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"The Road To Mecca" by Athol Fugard, 2000.
A discussion of the use of the character of Miss Helen to examine biopsychosocial issues which are part of the aging process in women and role of the social worker in that process.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 9 sources, $ 95.95
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"This paper uses the character of Miss Helen in Athol Fugard's moving play, The Road to Mecca, to examine many of the biopsychosocial systems and issues that are part of the aging process in women.
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"This paper uses the character of Miss Helen in Athol Fugard's moving play, The Road to Mecca, to examine many of the biopsychosocial systems and issues that are part of the aging process in women. The individual grows, develops, and ages within the wider environment of the surrounding community. This extended system limits, influences, and affects the ways in which its members grow up and grow old, and Miss Helen provides an especially intriguing case study of this process at work. Many of the issues raised by her case are useful in understanding the social worker's role in analyzing and designing a plan for care for older, widowed women in the community. Her case also suggests some of the kinds of clues that the caring, perceptive social "worker might look for in studying and serving older individuals.
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Athol Fugard's "'Master Harold'... and the Boys", 2007.
A review of the play "'Master Harold'... and the Boys" by South African playwright Athol Fugard.
1,419 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 47.95
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This paper looks at the subject of Apartheid in South Africa in the 1950's, by examining the dialogue between the three characters in the play "'Master Harold'... and the Boys" by Athol Fugard. It explains the narrative of the play and the describes the relationships between the characters in the play. The paper also discusses Fugard's technique of allowing each character to tell a story, which allows the audience a glimpse into the character's past and makes the play more real.
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"The play begins on a note of tolerance and agreement, and it ends in anger and racist speech. Apartheid was a deliberate creation of the White power structure to prevent the Blacks from gaining political power, and while racial segregation had been the norm through most of the century before that, apartheid made this the law and also made it harsher than it had been before. In the play, the White anger directed at Blacks is an anger that was general, meaning the Blacks were being made scapegoats for whatever other problems and concerns the Whites might have."
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"Master Harold and the Boys", 2005.
An analysis of the theme of apartheid in "Master Harold and the Boys" by Athol Fugard.
1,372 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 45.95
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The play "Master Harold and the Boys", was written during the era of apartheid in South Africa by Athol Fugard. The paper discusses how the play portrays the way the white minority in South Africa maintained its dominant position through segregation of the races.
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"One morning, Hally finds Willie and Sam dancing, in preparation for a dance contest. He shouts to them, "Think you stand a chance. Act your bloody age! Cut out the nonsense now and get on with your work. And you too, Sam. Stop fooling around." (18). Hally criticizes Sam when he asks him sarcastically if he really thinks that he is good enough to win a dancing contest. A major theme of White supremacy and Black inferiority is demonstrated in this scene and also in the scene when Hally and Sam argue over the value of ballroom dancing. Hally fails to recognize its simplistic "beauty" (40), and consequently claims the activity to be "simple-minded." "I said it was simple-like in simple-minded, meaning mentally retarded. "
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Collision of Ideology and Culture, 2007.
An examination of colliding cultures in "Master Harold... and the Boys" by Athol Fugard, "Dream on Monkey Mountain" by Derek Walcott, and "No Sugar" by Jack Davis.
807 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 28.95
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This paper explores the concept of colliding cultures and competing ideologies as well as the related theme of identity in the three plays; "Master Harold... and the Boys" by Athol Fugard, "Dream on Monkey Mountain" by Derek Walcott, and "No Sugar" by Jack Davis. The paper also analyzes the strategies used in the plays such as symbolism, irony, and contrast in their elucidation of colliding cultures. The paper explains that contrast in use of language serves a significant purpose in relation to evolving identity for the oppressed. The paper also notes that colliding cultures can be reduced to the values of white dominant culture in opposition to the other - whether they happen to be black, aboriginal people, or some minority ethnic group. In conclusion, the paper shows that because all the other variables such as identity never are static, the concept of collision is also fluid and appears where it would be least expected.
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"Davis' No Sugar is similar to Fugard's play in how it demonstrates the immediacy and perennial nature of colonialism. Mitchell (18-20) expresses this reality by stating that "the rhetoric of postcolonialism assumes that anti-colonialism has either overthrown imperialism or exhausted itself in the attempt". The fact is such a goal has not nearly been achieved; we continue to live in a colonial world. Walcott demonstrates class struggle and collision in his play through the ability of his Odysseus who is able to undermine the totalitarian power of the Cyclops (Giannopoulou 13)."
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The Mulatto as a Crossroads, 2001.
An analysis of two plays - "Blood Knot" (Athol Fugard) and "Dream on Monkey Mountain" - and how mulattos are reflected in both.
2,262 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 70.95
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This paper uses Derek Walcott's "Dream on Monkey Mountain" and Athol Fugard's "Blood Knot" to discuss how the mulatto figures in post colonial discourse. It examines the tragic figure of the post colonial mulatto who is caught between black and white, without knowing which race he belongs to. The paper shows how both playwrights reflect their opinions and perspectives of mulattos in their plays.
