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Cotton Comes to Harlem Research Maureen Iredell Every good Wikipedia article must be supported by great sources; otherwise there is no believability to the facts that are displayed.  While researching for the article on Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Big Blowdown‘s first section reminds me greatly of the movie The Sandlot.  There is a groups of kids deciding what they wantto do and they mention playing baseball, and then they run into another group of kids and have … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I think that James Ellroy’s writing style makes the entire novel seem longer than it should.  It starts with slow and boring characterization, and when one or two chapters could have been plenty, he uses seven chapters (75 pages) until the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Reading James Ellroy’s Black Dahlia has been kind of a trouble for me.  It seems to be going on and on about Bucky Bleichart and occasionally Lee Blanchard and I seem to find myself getting tired of them.  The back of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I would have to say that my favorite part of Indemnity Only occurs somewhat in the middle, and it is when Vic tells Jill’s family to back off and not be so spoiled.  In my book it is page 175, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Working up to when Indemnity Only was written, the Equal Rights Amendment was on the brink of either being passed or denied.  This would have given full voting rights to everyone, no matter the gender, so it most likely effected … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I would say that, for the most part, the book related to the movie very much, especially the characters.  Grave Digger and Coffin Ed were pretty true to how I pictured them, just as others said, and as I pictured … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Um…. THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT!!! One assingment was to research what was something that occurred during this year of writting Cotton Comes to Harlem, and it was not hard to find the biggest historical event for Black American history: the … Continue reading → Continue reading →