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Sugar Cane and Soils, 2002.
A look at the effects of sugar cane on soil.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 13 sources, $ 62.95
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This paper focuses on sugar cane and issues relating to its interaction with soil. Sugar cane places a heavy burden on the soil on which it grows. It also releases extremely large quantities of phosphorous into the surrounding environment.
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Jean Toomer?s "Cane", 2004.
An analysis of Jean Toomer?s "Cane" and the issue of racial identity.
2,224 words (approx. 8.9 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 69.95
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This paper reviews Jean Toomer?s book, "Cane", explaining the book as an extension of the author?s self, character, and beliefs that had been shaped by his rather affluent upbringing, the changing definition of race in 1920s, and by an inability to acquire one specific racial identity. The paper contends that Toomer had never experienced the negative impact of racial segregation and was given equal access to black and white social circles. This had resulted in weakening of a racial identity. The paper describes how Toomer refused to classify himself as a white or black and this laid the foundation of the non-racial ideology that was later found in his book, "Cane".
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"When Cane was published in 1923, critics and famous writers including W. E. B. Du Bois, William Stanley Braithwaite, immediately received it and Sherwood Anderson as part of new and emerging African American Literature since it?s author was a black man. Toomer was seen as solid new voice for African Americans as Braithwaite claimed: ?we come upon the very first artist of the race, who . . . can write about the Negro without the surrender or compromise of the artist's vision. . . . Cane is a book of gold and bronze, of dusk and flame, of ecstasy and pain, and Jean Toomer is a bright morning star of a new day of the race in literature." Similarly Anderson termed Toomer?s work "the first Negro work I have seen that strikes me as being really Negro.? Toomer appreciated such valuable observations but was still uncomfortable with the idea of being labeled a Negro writer. A man who had repudiated racial identity a long time back was not willing to let others put him in a certain categories of writers. He even denied James Weldon Johnson the permission to reprint some of his poems from Cane in The Book of American Negro Poetry saying: ?"My poems are not Negro poems, nor are they Anglo-Saxon or white or English poems. My prose likewise. They are, first, mine. And, second, in so far as general race or stock is concerned, they spring from the result of racial blending here in America, which has produced a new race or stock. We may call this stock the American stock or race." "
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Jean Toomer?s ?Cane?, 2002.
This paper discusses male isolation in Jean Toomer?s ?Cane?.
1,270 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 0 sources, $ 43.95
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This paper reviews Jean Toomer?s ?Cane?, including some powerful vignettes, which highlight just how damaging it can be for men when they do not understand and appreciate women as whole, three-dimensional beings. The paper stresses that each of the central male characters in Toomer?s vignettes actually, themselves, create a distance and isolation from the very ?thing? they obsess about: getting close to women. The author believes that looking at each of Toomer?s vignettes and seeing how each of the male characters creates his own isolation by not seeing the whole woman clearly opens up new questions about the author himself. Maybe Toomer perceives women as flatly as some of his fictionalized male counterparts.
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"The anonymous ?young men? and ?old men? in ?Karintha? all long in vain to have the lovely young beauty whose ?skin is like dusk, when the sun goes down.? Karintha is put on a pedestal, her idyllic beauty allowing men to project onto her all the ideals associated with beauty, like goodness and innocence. They ignore any aspect of her personality which doesn?t fit with their idea of Karintha; her mischievousness, even her proclivity for cruelty. The men adore Karintha blindly, faun over her and give her money, but instead of making her love them, they cause the opposite affect. We are told that Karintha ?has contempt for them.? "
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"Cane", 2004.
An examination of the concepts of dusk and the moon in Jean Toomer?s "Cane".
1,233 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 0 sources, $ 42.95
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Dusk is portrayed as an image of fusion in Jean Toomer?s "Cane". It shows something to be both ending and beginning at the same time. Dusk joins light and dark, day and night, and most importantly, black and white. This paper explains that it is a time of merging, a time of vagueness, and a time of ambiguity. It discusses how Toomer?s writing is marked by patterns of imagery that find their roots in dusk. Compelling evidence of dusk seems to lie in the murkiness of both the atmospheres and the characterizations of Karintha, Becky, Carma, Fern, Esther, and Louisa. The paper also shows how each of these characters had their own ?dusky? stories to tell.
