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"Joe Turner's Come and Gone", 2006.
An analysis of August Wilson's drama "Joe Turner's Come and Gone".
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 23.95
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This analysis of August Wilson's drama "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" explores the different perspectives with which the playwright portrays the North and South in the play. The author argues that despite these differences, Wilson views them as equal in their potential to exploit the labor African Americans.
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"August Wilson's drama Joe Turner's Come and Gone presents two worlds in North and South America early in the twentieth century. The South still tyrannizes African Americans and unjustly imprisons them ..."
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Play: August Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone", 2005.
This paper discusses the symbolic meaning of August Wilson's play"Joe Turner's Come and Gone".
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 1 source, $ 23.95
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This paper examines August Wilson play "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" as symbolic of loss and redemption after the abolition of slavery. The author points out that Wilson uses Bynum's "binding song" as a main point of reference for the characterization of Bynum and Loomis.
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" In Joe Turner's "Come and Gone" the audience is faced with characters who are most certainly out of place in their surroundings. By setting his work during that period of American History known as The Great Migration, he opens our ..."
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"Joe Turner's Come and Gone" ( August Wilson ), 1995.
Examines the characters' search for their song, individual spirit, authenticity or purpose in life.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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"This study will examine August Wilson's play Joe Turner's Come and Gone, focusing on the characters' search for their "song." The play offers a number of definitions of what this "song" is, but it is roughly equivalent to one's individual spirit or purpose in life. The study will consider in greater depth what this song is, its significance, which characters have found theirs, which are still searching, and which will probably never find it. The thesis of the study will be that those who have found their songs have come to a state of acceptance about life and its difficulties, and have as a result discovered within themselves what the others are seeking in vain outside themselves. Those who have not found their songs are still doing battle with life, with people, and with themselves. The significance of the song, then, is found in the fact that the ..."
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Literary Madness, 2004.
Examines the depiction of madness through disassociation in two works of literature: "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and "Joe Turner?s Come and Gone" by August Wilson.
1,770 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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Cognition is, simply stated, the way in which the mind interprets information received from the senses. It is the pathway to understanding. Disassociation can run the gamut from day-dreaming to an extreme mental disorder that encompasses a separation of mental processes, such as thoughts, emotions, cognition, memory and identity. This paper shows how, in the short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and the play, "Joe Turner?s Come and Gone" by August Wilson, madness based on disassociation is a central theme.
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"In The Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator, under treatment for 'hysteria', is taken "three miles from the village" (Gilman 11) to an upstairs nursery of a "colonial mansion" (Gilman 9), its windows barred and its walls covered in a faded yellow wallpaper whose "sprawling flamboyant patterns" commit "every artistic sin" (Gilman 13). In time, the woman succumbs to the disassociation focused on the wallpaper and is stripped of her sanity and humanity in the same manner that the wall is stripped of the wallpaper by the woman (Bak 39). The story ends with her trying to become a part of the wallpaper and succeeding only in bringing her own life to an end."
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Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion, 2001.
This paper discusses Stephen Oats' book "Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion".
1,000 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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This paper takes a look at a slave uprising as documented in Stephen Oat's book Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner?s Fierce Rebellion. It analyzes the main character of the book, Nat Turner and how his seemingly small scale revolution set the wheels in motion for the eventual abolishment of slavery.
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"Stephen Oates, in his book Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner?s Fierce Rebellion, crafts a compelling story. The story of this slave rebellion is indeed so compelling a one that it would be hard to imagine a telling of it that was not fascinating. But in the end Oates, despite his credentials, does a disservice both to Turner and to the larger forces at work in the decades before the Civil War. In order to assess Oates?s treatment of Turner, it would be useful to examine what is generally known and agreed to about Turner. He was born on a plantation in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1800 and was from a very early age a popular religious leader among his fellow slaves. In part due no doubt to whatever had motivated him to become interested in preaching and in part because he was so popular with other slaves who came to listen to him talk about God, Turner became convinced that he had been chosen by God to lead his people to freedom."
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Joe Gillis: The Narrator, 2002.
The role of the narrator, the dead Joe Gillis, in the 1950 movie "Sunset Boulevard".
1,505 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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This essay is on the 1950 movie "Sunset Boulevard". It especially focuses on the role that the dead Joe Gillis - narrator of the story - tells. Without Joe as Sunset Boulevard?s narrator ,the film would have never had such a dark and devouring after taste. The essay explains in what ways Joe Gilles tells the story and the effects Joe has on the story - what would have been different if Joe hadn't told the story.
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"Many believe that Sunset Boulevard, directed by Billy Wilder, is one of the most interesting films about forgotten silent movie stars and Hollywood illusions. It concentrates on several aspects of Hollywood illusions; but instead of keeping them alive, this film bursts the bubbles and gives a blunt, unromantic and realistic story about a forgotten ?yesteryear? silent movie queen, and her trapped human ?pet monkey?. One of the things that is used to establish the form of irony and realism necessary to burst the glittering bubbles is the ?dead-pan voice over? by the murdered Joe Gillis. ".
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Turner Syndrome, 2007.
This paper discusses Turner Syndrome, a disorder characterized by short stature and slow growth among girls.
2,445 words (approx. 9.8 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 74.95
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In this article, the writer relates that, in 1938, Dr. Henry Turner acknowledged the pattern of short stature and inadequate sexual maturation in other than normal females. The writer explains that this pattern has been accorded the name of Turner Syndrome after the name of Dr. Turner. The writer points out that girls suffering from Turner Syndrome normally are short in height and notes that the presence of Turner Syndrome inhibits proper development of the ovaries, thereby adversely influencing the sexual development of the girl. The writer also looks at ailments and disabilities connected to Turner Syndrome. The writer concludes that organizations and associations strive to assist individuals with growth related disorders, their families and health care professionals in terms of extensive research and advocacy.
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"The short stature and slow growth of a child is determined by many factors that includes, hereditary elements, ailments calling upon kidneys, heart, lungs or intestines, hormone imbalances, severe stress or emotional deprivation, infection in the womb prior to birth, bone ailments, and genetic or chromosomal abnormalities. During 1938, Dr. Henry Turner acknowledged the pattern of short stature and inadequate sexual maturation in other than normal females. This has been accorded the name of Turner Syndrome after the name of Dr. Turner. A Syndrome is typically found to have a combination of features mostly noticed in combination with the others and believed to result from the same cause."
"The researchers have not found out yet as to exactly what causes Turner Syndrome, but they have been confirmed that those are the result of the missing X chromosomes. The effect of the Turner Syndrome varies among the girls in consonance with the influence of such variation of the X chromosomes on the body cells. Girls suffering from Turner Syndrome normally are short in height mostly attaining the average height of about 4 feet 7 inches."
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Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion, 2008.
This paper reviews the book "The Fire of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion" by Stephen B. Oates.
1,365 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 45.95
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In this article, the writer notes that Nat Turner lead the largest and one of the most successful slave rebellions in American history in 1831, long before the American Civil War took place. However, the writer points out that most of the other facts about Turner's life remain elusive in the eyes of writers and historians alike. The writer discusses that to flesh out the myths and legends surrounding Turner's complicated theology, rebellion, and psychology, 19th century American historian Stephen Oates attempts to provide a speculative history as to the context of the plantation life in which Turner was reared as a slave. The writer looks at how Turner came to view himself as a prophetic figure and lead the fierce rebellion of the title. The writer notes that Oates suggests that Turner was both an extraordinary figure, a man whose rebellion changed the South, but also an ordinary man, who showed amazing courage, intelligence, and brutality in the face of history.
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"In his book, Oates portrays slavery and the slave community as a totally enclosing institution, with heavy white control upon slave mobility, intellectually and geographically. This partially explains why more blacks did not rebel with Turner, he surmises. He also examines the empowering nature of slave religion, which originated as an instrument of white control upon slaves, but which also acted as a tool of empowerment for some slaves like Turner, who believed that his visions gave him prophetic status and the right to free his people. Religion and Christianity was a double-edged sword for slaves, preaching meekness when transmitted in the voices of slave-owners, but also a gospel of judgment, where the mighty would be brought low by the oppressed, in the name of justice."
