... untraditional roles. In some respects, the female characters do assume the stereotypical qualities recognized by them. We are introduced to Jim Burden's grandmother while she is being sentimental over Jim's deceased father. She is openly emotional and after she is able to calm down, she immediately heads to the kitchen ... material possessions she could do better in making the most use of them. She is portrayed as jealous upon her first visit to the Burden family's home. She examines the interior decorations of the house and complains to her daughter. Mrs. Shimerda is the money-hungry, ...

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• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

... Soderball showed the most in any of the other characters as being a very ambitious person. She was a Swedish immigrant who was determined to go after any aspirations that she had. Jim Burden regarded her as "Tiny Soderball was to lead the most adventurous life and to achieve the most solid worldly success" (pg 192) and that was because she was so ambitious ... her ambition. Towards, the end Tiny Soderball is no more the girl that " everyone said would be the end of Tiny" (pg192) because she ends up being very successful like Jim had thought. The good form of ambition was to be the outco...

• Word Count: 835
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Equality: Why We Can't Get There Racial and economic equality in the United States is impossible. Starting with slavery, moving to Jim Crow and culminating with hate crimes and racial profiling, there has been a continuous stream of factors preventing the realization of an equal American society. While it is true that great ... will determine what means different members of society will use to level their personal playing fields. In the long run, the sins of our fathers has left us all with a burden to bear, one that cannot be erased, and refuses to be ignored. Inequality is the sad reality ...

• Word Count: 884
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate