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"The Spider Eaters" - An Inside View of Mao's China, 2007.
A review of the book "The Spider Eaters" by Rae Yang.
1,132 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper discusses Rae Yang's memoir - "The Spider Eaters". The paper explains that the books is the story of a classless person who came of age during the Cultural Revolution and who obviously worked hard to present her experiences in a direct and emotional manner. The paper explains that Yang's volume covers the decades between 1950 and 1980 and clearly illustrates the cruelty that Yang came to see all around her though a committed communist and Red Guard. The paper also shows how Yang's memoir points to Mao as a very aware person, a megalomaniac in Communist clothing who had no care as to the degree of cruelty that was inflicted through an entire society, or how this experience might shape future Chinese society and politics. In conclusion, the paper shows that Mao and the Chinese Cultural Revolution destroyed the Chinese who might have had much to offer the socialist experiment, drove great wedges between people and accustomed the Chinese once again to conditions of great fear.
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"Mao's regime could be, just as the Red Guard she came to recognize as brutal, a movement quickly dissolving into anarchy, a kind of gang warfare, till the Red Army intervened. This is an interesting revelation given that one is so often instructed that Mao was not aware of the abuses inflicted on many Chinese during the Cultural Revolution, that the Red Army had somehow taken over or carried out what he had not intended. Yang's memoir points to Mao as a very aware person, a megalomaniac in Communist clothing who had no care as to the degree of cruelty that was inflicted through an entire society, or how this experience might shape future Chinese society and politics. Yang's volume covers the decades between 1950 and her 1980. Shortly after, Yang left for the United States where she made her career."
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Rae Yang's "The Spider Eaters - a Memoir", 2008.
A critical review of Rae Yang's book "The Spider Eaters - a Memoir".
1,050 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper takes a look at Rae Yang's "The Spider Eaters - a Memoir", a book addressing the Cultural Revolution from the perspective of a person who was caught up in a frightening time in the early People's Republic of China (PRC).The paper considers the book a disturbing reflection on the youth of the Red Guard and the vicious sort of fascism created by Chairman Mao. It concludes that the book is well written and informative.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Maoism and Youth
Divisions
Conclusion
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"Yang writes in a way that is immediate and also indicating that her days in the Red Guard were far away, a dream somehow, and as much of the volume moves back and forth between the present and the past and with anecdotes to do with her childhood and family adding to a surreal and very personal explanation of a frightening time and different people's reactions to it. A chapter "A Strange Gift from the Pig Farm" refers to her habit of waking at 3 a.m. that remained after she was placed in the Manchurian countryside just as millions of other young people to finish high school were sent for menial labour away from the cities. She had had to waken at 3 a.m. to perform part of her assigned work and the habit remained, years later. (pp. 1-2) So much forgetting a disturbing time, or the person she had become, as 3 a.m. waking in America showed that some things could not be washed away. The inability to reconcile what Maoism preached, what happened, and came into view as very wrong with the CCP movement produced despair later and a wish to die which took time to overcome. Rae Yang embarked on graduate studies at the University of Massachusetts. She graduated from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1981 and in the U.S., completed her M.A. in 1985 and her Ph.D. in 1991, obtaining a post at Dickinson College where she specializes in pre-modern and modern Chinese literature."
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"Spider Eaters", 2005.
A book report on "Spider Eaters" by Chinese author, Rae Yang.
1,100 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper provides an overview of Rae Yang's "Spider Eaters," a political and social memoir of the life of a young Chinese woman during the Chinese cultural revolution. The paper shows that Yang's memoir is of her youth torn between two worlds, that of her loyalty to the Communist Party, and that of her parents and friends.
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"The narrative technique utilized in the book is that of first person. Continuously moving from past to present and from dream to reality this technique helps to convey the vast complexity of life in China, as well as the richness, confusion, and struggle of Yang's inner-self. For example, her dreams act as a soliloquy as they illustrate to the reader Yang's conflicted feelings as it shows her naive and tormented side."
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'Spider Eaters' by Rae Young, 2001.
Reviews book on life of author growing up in revolutionary China. Show the conflict between free will and determinism.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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"In Rae Young?s Spider Eaters, the conflict between freewill and determinism is encapsulated in her dramatic life. Growing up in the oppressive environment of revolutionary China, Young?s ability to exercise her freedom and individuality was limited by the rules and regulations of the Communist Party. Unlike a democratic society, people had to speak and act in conformity with the Communist Party or risk losing their lives and their families in Young?s depiction of revolutionary China. As a na?ve Red Guard, Young believed that she had liberated herself from the oppression of her teachers. She thought that she had the freedom to control her life and the lives of others. However, after witnessing the violence and the injustice of the Cultural Revolution, Young realized that she was caught up in a vicious campaign that spiral..."
