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"The Bean Trees" by Barbara Kingsolver, 2008.
A review of the book "The Bean Trees" by Barbara Kingsolver.
776 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 27.95
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This paper examines the true meaning of family as the overriding subject in the book "The Bean Trees" by Barbara Kingsolver. The paper explains that throughout the novel, 'family' is a major theme for nearly all of the characters. The paper points out that all the characters in the book did not actually have to be blood kin to be family. The paper then notes that this knowledge is an incredibly assuring thing for them to realize; even if one thinks he or she is alone in the world, with no one to care for them, they have support through their closest friends, in other words, their family.
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"When the novel first begins, the only thing Taylor wants is to get out of the small Kentucky town in which she grew up. When she was ready and able, she hopped into her car with the hopes of finding somewhere better, and never looking back. To her misfortune, a tiny Indian baby was left in her care, unwanted by everyone else in the world (24). However, a baby was the last thing Taylor wanted as well. Both she and the baby were alone at that point, despite the fact that they were driving in the same car. This all changes when Taylor begins to take care of the child. She starts to care about her, even gives her a name, Turtle. Now, instead of having no one, they become a small family. Despite of this, the pair still seemed to be on their own."
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Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees, 1996.
Examines role & meaning of unorthodox family, friendship, nurturing in feminist novel.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, $ 47.95
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"Barbara Kingsolver's novel The Bean Trees exhibits a feminist consciousness concerning the meaning of family, which emerges in this novel on several levels. The main character, Taylor Greer, leaves her own family behind as she strikes out on her own to find a more fulfilling life, but along the way she develops a new family group in Arizona. The idea of family projected in this novel is associated with a concept of community, and the latter centers on a group of women demonstrating their growing sense of personal power and identity in a world that often requires them to sublimate both in service of a patriarchal family structure.
Nancy Chodorow notes the way the family structure developed through history and the fact that the Western family has been largely the nuclear family for centuries, being households which..."
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Barbara Kingsolver's "The Bean Trees", 1996.
Compares novel's feminist ideas with those of French writer Helene Cixious. Self-definition, cooperation, creativity, family.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, $ 47.95
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"Barbara Kingsolver's novel The Bean Trees presents a number of fictional examples of ecriture feminism, particularly as that feminist theory is described by French writer Helene Cixious. This study will examine ways in which Kingsolver's novel reflects the ideas of Cixious. Specifically, Cixious argues, as in her essay "The Laugh of the Medusa," that it is up to women to define themselves in their lives and in their writing, without the restrictions placed on them by men in this patriarchal society or even by history:
Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as violently as from their bodies---for the same reason, by the same law, with the same fatal goal. Woman must put herself into the text---as into the..."
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Kingsolver's "The Bean Trees:", 2001.
This paper discusses the themes in Barbara Kingsolver's novel, "The Bean Trees."
2,065 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 65.95
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This essay examines the social behavior between the characters in Barbara Kingsolver's novel, "The Bean Trees." The author details the individual characters personalities and problems, and then proceeds to demonstrate how each character in the story relies upon the other for their very survival. These interdependent relationships provide the support needed to accomplish tasks they never could have accomplished alone.
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"Edna is a kind, sweethearted, elderly woman who is blind, and Virgie Mae is her rather rude and obnoxious lifelong friend. Together, these women are the epitome of interdependence. Virgie Mae provides the blind Edna with guidance and help, while Edna serves as a buffer against Virgie Mae's often-harsh attitude. Just like Taylor and Lou Ann, these women serve as a balance to one another. If one did not have the other to depend on, one or the other may not survive. But, together they have overcome enormous hardship. Even Taylor begins to comprehend the importance of this interdependent relationship. One day, after helping a lone Edna decipher a lemon from a lime while shopping in Lee Sing's market, Taylor realizes for the first time that Edna is blind."
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Kingsolver's "The Poisonwood Bible", 2002.
This paper discusses the breakdown and reconstruction of the religous faith of each of her characters in Kingsolver's " The Poisonwood Bible".
1,565 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 51.95
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This paper discusses that in "The Poisonwood Bible", Barbara Kingsolver uses Biblical references to delineate the differences in her characters' relationship to religious faith as they deal with their father's participation in the Western assault on the Congolese. The paper author believes that these differences in levels of faith are Kingsolver's primary method of characterization in the novel. The paper presents each character and concludes that while the final images of light contain some Biblical flavor, the dense allusions of the earlier part of the novel are lost; and a kind of secular hopefulness remains in the survivors.