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"Dusk is portrayed to be a reflection of Karintha?s soul in the novel Cane. Imagery can be seen joining the light and dark, ??perfect as dusk when the sun goes down? (Toomer, 3). In my opinion, this shows Toomer?s wish for the merging of the two races. The light and dark images seen in this particular excerpt can signify Toomer?s underlying dream for a merging of the two races; especially by his use of racially mixed characters. His vision of the future, essentially, is where race in no longer the basis of identity. Toomer desperately wanted the colors to merge in his characters; creating a race-free society just like the merging of colors in dusk. After all, dusk is the intermediary between the golden light of the sun and the darkness of the moon; it is where color merging takes place."
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"Brother Cane", 1995.
A review of the popular 90's band, "Brother Cane".
1,173 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper discusses the music of the band, "Brother Cane". It gives a history of the band and the band members. The author offers insight into the band's personal and musical philosophies. The paper further discusses the band on tour and their relationship with the fans. In conclusion the author offers a personal opinion on the band.
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"Damon credits the fans as their strongest foundation and what has helped push the group to the forefront. Their strongest following has been around their hometown in the southeastern United States. The band has plans for a "Homecoming Show" on April 2nd. They're all "really excited" about getting back to Birmingham, not in the least because they'll get to see family and friends that they haven't seen since December. Damon has a "very special female" in his life as do a couple of the other guys in the band. Along with lots of other brothers, sisters, and kinfolk rooting them on. "Our families couldn't be happier with our success. It's been their support that has helped us get through the last three or four months. Although we got some pretty insanely ridiculous phone bills.""
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"Cane", 2002.
An analysis of the use of blood imagery in Jean Toomer's "Cane".
1,734 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 56.95
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Discusses the connection of blood imagery in "Cane" with death. The writer shows how not all blood imagery in the work is connected to death, and the paper re-evaluates this stance and asserts that blood imagery is a symbol of passion, separate from love. Focuses on anger and frustration, as well as the separateness of the work's characters.
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"Often in literary works, a recurring symbol in a work will illustrate a single theme or several closely related themes for that work. Such is true with the green light in Fitzgerald?s The Great Gatsby or rain in Hemingway?s A Farewell to Arms. At first glance, though, Jean Toomer?s use of blood and blood imagery in his only novel, Cane, does not follow any one pattern or serve any single theme. Instead, the settings and characters of each story and poem define the meaning of the blood?s presence. Blood or blood imagery is used in connection with death, physical passion, love, anger, ancestry, and indifference. The blood and blood imagery in Cane reflect the individual emotions of the characters and speakers in the novel and serve as specific elaborations upon the many themes of the novel. However, these themes and the reactions of the novel?s characters to the themes and their outcomes combine to illustrate the dark instinct of men?s souls."
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Sugar Cane in Louisiana, 1991.
This paper discusses the development of the sugar cane industry in Louisianan during the 19th Century: Innovations, reasons for growth and economics.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 7 sources, $ 79.95
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"Since the early nineteenth century, sugar manufacturing has been one of the most profitable industries in the state of Louisiana. Although the rapid growth of Louisiana's sugar cane industry began in the early 1800s, sugar cane itself was introduced to the area about a century before. In the year 1700, the French explorer Pierre Le Moyne Sieur d'Iberville obtained some cane from the island of Santo Domingo in the West Indies and brought it with him on an expedition up the Mississippi River. A bit north of present-day New Orleans, d'Iberville planted the sugar cane. At that time, it was already realized that the best type of soil for growing sugar cane was "a mixture of sand, silt, clay, and some organic material" D'Iberville and his men noticed that this was precisely the type of soil to be found in the Mississippi delta region that they ... "
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Social Structure in ?Sugar Cane Alley?, 2002.
This paper looks at the film "Sugar Cane Alley" by Euzhan Palcy.
2,141 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 67.95
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The paper analyzes the film, based on the novel "La rue cases-N?gres" by Joseph Zobel, looking carefully at the narrative structure that illustrates the social dynamics of the place and time of the narration. The writer looks at the impact of the economy on the characters, then describes the way in which the language and drama can leave a lasting effect on the viewer.