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"The Salt Eaters", 2002.
Looks at the theme of community in Bambara's "The Salt Eaters".
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper examines the novel "The Salt Eaters" by Toni Cade Bambara in terms of community and ritual.
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"Inside the Criminal Mind", 2002.
An analysis of "Inside the Criminal Mind", by Stanton Samenow
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 1 source, $ 53.95
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This six-page undergraduate academic paper summarizes, discusses, and critiques the book, "Inside the Criminal Mind", by Stanton Samenow, in which the author offers his theories regarding how criminals think.
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"Self-Matters: Creating Your Life from the Inside Out", 2002.
A comparison of Freud's theories to the methods of self help in "Self-Matters: Creating Your Life from the Inside Out" by Philip McGraw.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper will perform a book review of the book "Self Matters: Creating Your Life from the Inside Out" by Philip McGraw. By showing how he reveals his methods of self-help for his readership, we can see how Freud's personality theories can be compared.
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"The Potato Eaters", 2005.
This paper looks at Vincent Van Gogh as an artist and how important "The Potato Eaters" was to his career.
1,326 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 44.95
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Vincent Van Gogh, born March 30, 1853, was a Dutch painter who began after the impressionist era. This paper discusses how Van Gogh's work is full of passion and his style very spontaneous. It explains that Van Gogh was the son of a Dutch Protestant pastor; therefore he was brought up in a very religious setting. It discusses how his life experience gave him the inspiration to paint and soon he was becoming well-known for his abilities. In 1885, Van Gogh painted what would be forever known as his first masterpiece. It shows how this painting, "The Potato Eaters", was his intentional attempt to establish his reputation in the painting world.
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"Van Gogh began this painting in August of 1883 after studying for over five years in the art community. This was his hope of becoming a respected artist by not only other artists but also by art dealers. Soon he gave up after only completing a sketch of the piece because he was restless and realized that the project entailed more than he was able to produce. After spending more time studying the art of painting and proper technique, Van Gogh determined that he was now ready to return to his sketch and create the scene of peasant farmers at their meal. The Potato Eaters contains five figures that were painted in such a technique that they would appear real along with their feelings displayed for the viewer. "Dark and somber, sometimes crude, these early works evidence van Gogh's intense desire to express the misery and poverty of humanity as he saw it among the miners in Belgium" (Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 1). The Potato Eaters was Van Gogh's representation of reality during his time. After finishing several sketches, he set out to transfer his final sketch as an oil painting on canvas."
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Literature: Women inside the Patriarchal Society, 2008.
Compares the depiction of the life of women inside the patriarchal society in Rebecca Harding Davis' 'Life in the Iron Mills" and William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily".
895 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper explains that the female protagonists in Rebecca Harding Davis' 'Life in the Iron Mills" and Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" are very different. However, the two women are markedly the prisoners of the patriarchal society that has caught them in its net. The author points out that both women focus all their energy on their male companions, being almost obsessively preoccupied with them. The paper describes both stories.
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""Life in the Iron Mills" is the somber story of the grey, empty life of a worker in the iron mills, Hugh Wolfe. In the midst of his brutish life, he has an artistic vision: he is able to model figurines out of the waste materials left at the mill. His aspirations are thwarted nevertheless, and he dies in utter misery. His fate obviously symbolizes the terrible destiny of the working-class people, who had no perspectives outside a barren, instinctual life. The secondary character of this story, Deborah, who is Hugh's cousin, is however an even more interesting figure which perfect the realistic picture drawn by Davis."
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"Inside Game/Outside Game", 2005.
A review of David Rusk's book, "Inside Game / Outside Game: Winning Strategies for Saving Urban America".
1,481 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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This paper looks at how Rusk's book is an insightful and well-researched addition to the current understanding of urban management and public administration. The writer explains that Rusk argues convincingly that improvement in inner city neighborhoods can only come from a coordinated effort that includes regional approaches to reducing suburban growth, the concentration of poverty, and financial differences.
