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A Critique of Bell Hooks’ Article on Paris Is Burning, a Jennie Livingston Film (668 words, 2 pages)

Paris is BurningI did not enjoy reading Bell Hooks articles because, at least in my perspective, I find her to be racist, herself, and I feel like she downgrades the black community sometimes. Everything she said was against the white supremacy and how we are so fearful of the black ... Read More

A Comparison of the Goals of Bell Hooks and Judith Butler in Terms of Social Change (2011 words, 6 pages)

On the surface, bell hooks and Judith Butler seem to have different goals in terms of social change. However, after reading Butlers Beside Oneself On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy, I realized that hookss work could be seen as deeply in conversation with Butlers. In hookss work, Feminism is for ... Read More

An Analysis of the Developmental Theories by Daniel S. Shaw and Richard Q. Bell (2411 words, 8 pages)

In 1993, Daniel S. Shaw and Richard Q. Bell wrote and published an article about parents influence on antisocial behavior. Their article, Developmental theories of parental contributors to antisocial behavior, appeared in the 21st volume of the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. Their article and research focused on how parent-child ... Read More

An Exploration of Sexual Freedom and Identity by Leslie Bell (1699 words, 5 pages)

The American society is a dynamic one in terms of values and ethics. One hundred years ago, people felt safe to say that men are more superior than women. Now, such a statement will be considered unethical and disrespectful to women and will arise anger against whoever says it. Similarly, ... Read More

The Life and Accomplishments of Alexander Graham Bell (646 words, 3 pages)

Alexander Graham BellAlexander Graham Bell changed the lives of people forever by inventing the telephone. Throughout Bells early life, his works, and later life, hed always been interested in teaching deaf people and in experimenting with sound.Bells early life was filled with joy and sorrow. Alexander Graham Bell was born ... Read More

An Assessment of the Changes in the Business Strategies of Taco Bell (641 words, 3 pages)

Last year Taco Bell decided to revamp their business strategies to obtain a competitive edge and keep customers satisfied with the nutrition of the restaurants food. Some of the recent changes include using cage free eggs, launching a website for customers to use, and removing a majority of unhealthy and ... Read More

A Critical Analysis of the New Literacy, an Essay by Clive Thompson (751 words, 3 pages)

Reading Response EssayAs we are entering an age of computers we often think about how it has changed our lives. In Clive Thompsons The New Literacy he talks about that. Thompson describes many details in the new world of technology and with that he talks about how it helps the ... Read More

Book Comparison The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and Girl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenHow are these books similar?Both Esther Greenwood of The Bell Jar and Susanna Kaysen of Girl, Interrupted deeply lament and reject traditional gender roles, specifically dealing with those relating to marriage and family expectations. Both women have ... Read More

The Validity of Emotions and the Expectations of Women in the 1970’s in The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (2361 words, 8 pages)

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath was written semi-autobiographically to verify and express the validity of emotions and to bring a contemporary view of the expectations of women in the 1970s. The Bell Jar has had such a wide range of meaning from the time it has been published until ... Read More

A Discussion of the Negative Implications of Patriarchy on Society in Bell Hooks’ Understanding Patriarchy (325 words, 2 pages)

In Understanding Patriarchy, bell hooks discusses the negative implications of the patriarchy on society. One striking quote she uses to help her argument is, Patriarchy requires male dominance by any means necessary, hence it promotes, and condones sexist violence. We hear the most about sexist violence in public disclosures about ... Read More

An Interpretation of Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls (1078 words, 3 pages)

The Post-WWII era saw a rise of reported mental illness that, in turn, led to the increased study of the mental illness. Illnesses such as depression and schizophrenia were being diagnosed more freely. Patients who suffered from such illnesses became subject to early treatments such as insulin injection, lobotomy, and ... Read More

An Introduction to Three Important Inventors – Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Graham Bell (954 words, 4 pages)

Life has been getting easier and easier with convenience things that now people cannot live without such as electricity, telephones, cars, and etc. New things have been brought in to world thanks to hard work of inventors. Throughout history, there have been so many inventors who contributed remarkable inventions for ... Read More

An Autobiographical Description of the Mental Instability of Sylvia Plath in the Novel, The Bell Jar (509 words, 2 pages)

In the novel, The Bell Jar, Esther Greenwood represents the autobiographical description of author Sylvia Plaths own mental instability. Esther seemly lived ideally, having won a job as an editor in New York and obtaining many academic achievements. However, Esthers childhood trauma of the death of her father at age ... Read More

An Analysis of Masculinity in for Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (1572 words, 5 pages)

For Everyone the Bell TollsIn his novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway promotes his well-known philosophy about masculinity. He believes that humans should be brave and strong enough to cope with adversities, and that they should never allow weakness to reign their minds. To support his argument, he ... Read More

God Favors a Man Who Works with Animals and Rejects One Who Works the Land in Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls (1569 words, 5 pages)

