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his heart. The very act of carving out a new life in an unfamiliar territory casts its share of fear and anxiety, however, this u...

from what was ostensibly a civilized society, ultimately finding how solitude became one of his closest friends. "I find it whole...

the building becomes cumbersome and can collapse. The solutions were varied and brilliant: masons developed a "ribbed vault, in w...

his dashboard. There is a common thread between the two men, but Hanson reacts to the fantasy he has constructed, not the reality,...

in this instance French Dakar-Niger railroad owners (toubabs) versus impoverished workers in pre-Independence era Senegal who soug...

Graham is having an affair with his partner, Ria, who is of Latin American descent; however, Graham cannot seem to remember that ...

they sneak away; here the reference is to an angry and implacable god who is ready to strike down those who disobey. The second r...

she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...

run away, thus setting up the main action of the plot, because the man she loves, Lysander, agrees to run away with her. They end ...

down, there was no living thing in sight" indicates a sort of foreboding as well, an indication that life ended here, in the water...

son, S.J., talking to him outside of school. S.J., which is short for "Sean Jr.," is a talkative youngster who is irrepressibly f...

Patricia Highsmiths novel "The Talented Mr. Ripley" is the story of Tom Ripley, a young man whose looks can be very deceiving. Ri...

so closely related is dangerous for the reader. Its tempting to think that this is nothing more than Hemingway retelling events in...

more day and this is granted. Jason lamely agues that his abandonment of her and their children is for the best. After formulating...

strong man to dominate his wife. There were few constraints placed upon male behavior whereas for women it was quite the opposite...

the juxtaposition of the two worlds: that of humanity and that of the fairies. They exist side by side by do not interact; in fact...

young blacks and how they were "growing up with a rush...their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possi...

He is shot and wakes to find himself in another body, a person in the past. Zits has access to the persons memories and knows the ...

the world during the time when Revelation was written. In a serious attempt to educate her readership to the evils forever lurkin...

with a wretched climate where theyre always hot and miserable, where they cant tell friend from foe, and where half their battles ...

of love that can so easily change course; it seems frivolous and rather shabby, after all Orsinos protestations of love to Olivia,...

really betrayed Othello. Iago is determined to manipulate Othello to his own desires, which are many. Throughout the play the re...

as having "fungi" overspreading "the whole exterior," hanging "in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves" (Poe "Fall"). As this su...

She was viciously attacked for her frank depiction of a woman who broke her marriage vows, despite the fact that the book is a psy...

all of his previously held values as vulgar absurdities, incompatible with the reality of his experiences. The existentialist them...

the laws regarding the firstborn, substituting something for an animal or a person (New International Version, Exod. 113:13; 34:20...

one might look at the very opening lines of the epic, which address the reader, even the contemporary reader, directly and states ...

is Jack Burdens transition from a naively simplified form of nihilism he refers to as the "Great Twitch" towards a more realistic ...

as well (Rog, 2001, p. 7). One of the difficult elements about creating these kinds of instructional strategies is that there are...

poor state of the realm, it is suggested that some deep essential cause rather than mere circumstance is to blame for the decay of...