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"In colonial discourse race is a mask for class, and class is a mask for being. Since the mulatto doesn?t know which race he belongs to, he cannot know his true being. For Walcott, in his Overture, the struggle of the mulatto is the ?wrestling contradiction of being white in mind and black in body, as if the flesh were a coal from which the spirit like tormented smoke writhed to escape?(Walcott, 12). Walcott explores the problems of this opposing binary through his character of Corporal Lestrade, in Dream on Monkey Mountain. Athol Fugard takes this examination of the mulatto psyche even further through his character of Morris in Blood Knot."
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European and American Road Movies, 2000.
A look at the differing natures of the American and European 'Road' in 'Kings of the Road' and 'Paris, Texas'.
3,000 words (approx. 12.0 pages), 5 sources, $ 88.95
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This essay explores the importance of ?Road? in a film context and questions how the American sense of ?the road? may differ from the European. Featured works include the Wim Wenders film Im lauf der Zeit (Kings of The Road) and Paris, Texas. The theme of alienation in both films is discussed.
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Road Rage, 2006.
This paper discusses the phenomenon of violent and dangerous behavior by drivers, called road rage.
1,388 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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In this essay, the writer describes road rage as uncontrolled anger that results in violence or threatened violence. The writer explores causes, effects and manifestations of "road rage" on America's roads today, including two very recent examples. Further, the writer analyzes ways of preventing, or at least decreasing, road rage incidents. The writer maintains that the best policy for avoiding road rage is to treat other drivers as one would like to be treated, i.e., with patience, consideration, and courtesy. The writer concludes that in order to best avoid becoming either a victim or a perpetrator of road rage, it is best to avoid conflict on the road, by giving other drivers both the benefit of the doubt and plenty of driving space.
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"Effects of road rage incidents, for victims, may include severe injury or loss of life. Road rage perpetrators may not stop at mere gestures, verbal outbursts, or hostile gestures, but also maim or kill their victims. And, in general, the effect of so many well-publicized road rage incidents is to make many drivers increasingly edgy and afraid. Arguably, one possible benefit of road raged, however, is that many drivers are now making more effort to keep their emotions under control, and to refrain from behaving aggressively toward other drivers.
Increasingly, road rage incidents are well-publicized, especially if they involve public figures and/or fatalities. On November 29, 2005, for example, newspapers and internet sources reported that wrestler Ric Flair turned himself in to police to face road rage charges in Meckleburg County, North Carolina."
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Road Rage, 2007.
This paper discusses the topic of road rage and its elements.
1,408 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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In this article, the writer explores the various risk factors of road rage and supplies suggestions in how to reduce its incidence. The writer discusses that while road rage is a relatively new occurrence on today's highways, research is already under way to determine the risk factors involved so that plans can be made to educate people on how to reduce their chance of encountering road rage themselves. The writer argues that if the most common risk factors can be identified, then steps can be taken to help make the roads safer by knowing how not to incite an incident. The writer concludes that education regarding road rage incidents should be part of any driver education curriculum and that there should be public service announcements made regularly through the media.
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Introduction
Road Rage
Risk Factors
Risk Factor Reduction
Conclusion
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"Studies have indicated that there has been a significant increase in the number of road rage incidences within the past 15 years. Road rage is up 51 percent compared to what it was in 1990 and it doesn't appear to be slowing down according to all indications."
"Aggressive driving incidences are being reported daily. They range in severity from being cussed out on the road to being shot and everything in between. Over time people have reported being assaulted with golf clubs, baseball bats, tire irons, shotguns, handguns and other weapons as well as been dragged out of their car and physically assaulted for their failure to speed up, move over or get out of the way when another driver thought that they should."
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Hallie and Biff, 2006.
A comparison between two characters; Athol Fugard's Hallie and Arthur Miller's Biff.
1,040 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 0 sources, $ 36.95
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This paper discusses two characters in two very different books set worlds apart, namely Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" and Fugard's "Master Harold and the Boys". The author explores the two characters, with examples from the texts, and how they both find disillusionment in a world that they were too young to fully understand.
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"Hallie tries to do his home-work. That is his reality. On the other hand, the two dancing black men have a different sense of reality. The reality is that dance takes blacks away from the everyday agonies of their existence. "...like being in a dream about a world in which accidents don't happen..." That dream world of the three is shattered, when the teen-ager talks about the conversation he and his father have about "a nigger's arse" Sam now sees Hallie as the son of his father: "Well, you've done it...Master Harold. Yes, I'll start calling you that from now on. It won't be difficult any more...You've hurt yourself, Master Harold." As Sam describes the times he had to carry Hallie's drunken father home, with the little white boy following behind, the relationship is now different."
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Social Transition, 2002.
This paper introduces, discusses, and analyzes the books "Master Harold . . . and the Boys," by Athol Fugard and "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe.
1,325 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 44.95
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The writer discusses how both "Master Harold" and "Things Fall Apart" are set in periods or challenges of social transition or reform. "Things Fall Apart" and "Master Harold" both embody Africa during colonialism, when whites ruled supreme, and blacks were "put in their place." It explores how both show the tragedy and hatred of prejudice, and how it affects everyone it touches.
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"Both of these works are set in Africa, and both relate stories of how Africans have suffered at the hand of the whites that took their land, but most of all took away their way of life. Both stories also portray societies in transition, from the South Africa of "Master Harold," mired in apartheid and struggling to understand another race, to the Nigeria of "Things Fall Apart," mired in colonialism and struggling for freedom. They also illustrate how a society in transition can shape the way people view people, and a society that oppresses some of its members will eventually have to fall. Social transition and change does not end the underlying problem of hatred. When a society understands the damaging effects of hatred, then perhaps it can transform, but that does not happen in either of these works."
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Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken", 2002.
The paper presents an analysis of the poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost.
580 words (approx. 2.3 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 20.95
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The paper begins by discussing the primary metaphor of the diverging roads and by giving an outline of the plot. It debates whether or not the road was really the road less traveled. The poet?s contradictions are pointed out and the poem?s tone is studied. The paper concludes by showing how the poem could be misleading.
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"In Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken," there is no stable evidence that the speaker indeed chose "The Road Not Taken." Throughout the poem, the traveler himself is unable to identify with confidence which road was least taken. It is acknowledged that the two roads are almost the same. Yet the end of the poem contradicts the point that the roads were identical. In the future, he decides that the roads were in fact different."
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The Mullan Military Road, 2002.
A history and examination of this famous American road.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper provides a history of the Mullan Military Road. The focus of this paper is on the discovery and the development of this road and the impact that the road had on the development of the local history.
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'Tobacco Road', 2008.
This paper provides a review of the book 'Tobacco Road' by Erskine Caldwell.
2,835 words (approx. 11.3 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 84.95
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In this essay, the writer introduces, discusses and analyzes the book "Tobacco Road," by Erskine Caldwell. Specifically, the writer discusses the author's life and its effect on his writing of "Tobacco Road". Further, the writer provides criticisms of the novel and looks at the novel's place in literary history. The writer notes that "Tobacco Road" is probably one of the most enduring glimpses into a tragic part of America's history that has ever been written. The writer explains that profiling a poor white family from Georgia, it encapsulates the poverty and hunger these people faced, while using dark humor and pathos to portray the tragedy of their lives, and the gradual decline of any decency in their spirit. The paper includes over 10 pages of copied critiques on this subject.
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Introduction
Tobacco Road
References
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"It seems the only one with any sense at all in the family is Pearl, and she has enough sense to want to get out and go to Augusta. She is also the most unusual character in the novel - she never speaks, and refuses to sleep with her husband, Lov. Early in the novel, the reader discovers Jeeter is not her father, and this explains why she is different, and why she wants to leave the area. Everyone else in the novel seems a bit dazed by what happens around them, just as Lov is dazed when he loses the turnips. Caldwell gives a sense of unreality to the novel, as if things are happing around the characters, and they do not understand why they happen, or how everything relates to them and their lives. It is as if they are walking through life - seeing it but not really taking part.
"Jeeter uses his children to further himself, no matter how shocking this may be. He sold Pearl to Lov for seven dollars and some household items, and is absolutely enthralled with Ellie May's sexual seduction of Lov so Jeeter can grab the turnips. He also in effect sells his son Dude to Sister Bessie Rice for a car and the chance to get his firewood to market. Jeeter is always full of hope, but he is so scheming and lazy he can never get past the hoping stage."
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"On the Road", 2004.
This paper discusses the theme of a quest in Jack Kerouac's novel "On The Road."
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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The paper looks at the quest theme in Jack Kerouac's influential beat generation novel, "On The Road." The paper explains the road trip as symbolic of the quest for identity and the automobile as the symbol of the new American mobility. The paper also notes the semi-autobiographical tone of the novel.
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"A central and even dominant theme in Jack Kerouac's novel "On the Road" is the road trip as a symbolic and practical quest for identity, a quest that occupies the lives of Sal Paradise, the narrator and Dean Moriarty, the perpetual road tripper. As an influential member of the Beat generation of American writers, Kerouac used what appears to be a semi-autobiographical approach to his theme."
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"The Road Not Taken".
A critical analysis of Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken".
953 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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This paper examines Robert Frost?s poem, ?The Road Not Taken?, which tells the story of a traveler making the decision to travel the road less traveled, but looking back upon the road not taken and wondering what might have been. It discusses how many people assume that the advantage lies in taking the road less traveled and relate this poem to personal hardships endured by taking this path. It shows how Mr. Frost comments on the tendency of humans to make decisions and how they consistently reflect upon and consider or wonder what might have been.
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"It appears that this poem utilizes an ?abaab? pattern rhyming methodology. The repetition of accented vowel sounds can be found throughout the poem, such as in ?I took the one less traveled by? where ?I? and ?by? correspond to create a rhyming pattern. Some other rhyming patterns include how ?way leads onto way.? Rhyming occurs often at the ends of stanzas and lines as well. This helps the reader to continue through each line and stanza smoothly and mellifluously. Frost does not stick to conventional methods of rhyming and rhythm within this work, but rather mixes things up, perhaps to help the reader stay open minded and not favor one path versus another. There is not a great deal of alliteration or other repetitive sound patterns apparent within the poem."
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