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the growth of slums and a lack of social welfare which led Carlyle to criticise the leaders of society for their obsession with ma...

the pages how very fragile the fledgling country was - but ultimately how adept its leader. McCullough opens 1776 in Great...

Barber makes one fact exceptionally clear. That is that the characters of the men who have held the office of the U.S. Presidency...

is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...

or another. In the case of the Vietnam War, and OBriens book, the consequence of war was, in many cases, age. As we shall see, the...

most memorable stories and characters in American literature, and they remain popular to this day. This paper considers perhaps hi...

late at night and sprinkling lime around, presumably on the theory that her servant killed a rat or snake and they smell its decom...

who scorned Bartlebys oddness, comes to allow for the differences that set each person apart from another. Ritter supports this n...

p. v). Through Franklins writing, such as the homey advice of Poor Richards Almanac and also through his autobiography--through hi...

Wittenberg in order to attend his fathers funeral, and although he is melancholy, he is not yet acting openly against the king. In...

exciting manner. Working to complete various projects so that they can receive titles and work up through the ranks, these boys l...

feels that he is protecting Ophelia by feigning insanity, or by being insane, he finds that he has merely turned her away. His you...

purity of Jane, as a potential, "better" wife for Rochester (267). It also allows Rochester to vindicate himself at Berthas expens...

receive a proper burial, and she enlists the services of Ismene, her lone remaining sibling. She states her intentions plainly to...

While he, his wife, and their child are traveling, they stop at a fair. Henchard becomes so drunk that he sells his wife and child...

black women -- they strive, sometimes they fail, but they are who they are. Ben As narrator for this novel, Naylor brings back t...

the narrator informs the reader, looks at his wife as she were a "valuable piece of personal property" (Chopin 4). It is largely E...

soldier, eight-and-twenty years of age, who had seen a good deal of service and had a high reputation for courage. Of his origin w...

Mitch, a man completely under the control of his mother. But, we really do not necessarily believe that Melanie wants this man. Sh...

types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...

set down for them without making any fuss. Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen, authors of Writing and Reading Across the Curri...

of in a negative light. On the other hand, Oedipus Rex is also someone who is seemingly trying to help to find the true murderer o...

what is bothering her, Phaedra seems to describe the Enlightenment philosophy in her observation: "We understand and recognize wha...

views of his day through his commentary. James, as an Anabaptist, was considered less than human by many of Europes more conventio...

tells her that if she does marry this man, Morris, she will never receive any money from him, her father. Up till this point Cath...

him: Father Barry (Karl Malden) is a tough priest who urges him to testify about what he knows; Johnnie Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) is ...

He and his cousin, are talking. Benvolio tried to stop the fight between the warring factions. He believed that to fight was ign...

In seven pages these female protagonists from Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre are contrasted and co...

The emphasis for this perspective is based mostly on what the outcomes would be. Since they based decisions on the practical outco...

meant he was not "someone to take seriously" as a threat to his power (Derrick 14; McMurtry 41). Others seriously underestimate A...