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Essays 271 - 300
reality of the war, of its physical wounds were to be seen. This had to have had a psychological impact on the people of the count...
without ever becoming preachy. Tim OBrien wrote Things They Carried, and not so coincidentally, the texts narrator was also named...
The Blair Witch Project The Blair Witch Project fits perfectly with the popular conception of what constitutes an independent fil...
may not have gotten married (there is apparently no certificate of marriage ever recorded) (Gelfant and Graver 424). Samuel Lerne...
"Atomic Theory" (Taaffe, 2002). The novel begins with the frank statement "Not everybody knows how I killed old Philip Mathers" (...
is ale to jump "the highest," succeeding to high office (Swift). As this suggests, Swift was lampooning the machinations require...
in the shadow of Irelands Iron Mountains, a few locals have populated a bog and settled into their ways" (Freeman, 2002). The enti...
but complications arise. Not one, but two suitors join them on their trip. During the trip both men vie for her affections. In the...
American history. Bell provides an interesting outline of the regional history of Pittsburgh but through "Out of This Furnace" he...
the city may appear attractive and it certainly attracted Nick, it is hollow. He expresses this by returning home to the midwest. ...
narrates her story with forthright honesty. She explains that--while she is named after the Virgin Mary--she is far from saint-lik...
Ophelia to see how women characters have changed over the years. Penelope was able to fight off suitors for decades while maintain...
to culminate in a conclusion. The purpose here is to find that middle ground in complaints that hypertext allows writers to impar...
power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you cant...
Tituba is viewed as the first witch--black or white-- to actually confess (Anderson). This makes this black woman quite an interes...
(Garrison, 1988). Garrisons book chronicles his investigation into what was perhaps the most notable murder case in America. Gar...
when we get to Birmingham. The freedom ride is certainly a part of it, but not the whole thing. Birmingham is important right now...
conditioned to blindly follow the directives of Big Brother. For the people, double-speak was perfectly acceptable, and soon they...
with the world of tradition, the world of civilization. Huddled within the womb-like interior of the Congo, he retreats ever furth...
realistically presented (Tyson 155). For example, after reading Fly Away Home (E. Bunting, 1991), a story that concerns a homeless...
characters who came after them. Star Trek is also known for its progressive point of view. Roddenberry often presented a sort of ...
with a trio of witch siblings (described in the text as the weird sisters), who issue this prediction to the Thane: THIRD WITCH. A...
societys pressure. "It is impossible to read Great Expectations without sensing Dickenss presence in the book, without being awar...
is certainly one of the qualities that people look for in a leader, so a good leader will present an illusion of confidence even i...
cannot find the murderer; five years later, an author starts to question the police methods in another case (Cornell, 2006). Stung...
works for her husband, and hes supposed to show her a good time and do what she wants, so shut up and dance because she wants that...
the issue was a simple translation mistake, but this does open the door for there to be an appeal by the defendant and the German ...
The stories being examined, by Chekhov and Mansfield, are clearly two stories that truly delve into the inner being of an individu...
movement in Japan, which became prominent in the 1920s focused on the "prewar, bourgeois cultural phenomenon that devoted itself t...
of ways, including its formal structure. Though the text is routinely considered to be historical in nature, it is not exactly an ...