Essays 151 - 180
In ten pages this research paper compares Crane's short story to the author's own actual experience following the Commodore sinkin...
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...
assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...
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 ...
Dr. Wayland, was late "and there were no recent newsmagazines in the waiting room" (392), he decided to make what he considered to...
of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...
the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...
makes the story powerful is that hour where the woman sits alone. And watching her character develop and learn is what makes the 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...
This paper explores various elements of the short story, including character and story development. This seven page paper has no ...
pick the right kind of prodigy" (Tan 53). Her mother tried different roles on Jing-mei to see which would fit. At first, she tried...
The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...
be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...
"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...
The misconception, here, is that because the old man does not look normal that he must not be human and therefore, they can treat...
it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...
one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana" (Chopin 148). Chopin also establishes that he was born in France and that his mother ...
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...
that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...
Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...
this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...
In five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One s...
life would be long with sunny days and happiness. This reluctant joy at a husbands death could be considered even more of...
through several short stories, including those of his victims and their families. In the novel we meet the Dew Breaker later in ...
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...
appropriate, but notes that there are no pharmaceutical treatments available specifically for short term memory loss. The c...
of creation are vastly different" (Anonymous Selected Portions of the "Enuma Elish" enumaeli.htm). "The six days of creation i...