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"Snow Falling On Cedars" ( David Guterson ), 1999.
Analyzes this novel's depiction of racial stereotypes in this murder trial of a Japanese-American
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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Individual judgments of Kabuo Miyamoto are profoundly affected by racial stereotypes in David Guterson's novel Snow Falling on Cedars. In the first place, Miyamoto was placed in an internment camp, along with other Japanese-Americans, on the basis of racism and nothing else.
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"Individual judgments of Kabuo Miyamoto are profoundly affected by racial stereotypes in David Guterson's novel Snow Falling on Cedars. In the first place, Miyamoto was placed in an internment camp, along with other Japanese-Americans, on the basis of racism and nothing else. Miyamoto and the others were seen as dangerous enemies of the United States on the basis of their racial heritage, their skin color, their facial features, their names, and nothing else. There was absolutely no evidence that Miyamoto had committed any crime against the United States or posed any danger to the United States, but he was placed in an internment camp nevertheless.
While it is true that there is evidence which suggests his involvement in the murder of the other fisherman, Carl Heine, that evidence seems, to the reader, at least, if not the other ..."
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"Snow Falling On Cedars" ( David Guterson ), 1999.
Reviewsthis novel about a murder trial in an ethnically divided community and the U.S. treatment of west coast Japanese-Americans in WWII.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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In the novel Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterman, events in a community on a small island in Puget Sound show the persistence of certain attitudes after World War II and how people who survived that conflict continue to live out the tensions and resentments of that war.
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"In the novel Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterman, events in a community on a small island in Puget Sound show the persistence of certain attitudes after World War II and how people who survived that conflict continue to live out the tensions and resentments of that war. Kabuo Miyamoto is a Japanese-American who spent the war in an internment camp, but once released, he still finds that his neighbors distrust him and are prejudiced against him because of his ancestry. Such prejudices become all the more heated in the context of a murder trial. World War II is always present for the characters in this novel, serving as suspected motive for the murder, as the crucible in which attitudes and human being were shaped, as a source of continuing discrimination, and as the major historical event remembered by the population."
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"Snow Falling on Cedars", 2003.
Discusses the interracial relationships in David Guterson's "Snow Falling on Cedars".
950 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 1 source, $ 33.95
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David Guterson?s "Snow Falling on Cedars" examines the shaky relationships between Japanese-American islanders and whites in the story?s setting of Amity Harbor. The paper shows how far some people are willing to go outside the norm when dealing with people from different races and the consequences of these actions. The paper shows that interracial relationships prove to be hypocritical in the novel, as the Japanese-Americans and whites seem to be friendly to one another in normal situations, but in times of war and during a murder trial, they are torn apart and suspicious of one another.
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"Hatsue?s mentor, Mrs. Shigemura, teaches Hatsue what Japanese girls had always been taught ? to stay away from white men because they are sex-driven, and to only marry a Japanese man ?whose heart is strong and good? (84). In their final time together, hidden away in the cedar tree hideaway they have had for years, Hatsue decides it does not feel right to be with Ishmael. Regardless of this, her mother finds out the secret relationship that exists between her and Ishmael. Reacting like any parent of the time would at the news of an interracial relationship, Fujiko Imada demands her daughter never again speak to or see the white boy. One can only think that without the influence of Mrs. Shigemura and the general attitudes towards interracial relationships, she would have never come to this conclusion."
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"Snow Falling On Cedars", 2002.
Discusses theme of intolerance in David Guterson's novel.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 23.95
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Discusses theme of intolerance in David Gutterson's novel. Internment of Japanese Americans during World War Two. Role of intolerance in murder investigation and townspeople's percenptions of Miyamoto. The outsider as foreigner and victim of hatred. Examples of intolerance in Miyamoto's murder trial, in the life of the town, and in the judgments of Miyamoto.
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"Kabuo Miyamoto in David Guterson's novel Snow Falling on Cedars is a victim of intolerance and that victimization has helped shape him as a man. He was placed in an internment camp, along with other Japanese-Americans, on the basis of racism and nothing else. He, along with the others, was seen as an enemy of the nation on the basis of his racial heritage, his skin color, his facial features, his name, and for no other reasons. Intolerance and fear dictated the public policy which treated American citizens of Japanese heritage as enemies. There was absolutely no evidence that Miyamoto had committed any crime against the United States or posed any danger to the United States, but he was placed in an internment camp nevertheless, based solely on racial prejudice and intolerance.
With respect to the murder of Carl Heine, even that evidence ..."
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Cultural Issues in "Snow Falling on Cedars", 2001.
A look at the cultural conflicts in the novel with focus on the main characters.
2,365 words (approx. 9.5 pages), 5 sources, $ 72.95
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An examination of David Guterson's "Snow Falling on Cedars". The author examines the cultural issues in the novel. This is done by exploring the main character and how she is torn between two cultures.
