Essays 1921 - 1950
all the copies he could and destroyed them. Following his first novel was his first volume of Twice-Told Tales. He then married ...
are powerfully illustrative of the claim that many female writers of the time used the ghost story as a means of examining, indire...
is impossible. It does not work. Today, years altering the bussing experiment, there are black and white neighborhoods and one can...
he means a state of equality, in which no one person possesses authority over another, and all people are free to live as they ple...
love and cherish them for who they are. But it does not happen in these stories, nor does it seem to be happening within the moder...
the worst storm to batter England in recorded history in late November through early December, 1703 (De Wire 34). One DeFoe schola...
contrary, "there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks" (Austen 227). Austen does not say that Mrs. Gardiner is a m...
anthologies until the appearance of renga" (Miyake, 2002). In addition, though looking at Heian literature we find that "Althou...
years (Brumback, 1995). This company, intent on providing information to all of its employees, uses a multi-media ongoing training...
powerful persuasiveness to lead man astray, the consequences of disobeying God and the subsequent struggle of all humanity. It is ...
of men, she was sexually attracted to women and made no attempt to hide her lesbianism, much to the shock of her Victorian contemp...
warrior society that Beowulf invokes derives from these "newcomers" to the British Isles. Abrams, et al also state that in this wa...
is true even of the fairy stories that originated with Han Christian Andersen, such as the Ugly Duckling (Zipes, 1985). Th...
review of The Weight of Water, "There is so much factual information about the Shoals here -- geographical, historical, nautical, ...
seem that Emile was destined to the same profession, he changed his fate and moved to Paris to study at the College dEpinal to obt...
home for everyone, as everyone has a mother. Even people who do not know who their mothers are perhaps have a gut feeling about he...
and "advisors" were, in many ways, far more powerful than the aristocrat holding office. Machiavelli himself was such a creature ...
individual" (Burckhardt, 1878; Mosaic, 2003). Modern historians often dispute some of Burckhardts claims but most concede that in ...
As for mankind, numbered are their days/ Whatever they achieve is but the wind!" (Epic of Gilgamesh 8). When Gilgameshs friend Enk...
and as such women did not have these freedoms at the time the Declaration of Independence was written. Interestingly enough, tod...
become aware that something terribly wrong had happened in its sister tower; when the second plane struck the second tower, there ...
modernist writing was meant as a contrast to the traditional approach in that it could recognize how fast the world was changing a...
the sample passage from Chapter X is a good example of the formal style and language. In regards to formal language, the...
the Summa that "St. Thomas, following Aristotle, gives a perfect description and a wonderfully keen analysis of the movements of m...
a young woman who feels that beauty and frivolity are the most important things in life. She does not see that life is not as simp...
faced by the black people. It was practically unheard of for a slave to buy his or her freedom in the United States, it was even ...
climate of economic freedom that invention was allowed free reign. Joyce Appleby covers this wide arena of growth in other...
non-Native culture, Zitkala was forced to leave her home and family at the young age of twelve. She was sent to a Quaker missiona...
he is also far removed from Judaism (Schulweis, 2001). Albom describes Morrie as a "spiritual mutt," having gleaned the makings f...
these days of infancy and childhood made her squirm with embarrassment. It seemed an essential denial of herself as she was now. ...