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Essays 1321 - 1350
love between two ordinary people: "Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it h...
human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my ...
he was struck by the "ways in which evil and beauty, love and pain, aspiration and finitude, are not so much balanced as interwove...
whale (55). Naturally, this represents the books climax, but how would Melville fill the huge writing gap between the introductio...
careful selection of names and how they reflect the personalities of the characters, and in the hypocritical nature of the charact...
be a study of the process of recording history, may be as important as history itself (Crawford, 1983). In other words, we might w...
considered to be a study of the process of recording history, may be as important as history itself (Crawford, 1983). In other wor...
she had no particular interest in helping or educating others. For Lau, her diary represented the ultimately self-expression her ...
reader, who has the benefit of hindsight, to wonder why German Jews, such as the Oppermanns, did not react earlier to the Nazi thr...
regard to the acceptance of reality, issues of morality and, perhaps above all, the concept of divine judgment and human guilt. I...
Chandler was famous for his evocative descriptions of L.A.; the heat and light, the flowers, traffic, noise and above all the vivi...
are proud. The main character, however, although she wants to own the house someday, is embarrassed by the house because she feels...
charities was remarkable. She was coming into her own, moving out of the extremely heavy shadow cast by the royal family (particu...
bound to engage. While mythological women were strong of mind and spirit, they were not allowed to express their inner most being...
This sets the stage for a pessimistic story, despite any optimistic elements. This sense of pessimism is also one that is very u...
satisfying sexual or intimate relationship because of it. She essentially lived a life wherein she was torn between the desire to ...
gloried in the proud history of the plantation South that secured a place of honor for the aristocrat, and yet he abhorred the opp...
it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was" (Hemingway 13). He is a man lost in a world with no dire...
all-knowing, loving God. In the chapter entitled, "The Brothers Make Friends," Alyosha and Ivan are talking and Ivan goes off on a...
all her fights are useless, futile, for there seems to be no positive movement, no positive gains made for women or blacks. She em...
in that simple narrative position we know the story is important, even if the boy does not know it yet. The story involves the ...
linked to societal ideas of the early eighteenth century as to what constituted a "proper" middle class English life. This is evid...
If we look to biology the definition of masculine is related to that of male. The male animal has testicles as opposed to ovaries...
of the careful construction lends enough credibility for the reader to suspend disbelief, but all the while, when one backs up to ...
reader watches as a mother tries desperately to give her daughter all the advantages that she never had, reliving, to some extent,...
comes as no surprise how faith symbolizes a component of mans existence that seeks unyielding reassurance. The problem with meani...
converted storeroom that features the angry sermons of the troubled preacher Gabriel Grimes, Johns father. According to critic Br...
card ready, as this seemed to impress people and verify that, yes, an African American could be a public accountant. Mentally, Ann...
the light of the gospel in our honorable nation of England...what wars and oppositions ever since, Satan hath raised, maintained a...
It appears to be based in part on Arabic, Persian and Indian folklore, and as a "unified collection, dates back at least one thous...