Animals and Earth In the Old Testament Bible story, brothers Cain and Abel both offersacrifices to God. Cain, a farmer, offers his fruits and grain. Abel, aherdsman, offers the firstborn fatlings of his flock. God favors Abel'ssacrifice, and rejects Cain's. Just as the biblical God favors a man whoworks with ... Read More

How the Actions of Belle Boyd Changed the Course of the Civil War (1536 words, 7 pages)

Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too. (Rogers 4) This sentiment resonates exceptionally well when looking at the story of Belle Boyd and how she ... Read More

An Analysis of the Supreme Court Case of Buck v. Bell, Medical Utilitarianism, and Negative Eugenics (1442 words, 7 pages)

The case of Buck v. Bell, in which the question of the constitutionality of the statute of Virginia passed in 1924 related to the 14th amendment was appealed to the Supreme Court, the end result amounted to Justice Holmes ruling in favor of Dr. John Bell, and Carrie Buck being ... Read More

The History of the United State Supreme Court Case of Carrie Buck versus John Hendren Bell (1023 words, 4 pages)

The 1927 United State Supreme Court case of Carrie Buck v. John Hendren Bell is one of the most criticized cases in the history of the Supreme Court. In 1924, eighteen-year-old Carrie Buck was found to be feeble-minded and committed by a Virginia Court to the Virginia State Colony for ... Read More

The Evoking of Emotions and Feelings in Readers of The Bell by Edgar Allan Poe (830 words, 3 pages)

Poetry has the power to evoke emotions and feelings in its readers and audience members, and that is what tone does in the terrific work The Bell by Edgar Allan Poe. In this poem, Poe imagines the sounds of four different kinds of bells, and the times and seasons where ... Read More

A Review of Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar” (741 words, 2 pages)

Grapes of Plath"From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked....I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose" (Plath 85). Such ... Read More

A Visual Analysis of a Painting of The Belleli Family by Edgar Degas (793 words, 4 pages)

Edgar Degas Edgar Degas is a renowned French sculptor, artist and a painter whosework of artistry is believed to be 'independent' and 'realistic' to presentday. He was born on July 1834 in Paris, France to a moderately wealthyfamily. His father, Auguste was born into a family of wealthy workers inNaples, ... Read More

An Analysis of Childhood in The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket and The Flowers (773 words, 3 pages)

Childhood in The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket The FlowersThe Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket by Yasunari Kawabata and in The Flowers by Alice Walker takes the idea of childhood to an emotional level. However, they also present a different ending that leaves the story with different attitudes towards childhood. ... Read More

The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket by Yasunari Kawabata (1035 words, 3 pages)

Grasshopper and CricketFairytales of love always have princess or a damsel in distress with a big, heroic prince to save her. Whether its Cinderella or a more modern fairy tale like Shrek, the audience always eats up the ever so predictable story of falling in love in a fantasy land ... Read More

Understanding the Stages of Schizophrenia in The Bell Jar, a Novel by Silvia Plath (1058 words, 5 pages)

The Bell Jar The Stages of SchizophreniaThe Bell Jar, written by Sylvia Plath, can be viewed as a literary depiction of the symptoms of a person suffering from a psychological disorder, namely schizophrenia. Throughout the novel, Esther Greenwood has high emotions, as well as, low ones. This fluctuating array of ... Read More

The Mother Figure is a Hindrance to Those Around Them in The Bell Jar and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1224 words, 4 pages)

Motherly LoveMotherly love is an affection that everyone has experienced in one way or another. In fact, a biological mother is not always needed to give out maternal love because this type of love is engraved in the nature of most women. Each novel that we have read so far ... Read More

The Personal Conflicts of Esther Greenwood in the Novel, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (479 words, 2 pages)

Analysis of "The Bell Jar" "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath is a novel depicting Esther Greenwood'spersonal conflict of her role in society that leads to her mentalinstability. Esther's cynical personality makes it hard for her to conformto the expectations of the conventional 50's woman. Throughout the novel,she is conflicted ... Read More

Belle’s Struggle to Be Independent, Adventurous, and Self-Sufficient in the Movie Beauty and the Beast (1020 words, 4 pages)

Beauty and the Beast EssaySome consider Beauty and the Beast to really be, A tale as Old as Time. Truly, a first glance at this classic Disney film based off of the story written by 18th-century novelist Marie Leprince de Beaumont seems to contain all the elements of your stereotypical ... Read More

The World Full of Noise in the Short Story The Year of Silence by Madison Smartt Bell (865 words, 3 pages)

The Year of Silence Analysis The world is full of noise such as the clock ticking, keys clacking,and pencils sharpening. Consider for a moment what it would be like withoutany of these noises. Kevin Brockmeier discusses this in his short story"The Year of Silence". The story does not follow the ... Read More

An Analysis of The Real Status of Blacks Today, Chapter One of “And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest For Racial Justice” by Derek Bell (418 words, 2 pages)

The Real Status of Blacks TodayIt is quit astonishing to see how views from the 18th century are still evident in todays 21st century. Conversations about racism do not seem to cease anytime soon. One of the readings that stood out to me the most was The Real Status of ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013