Essays 271 - 300
In five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One s...
Dr. Wayland, was late "and there were no recent newsmagazines in the waiting room" (392), he decided to make what he considered to...
his physician father to perform a Caesarean on a pregnant squaw. Dr. Adams describes the serious medical situation in clinical, m...
conforming to gender role expectations in other areas, such as his taking the bags to the train. It is not that she is portrayed ...
In five pages this paper examines how Kate Chopin depicts marriage in the short stories 'The Storm,' 'Story of an Hour' and 'Ripe ...
a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...
conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...
the change from their boring and traditional lives as parents and spouses. They are independent creatures in a society that does n...
for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...
assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...
life would be long with sunny days and happiness. This reluctant joy at a husbands death could be considered even more of...
and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...
still hurt, and it didnt help that every time I volunteered at the temple afterwards, I had to see that portrait of him looking ba...
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...
century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...
of creation are vastly different" (Anonymous Selected Portions of the "Enuma Elish" enumaeli.htm). "The six days of creation i...
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...
mother into "trembling" and her breasts, as she nursed Emily, were swollen with milk, she steadfastly stuck to the feeding schedul...
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 ...
- and still is to a great degree - the focal point of cultural existence speaks to the way in which Silko (1989) reveals the strug...
males. In both "Enuma Elish" and in Hesiods mythology, the Earth goddess is described in terms of motherhood. Tiamet first rages a...
son of Odysseus, wearing a disguise and instills in him the courage to challenge the suitors of his mother. Additionally Athena pe...
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 ...
reacts to the presence of the men by eating two of them, Odysseus attacks and manages to blind Polyphemus by stabbing him in his e...
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 describes how Kate Chopin, a nineteenth century female author ahead of her time, utilized imagery in writing the "Desir...