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"The economic structure of this society is always at issue and is addressed in the film from the first as the determining factor in the lives of the people. They work at this particular task because they have no choice--economic necessity takes their choice away. Education is the only way to escape from the cycle represented in this village by the work passed from one generation to the next, with the children working as hard as the adults and seeing nothing in their lives but more work stretching ahead to their death. Much of the economic lesson of the film is told through the eyes of the children, who in most societies would only be observers, but who in this society are direct participants. The children see wealth as distributed for work--they tell Jose that they will be paid on Saturday because they are working, and Jose will not because he is not working. They reflect the way the village lives--the people work all week, they get paid, and they find that they are not paid enough to live. It is an endless cycle, noted later by Jose in his essay when he says that the cane fields killed his friend and that the cane fields are a trap for the young children who start working at age eight and continue until they die. Leopold's view is not different from this except that he believes the whites cheat the blacks and that the books they keep would show this fact, which is why he tries to steal the ledger. Economic issues drive the actions of each individual and of the society as a whole, and economic relations define how each person fits into the whole, not just the whole of the village, but the whole of the colonial structure."
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"Cane", 2003.
Discusses Jean Toomer's short stories on racial issues.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 31.95
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This paper discusses Jean Toomer's book of short stories as a reflection of social attitudes toward racial matters, including issues of assimilation and multiculturalism and the marginalization of blacks.
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"Jean Toomer's book Cane reflects social attitudes toward race and racial matters and so can be linked to the statement by W.E.B. DuBois that "the problem of the 20th Century is the problem of the color line." Race itself becomes a source of social and ..."
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Bagasse Cogeneration in Belize: A Business Plan, 2007.
This paper presents a business plan for sugar cane cogeneration in Belize.
1,954 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 62.95
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The paper outlines the plan for a sugar cane cogeneration plant to create an alternate energy source for the citizens of Belize. The paper explains how the sugar cane residue, bagasse, can be converted to electricity through cogeneration. The paper describes the company's goal to sell low-cost energy to Belize Electricity Limited, the sole electricity provider in Belize. The paper includes a diagram, maps and financial statements.
Outline:
Objective
Executive Summary
Company Description
Belize Background
Sugar Industry
Conversion of Bagasse into Electricity
The Market
Management Team
Production Plan
Action Plan
Financials
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"One of the smallest countries in the world, Belize boasts agriculturally fertile lands. These lands are mainly used to grow sugar cane which is exported to the world. An untapped reservoir of energy is going unused from their sugar cane production. Sugar cane residue, called bagasse, can be converted to electricity through a process called cogeneration. Our team plans to build a cogeneration plant to generate electricity for the country of Belize using bagasse. This electricity will provide an environmentally safe and low cost alternative to all of the citizens of Belize while still allowing the sugar cane producers to export their product."
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Coming of Age in Literature, 2007.
A comparison of the old generation-new generation relationships in "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera and the film "Sugar Cane Alley," written and directed by Euzhan Palcy.
1,817 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 58.95
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This paper compares the coming of age within three works - "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera and the film "Sugar Cane Alley," written and directed by Euzhan Palcy. It analyzes the political and social structure in each of these works and describes how they affect the relationships between the younger and older characters.
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"The shifts in lightness and heaviness in this novel are complex and at times difficult to understand, and the political element that is seen here is also more complex and in some ways more specific than what is seen in The Kite Runner or Sugar Cane Alley. In this novel, the events of what is known as the Prague Spring serve as backdrop, a time when the Soviet military occupied the city and made it known that the people of Poland were not in control of their own destinies. Tomas had once condemned the Communists and so is asked to leave the city, and he and Tereza travel to Switzerland. When they later return to Prague, it is with the knowledge that they will never be allowed to leave again."
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Character Analysis, 2006.
A discussion on William Faulkner's "Light in August" and "Cane" by Jean Toomer.
1,108 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper discusses and analyzes both Faulkner's and Toomer's works, which include characters who are in some way alienated from society because of their differences from the mainstream. It offers examples from the texts, highlighting characters affected by racism and sexual identity.
