Chester Himes Essays

  • Los Angeles is a city that resonates with glamour and opportunity. Its attraction as the place to live in is everlasting. It attracts immigrants s...

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    Los Angeles is a city that resonates with glamour and opportunity. Its attraction as the place to live in is everlasting. It attracts immigrants such as from China, Korea, and Mexico. In fact, according to one of the authors of the assigned readings, Ray Bradbury, Little Tokyo in Los Angeles is the “largest Japanese community outside Japan.” Los Angeles offers the dream of what most people yearn for. Another author from the readings, Wanda Coleman expresses her amazement with Los Angeles in her excerpt

  • Racism In Chester Himes If He Hollers Let Him Go

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    racism and pure hatred towards the minorities. There was no equality, no opportunity, and no hope available for 99% of all the African Americans who were trying to enhance their lives. They were always subservient to whites. In Chester Himes’s novel, If He Hollers Let Him Go, Himes demonstrates the struggle life presents for African Americans in comparison to whites, as well as the

  • Masculinity In Chester Himes If He Hollers, Let Him Go

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    their masculinity in other ways. Overcompensation results from hypermasculinity, and consequently contributes to the perpetuation of black males as more physically and sexually violent than their white male counterparts. In Chester Himes’s novel, If He Hollers, Let Him Go, Himes provides a representation of toxic, internalized masculinity through the main protagonist, Bob Jones. Bob’s experiences

  • Chester Himes’ If He Hollers Let Him Go and God’s Little Acre by Erskine Caldwell

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    Chester Himes’ If He Hollers Let Him Go and God’s Little Acre by Erskine Caldwell It has long been contested that works of great Literature have certain qualities and that they belong to an exclusive canon of works. Value is placed upon them for a number of reasons, including their reflection of cultural or social movements, the special meaning they possess, and even their use of specific narrative elements. Up until recently, scholars and intellectuals would never dream of examining works

  • Problems in Developed Cities

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    The existing problems of traffic and pedestrian congestion in Chester are many and varied. The main ones are vehicles in the main shopping streets and tourism to the historic areas of the cities, traffic delays on the restricted approach to the city, delays to the bus services, queuing for parking spaces and dangerous conditions for pedestrians and cyclists. There are numerous solutions to the congestion problems in Chester, each of which brings its own advantages, but also disadvantages

  • Explanatory Synthesis on Gunsmoke

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    the original cast members of the radio show would go on to have memorable television careers: William Conrad, who played Matt Dillon, went on to play in "Cannon", "Nero Wolfe" and the "Fat Man", from "Jake and the Fat Man". Parley Baer, who played Chester, would go on to play Darby in the television show "Ozzie and Harriet", and Howard McNear, who played the doctor, would go on to play Floyd the Barber in the old "Andy Griffith Show" (http://comp.uark.edu/~tsnyder/Gunsmoke/gun-radio.html). Gunsmoke

  • The Stereotypical Old-West Hero

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    his fellow helper, Chester, in keeping the peace and bringing justice in the area. Dillon's independence, sense of justice, and keen problem solving ever epitomize the stereotypical old-west hero. No matter what situation arises in Dodge, or the surrounding area, Matt Dillon is able to resolve it most often without the help of anyone else except for his faithful follower Chester. Whenever Dillon hears of a problem, he immediately goes to see what the trouble is with Chester. He doesn't listen

  • World War II in Chester Wilmot's The Struggle for Europe

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    Thorough Description of World War II in Chester Wilmot's The Struggle for Europe Though this student looked in Who's Who and Contemporary Authors, no information on Chester Wilmot could be found. One considered searching the Directory of American Scholars, but that would not be helpful since he is from Australia. In The Struggle for Europe, Wilmot seeks to explain several points. First, he explores and explains how the western allies succeeded militarily but failed politically during

  • The Change of Handbridge After 1800

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    The Change of Handbridge After 1800 Handbridge is a suburb of Chester. Every day Handbridge changes. I have already been on a site visit around Handbridge, and have looked at several aspects that I will be evaluating in this course work including housing, the industrial side of Handbridge and local shops. From 1800 to 2003 several major differences are noticeable including the extinction of the river Dee mills. I know there used to be mills all along the river by looking at names of

  • Rape

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    Many teenagers engage in sexual activities. Teenagers also drink and do drugs. When most teenagers go to college they go to parties, and there is drinking and sex everywhere. Sometimes at the parties there is non-consensual sex. Non-consensual sex is a horrible thing that happens to a lot of females, and sometimes men. Non-consensual sex is the same thing as rape. Getting raped is a traumatic even that causes a great deal of stress in many ways, and is also hard to convict the rapist. To help understand