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?Snow Falling on Cedars,? by David Guterson is more than just a love story, a murder mystery, or a tale of Japanese-American internment during World War II. While it is indeed all of those, there is a distinct other dimension of the book which explores the unique difficulties of culture. In this case, the female protagonist, Hatsue, is caught between two cultures, belonging partially to both and wholly to neither. She is of Japanese descent and traditions, growing up in American society, in love with and loved by an American boy. During the course of the novel, she must decide finally what and who she is, where she belongs. It seems intuitively natural, in our American arrogance, to assume that she should embrace American culture including the old adage that love conquers all. However, to say that Hatsue should forsake her Japanese heritage and marry an American is to subordinate her to our own image and deprive her of her essential character ? fundamentally a racist act."
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"In Snow Falling on Cedars" and "No-No Boy", 2000.
The following essay compares the common themes and concepts of two books "In Snow Falling on Cedars" and "No-No Boy".
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This paper discusses the overall themes that flow through "In Snow Falling on Cedars" and "No-No Boy" focusing on the themes of pain, anguish and the struggle of a person to find themselves within their environment.
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"In each novel the authors used combines techniques to express their ideas. They use the basic story line as well as a range of underlying themes. In each of the novels the search for meaning is a basic underlying theme, and in both of the novels the meaning becomes clear on so many levels: while the environment does not define us, we are defined by how we react to that environment."
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"Snow Falling on Cedars, 2002.
This paper discusses the novel and film,"Snow Falling on Cedars".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper explains that in the the book and the movie a strong theme of racism reveals something very profound about life and the human condition in general.
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Prejudice in "Snow Falling on Cedars" and "Obasan", 2001.
A look at the impact of World War II on two communities; Japanese Canadians and Americans and discusses the prejudice and racism during the war.
2,730 words (approx. 10.9 pages), 2 sources, $ 81.95
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This is an insightful essay dealing with the impact of World War Two on two communities, which contain Japanese Canadians and Americans. The two novels, "Obasan" and "Snow Falling on Cedars", show the prejudice and racism of the Second World War, as well as the paranoia of the white community. The essay describes the impacts of the war, and also contrasts how memories and emotions of war can be suppressed by silence or resurfaced in everyday life. This essay shows both effects using the two novels to show the various outcomes.
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"Many memorable events in people?s lives have the power to affect their memories, emotions, and relationships later in life. These events may be positive or negative and are dealt with in various ways, such as silence, anger, denial or confrontation. In "Snow Falling on Cedars", by David Guterson, and "Obasan", by Joy Kogawa, the event of World War II creates lasting impressions on all the characters, which are evident even many years later in both plots. In "Snow Falling on Cedars", a man named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged for the murder of a well-liked fisherman. While he and others are on the stand, memories of World War II surface, revealing a complex plot containing separated lovers, a battle for land, and the island?s always present, racism. In Kogawa?s novel, a schoolteacher named Naomi Nakane visits her Aunt Obasan because her uncle has passed away. During the visit she remembers her family?s separation and relocation during World War II through the reading of diaries, and eventually learns the details of her mother?s demise after thirty years. Both novels deal with the prejudice toward the Japanese in North America during the Second World War, as well as show the lasting effects that war leaves on its survivor."
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?Dust of Snow? and ?Snow on Frost?, 2002.
A comparison of Robert Frost's poem ?Dust of Snow? to its parody ?Snow on Frost? by Bob McKenty.
580 words (approx. 2.3 pages), 0 sources, $ 20.95
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This paper analyzes the poem ?Dust of Snow? by Robert Frost. It uses it as an example of how Frost's poems in general capture a fleeting picture of a natural event and how these events are described in very simple words, without flowery or elaborate language, using plain verse structures. It analyzes the style of the poem stanza by stanza and then compares it to it's parody, Bob McKenty?s ?Snow on Frost? which makes fun of Frost's earthiness, realism and ironic humor by echoing both Frost?s words and images and the structure of the poem itself.
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"In the first stanza, Frost captures a moment that might have been observed while taking a walk in the country in winter. The description is so stripped of detail that it is up to us to visualize the black bird in the dark evergreen tree, dislodging a sprinkling of white snow when it alights or takes off from the branch, perhaps disturbed by the human?s approach. But because the poet specifies that the bird is a crow and the tree is a hemlock, other layers of meaning can be inferred at a symbolic level. The crow is typically seen as a somewhat negative creature (unlike the robin, for example), perhaps even as a bad omen."
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A Reading of David Armstrong and David Lewis, 2002.
Comparison and contrast of the points of view of David Armstrong and David Lewis regarding the question of what exactly is the mind.
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This essay compares and contrasts the points of view of Armstrong and Lewis on the centuries-old debate regarding the question of what exactly is the mind, and the degree to which mental states are identical with brain states.
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"Prophets In The Dark" ( David Kearns and David Nadler ), 1995.
