It is a hero's tale of "long golden beaches high capes great brown mountains [and] white peaks of islands rising from the sea" (27). ... Santiago's small skiff does not have the billowing mainsail of Jason's Argo, but instead a "sail patched with flour sacks" (12). ... He does not wear any royal robes, or shining armor, or a hero's attire, but is barefooted, and "his shirt had been patched many times and the patches were faded to many different shades by the sun" (20). ...

• Word Count: 1942
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It almost looks as if you shut the lights off; all you would see is the tense back of Samson and scattered patches of light accentuating the faces, hands, and legs of the different characters present. ... The two most outstanding symbols in this piece are the white cloth Delilah is pulling on, and Delilah herself. ... That piece of cloth is in fact, white, the color of purity, innocence, and good, all qualities Samson possessed, which further represents his unjust betrayal....

• Word Count: 1253
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

They rejected the assumption that slaves were generally lazy, insisting that slaves were actually thirty-four percent more efficient than white farmers were. ... Fogel and Engerman also claim that other historians incorrectly believed that "white overseer[s are] are assumed to have been an ubiquitous figure, present on virtually all plantations of one hundred or more slaves" (284). Census data shows that only thirty percent of plantations employed white overseers. ... Similar to Genovese's views, Stampp saw that "small patches which his Negroes cultivated for themselves wer...

• Word Count: 1868
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The following will reveal oppression as depicted in Hemingway's Hills like White Elephants, Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Othello and Chopin's The Story of an Hour and the ramification of manipulation, envy, and freedom. ... In Hills like white Elephants by Ernest Hemingway the man appears to be manipulating Jig into getting an abortion in order to perpetuate a lifestyle in which she is a convenient outlet for his libido, she mentions that she wants to settle down and keep the baby which is a contrary to the nomadic lifestyle they are then living. ... I said the mountains looked...

• Word Count: 2229
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It believes in attacking and murdering blacks, Jews, lesbians and gays, and other minorities, and publishes hit lists containing the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of those it views as "enemies of the white race" in a number of publications such as Red Watch, Putsch (not published anymore), The Order, Thorwould, and a more recent magazine named Combat 18. ... What makes Blood & Honour a central part of the fascist scene is its access to thousands of skinheads in an European network and its ability to raise huge sums of money through the sale of records, compact discs, T-shirts, badg...

• Word Count: 1819
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Filmed in black and white, with deliberate lack of Hollywood' gloss, it earned Spielberg the greatest accolades of his career. ... Everything manufactured from boots and helmets to the insignias, which were either originals or exact replicas, down to an identical stitch count of the Screaming Eagle' patch, and wings pins cast from original moulds, all add to the construction of realism and help in representing the characters accurately. ...

• Word Count: 1821
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

HIV and AIDS In 1981, a unique and newly recognized syndrome called Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome ("AIDS") broke out in America. Then very few people knew hardly anything about the disease. Now, we know many facts including the causes, signs, treatment, prevention, testing and more. AIDS is a major failure of the body's immune system (immunodeficiency). This decreases the body's ability to fight infection and suppress multiplication of abnormal cells, such as cancer. ...

• Word Count: 2099
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate