a 30-year-old African American female, born on May 18, 1982 in Los Angeles, California. Janice and I have been friends for about 5 years and had the pleasure of meeting each other during an internship program in Pasadena. Janice feels like she has had to deal with her race and t...

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The American West has been a place that people envisioned as somewhere personal destiny could be fulfilled and diligence rewarded. Visions of freedom, wide-open spaces, uncompromised opportunity, and success became the mythic representation of the American West to many people outside of the region....

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• Grade Level: High School

On D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers And the Oedipus complex [Abstract]: On D.H. Lawrence 's novel Sons and Lovers, the author in this thesis attempts to analyze the Oedipus complex how to appear, the concrete exhibition, the origin and the aftereffect. Meanwhile, introduce something about "Oedip...

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• Grade Level: High School

To briefly consider O'Neill‟s concept towards paternal relationships, one can notice that the fathers, in his works, represent the powerful old patriarchs who rule over the minds if not always the wills of their families, reflected by Ephraim Cabot in Desire, Abraham Mannon in Mourning, and James Tyrone in A Long Day's Journey, while the mothers are used by their men like their lands. ...

• Word Count: 9352
• Approx Pages: 37
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School