Essays 271 - 300
boy fell from the car platform, and two years prior to that, a youngster lost his life when he slipped while walking the tracks an...
did something after it was over. The fact that he did not help is an idea that plagues him and so one can go on to look at more me...
a story about Jimmy who runs the store near Two Bridges, or the one about Billy Frank and the dead-river pig, but Napiao assures t...
grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...
through several short stories, including those of his victims and their families. In the novel we meet the Dew Breaker later in ...
it out, a four hour task, earlier that day and the relief it brought had been so immense he had treated himself to a slice of rye ...
always been in Raleighs room, presumably, but he had never noticed it, hidden as it was behind a chest of drawers, until he was te...
decision to commit suicide. Others, who dont understand why anyone should have to suffer intolerable pain when theyre going to die...
The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...
story is a folktale, and begins with a farmer who promises his employee he will give him a heifer in exchange for his work, then t...
She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...
whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...
her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...
century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...
waiter, like the old man who is their customer, has no connections in the world. While Della and James have love and a deep inti...
The seventh and most western of the apartments was "closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries" and it was only in this room that...
of creation are vastly different" (Anonymous Selected Portions of the "Enuma Elish" enumaeli.htm). "The six days of creation i...
mother into "trembling" and her breasts, as she nursed Emily, were swollen with milk, she steadfastly stuck to the feeding schedul...
A 6 page essay that discusses Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," which continues to capture and fasci...
This paper is made up of three short papers, the topics of which are the social role, position of the prophets, the role of Hokmah...
5 pages and 5 sources used. This paper provides an overview of the Biblical story of Cain and Abel, and relates the importance of...
imagine a more severe disparity of power than the one that exists in present-day Iran since its revolution and the institution of ...
In four pages this essay discusses the feminist movement in terms of the story's portrayal of women's relations and mother and dau...
into my own playtime. Whenever I was about to say the contracted word "cant," the little engine would come to mind and Id hear my ...
This is an essay that is 5 pages in length and examines the story's characters, plot, point of view, settings, themes, symbols, an...
he rolls a huge boulder across the opening to the cave. Polyphemus eats two of Odysseuss men and it is clear that he plans to make...
This essay describes how Kate Chopin, a nineteenth century female author ahead of her time, utilized imagery in writing the "Desir...
son, to God is record in Genesis 22. God instructed Abraham to take "your son, your only son, whom you love-Isaac-and go to the re...
This essay looks at "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner and presents the argument that this story presents a critique of Southe...
similarity to the fascinating stories that are in both N. Scott Momadays House Made of Dawn and Anna Linzers Ghost Dancing as the ...