Essays 451 - 480
decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...
mother into "trembling" and her breasts, as she nursed Emily, were swollen with milk, she steadfastly stuck to the feeding schedul...
"Dead Mens Path." It seems at first glance to be a very straightforward tale. However, as one critic points out, "In the post-Fouc...
him and them" (Barna 324). The true source of the authors inner torment was never revealed, but there was little doubt that "evil...
killed in battle. Whatever the precise thing or event they represented in that hazy chapter of mans early history, one thing is c...
cases from the point of view that the person on trial is guilty. There is no presumption of innocence until proven guilty-he start...
comes to bail him out is tied to a tree in the jails courtyard and tortured; finally the ordeal ends when Mr. Chiu signs a false c...
no choices" (Jones). This is obviously untrue-there are always choices. But Herbie has convinced himself that this is his only op...
agendas with propaganda and information misrepresentation reportedly in the name of national security. In this story, the governm...
boy of 16, was less than polite to the Nakamura family and seemed very racist, constantly telling the family he had wanted to go t...
summarizing the work of both Postrel and OBrien. Aesthetics, according to Postrel, aid people in defining themselves by the "loo...
letters and "The letters cover everything from the emptiness Hemingway felt upon completing a novel to their shared loneliness" (P...
film taking on certain aspects of each others roles (Davis 80). Norika offers Tomi and Shukichi the respect that filial tradition ...
both works. The fact that Joseph rejects the advances of his bosss wife does not mean he is not interested in her. While she was p...
coming home from the city, he is ill and he knows why but when he is admitted to the hospital no one has any idea what his trouble...
to exhume personal details of the episode that bear no benefit to the reading audience other than to give them an inside glance to...
This man, stranded on an island, also living there for 4 years, like Selkirk, and also managing to survive on what he could find a...
It does not necessarily make men evil or bestial, but it does recognize that we live in a patriarchal society and that the structu...
emphasize that it is a Microsoft world already. His childhood was rather ordinary. Bills father was a lawyer and his mother, a sc...
a political fundraiser with a blind man named Bovanne. She shocks her daughters by behavior they regard as unbefitting for a woma...
system (Verghese). "It was clear, though no one had yet seen a case, that he was Johnson Citys first case of the acquired immune d...
In three pages Daru's dilemma and choice to allow the Arab prisoner to select his own destiny are questioned. There are no other ...
In four pages this paper analyzes the work in its representation of the society and politics of South Africa and also considers th...
A review of short stories which originated in various regions of Africa. This paper has five pages and one source in the bibliog...
The writer argues that the women in these two works are portrayed as passionate but uncontrollable forces that must be tamed by me...
In five pages this paper analyzes Georges Bataille's novel with references of L'Erostisme also included. Three sources are cited ...
He is a thoroughly unpleasant character. Despite this, he is amusing (in a sick way) because he always convinces himself that wha...
defined point of view, which is often that of the author. By giving "specific and sensory details," the author gets the reader inv...
In six pages this paper examines the depiction of heroes in the short stories 'Hills Like White Elephants,' 'Soldier's Home,' and ...
This 4 page paper discusses four of E.A. Poe's short stories, and critical reaction to his work. Bibliography lists 6 sources....