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J. M. W. Turner, 2004.
An examination of J. M. W. Turner's "Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for Fish."
1,582 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 55.95
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This paper looks at "Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for Fish," by British painter Joseph Mallord William Turner, and focuses on Turner's tendency to paint noble and serious human actions.
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"Of the school of English landscape painting during the romantic period, Joseph Mallord William Turner's paintings read nature in its terror and grandeur somewhat more often than in its peace and serenity (Tansey and Kleiner). Turner received little if any general education but, by age fourteen, he was enrolled in the Royal Academy of the Arts (Turner). Turner is considered among the finest of the English romantic painters and is considered a master of watercolor. His 'Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for Fish'..."
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Ted Turner, 2002.
A biography of the life of the business tycoon, Ted Turner.
1,267 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper examines the life of Ted Turner, born Robert Edward Turner III in 1938 in Cincinnati, Ohio and who is considered one of the richest men in the world today. It looks at how his empire includes a myriad of ventures, such as the Atlanta Braves baseball team and TNT, Turner Network Television. It discusses how, as a media mogul, Turner is best known for creating CNN, the first all-news cable television station. It shows how throughout his life, he has maintained a competitive spirit and demonstrated leadership qualities by transforming innovative ideas into reality.
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"Turner has been a lifelong environmentalist and humanitarian. In the 1985, Turner founded the Better World Society, a production company dedicated to making documentaries to educate people about issues such as pollution, hunger, and the danger of the nuclear arms race. A year later, he founded The Goodwill Games in an effort to promote world peace and in 1992 the Turner Tomorrow Awards as an incentive for writers around the world to create positive solutions to world problems (Hanson pg). Turner has produced numerous ?documentaries and fact-based feature films on his TNT channel to show the development of American history from the Native American? perspective and highlight their contributions to the United States (Hanson pg). As a child Turner dreamed of bison grazing, and today he has roughly 17,000 bison roaming on nine ranches, part of an effort to restore the American West to its glory days when the Sioux dominated the Great Plains (Haddad C1)."
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Nat Turner: Slave Resistance and Revolution for Freedom, 2008.
A discussion of Nat Turner's inspiring story of slave resistance, and its implications for America today.
1,143 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper examines the story of Nat Turner's rebellion and its effect on slave resistance. The paper explains that Turner's story is significant because it meant different things for many people in America. For blacks, Turner was a symbol of hope and resistance, and to Southern whites, he represented their greatest fear, that the oppressed blacks would not tolerate their conditions much longer. The paper looks at how Turner's "confession" helped to galvanize the anti-slavery movement in the North. The paper then points out that it is important that Americans acknowledge the slave rebellions because they meant so many different things to many different people. The paper also suggests that knowing that slaves fought courageously for their natural rights might inspire modern-day African Americans and replace some of the defeatist attitude that is evident in some black cultures. It would also make white America acknowledge their sins of the past and come to terms with them. The writer believes that by understanding and acknowledging America's dark past, the country can make a better effort to atone for the mistakes of the past by helping many African Americans bring their standard of living up to that of other American ethnic groups.
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"Before he died, he told his story to Thomas Gray, who turned it into the book, "The Confessions of Nat Turner". Gray manipulated much of Turner's story to portray the rebellious slaves not as people pushed to their limits and fighting for their natural rights, but as savages bent on bloodthirsty revenge. This story sent shockwaves throughout the divided country. Many Southerners used it as justification to commit violent crimes against blacks and to enforce stricter slavery laws."
Turner's story is significant because it meant different things for many people in America. For blacks, Turner was a symbol of hope and resistance. He was a spiritual man who was doing what God had told him to do. To Southern whites, he represented their greatest fear, that the oppressed blacks would not tolerate their conditions much longer. His "confession" helped to galvanize the anti-slavery movement in the North."
