… 11, 2002 Characters Overcoming Obstacles in Literature “What doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger.” This old saying can be applied to the characters in many popular works of literature. In studying the literary works of Alice Walker, Richard…

… Joe DiMaggio at San Francisco's City Hall. Unfortunately, Marilyn's worldwide fame and sexual image became a theme that haunted their marriage (Haberman 1). The marriage was unrelieved hell. She thought he did not care enough about her career;…

… Scott Fitzgerald?s book The Great Gatsby, he combines the history along with the idea of the wealthy being in control. Fitzgerald uses the symbols of Gatsby?s shirts, his library, and the color yellow, along with the use of automobiles to express the…

… in a wheel chair that he had some of the same qualities as other people in the United States. That quality was they need help just as he did. He needed help standing up at the podium to deliver speeches and the Americans needed help with the depression.…

… elements in the civil rights movement. Malcolm X had become a member of the Nation of Islam in his earlier years. The Islamic faith borrows basic ideas from the orthodox teachings of Islam and combines them with the very racist views regarding whites…

… her friend Ellen Starr. Jane had a very compassionate heart from the time she was a young girl. Everywhere she went, Jane had a desire to help people less fortunate than herself. Jane's father helped shape her to become more charitable to others less…

… If you want to succeed in the future, chances are you need to have a good education. It is said that in order to get a high class job, one where you get paid good money and one that you will be able to live on for the rest of your life you need a…

… his Future Paul Laurence Dunbar, the son of two former slaves, absorbed his mother’s wisdom and stories told by his father. As one of the last of a generation to interact with actual slaves, he was able to use his father’s story telling spirit and…

… leaders of civil rights groups around the world. Gandhi believed in a nonviolent approach to everything, but most important, independence. Gandhi did not want to fight back no matter what the British police did to the Indians. He wouldn’t fight…

… ability to discern between male and female activities and the effects of children’s understanding of gender constancy based on height and sex (Effects). They both tested the child’s interactive effects of social and cognitive factors. Gender…