The relationship between Huckleberry Finn and Jim are central to Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". Huck's relationships with individual characters are unique in their own way however, his relationship with Jim is one that is ever changing and sincere. As a poor, uneducated boy, Huck distrusts the morals ... Read More
Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs are two authors with very similar backgrounds. Both Douglass and Jacobs were slaves, and both wrote about the accounts they went through while enslaved. Jacobs views are expressed in "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave," and Jacobs views in "Incidents in ... Read More
Jim Casy exists as the philosopher, the motivator and the voice of reason in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. The ex-preacher is used to express some of the book's major themes, explicitly articulated in his actions. Jim Casy, by fulfilling his predominant role as the novel's guiding moral ... Read More
The Atrocity known as Slavery Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a narrative that describes a young girls trails and tribulations while being an involuntary member of the institution of slavery. Jacobs, like every other victim of the atrocity we call slavery, wishes those in north would ... Read More
Harriet Jacobs published under the pseudonym, Linda Brent. With pseudonyms she was able to protect herself, and the people within her book. If she had used her real name, it might have caused a huge controversy during the period in which she wrote. Jacobs had many anxieties on publishing her ... Read More
In the novel by Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the two main characters, Huck and Jim, are strongly linked. Their relation is portrayed by various sides, some of them good and some others bad. But the essential interest of that relation is the way that uses the author ... Read More
In order to explore the validity of utilitarianism, Bernard Williams created the example of Jim and the Indians. In this example, Jim becomes lost while on a botanical expedition. He happens upon a small South American town, where he sees twenty Indians tied up against a wall. A man informs ... Read More
Jim Jones and the Tragedy in Jonestown Suicide is usually an act of lonely desperation carried out in isolation by those who see death as an acceptable alternative to the burdens of a continued existence. It can also be an act of self-preservation among those who prefer a dignified death ... Read More
Beating the Odds Faced with the task of writing a paper on a specific act of courage my initial reaction was that of total uncertainty. Later that evening, as I lay in my bed watching television I pondered what topic to do for the paper. Then the sportscaster on the ... Read More
Before the Jim Crow laws, African Americans actually enjoyed some of the rights they were given during Reconstruction. This included the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments and the Civil Rights Act. However, the rights were dwindled after the Reconstruction ended in 1877 by 1890, whites in both the North and ... Read More
Rafi Jacobs A.P. American History Report About two months ago I still thought that the Declaration of Independence was something written a few hundred years ago, and was very famous, but had no real historical value. I just thought it was a nice thing, and after it became famous was ... Read More
Arthur Miller's allegorical play, "The Crucible" set in Salem 1692, and Jim Sheridan's film, "In the Name of the Father (1993)" set in 1970's Belfast, are two texts in which the protagonists, John Proctor and Gerry Conlon respectively, uphold the traditional notions of a hero. Proctor is a farmer, struggling ... Read More
Everyday life would be extremely different today if we did not have technology or electricity. That is a blessing and a curse at the same time. In the current day, technology makes it easier and safer than ever before, but with technology it makes humans lazier than ever before. In ... Read More
When the state deems a person unfit to be a parent, whether it bebecause of past misdeeds or the likely perpetuation of such a lifestyle,it maintains the ability to remove said parent's claims to parenthood.Sadly, this was exactly the situation of a relative of mine in 2008.Happily, their loss turned ... Read More
Life in the 1940s was very different from life today for African Americans. Segregation due to Jim Crow laws was famous in the 1940's while World War II initiated the largest movement of African Americans. African Americans in this time period were struggling for their freedom and civil rights. While ... Read More
On June 7th 1892 Homer Plessy a shoemaker from New Orleans Louisiana, boarded an East Louisiana railroad car designated white passangers only. Plessy was seven-eighths Caucasian with only one out of eight grandparents not of the white race. Despite the majority of Plessy race being Caucasian, under Louisiana law he ... Read More
Jim Jacobs, the creator of Grease. He lived in Chicago, Illinois, when he got the inspiration to create a musical about Teens in high school, about the drama of love, and their style of living their own lives. He was one of the co-creators of the play, and he decided ... Read More
Jim Jacobs, the creator of Grease. He lived in Chicago, Illinois, when he got the inspiration to create a musical about Teens in high school, about the drama of love, and their style of living their own lives. He was one of the co-creators of the play, and he decided ... Read More
It was the Supreme Court that was responsible for the worsening social and political condition of black Americans in the southern states in the period 1883 1900 how far do you agree w the statementThe Supreme Court can be seen as vital in the worsening of social and political conditions ... Read More
Kemba Smith was a young African American female pulled into a terrible trap by Peter Hall, a young, seemingly independent African American. Peter was a drug dealer who pressed Kemba into becoming his "girlfriend" but in reality and according to the federal government, a drug "mule" handling money across state ... Read More
The Ultimate GiftThe Ultimate Gift tells the story of a financially reckless young man named Jason who is promised an Ultimate Gift in his grandfathers will as long as he completes 12 seemingly simple tasks called gifts. The movie, based on the best-selling book of the same title, "The Ultimate ... Read More
How is someone judged by their cover? Is it because of a stereotype being assumed? Or maybe someone has done something so you are considered guilty by association? Pointing fingers often lead to dire consequences such as the consequences found in Michelle Alexanders The New Jim Crow. In the book, ... Read More
The Three Harriets Jacobs, Beecher-Stowe and TubmanThe female name, Harriet, has historically symbolised feminine virtue, strength and fortitude. Meaning estate ruler or she who rules the home, communicates the natural leadership ability of Harriet and even hints at her ambidexterity and her skills to operate affairs and maneuvre life in ... Read More
Beauty is said to be in the eye of the beholder. So is ugliness. In the Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself, the author, Harriet Jacobs, attempts to convince her audience, which consists primarily of free, white, northern women, that slavery is a hideous and ... Read More
The story I chose to read was The Girl Without Hands a tale about, as you might have guessed it, a girl without hands. It starts off with a man living with his wife and daughter in their mill, impoverished and having only a single apple tree behind their house ... Read More
A Tale of Two SlavesHarriet and John jacobs give an interesting and uncommon perspective on a popular theme in literature with their stories Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and A True Tale of Slavery.Both give personal accounts of their experiences as slaves on plantations, but given the ... Read More
Three Poor DecisionsHave you ever taken any bad decisions that affected your life or someone elses life? Do you ever wish you could have somehow changed the outcome? Would you like to have had a magical object that granted you three wishes? Well if you do always remember to be ... Read More
Racial Indifference and the New Jim CrowRecently, I had to design a poster for my art class. The guideline was that it should relate to military or dystopian propaganda. I wasnt quite sure what to do, so the professor explained that people would argue today that we are already living ... Read More
Cinderella was written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the late 1700s in Germany. The Cinderella story is a fairy tale. The target audience of Jacob and Wilhelms Cinderella, however, was primarily adults and teenagers. The primary focus of the Fairy Tale genre is to entertain, it preaches a moral, ... Read More
Over the course of the early history of slavery and of the women enslaved there has been a narrative of sexual oppression and exploitation from white male masters and their female slaves. There has also been an oppressing and abandoning narrative of enslaved mothers. The events that occurred during slavery ... Read More