  • Future of the grocery store

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    Where will the grocery industry be in the near future? Chester Sideman and his wife Carmen married 25 years ago. After they married they decided that they did not want to be typical working Americans who worked from 9-5 and retired at age 55. They had always envisioned running their own company and running it in the form that they saw fit. After thinking long and hard they decided to build a company from the era that they were from. Being that they were from the “hippie” era, they fell in love with

  • Introduction to Slater's

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    Slaters was founded in 1918, and since then, the name Slaters has become virtually synonymous with that of the town itself. [IMAGE] In 1912, a single site car repair and paintshop business was opened on what was then the main road between Chester and Anglesey. Subsequently sold to Captain Slater in 1918, this garage is today the site of Abergele's Kwik Save Supermarket. [IMAGE] In 1923, Harold Knowlson the father of the present Chairman and grandfather of the current Managing

  • Marshall Matt Dillon - An Old-West Hero

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    talented actors of Howard McNear (Doc), Parley Baer (Chester) Georgia Ellis (Kitty) along with Dillon who makes up the cast of four main characters. Chester is Dillons middle aged helper who is around him often. Everyone goes to see the town physician, Doc, and visitors and friends alike are able to meet Kitty, a saloon girl, at the Texas Trails. Matt Dillon, with a laid-back personality, liked to peruse the town or just sit on a porch with his buddy, Chester, chatting about the days events. One day, as

  • Lucy montgomery

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    of Belmont, and a brief but passionate romantic attachment to Herman Leard, of Lower Bedeque. After their marriage, Montgomery and Macdonald moved to Leaskdale, Ontario, where Macdonald was Minister in the Presbyterian Church. She bore three sons, Chester (1912), Hugh (stillborn in 1914), and Stuart (1915). She assisted her husband in his pastoral duties, ran their home, and continued to write best-selling novels as well as short stories and poems. She faithfully recorded entries in her journals and

  • Comparing the Personality of Matt Dillon throughout Three Episodes of Gun Smoke

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    In this essay I am going to compare the personality of Matt Dillon throughout three episodes of Gun Smoke. Matt Dillon is the sheriff of Dodge City and throughout these three episodes, with the help of this trustee companion Chester (The Deputy), he is able maintain the law and keep peace in the turbulent town of Dodge City. Matt Dillon right from the start of "Loch invar" demonstrates that he has a rough hard personality. With his harsh quick responses to whomever he meets, to some extent makes

  • Chester Alan Arthur

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    Chester Alan Arthur Chester Alan Arthur was born on October 5, 1830 in Fairfield, Vermont. The son of Malvina Arthur and the Reverend William Arthur, a passionate abolitionist, young Chester and his family migrated from one Baptist parish to another in Vermont and New York. The fifth of eight children, Chester had six sisters and one older brother. Before beginning school in Union Village (now Greenwich), New York, he studied the fundamentals of reading and writing at home. In 1845, young Arthur

  • The Job Of The Executive

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    Introduction Nowadays it’s very common to see the collapse of systems and the failure of companies. Of course, many questions arise wondering what happened. Organizations need someone to blame and consequently measures are taken. While cutbacks, downsizing and dismissals are the most used tools for “fixing the problem”, there is evidence to show that, rather than working out a solution, these methods only hide the core of the issue, which seems to be present in an even greater number of organizations

  • Destiny Of The Republic Essay

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    Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard is a non fiction book on the killing of James A. Garfield. Garfield was our twentieth President of the U.S. He was also the second to be assassinated while still in his term. He was killed by Charles Guiteau, a crazy person seeking office, on July 2nd, 1881. Since he had such a short term as President because of his death many people do not understand the true influence Garfield had on people in his life. The book starts off in 1880 at the Republican National

  • The Pros And Cons Of The Spoils System

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    The Spoils System is defined in the U.S., as the practice of making appointments to public office and of giving employment in the public service on the basis of political affiliation or personal relationship rather than based on merit. It is an extreme form of political patronage and favoritism that originated during the colonial period but flourished in state administrations after the 19th century. The opposite of the spoils system is the merit system, established in the U.S. government system in

  • Summary Of Candice Millard's Destiny Of The Republic

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    Candice Millard’s Destiny of the Republic is a historical novel that explains who James Garfield was, how he became the United States’ 20th president, as well as his assassination. Millard explains how James Garfield started out as a child in a poverty-stricken family who overcame poverty to later become President of the United States. In this novel, Millard shows the kind of people person James Garfield was in comparison with the type of person his assassin Charles Guiteau was. Destiny of the Republic