Reviews this work by Xerox Corporation's CEO on the firm's successful transformation in the 1980s.
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"Introduction
During the 1980s, much of American business focused on improving its quality process in order to better compete with the Japanese. Great attention was paid to issues such as just in time inventory, total quality management and quality circles, and the American quality expert Deming was both hailed and vilified in the press for having introduced fundamental quality concepts to the Japanese some years before. David Kearns was CEO of Xerox Corporation during the 1982 to 1990 period, a time when the company whose name is synonymous with photocopiers faced intense competition not only from American competitors such as IBM and Kodak, but also from the Japanese. During the 1980s, the company undertook a rigorous quality program designed to transform the way the company did business. At the beginning of the 1990s, the ..."
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Cedars-Sinai, 2007.
This paper examines the quality care present in the Cedars-Sinai hospital, California.
1,408 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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The paper discusses how Cedars-Sinai is one of the finest health providers in the state of California. The paper looks at how hospitals and health care facilities are facing several kinds of legal and ethical issues that complicate their service. The paper shows how the organization is indeed performing at its optimum best and is ensuring the safety and the well being of the patient, while at the same time maintaining the high quality and standards that are expected of a Medical Care Center like Cedars-Sinai. The paper concludes that perhaps this is the reason that more and more numbers of patients are flocking to this hospital today.
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"Cedars-Sinai is one of the finest health providers in the state of California, and perhaps this is one of the reasons that the hospital has been able to make numerous advances in medicine, because of which it has been possible to save many more lives than before. Today, there are more than 1,800 physicians from almost all the specialties there are, affiliated with the Cedars- Sinai. In addition, there are 8,000 employees, 2,000 volunteers, and about 15,000 more people belonging to various fund-raising groups, and it is all these people together who make up the quality of health care that is offered in the Cedars Sinai hospital. (Cedars-Sinai is leading the Quest for Health among California Hospitals)"
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"The House Behind the Cedars", 2006.
This paper reviews Charles Chesnutt's 1900 novel, "The House Behind the Cedars," which focuses on a form of social deception known as 'passing.'
933 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 33.95
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The writer of this paper analyzes the character of African-American Rena in Chesnutt's novel, who is able to 'pass' herself off as white. Given the ethical circumstances of duress under which the heroine lives, the writer contends and explains why Rena's actions may be justified. This paper discusses early 20th southern society in America, which made a fetish of racial distinction. This paper details the plot and main characters of Chesnutt's novel, while focusing on the issue of 'passing' and how easy it is to misconstrue one's race. This book makes a powerful case against the practice of passing, which are detailed in this paper. The writer delves into the ethical ramifications of passing in a racist society and explains why Rena denied a fundamental part of herself by pretending to be white.
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"When Rena learns of the transience of George's affections and she falls ill. However, Rena recovers and vows goes on to work toward uplifting her race, although she dies at the end of the text, perhaps in a nod to the author's acknowledgement to the common cultural trope of the 'tragic mulatto.' But Rena is not condemned because she engages in 'passing' The House Behind the Cedars makes a powerful case against 'passing,' but not because it is unethical. Passing is not wrong ethically or morally in a racist society, and race itself is a fluid category. But by not identifying with her parentage heritage fully, Rena denies a fundamental part of herself and becomes tied to a man who is not worthy of her."
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Snow Imagery, 2004.
This paper compares the use of snow imagery in ?Snow Country? by Yasunari Kawabata and ?The Dead? by James Joyce, especially the latent or implied meanings embedded in each snow image.
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This paper explains that the use of imagery in literature, especially novels, is an effective tool, whereby a writer?s thoughts can be conveyed more efficiently than by only using simple description. The author points out that, in ?Snow Country? and ?The Dead,? there are three similarities in the way the authors used snow imagery: To describe vividly the settings, to set the mood for the gloomy and sad resolutions of the characters, and to serve as a ?memory? of their lost loves. The paper concludes that there is one difference: Kawabata uses snow imagery as a tool for characterizing Komako, while Joyce uses snow as a symbol for the impending deaths of Miss Kate and Julia and the death of his love for Gretta.
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"The use of snow implies coldness and darkness, which is compatible to the feelings that Shimamura and Komako felt when they met in ?Snow Country.? Shimamura?s dissatisfaction with life and Komako?s unfortunate life lead them to lead a gloomy life, intensified by the mood of the environment they are in (in the ?snow country?). Meanwhile, snow imagery becomes effective in ?The Dead? as an impending gloom and threat to Gabriel Conroy for his loved ones, particularly his aunts and his wife, Gretta. The snow that the characters of both stories experience and witness echo their inner feelings and thoughts about their life, which is generally gloomy and somewhat mysteriously still."
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David Copperfield, 2002.
Character analysis of David from the novel "David Copperfield".
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This paper is a character analysis of the main traits of David Copperfield. The most important feature of David is that he is Dickens' novelist, and his character is examined in light of that.
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