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to culminate in a conclusion. The purpose here is to find that middle ground in complaints that hypertext allows writers to impar...
Ophelia to see how women characters have changed over the years. Penelope was able to fight off suitors for decades while maintain...
American history. Bell provides an interesting outline of the regional history of Pittsburgh but through "Out of This Furnace" he...
gender. In fact, according to what Ms. Jacobs writes, women were discriminated against by white and black men alike. Here, though...
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...
in the shadow of Irelands Iron Mountains, a few locals have populated a bog and settled into their ways" (Freeman, 2002). The enti...
style presented in this story, a style that clearly speaks of a dark and foreboding reality, we present some of the opening paragr...
but complications arise. Not one, but two suitors join them on their trip. During the trip both men vie for her affections. In the...
they move to a town that Joe commences to alter. He opens a store and becomes incredibly prosperous, but insists that Janie never ...
One of the foremost scholars on the Southwest, Charles Wilkinson, has written a book entitled, The Crossing of the Meridian. The v...
the night of a grand ball, an unexpected and unwelcome guest appears: the "mummer" is wearing the shroud normally put on a corpse,...
different elements together to speak of ancient Aboriginal beliefs as well as a modern world. In As Long as the Rivers Flo...
detail to demonstrate the point that war is negative. The fact that the mother is crying is aligned with the tonality in relation ...
to each other only by code names ("Mr. Pink," "Mr. White", etc.). They relate to each other mainly by wisecracks ("Do I have to be...
has its own very distinctive following; while it may be partially entrenched within cultural reasons, the primary one is the level...
Tsun says no one can know his "innumerable contrition and weariness" (Borges). What does Borges mean when he claims the world is ...
was coming, and that was the main thing. For Robbie MacDonald, it was the only thing. Robbie and Sheila had grown up together, an...
country" (Wilczynski, 2004). In addition, we find that many times a government or a leader would actually employ the help of pi...
Alfonso Heep is an educated Kentucky farmboy who, in agreement with his state government, originally wanted nothing to do with the...
success and leading a happy life. Willys attitude toward being liked and being popular do not change at all. This is evident when ...
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...
"Atomic Theory" (Taaffe, 2002). The novel begins with the frank statement "Not everybody knows how I killed old Philip Mathers" (...
without ever becoming preachy. Tim OBrien wrote Things They Carried, and not so coincidentally, the texts narrator was also named...
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...
he saw. He was there, they argue, he was in the rice paddies, he saw his friends killed in front of him, he went through it for re...
in the Piazza della Minerva (Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 2006). Pope Alexander VII commissioned Bernini to design a support structure to...