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Firebrand of Liberty

the coast of Georgia and Florida under Colonel Oliver T. Beards command (Kennington, 2009). Their expedition, and raids, proved su...

“Everyday Use” - The Importance of the Story’s Title

charming and funny and sad, all at the same time. This paper explains the significance of the title by examining it using the diff...

Crane and Bierce

notes the following: "He wondered why he did not feel some keen agony of fear cutting his sense like a knife. He wondered at this,...

Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolff

the bank while there is a line of people waiting for service, but rather than agree with a fellow human being, he is caustic and s...

Tim O’Brien and the Man He Killed

comprise Tim OBriens celebrated collection, The Things They Carried. OBrien was himself a "grunt" in Vietnam, and his view of the ...

HALF THE SKY AND EDNA’S HOSPITAL

This 3-page paper discusses why "Edna's Hospital" is an important story in the book "Half the Sky."...

Louise Erdrich: ”Fleur"

amount of money (Erdrich). Fleur won, and refused to play any longer; in retaliation, the men got drunk and raped her; that same n...

"No Easy Answers"

1997). She attributes the warnings to some sort of liberal conspiracy: "I believe those Republicans who think that theres been a c...

Edith Wharton’s Roman Fever

about, but as the tension rises, a perspective that is discussed in the section on tone within the story, the reader senses that t...

Satire Modeled After Candide

Herbert felt, were much smarter than himself. In particular, Herbert relied on his political adviser Carl Wanderer and his second-...

John Updike/The Rumor

circle. It soon becomes apparent that everyone with whom Sharon and Frank come into contact know the rumor and believe it. This cr...

Division Essay: Desiree’s Baby by Chopin

white masters raped their black female slaves and as such many of those females gave birth to interracial children who were slaves...

Vo Phien: "The Key"

ship dropped anchor "at 3 a.m. July 5, 1975" and passengers began to disembark (Phien). The first thing that greeted them was a ho...

Identity: “The Story of an Hour”

she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...

Ozu/Tokyo Story

film taking on certain aspects of each others roles (Davis 80). Norika offers Tomi and Shukichi the respect that filial tradition ...

Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick

is not often told is how the Pilgrims would have died without the help of the Natives, and how the Pilgrims, the Puritans, felt th...

Comparing Chekhov, Nabokov & Viramontes

that reveals to the reader a great deal about the characters involved. Pelagea is deeply in love with her husband, Yegor Anton Che...

Goethe: “The Sorrows of Young Werther”

sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream" (Goethe). Even if we didnt know that Werther was an a...

Dower's Embracing Defeat

noted that the emperor had announced defeat, which meant surrender (Dower, 2001). Yet, the woman who Dower notes on the first pag...

Cathedral by Raymond Carver

more poignant due to their downtrodden setting. The approach of the characters is generally reacted to events which are around th...

Sinclair Ross/2 Short Stories

Ross describes Isabel is similar to the way in which Martha, the narrative voice in "A Field of Wheat" endows this cash crop on wh...

Small Fires: Developed Perceptions with Readings

see some good in forced change such as this narrator suggests, and initiates. She simply feels impersonal and as though she is n...

Saving Face: An Analysis of George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant”

which he attended from 1917-1921 (Merriman). In 1922, Blair went to Burma, apparently following his fathers inspiration, and join...

3 Expert Tales of Death

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...

'Sugar and Other Stories' by A.S. Byatt

goes on behind its sheltering walls. The central point to the story deals with making both moral and literary judgements and how t...

An Analysis of Twain's, The Story of the Bad Little Boy

This paper analyzes thematic elements of the short story, The Story of the Bad Little Boy by Mark Twain. The author compares this ...

Violence in Kaplan's 'Doe Season' and Jackson's 'The Lottery'

In five pages the violence associated with ritual is examined in this comparative analysis of these stories by Kaplan and Jackson....

'Platoon' vs. 'Apocalypse Now'

In 5 pages this comparative analysis considers the power of visual images in these films and how war is told through manipulative ...

Comparing 2 Short Stories by Franz Kafka

In nine pages Kafka's 1913 short story 'The Judgment' is compared with his classic 1915 work 'The Metamorphosis.'...

James Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues,' Joyce Carol Oates' 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' and Maturity

In three pages this paper contrasts and compares how the maturity theme is featured in each of these stories....