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Jilted Women in Short Stories by Katherine Anne Porter and William Faulkner

a mother to do that. As Granny closes her eyes for "just a minute," Porter us an indication of how her life has been lived. She ha...

3 TV Show Programming Options for the 2002 Fall Season

and old alike, which is clearly a conscious choice on the producers part to attract this diverse audience to first watch Osmond fo...

Protagonist's Insanity in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

It is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain m...

Transformations in the Works of Chinua Achebe and Franz Kafka

As far as Okonkwos reality is concerned, he sees his culture and his tribe as one single harmonious order and reality. It is the o...

Downfall of Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

men who are "warriors", who have won distinction on the battlefield. Achebe comments that "in Umuofia...men were bold and warlike"...

1930s' Decline of Great Britain

Imperial rule of the colonies was being demonstrated, perhaps over confidence following the 1857 mutiny which had been put down, w...

The Cost of Political Revolutions

place, that the loss of life was not worth it. There is more validity in this second premise than in the first. Still, to determin...

Albert Camus and Jean Paul Sartre on Thinking Negatively

diary form, however, there is no hidden agenda necessarily and the individual, Roquentin, is left bare for both the reader and Roq...

Anger and Fear in the Workd os Chinua Achebe and Homer

and the Greek forces suffer mightily without their hero. Later in the narrative, his anger propels him into battle. But, just as a...

Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Rising Cost Management

drug can work under "ideal" conditions rather than a real-world environment, tend to take place in controlled artificial environme...

Revenue Problems of Wichita Falls

will try to prove is that tax increases are only one way in which the town can boost its revenue base. A solid economic plan needs...

Comparing Macbeth by William Shakespeare and Henry the Eighth

faced the slave, / Which neer shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, / Till he unseamd him from the nave to the chaps, / And fixd ...

SNF Costs and the Impact of the Shortage of Registered Nurses

of the patients in a single unit will be assigned to one RN; the other half will be assigned to another. Another will be availabl...

Ron Chernow's The House of Morgan

the events and the people. We are not merely given a perspective that informs us of the greed and evil that seemed to be inherent ...

A Review of Mike Rose's Book, Lives on the Boundary

house. Sometimes that extended to taking Mike to the large library downtown. Lou would teach Mike about astronomy, taught him how ...

'A place in the family: an historical interpretation of research on parental reactions to having a child with a disability' by Philip M. Ferguson Reviewed

place in time. The point Ferguson goes on to make is that it is important to also consider the ways in which social attitudes and ...

Abraham Cahan's The Rise of David Levinsky

was very young, so young in fact that he had only a couple of fleeting memories of him. His mothers life was hard yet she managed...

Analyzing the Works of Edgar Allan Poe

he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utte...

Live Burial Theme in Edgar Allan Poe's Writings

stupor, Montressor begins to wall him in...alive. As Fortunato begins to sober up and realize what is going on he begins to scream...

Iraq and Saddam Hussein's Rise

"from which he built an elaborate network of secret police to root out dissidents."2 Nearly a dozen years after the fact, Bakr wa...

Great American Author Ernest Hemingway

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

Doubling in 'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

was paramount to understanding many of his stories and aspects of the life of Poe are often mirrored within the narrators of his s...

Learning as a Theme in Milton's Paradise Lost

primitive society. Adam is the embodiment of perfection, and he is clearly defined as the intellectual superior of the two. He i...

Industrial Power Growth of Japan

China and Russia, brought with it a degree of social evolution and a large measure of economic progress" (Rinn-Sup, 1991, p. PG). ...

Analysis of the Theme of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

without them. The power in Umuofia society was deeply steeped in "masculine traditions" (Osei-Nyame 148). The reputation o...

Managed Care Research and Ethical Issues

majority group in the United States. When considering other population groups, the disparities are even greater. The purpose her...

The Moon Rises

from the buildings as they collapsed, this rendition had proved controversial. In fact, all art is controversial. Several years ag...

American Politics and Charismatic Leadership

is put forward by the opposition. Willner asserts that in order for this devotion to supersede logic, the people must consider the...

Higher Education Increases in Tuition for Washington State

pursue higher education at a public institute. "As an independent student and as somebody who is not supported by their parents, ...

Overview of the WHO

offset incoming pathogens (Anonymous, 1996). Not surprisingly, the "erosion of the public health infrastructure" of the World Hea...