The Jungle (1906) 
.... In synthesizing these diverse concerns Sinclair renders a gripping
tale of Chicago's working
poor in 1906 beginning with a splendid immigrant wedding scene and ....
(1869
7
)
Urban Fairy Tale
.... Molly is the heroine of the
tale and shows considerable abilities and cleverness, but at the .... jack and his mother are dirt-
poor, and all they have is one cow. ....
(4178
17
)
Two Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
.... The Prince Prospero is obviously wealthy and powerful, while the protagonist in "Tell-
Tale Heart" is a relatively
poor man. Another ....
(2567
10
)
Romantic Concepts in "The Swineherd"
.... Above all, the hero of the
tale--the
poor prince--is an individual, a unique person whose subjective take on life (in the Romantic tradition) gives him a drive ....
(1843
7
)
The Pardoner's Tale
.... In that one day more money stood to gain / Than the
poor dupe in .... In the "Pardoner's
Tale," Chaucer's Pardoner provides a
tale of thievery, gluttony, drunkenness ....
(819
3
)
"Ragged Dick" and his Enemies
.... That simple beginning for the
tale of a
poor, broke young boy surviving on the streets of New York and advancing by hard work, honesty, and guts, sets the tone ....
(720
3
)
The Legal Profession in A Tale of Two Cities
.... In A
Tale of Two Cities, the law is a social institution that is pervasive before .... Carton, "I should not be so composed, for I am naturally a
poor little thing ....
(1609
6
)
A Midwife's Tale: the life of Martha Ballard
This study will examine Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's A Midwife's
Tale, The Life of Martha .... Book of Proverbs ("She stretcheth out her hand to the
poor") to countless ....
(1501
6
)
Judith Adler Hellman's Mexican Lives
.... Two interesting facets of the coping mechanisms of the working
poor are their reliance on .... the opening interview in the book, is a gripping and tragic
tale of a ....
(1316
5
)
Day Care: A National Policy
.... the differing opinions about child care in her article "A
Tale of Two .... business leaders counter that it is welfare that supports
poor families' irresponsibility ....
(1302
5
)
"Mama Might Be Better Off Dead"
Health care for the
poor in America is so piecemeal that most patients and health .... The book weaves the
tale of four generations of the Banes family, black and ....
(1469
6
)
Mary Barton
.... referring to those with the power, wealth and property: "Don't think to come over me with the old
tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the
poor. ....
(1686
7
)
Elizabeth Gaskell's novel "Mary Barton"
.... referring to those with the power, wealth and property: "Don't think to come over me with the old
tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the
poor. ....
(1697
7
)
Social Outlooks
.... political function in a democracy and a social service for the
poor in New .... The lesson of his
tale is as relevant today amidst the global money culture of the ....
(1999
8
)
Pride & Prejudice
.... unrealistic because in the era of which Austen writes, it is unlikely
poor girls would .... one is reading Austen one is involved in a mirthful fairy
tale and not a ....
(1736
7
)
Benito Perez Galdos
.... In Gloria, we get a
tale of a Roman Catholic girl who cannot marry the man .... institutions lacking, especially when it came to taking care of the
poor and needy. ....
(1341
5
)
Immigration Literature
.... Tillie Olsen's story, we do not get as heavily accentuated a
tale regarding immigrants .... of the narrator's do, "Oh, what a lot of pleasure your
poor invalids in ....
(1255
5
)
Social Problems in Fiction
.... Atwood raises a number of feminist issues in her novel The Handmaid's
Tale, a book .... seen in our inner cities today where the very rich and the very
poor are the ....
(1495
6
)
Author John Steinbeck
.... to give the reader the same sense of being disoriented that the
poor migrants felt .... they were not going to be merely "entertained" by a dramatic
tale, but were ....
(1372
5
)
Sugar & Slaves
.... for a despicable class of men who exploited the
poor and uneducated .... adventurous, industrious and even heroic explorers who deserve their
tale preserved for ....
(1668
7
)
Book & Film Versions of The Wizard of Oz
.... In truth, he was a
poor businessman, and while the publication of The Wonderful Wizard .... to do successfully what he had set out to do: write a modern fairy
tale. ....
(1580
6
)
Appointment in Samarra
.... death in the portrait by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm in their
tale "Godfather Death .... God, Death, in the view of the father, "take[s] rich and
poor without distinction ....
(1726
7
)
I, Rigoberta Menchu
Such a perspective suits her well to tell this classic
tale of Marxian struggle. Rigoberta Menchu was born to
poor Mayan farmers living on the fringes of a ....
(976
4
)
Satire in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
.... and the Miller's wife in The Miller's
Tale. The only characters who appear to escape such satire in the "Prologue" are the Clerk of Oxford, a
poor student, and ....
(390
2
)
Oral Origins of British Folktales
.... a fairy
tale that shows evidence of having developed as an oral narrative. The story opens with a common oral formula: "There was once upon a time a
poor widow ....
(1031
4
)
Short Story Protagonists
.... The words at the end of the story from the friend she borrowed the necklace from haunt us long after reading the
tale: "Oh, my
poor Mathilde! ....
(604
2
)
Edgar Allen Poe and the Gothic
.... believes himself and his friends to be superior to the
poor people, because he .... The protagonist in the story "Tell-
Tale Heart" also has an intimate relationship ....
(1667
7
)
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, New York, 1911
.... and correct the unjust and inhumane treatment of
poor workers, mostly women and recent immigrants, in the garment industry. Gould, Stephen Jay. "A
Tale of Two ....
(1925
8
)
A Revolutionary Sandinista
.... injustice, about poverty, I thought of my own barrio, which was a
poor barrio" (p. 8 .... The message here, as in any coming-of-age
tale, is that one's expectations ....
(1351
5
)
Sanitary Landfills
.... This bizarre
tale is evidence that America is running out of sanitary .... inhabited by African-Americans, Latinos, Native-Americans, and the
poor have been ....
(1901
8
)
