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he wants. This becomes a central theme in many of Ives works, and one that highlights the sense of optimism which Ives disperses ...

is perhaps the first experience they will have when they lose someone very close. The poem goes on: "you feel bad about it/ you fe...

with typical Christian values, and most of them wanted to grow up to become policemen, firemen, or doctors. Being average did not...

he decides to proceed anyway. Clearly, the dark, cold, unforgiving surroundings that encapsulate the guest as his driver leaves h...

standing in a position that speaks of martyrdom: "he, his hands behind him, appeared pinned to the door frame, waiting like Saint ...

to become an optometrist. He falls in love with the daughter of the schools owner, Valencia. However, he soon has a break down bec...

each. Before going on, it pays to define post colonialism. DeHay (2004) explains that the definition she likes to use for postc...

of human beings. Each character comes with their own subplot in which a facet of human existence is discussed and examined. S...

exorbitant fees for consulting them. Thus, Tolstoy is indicating that materialism diverts the true calling of the professional, su...

In eight pages the trio of color symbolic components along with themes and plots from the films White and Blue are analyzed. Ther...

suggests, there is often a political context to Olds observations. For example, in "The Death of Marilyn Monroe," Olds suggests ...

of Solomon and his many wives to basically justify her own marriages. Thus, we can see her as the devil who uses Scripture to suit...

does so in a most subtle way. It is as if O. Henry plays on the expectation of a terrible demise, then, at the last moment, as a s...

the viewer. The next stanzas, however, bring the reader and the viewer, a more sobering message. In comparison to the characters ...

spiritual awakening. CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EPIC POEM: Epic poems all share similar characteristics which define them as such. Fo...

not part of the solution. He begins to understand that change does not happen in one fell swoop, but that it is a slow process, mu...

few characters, primarily Willie, Guy, and Rebecca. The powerful characters that are representative of the corruption, through cri...

greedy for gain" (Machiavelli 56). Men, Machiavelli argued, were by nature more interested in their own good than in achieving th...

again, through characterization, the subtle nature of the differential is conveyed. There is a clear connection made between indus...

but Smith utilizes it in a warped and disturbed fashion, making it a weapon against the totalitarian government rather than an act...

End of Something," "Cat in the Rain," and "The Big Two-Hearted River (Parts I and II)." First well describe the stories, than anal...

existence of God (more specifically religion) as existence in the urbanism of today. The fact that this does so in as many voices ...

manicured lawns and rose gardens. But for every blooming rose, there is a thorn lurking somewhere, and through the frequent imagi...

until another war hit that would settle things. Society frantically seemed to become involved in many different new endeavors in a...

sadness perhaps about the image, for it is presented in the season of autumn which is, for some, a time of dying as nature sheds i...

indicates they are seeking some answers, some way to self fulfillment. In this particular short story we see the doubt related t...

given notice (Tolstoy 1). As this illustrates, this opening passage accomplishes several purposes. It immediately announces the ...

the story told by a self-admitted liar be accepted as the truth, no matter how fantastic it might sound? Ensign Campuzano, an art...

And she was tragical only in the sense that she was great, for she loved to play on the side of Victory...that some sonatas of Bee...

portrayal of some shocking events of the thirties" (French 43). Its various conflicts consider the downside of American capitalis...