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Life in The Art of J.M.W. Turner., 2002.
Shows how the works of artist J.M.W. Turner represented the age in which he lived both in style and subject.
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J.M.W. Turner may be seen as a turbulent artist for a turbulent time. This paper will discuss the life and work of Turner as metaphors for their age. It will be shown how Turner, in his art, represented the complexity and the ambivalence of his time; both looking forward with anticipation to the future and gazing back nostalgically at a past that would soon be forgotten.
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'The Confessions of Nat Turner', 2006.
This paper discusses the book "The Confessions of Nat Turner" by William Styron.
1,200 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 41.95
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In this paper, the writer looks at the book "The Confessions of Nat Turner" which is described as a novel of historical fiction. The writer notes that Styron writes the novel in first person and the story is ostensibly told by Nat Turner himself, forcing the reader to look at the complex issues that led to the rebellion. The writer maintains that the reader is forced to see Nat Turner as a complex and conflicted human being. Further, the writer discusses the ideas of slavery and freedom within the novel. The writer concludes that as a whole, the book gives the reader an in-depth view of what it might have been like to be an angry slave during the time depicted.
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"Although the book is divided into four parts, the parts do not follow a sequential structure. The images we get of Nat Turner and his thoughts are fragmented and shift between time periods. This adds to the credibility of Styron's fiction. A person under the kinds of stress Nat Turner was in prison would not calmly recall his life in an orderly and sequential way. Instead, images, events or comments would trigger a wave of memories. Only gradually can the reader piece together the sequential events of Nat Turner's life.
Inevitably, the book deals with the idea of freedom. Nat Turner is quite taken with the young white woman Miss Margaret, whom he occasionally drives from place to place. Miss Margaret claims to be an abolitionist, reads poetry to Nat and listens to him recite psalms."
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Turner's "Frontier Thesis", 2007.
An analysis of John Ford's classic, "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" by comparing the film to William Turner's "Frontier Thesis".
1,069 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 37.95
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This paper discusses William Turner's "Frontier Thesis." The paper discusses Turner's idea of certain characteristics of people who live on the frontier, such as common traits of strength and brains, practicality and inventiveness. The paper then compares those characteristics described by Turner, to those found in John Ford's film "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance".
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"This is the West. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend," states the editor of the Shinbone Star towards the end of John Ford's classic, "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance." The legendary heroes of America's western frontier, represented in film or story, tend to embody certain attributes laid down in Frederick Jackson Turner's "Frontier Thesis." In this thesis Turner states that frontier life produced common traits of strength and brains, practicality and inventiveness, and a dominant individualism that either works for a good or an evil agenda and that all of these common characteristics are accompanied by a buoyant and exuberant lifestyle stemming from a certain amount of freedom of the self that only frontier life offered. Turner claims that all of these traits are developed in all frontier livers, historic or legendary. Turner's assumed common traits of frontier personalities mirror those found in the characters of Ford's "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance."
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"Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion", 2004.
A review of "Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion," written by Stephen B. Oates.
1,516 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 49.95
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This paper examines Stephen B. Oates's book, "Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion," in an attempt to determine who Nat Turner really was and why he did what he did. The paper includes some first-hand observations about this region of the country during the last part of the 20th century. The paper contends that the historical record presented by Oates shows that Nat Turner reacted by engaging in a series of violent acts that reflected the violent nature of the times.
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"During the 1500's and 1600's, the colonization of the New World by Europeans resulted in the rapid expansion of slavery; however, changing moral attitudes about slavery helped to bring about its decline during the 1800's. According to Stephen B. Oates, Nat Turner is the most famous and most controversial slave rebel in American history. Turner's portrayal in William Styron's novel, The Confessions of Nat Turner, as "a celibate bachelor given to masturbating about white women" has only served to fuel the controversy. Stephen B. Oates provides a thorough examination of who Nat Turner really was, and why he did what he did in this book, including some first-hand observations about this region of the country during the last part of the 20th century."
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