Essays 1981 - 2010
groups that had formed at the time. The police had chosen to use their power to protect the rights of groups such as these rath...
population of the resort is almost entirely Creole, so Edna is immersed in a culture in which she feels like a stranger, one that ...
wolfed down all winter had turned into spring steel" (Sanders 34). While there is bonding between father and son, there is also a...
of sophisticated readers to a gross injustice, which was the short, cruel life of a chimney sweeper. Unlike the modern myth -- a ...
by the first amendment is that one cannot yell "fire" in a crowded theater. Why? While people have freedom to say what they like, ...
of Belindas bedroom, and how Ariel, her guardian sylph, awakens her. Pope describes the other sylphs that also guard Belinda and t...
seeking forgiveness. That Sethe suffers from guilt and hopes to assuage it, however, is evident in her submission first to the ant...
money, not religion. Organ, a simplistic, but good man, has allowed Tartuffe to come into his home and take dominance over his fam...
to Pirandellos play. Villaurrutia was obviously interested in the Italian playwrights concepts and this preoccupation becomes clea...
her book The Feminine Mystique. Not all fifties kids turned into sixties hippies. Goodwin talks about baseball and the pleasures o...
simply not possible. Not surprisingly, given the focus on community, communitarians typically stress the value of specifically ...
themes of love, this became the preferred style of World War I poets like Edward Thomas. One of his most poignant verses is "Febr...
Gregors father who would rather his son did not exist. And, there is Gregors mother who is of a similar opinion as the father. The...
contrasted against the life of her sister, Nora, who is not as down-to-earth as Clara and considered the prettier of the two. Nor...
about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...
that interpretation is tantamount to both translating and understanding the Nicene Creed, noting that "the meaning of words change...
poem is that while he had read Homer before encountering the Chapman translation, when he read Chapmans Homer, he felt the same th...
at odds with the reality that one human being can never know for certain the inner most thoughts and desires of another (Vanita, 1...
would then include the contrast and comparison on how the characters dealt with racism and their subjectivity to it. Finally, the ...
tragic death of her sister Rosa, who was Estebans fiance. Clara does not love Esteban , but her psychic ability leads her to belie...
since the Middle Ages as the models for literature at its grandest" (McDaniel 1-15pope.htm). It is a general consensus that Popes ...
in a celebration that includes dances that are a tribute to the "Old People," an annual tribute to ancestors. Avey is deeply moved...
in the play, the audience is shown how "honest merchants...contribute to the safe of their country as they do at all times to its ...
speeches that he felt spurred the creation of the neo-Nazi attitudes in youth. For instance, in 1967, Duncan Sandys said, "The bre...
In other words, if aging and death were not part of the human condition, that is, if there was time, her "coyness" (i.e. her modes...
of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...
even a bit further back to Madge Evans and Florence Rice. Most of their films seemed to derive from Colliers Magazine stories that...
severity of the Bricks grief at Skippers death causes his relatives to speculate, but this is dispelled in the crucial scene that...
This paper addresses the history of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from both the perspectives of science-fiction and reality. The au...
it for free. "Let me show you the souk, at least. Ill be your interpreter" he said. "How much?" "Free", he said. "My pleasure...