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The Sierra Leone Special Court is an Ad Hoc court set up to hear the cases of those most responsible the atrocities in the Sierra ...

adopted Korean daughter of mixed racial heritage. Hata also was originally Korean, but was adopted by a Japanese family. Through f...

of independence and material possessions as a way to shed the discomfort of her less-than-copious upbringing. While Dreiser sough...

and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...

expected of young women in British society during this era. In Potoks novel, Asher Lev is a twentieth century boy raised in the Ha...

the story opens, Tom is owned by Arthur Shelby but as the story unfolds, he is sold, where he befriends a white woman, even saving...

into the word and lasts for only a few minutes before a decrescendo takes the music into the Russian folk dance theme, which comme...

and possibly guilty over Luxs reaction to her initiation to sex. Lux is extremely young and a strictly raised and sheltered Cathol...

1/3 that is white. Another symbol that involves Gus is the window. Gus is always asking questions and seeking something ne...

1997 to wild acclaim (J.K. Rowling b). The second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets appeared in 1998, Harry Potter and...

in form and lessened in abstraction. Yeatss once short, rhyming poems transformed into more lengthy poems that were less concerne...

61). Symbolism is the use of one thing to stand for or suggest another; a falling leaf to symbolize death, for example. And langua...

this man, had sufficed to make her believe that she at last felt that wondrous passion which, till then, like a great bird with ro...

function as one interfused mass of automatism" (Williams 3). This is a setting that exists perhaps in every large city in the na...

life, becoming bitter and angry. In essence they could well become poisonous to themselves and others around them because they hav...

her we see this as representative of the Devil, but the Devil will, as Delia suggested, is going to make sure Sykes got what was c...

Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...

usually considered a teacher, or guide. The point is that the stories in this book use a great deal of symbolism, perhaps because...

have to know whos in charge. Max Weber, the German sociologist, "defined power as the ability to get things done your way in spite...

the Puritan faith within the story. One author notes that, "Puritan doctrine taught that all men are totally depraved and require ...

daddy longlegs in the evening hours is a good omen, a portent of good luck" (Ross). In another painting a critic for...

a room of her own and a house of which she can be proud" (Sandra Cisneros, 2003). Among the issues Esperanza faces are the "disadv...

main character, but is predominantly depicted as a sympathetic witness to a way of life that he senses will soon be lost forever. ...

that fit with their role within the novels "deck." Martha Dreyer, Nabokovs "Queen," is a calculating woman with sharp intelligence...

complex, and comprises 13 separate steps, each performed in accordance with Vedic tradition, and each symbolizing some aspect of t...

these regards, who states that "this was a time in which writers and artists were intensely involved in exploring contemporary soc...

asked her if he could feel her face. He felt every detail of her face and it touched her to such a degree that she felt compelled...

closer to home, meaning that the consequences of the war are more far-reaching than they are to Nick, his counterpart. "In Another...

natural fears and perplexities and institutionalize social views (Malinowski 11). These stories and the use of language, then, de...

of passion in their lives, this somber existence. The mood is also set by the tone as it develops along with the plot. In Lawrence...