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what anyone tells him at face value, though as the story wears on a touch of skepticism begins to creep in. Especially when he spe...

from the former Le Dynasty, which explains why Nguyen Du was unwilling to join the new government" (The Tale of Kieu: Vietnams Epi...

her article, Obdurate History: Dinh Q. Le, the Vietnam War, Photography, and Memory, Moira Roth has traveled back to Vietnam to le...

how so many consumers have come to think of shopping and accumulating things as something of a hobby, even a passion. People ident...

away. He stands as a man of a higher social class who has integrity. His mother, however, represents all that is bad in the upper ...

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

grounds of how it reflects the necessary criteria of a good detective story, which characteristically includes the elements of cri...

shocked when driving a short distance from the slums of inner cities to the world of wealthy suburbs?" But it is not...

had a daughter who loved him"; however, Maggie received no such indications either from her father" or from Tom--the two idols of ...

From what many can piece together, Aziyade did really exist. She was a Circassian slave owned by an old Turkish nobleman. She was ...

of some moral message in the end. Through danger the characters are made stronger, and they are developed more powerfully, truly p...

told with the simple vocabulary and simple sentences of a young child, often fusing ungrammatical language and childrens slang tha...

world, in which society is restructuring itself after the devastation of the war - a devastation which T, at least, seems to feel ...

that most of her time was spent in some form of entertaining or conversation with one person or another. From this perspective t...

have fallen upon hard times. She does this with her first view of Dunnet Landing, as she describes it as a "coast town . . . more ...

(Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent...

keep a minority in control (Wolfson, 1998). With this background, lets see what we can find about gender stereotypes in such tale...

In a paper consisting of five pages the characters of Offred in The Handmaid's Tale and Bone in Bastard Out of Carolina are contra...

what makes some relationships as viewed by outsiders particularly scandalous. Indeed, the role of class in society represents bot...

unstable" (Bouson, 2001, p. 101). Bouson contends that it is really her shame that is Bones core; and that her deep sense of wor...

These day laborers are obviously the ones who are trying to get by and are juxtaposed to the people who are willing to hire them. ...

room do not hear, the "hypocritical smiles" that are not there. He screams and tells them the heart is under the planks. He believ...

does not stray far from each authors original intent, he does infuse the stories with his own sense of whimsy and message. In Ant...

end of the epic. This is different from the Homeric hero Odysseus for we generally like this man right from the beginning. The god...

In three pages this paper examines how symbolism is represented in this epic tale. There are no sources listed....

She is never allowed any control over her environment or her circumstances. Her opinions are always discounted by her husband. Whe...

during his student days, on sciences fascination: None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of sci...

says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...

been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...

for protection against the creature that has been terrorizing his subjects, Beowulf can hardly refuse. It is not simply because H...