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"In "The Revelation," Leah experiences her first "stirring of anger" against her father, but is still faithful to her image of her father and the Bible. She earnestly remarks that "The Lord is our Shepherd and the very least we sheep can do is keep up with the flock." By likening herself to one of the sheep, she describes herself as a noncritical believer and literal follower of her father's teachings. She also suggests the similarity she experiences between her father and Jesus. More broadly, her remark shows that she continues to analogize aspects of her life to Biblical sayings and events."
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Interdependent Relationships Found in Kingsolver's "The Bean Trees", 2001.
A look at the characters' development in the above work through their relationships with one another.
1,160 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper deals with the theme of miraculous things happening when people have others to depend on and who allow others to depend on them. The essay begins with the character of Taylor and follows a chain of friendship and influence through Lou Ann, Mattie, Estevan and Esperanza. The author concludes with a look at the effects of the group forming a family of sorts.
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"From the moment they meet, Taylor and Lou Ann know they share a common kinship in more ways than one. Both were born and raised in Kentucky and have experienced their fair share of hardship growing up, and they are both single parents struggling to get by day to day. Yet, when they meet and begin integrating their lives together to form a bond of support, encouragement, and friendship, the obstacles they must overcome seem a little easier to bear. They help one another by sharing household chores, expenses, and child rearing, virtually erasing the difficulties associated with their plight. Taylor and Lou Ann come to depend on one another for monetary as well as emotional support in order to survive. Separately, they may never have successfully accomplished all that they have endeavored to do together. Without the support of one another, they may never have grown into the mature women that they will become. However, they do not accept all the credit for blossoming into successful, self-confident women. They give a lot of credit to their friend and confidant, Mattie."
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Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" and Shaw's "Major Barbara", 2002.
This paper compares the many parallel images in the comedies William Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" and George Bernard Shaw's "Major Barbara".
2,405 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 73.95
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The author believes that Shaw quite consciously modeled some portions of "Major Barbara" on Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure". The paper discusses the many similarities such as the religious overtones in both plays and the characterization of the female main characters Isabella and Barbara. The author points out that both plays make the same philosophical point: The need to let something go in order to achieve or gain something else, perhaps of greater value.
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""Measure for Measure" is gloomy in the beginning; but Shakespeare, as does Shaw, is able to work out the transition from potential tragedy to comedy. Unfortunately, in the transition, Shakespeare, unlike Shaw, does not always make his characters behave consistently. Like Shaw, however, he does order everything that happens in "Measure for Measure" on the principle that the play must be kept a comedy. That was his given reason for making his heroine Isabella a novice nun and for bringing Lucio into her first scene with Angelo (II. ii.); every detail must play its part in intensifying the effect of comic irony. Once used though, such a detail may later be ignored by Shakespeare. Isabella is found to be not too nun-like after all. She is not squeamish or sanctimonious and can be intensely practical, as her "0, let him marry her!" (I. iv. 49) reveals. During the play she develops into a vociferous, ironical nun-almost a Major Barbara."
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The Innocence of Barbara Graham, 2006.
A review of the Barbara Graham case.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 44.95
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This paper reviews the case of Barbara Graham. According to the paper, there is no doubt that Barbara Graham lived a life that was, for the most part, on the wrong side of the law. Her past indicates that she was involved in perjury, prostitution, gambling, and theft. The people that she associated with in these illegal endeavors were those that she considered her friends and comrades because there was an ethos, or mutually guiding moral nature between them. Even when she attempted to alter her existence by marrying Henry Graham and having a child, her husband's drug addiction forced her back into a life of crime, which has led her to the predicament that exists in her life today. Graham's past is morally marred, without question. However, the question is asked, is she capable of murder or was she framed?
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George Bernard Shaw's "Major Barbara", 2008.
Looks at the idealism in a world of hypocrisy as presented in George Bernard Shaw's play "Major Barbara".
1,385 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 46.95
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This paper argues that George Bernard Shaw presents his belief that religious organizations for the most part are a sham because their minions will gladly embrace the money of the most wretched people if it will help them to pay their own bills. The paper then suggests that, at the same time, the character of Major Barbara in Shaw's play of the same name, while dismayed by the seeming hypocrisy of the Salvation Army, does not so much recoil from her holy mission as she returns to it with a more realistic understanding of how the world really works - and that doing good may, in the final analysis, involve making certain accommodations that the idealistic and naive might find appalling.
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"In the end, Barbara dejectedly walks away from the Salvation Army (Shaw, 113-114; for a good description of how the experience seared Barbara to the quick, please see page 145 of the text) and assumes - it is her father's idea - control of the munitions factory (Shaw, 123-124). From her experiences she has learned a few things that are of the greatest importance: money really is power; Christian organizations can surely be bought for the right price; all men, like her father, who deign to be good men only have the luxury of being so when they are wealthy (for her father's treatise on why he finds poverty so abominable, please see pages 147-148); and evil in life (and those with blasted principles) cannot be avoided."
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"Pygmalion" and "Major Barbara", 2007.
An analysis of love in "Pygmalion" and "Major Barbara" written by George Bernard Shaw .
866 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 30.95
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This paper compares the love depicted in the plays "Pygmalion" and "Major Barbara" written by George Bernard Shaw. The paper suggests that the final outcome of the analysis is an intermingling of the two perspectives on love and it notes that in both situations, the heroes attract each other in spite of the paradoxical opposition.
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"In opposition, their projections in the real world, Lisa and Cusins, trapped in reality, are only capable of projecting human love limited to the sole adulation of man, as the main actor of the reality they live in. Although Lisa loves her master, her passion, being deeply anchored in the every day life, she proves herself more powerful, succeeding in tearing down the wall her master had created around himself, by projecting her newly tailored personality upon her master. Thus, the creation becomes more powerful than its creator "But [with sudden humility] I shall miss you, Eliza"(Shaw, 1916, act V). On a similar note, Cusins represents the source of physical love whose subject becomes Barbara, as her own mother admits: "I have a very strong suspicion that you went to the Salvation Army to worship Barbara and nothing else" Shaw, 2000, act I). He loves her earthly existence, and the person her ideals embody."
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First Ladies Eleanor Roosevelt and Barbara Bush, 2001.
An in-depth comparison of the lives of former First Ladies Eleanor Roosevelt and Barbara Bush.
3,122 words (approx. 12.5 pages), 11 sources, $ 90.95
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This paper closely examines former First Ladies Eleanor Roosevelt and Barbara Bush. The similar backgrounds and passions of these two women are revealed through this in-depth comparison.
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"Eleanor Roosevelt and Barbara Bush were two extraordinary former first ladies who helped to shape today's American society. Both of these women played active roles while they were First Ladies of the United States. Although these two women lived in different time periods and concentrated their abilities in different areas, both were influential in their own unique ways. A liberal Democrat, Eleanor Roosevelt was very active during her years in the political spotlight. While in the White House, Eleanor Roosevelt had many issues that were important to her, including concern for young people, the poor, the unemployed, and racial equality. She was also involved in the women's movement. After her years in the White House, Eleanor Roosevelt dedicated her time to humanitarian causes. A Republican, Barbara Bush was also active during her years in the political spotlight. Barbara Bush devoted her time to issues such as literacy and volunteerism. Before and during their times in the White House, these two women had many similarities as well as many differences, both lifestyle-wise and political-wise. Both were profoundly unique women who used their talents to take them far."
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"Major Barbara" and "The Importance of Being Earnest", 2002.
A comparative analysis of the satirical style of Shaw's "Major Barbara", and Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper explores the social commentary in both Shaw's "Major Barbara", and Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest". The paper discusses the satirical style of each. It concludes that both authors used the parody as a way of calling attention to the inequities of society.
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Barbara Sproul's Primal Myths, 2002.
Review of Barbara Sproul's discussion of archetypes and metaphores in creation myths.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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Myths often speak of archetypes in terms of prototypes. Rather, we inherit it to the extent we inherit our humanity; we inherit it through the form...the archetypical beginnings described in creation myths are absolute and essential. Rather, it is the search for the Archetypes - the metaphorical origins. Archetypes and their attendant metaphors are the initial points. Archetypes contain 'essences' or inherent qualities. Sproul's discussion engages in these qualities which are essential, 'at the core' and 'deep within'. Archetypes are timeless. Archetypes are developmentally simple.
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Barbara Kruger, 2000.
An analysis of Barbara Kruger, an artist concerned with the ways in which society controls our thoughts, desires, and attitudes.
1,170 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 4 sources, $ 40.95
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" Barbara Kruger is an artist concerned with the ways in which society controls our thoughts, desires, and and attitudes. She is known for her large stereotypical images taken from various media sources and covered with text, disrupting their power and clearing a path for awareness. Her twenty year career represents a stand for and against a repertoire of looming social issues, with none more apparent above the rest than feminism. Depicting themes such as absence, loss, and incompleteness, Barbara Kruger..."
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Jane Yolen and Barbara Smucker, 2002.
This paper examines (in simple English) the contributions of Jane Yolen and Barbara Smucker to multicultural/anti-racist literature.
3,650 words (approx. 14.6 pages), 21 sources, $ 133.95
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The paper focuses on the quality of their representations of diverse cultures and their ability to combat racism, ageism and sexism through their fiction. It also focuses on literary issues of voice, narrative and quality of illustrations.
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