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together and makes possible the fraternal and hierarchic bonds of chivalric solidarity" (Hahn). This contrasts sharply with the fo...

to by Jim in very earthy, concrete terms that nonetheless indicate that she is pretty. When she says that blue "is wrong for-roses...

In many ways the social failure of America as a whole at this time in history is symbolized by the personal failure experienced...

lessons. There is an old saying that claims that those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it. And although most ag...

played on him. Stephen Crane was born in Newark, New Jersey on November 1, 1871, the 14th child (only eight survived) of a Method...

accident in 1855. According to biographer Emily Toth, subsequent photographs of Katherine OFlaherty Chopin reveal an individual t...

33). This quotation indicates the precision with which Poe crafted his stories. Each word and image is chosen with care and, coll...

and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...

Southern young men, war was an opportunity to travel to other parts of the country that they had never seen. War seemed glorious a...

out the way one may have originally intended; as such, a life perceived as less enlightened still encourages - and even requires -...

if "what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or bad man" ("Apology" 28b)(Plato 32-33). In regards to how ...

was arrested by the cultural revolutionary forces and tortured for several months (Zhang 14). Otherwise, there was "usually enough...

on, whether a lesson was learned, a new perspective was created or an emotional wound was made. Levinson (1986) illustrates how e...

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

knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. My father was a carpenter, and considered so intelligent and skilful in...

more remote, because he has undergone electric shock therapy because of emotional disturbances and deep depressions. Micks one goa...

fails to align sex and love. Does that mean he is a misogynist, treating women solely as wither virgins or whores, or does it mere...

the far corners of the globe, and also describes the whaling operations. Queequeg becomes ill and is so convinced he is dying tha...

of the public social sphere, keeping themselves completely within the domestic sphere. The "good" or "true" woman was passive, dep...

looked down upon. Many religious groups look down upon the upper classes, who have great wealth, but do not give to the poor. Gran...

ending is quite compelling, letting on that the narrator is much more insightful than first appears. Certainly, the narrator is no...

or when (Montet, 1968). There is some historical text which has been deciphered giving some of the details of ancient Egypt. Mon...

criminal is so small, few would talk about it. Another way to look at the situation is that the author hones in on one story in ...

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

impostor of a friend. The heroines role, of course, is defined not only by her own inner convictions but also by those with whom ...

nothing makes quite as much of a statement as does a bathing suit, a garment made for the purpose of swimming but something that w...

and singing ancient songs and lose myself in that moment when all the breaths and all the heartbeats become one. What I want is ju...

corruption of politics; Colonel Killigrew (whose name in itself is symbolic) personifies the evils of pleasures of the flesh; and ...

in which the employers basically had the ability to "starve" their employees back to work, on the employers terms. The 1850s in En...

of Train of Life (or its original French title - "Train de vie") is that the "village idiot" of a tiny Jewish community learns th...