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movement, and the technical developments of the 1980s" (Neuromancer, William Gibson). The word "neuromancer" is a compound: "neuro...

311, Cassander held 13-year-old Alexander IV, Alexander the Greats only surviving heir and his mother captive and he had them both...

lifetime - to become the knight-errant hero like those of the Round Table he always fantasized being. The life of a 50-year-old w...

a short period of time, it should be said that what is distinguished is Bolivars story. The novel is biographical more than it is ...

central point of the narrative. The company accountant is the first character to refer to Kurtz and he tells Marlow that Kurtz i...

bedroom and gently holds him. Then she pours kerosene over the sleeping man and burns him to death. Morrison writes that Plum ope...

winning competitions and his short stories were being published in Canadian literary magazines. Husers first novel, Grace Lake, ...

A 3 page research paper that reports on the life and career of Canadian children's literature author Glen Huser. The writer offers...

find and rescue her. Early on, the reader is also introduced to Cap Huff, an adult friend of the Nason family, and Phoebe Marvin, ...

and "one day could not explain some term of horsemanship to her that she had come across in a novel" (Flaubert 29). Emmas disappoi...

as will be seen, the Mossbachers have more than enough so they can afford to feed their pets well. The Rincons are a family from...

made him a little sad because he found that even in the 21st century, many men are still straitjacketed in stereotypes" (Dowd). He...

starts out dealing with death simply enough. The family cat is killed by a car on the highway. The neighbor asks "Louis if hed lik...

converted storeroom that features the angry sermons of the troubled preacher Gabriel Grimes, Johns father. According to critic Br...

are happy to see him but he cannot bring himself to tell anyone that he ran. He simply says he got mixed up and ended up "over on ...

consider the color of that persons skin nor do they rationalize the behavior with a variety of preconceived notions which society ...

yet sympathetic short stories about ordinary people in Japanese life. Black Rain is considered a novel distinct from all other tex...

a new life, and emphasizes how people, when tested by circumstances can overcome adversity along their path toward self-respect. ...

during the nineteenth century they had been regarded as little more than an obstacle in the American quest for land and its resour...

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...

that group of people "who, merely by existing, tended to violate laws that solid citizens never even thought about, like how long...

the worst storm to batter England in recorded history in late November through early December, 1703 (De Wire 34). One DeFoe schola...

counterparts "brain-drained" (2). Because America was responsible for the technological fusion, it paid the greatest price with p...

first publish Three Stories & Ten Poems in 1923 in Paris ("A Chronology" PG). In 1926 , the well known work The Sun Also Rises wou...

"because she had done it herself" (29). Then, Miss Watson took her turn, introducing him to a spelling book, with the...

In six pages this paper examines how Hemingway's rather condescending attitudes and low opinion of women are reflected in his shor...

that tended to see women in a strictly stereotypical fashion. The following examination of Charlotte Brontes life and her mast...

the student was prosecuted to the fullest extent of their laws. The others left the country quietly. This seems to be a frequent t...

story we can see this as Huck states that "I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the wi...

true that many authors report that they derive their energy from anger and depression. In fact, the late Andy Kaufman who suffered...