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of guanxi to the time of Mao, to the time when being able to call in a few personal favors might mean the difference between eatin...

The film follows the three hapless goofballs as they come across the sirens (three gorgeous women washing clothes in a river); alm...

the public is the loser when the release of a generic drug is thwarted. The thesis can be presented, however, that:...

Primrose, the chubbier and blonder of the two, is an average girl, like Penny, and she really has no concept of the war that is go...

principles its members completely and accept without challenge - has indeed proven to be one of the most powerful standards of con...

its absolutely necessary, but then he wants something in return, because if he does lose her its a matter of honor. Achilles tries...

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...

character, Iago is also difficult to grasp, because he has no motivation that we can find to do what he does. It appears that he s...

directly to the psychiatrist-patient encounter" than the real thing, because the fiction is after all written by real people (Podr...

have to hear; and he ends up discovering the truth about himself, a truth so agonizing and abhorrent that he blinds himself (Sopho...

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...

In her story Let them call it jazz, Rhys "assumes the personality of Selina, a black West Indian in London, whose struggles parall...

dreaming all their lives for one thing or another the arrival of the insurance money is something that makes the possibility of ac...

their native primitive cultures and European colonial modernization. Back in the 1940s, few Nigerians were accorded the opportuni...

and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...

his father had died that day. Depression and melancholy are hallmarks of his character, in other words, and may not derive entirel...

photogenic, but air-headed newscaster. Additional cast members were Valerie Harper, as Marys best friend Rhoda; Cloris Leachman, n...

heath. There is something essentially uncivilized about Macbeth, which may be why he is such an outstanding soldier. Macduff does...

really did what he wanted to do. As one critic notes, he is "a disillusioned writer" (Arthur). But, in reality he is far more than...

lure or seduce Louise away from her husband. Mrs. Sparsit seems to truly enjoy herself in this job, envisioning the staircase of s...

or arrogance, in life that would have made him proud to be the subject of a film. Kane was too simple for that in relationship to ...

particular man, Mr. Fainall, is constantly trying to obtain money through devious means. One of those means involves his wife Mrs....

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 ...

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 ...

"sympathize" with her, as she was the opposite of them in "temperament, in capacity,...a useless thing, incapable of serving their...

consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...

we see him. At a military camp of King Duncans, a soldier is brought in who tells of the battle in which he was injured, and in wh...

to society is well known and many see this as admirable. Yet, there are some critics. Not everyone agrees that capitalism is the b...