Essays 1981 - 2010
Latino barrios in Chicago and she understands the plight of young Chicanos in addition to women feeling trapped between two cultur...
and makes his way to her dressing room. He knocks, but then quickly enters the room, knowing that she is expecting him. The dan...
was assumed to make up to the overall personality of nay man, hence the title everyman, with seventeen characters representing a...
Circumstances come to a crossroads for Seymour when he discovers an odd looking plant after a total eclipse of...
who were obscuring their identities by dressing as American Indians (Levine, 1994). Times have most certainly changed s...
and never will-even though hes making a lot of money. The Other, then, is someone who is not one of us. And having defined them on...
person that John F. Kennedy was addressing when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your co...
in which a drunk calls Oedipus a "bastard," thus forcing him to the extreme of looking for the cause of the plague on the city whe...
on the marquee, the classic Frank Capra holiday film starring James Stewart. The night is clear as evidenced by the lack of umbre...
errand boy to a "coke and gun dealer" (Quart). This is a twisted version of the American dream. Scorsese populates this film wit...
instead. And she approaches relationships almost from a mythical standpoint. For instance, when she falls in love with Prakash, h...
one else. This rugged outdoorsman is entirely self-sufficient, and when he does interact with others, on a cattle drive for inst...
Dave is horrified when he shoots Jenny, but rather than admit what hes done, he makes up some goofy story about her falling and la...
King of Salem (ancient Jerusalem) befriended Abraham and his men after their victory over those kings that had taken Sodom and Gom...
to the Siren and also in descriptions of her performance of Clytemnestra. Nevertheless, Thackeray leaves her in a life where she "...
immoral and crazy, but it is the character of Yossarian who constantly goes out of his way to avoid his duties, trying to get out ...
his bravery and leadership" (Faulkner). And, like his father, Alexandre apparently went on to experience a life of debauchery and ...
me in the day of success, and I have learned by the perfectest report they have more in them than mortal knowledge. When I burned ...
"sympathize" with her, as she was the opposite of them in "temperament, in capacity,...a useless thing, incapable of serving their...
particular man, Mr. Fainall, is constantly trying to obtain money through devious means. One of those means involves his wife Mrs....
to Southern society but also how the strength of love could unite individuals to meet formidable challenges. His perhaps na?ve an...
consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...
This will sorrow Hamlet greatly and make him feel guilty, perhaps the only time he feels guilty, in his actions towards her....
"poor little rich girl or the princess," and is drive to school by her father in a BMW (The Breakfast Club, 1995). Allison is the ...
date back to the 19th century (those buildings that didnt suffer destruction during the 1906 earthquake, that is). Another...
Claggarts psychological make-up, because he himself has never had to struggle between good and evil as personal motivators. Billy ...
more than they were its beneficiaries. It is important to note that Swift lived between 1667 and 1745, a turbulent time in Englis...
problems and the pollution of the towns water table by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E). Brockovich instinctively felt that the case ...
Hester, who is horrified by the revelation that he is still alive, and then sets out to find out who her lover is. He is single-mi...
directly to the psychiatrist-patient encounter" than the real thing, because the fiction is after all written by real people (Podr...