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"Fern's identity, however, lies much deeper than her eyes and beauty for "like her face, the whole countryside seemed to flow into her eyes" and "through her eyes she is filled, informed, and incarnates the mystery of the universe." Her complex identity also comes from the mixture of African, Georgian and Judaism. Because of the way that men viewed Fern, they "were everlastingly bringing her their bodies," as well as other gifts and money, instead of love and care. They see her a part, separate, untouchable as a virgin"
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"Young Goodman Brown", 2007.
This paper examines the story "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathanial Hawthorne.
1,000 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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In this article, the writer introduces, discusses and analyzes the short story "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathanial Hawthorne. Specifically it discusses symbolism in the short story. The writer notes that symbolism is rampant in this short story of a young man who takes a trip into the forest and returns a changed man. Further, the writer points out that Hawthorne uses symbolism to represent evil in many areas of the story, from the dank depressing forest to the traveler who carries a cane with the head of a snake. The writer notes that the devil lives in this story, and comes alive with the symbolism Hawthorne chooses to portray evil and fear.
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"Thus, Hawthorne uses Brown as a symbol of the success of the devil's corruption. Did he only dream everything he saw in the forest? Perhaps. Even if he only dreamed of the devil, he allowed him to corrupt his soul, kill his love, and change his life, so the devil won, and Brown lost. This symbolizes the evil in each of us, but it also symbolizes just how powerful the devil can be. Even if Brown only imagined him in the forest, he is still a powerful force in the story and in Brown's remaining life. It has to make the reader question Brown's conviction. He is determined to believe that those around him are corrupt and evil, and yet he has become worse than they are - unhappy and unloved. Those around him are happy, even if they are corrupt, while he is "desperate" and "distrustful." Who is the more evil in this story? Brown becomes the most evil member of the village, and yet he is convinced that he is the only "good" influence in the town. He cannot see that everything he symbolizes is evil and distrustful of others."
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Coming of Age, 2007.
This paper addresses the issues of identity, politics and ethics in an adolescent's life.
955 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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The paper discusses how coming of age is not merely a personal struggle, defined by changes in one's body and the structure of one's social life. The paper explains that viewed from an international and multicultural perspective, coming of age is also defined by an adolescent's cultural and political context. In examining this topic, the paper also looks at Nahid Rachlin's memoir "Persian Girls," Mohsin Makhmalbaf's film "Khandahar," Tayeb Salih's novel "A Season of Migration to the North," Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner" and the protagonist Jose of the film "Sugar Cane Alley."
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"For example, in her memoir Persian Girls, Nahid Rachlin depicts her young life in Iran as being defined by her gender and her culture's limiting view of femininity, despite the fact that Rachlin was born during the pro-Western reign of the Shah. It is not simply in the fundamentalist-controlled regimes, like Taliban-ruled Afghanistan that female oppression can occur. The horrors of this regime are compellingly depicted in the educational scenes of Mohsin Makhmalbaf's film "Khandahar" where young girls are told that they can no longer study, and upon puberty they must veil their faces, equating a silencing of the self with becoming a woman."
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African Labor and Western Expansion, 2008.
This paper analyzes the African contributions to the Western world, within the framework of Sheila Walker's thesis, "Are You Hip, or Are You Jive: Re (Writing)/Righting the Pan-American Discourse".
718 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 25.95
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The paper looks at Sheila Walker's thesis that the modern Western world was built by African slave labor. The paper discusses how economic growth based on cotton or sugar cane was due to the slave labor and that led to the economic expansion of the western world. The paper highlights Walker's belief that this contribution should be acknowledged by Western society.
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Introduction
Sheila Walker's Thesis: A Critical Analysis
Conclusion
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"Walker's thesis is based on the fact that, through the contributions of Africans who had a significant presence due to slavery, the Western world was built by African slave labor. Hence there should be mention of this 'contribution', with specific reference to the fact that the Western World was built by the Africans presence in the region. Economic growth based on cotton, or sugar cane, was due to the slave labor; that led to the economic expansion of the western world, hence Africans are at the crux of Western development and civilization."
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