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The preservation of historic sites and of vintage architecture has become a major focus for many in the contemporary period. Different theorists have addressed this issue as they have also sought to motivate the movement for the preservation of the worthy and the important. This paper examines how two such theorists with somewhat different approaches to the subject are William Sumner Appleton and Norman Morrison Isham, both of whom left writings on the subject as well as took action in furtherance of their goals and their idea of the need for preservation.

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"William Sumner Appleton lived at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries in the Boston area, where at the time, preservation was maturing from a string of spontaneous efforts to an institutionalized movement. As this took place, both the aims of preservation aims and its methods were transformed, a process in which Appleton played a key role. In the nineteenth century, Boston did not have an organization dedicated to preservation as such. The Bostonian Society was meant to be such an organization, but the group seemed to be satisfied by the single project of looking after the Old State House. The Trustees of Reservations was also nominally interested in historic structures, but in practice the group refused to accept any such structures for years because they had no means of maintaining them. "

Tags:historic, sites, vintage, architecture

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Writers are often influenced by their predecessors, and Toni Morrison is no different. The type of work first immortalized by William Faulkner is clearly evident in her novels, and she not only uses some of the same techniques, but takes them to new levels. This paper shows that both Faulkner and Morrison write in a complex dialect and stylized manner that can be difficult to decipher on a superficial level. Both writers cover similar subject matter in their novels: complex familial relationships, including incest. The paper also shows that Faulkner and Morrison both frequently address issues of race and identity in post-slavery America.

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"Black characters populate the novels of both Faulkner and Morrison, and they speak in the natural rhythms of their dialect. In Go Down, Moses, the use of dialect is apparent when a black man speaks: "Ha," Tomey's Turl said. "And nem you mind that neither. I got protection now. All I needs to do is to keep Old Buck from ketching me unto I gets the word?" (Moses 12). This use of dialect is also seen in Morrison's novels, including The Bluest Eye: "Dillinger wouldn't have come near you lessen he was going hunting in Africa and shoot you for a hippo" (Bluest 54). For both novelists, the use of dialect helps create the reality of being black."

Tags:Beloved, Bluest, Eye, Go, Down, Moses

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This essay argues that Faulkner and Morrison both deal with similar subject matter and are indebted to modernism, albeit in differing ways. The paper concludes that Morrison cannot be considered a modern-day Faulkner but rather a writer in her own right who happens to share a similar literary heritage.

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In this paper, this literary analysis has compared and contrasted three facets of feminism in The Color Purple by Alice Walker and Beloved by Toni Morrison. By evaluating female victimization, gender roles, and societal liberation in the characters brought forth by Walker and Morrison, the crucial elements of feminism depict a greater sense of female identity in African American literature.

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Tags:walker, morrison, feminism

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When it first burst onto the literary scene in 1970, Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" became an immediate sensation that brought to light the quiet desperation of many African-Americans living in the twentieth-century United States. With that in mind, this paper examines the issues of beauty, sexuality and male perversion that inform Morrison's text. In so doing, the paper examines the curious relationship between sex and beauty in the novel as well what it means for the tragic character of Pecola. Additionally, the paper looks at what racially-charged models of beauty mean for young African-American women and how the ugly idea that beauty could only be beautiful if it was/is white impacts Pecola's life in ways that are ultimately devastating.

Tags:american, identities, morrison

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This paper discusses two of Toni Morrison's novels--"Sula" and "Love"--examining how they both exhibit a duality between good and evil in the characters.

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"In her two novels "Sula" and "Love", Toni Morrison writes stories with different plots but with a common underlying theme, duality. Each novel has characters that are in some way opposites juxtaposed against one another. In "Sula', Sula's promiscuity is contrasted with Nel's propriety. In "Love", the triangle of Christine Heed and Junior is intertwined with righteous indignation at having been wronged and outright manipulation to wrong each other. As Morrison explores the differences and similarities between each set of..."

Tags:Toni Morrison, Sula, Love, duality

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In this article, the writer provides a discussion of the character of Paul D in Toni Morrison's novel, 'Beloved'. The writer focuses on Paul D's recuperative physical and emotional journey with emphasis upon that journey's wider implications for the post-Civil War black community.

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"Toni Morrison's prime supporting character Paul D embarks upon a physical emotional and spiritual journey in the novel 'Beloved' that ultimately culminates in personal familial and in terms of the larger historical ex-slave community collective ramifications. Via Morrison's cyclical mode of narration Paul D progresses geographically from the Kentucky slave plantation ironically designated Sweet Home to a Georgian prison in which he serves time toiling on a chain gang and finally ..."

Tags:Toni Morrison, Beloved, Paul D, slavery, post civil War, character, novel

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This paper discusses the threads of image, Beloved's character, slave life, elements of the past and the culmination of African American identity, which all point to the past life that Sethe has lived and now seeks to make peace with in novel "Beloved" by Toni Morrison. The author points out that, eventually, Sethe receives helps from her neighbors to remove Beloved from her life. The paper relates that Sethe is not an evil woman but reflects the circumstances and injustice that slavery forced upon her.

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"This literary analysis reveals the differing aspects of African American life within Beloved by Toni Morrison. The idioms of image, Beloved's character, slave life, elements of the past, and the culmination of African American identity within the racist South of United States. By realizing the different attributes of life for the African American in Morrison's novel, one can realize the terrible past that has haunted African Americans due to their lives as slaves in the 19th century. When Sethe has murdered her oldest daughter when slave owners seek to take her four children away, one can learn of the painful past that African Americans possess. Sethe cannot be seen as a wrongful or immoral woman, due to the horrors she has seen while being a slave."

Tags:morrison, beloved, race

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This paper discusses Tony Morrison's book "Bluest Eye". This paper is an analysis of the different kinds of suffering and considers what each character identifies as his or her own particular pain. The paper clarifies the role played by Picolla in the pain or healing of each character.

Tags:LITERATURE / AMERICAN LITERATURE, bluest eye morrison

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The paper shows that the mission of Toni Morrison is to see that black people have been able to restore the power of their speech on their tongue. She wants to see it restored through literature, which for centuries have represented emotions and experiences of the people who have suppressed the speech of black people. The paper shows that while other forms of art have lost their power, literature still holds promises of reversing the trend, enabling black people to revive their passion for language.

Tags:morrison, language, speech