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"In Inside Game / Outside Game, Rusk argues for reform of metropolitan regions based on the interrelationship between urban management and management of other, outside concerns, like taxation, suburban growth, and housing practices. Rusk argues that revitalization of neighborhoods, affordable housing, preservation of open space and fiscal policy reform are closely related. As such, changes in factors like taxation or housing practices can have a profound effect in urban neighborhoods."
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"Inside the Sex Trade", 2002.
An examination of the politics of representation of crime and criminalization in the McClelland's article "Inside the Sex Trade".
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 62.95
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This paper is an analysis of the McClelland's article. McClelland's (2001) article presents a microcosm of underground capitalism in which women are highly visible, while being at the very bottom of the economic hierarchy. The same processes as are observed in legitimate capitalism are at work, even though they are inverted.
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Michael Field "Inside The Arab World", 1995.
This paper is a critical review of Michael Field "Inside The Arab World", which attempts to explain the contemporary Arab world: Relations with Israel, culture, religion and politics.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 1 source, $ 63.95
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"It is likely that Americans, whose attention to the rest of the world tends to be sporadic, and driven largely by immediate events or strong emotional "hooks," are now inclined to relegate Arabs and the Arab world to a sort of benign neglect. Arab oil money has long since been replaced in popular fears by Japanese economic inroads. The Persian Gulf War has faded into history, and Americans' anxious attentions are now focused on Bosnia, a largely Muslim country but not an Arab one. Palestinians and Israelis have signed a peace; an uncertain and fragile peace to be sure, but peace does not make news.
Even "Islamic fundamentalists" have, for now, faded from the television news. When a federal building was blown up in Oklahoma, with heavy loss of life, the media and the public jumped at once to the conclusion that it was the doing of Arabs, ... "
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The Lotus Eaters: A Chapter Analysis, 2001.
The parallels between Homer's "Odyssey" and Joyce's "Ulysses", in a single chapter and the experiences of Leopold Bloom in a single hour.
2,430 words (approx. 9.7 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 74.95
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This essay takes on just one chapter of James Joyce's most critically acclaimed novel, Ulysses, and attempts to unravel some of the mystery behind the chapter entitled "The Lotus Eaters" It discusses the parallels between the Joyce chapter and its corresponding chapter in Homer's Odyssey, with an analysis of religious, political and sexual allusions in the chapter. It also discusses the contemporary influences on the main character, Leopold Bloom, analyzes his sexual inadequacy and attempts to put this single chapter in perspective with the rest of the novel. Includes quotes and page numbers from the unabridged text.
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"The meandering route that Bloom takes to the Postal Annex is also indicative of a dreamy "lotus-eating" atmosphere that parallels the Homeric description of the land of the Lotus-Eaters. In Homer's epic, Odysseus travels to a land of men who are generous to excess, and eat the lotus flower in order to induce a confused, forgetful, dream-like state of consciousness. Bloom is likewise a bit dazed, and his thoughts seem to meander as much as his footfalls as he stops by the window of the little tea shop. "Under their dropped lids his eyes found the tiny bow of the leather headband inside his high grade hat" (71). Joyce's writing here, and the subsequent language in the following paragraph mimic the confused leaps the mind takes as it is being lulled to sleep, and Bloom's eyes are half-hooded as if he is a man in a trance."
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Obese Binge Eaters, 2003.
Discusses the development of effective interventions.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, $ 39.95
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Examines the scope of the binge eating problem. Considers physiological and psychological conditions. Discusses the most useful strategies to assist obese female binge-eaters in controlling their binging behaviors and losing weight.
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"The estimates of binge eating among obese individuals range from 20 to 50 percent, depending upon the criteria used and the study population (Goodrick, Poston, Kimball, Reeves, & Foreyt, 1998)..."
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"Evil: Inside Human Violence & Cruelty" ( Roy Baumeister ), 1999.
Critical review of work on four root causes of human evil.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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" Evil is in the eye of the beholder. Roy Baumeister makes a convincing case for this assertion in his book, "Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty." Baumeister also debunks the popular myth of evil perpetuated by the media in its coverage of random acts of violence, i.e., violence is often committed by crazed, blood-thirsty individuals. Almost any person is capable of evil if sufficient self control is not exercised.
Baumeister defines evil in its broadest sense. He restricts his analysis to acts of evil perpetrated by human beings. Since the most common manifestation of evil is violence, the author makes this the focal point of his study, but also considers various other forms, such as oppression and petty cruelty.
One of the problems with studying evil is that a magnitude gap exists between the perpetrator of evil and the victim. As.."
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