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Themes of Darkness and Light in Sonny Blues

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

A Short Story by Ford

home. That ended their affair and the couple saw each other only one more time, for "one sorrowful and bitter drink" (Ford, 2009)....

Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl"

what to plant and where, and so forth, comprehensively covering the major areas of a womans life. Thrown into this long rambling...

A Rose for Emily/Use of Narration

of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...

Stephen Crane's "Open Boat" and setting

with human emotions, as the sea is described as being "nervously anxious." This conveys to the reader the way in which the men per...

Cheever's "The Country Husband"

every night to a battlefield" (Cheever 73). Later in the story, at a party, Weed recognizes the maid serving canap?s, as a woman...

"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor

This essay pertains to the literary features of this short story, focusing on its plot and symbols as the writer describes how the...

"The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point" Analysis

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Browning's "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point". Short essay responses to discuss...

Film Festivals and their History

This research paper pertains to the history and development of film festivals and focuses on the specific histories of the festiva...

"Dry September" by William Faulkner

This essay pertains to Faulkner's short story "Dry September." The writer offers analysis of the plot and argues that Faulkner use...

"Barn Burning" by William Faulkner

This essay pertains to Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning" and focuses on the character of Abner Snopes. The writer argues that ...

Ethos, Pathos, Logos, Mythos

One more type of proof has been added to Aristotle's three means of proof in a debate or argument. It is Mythos. All four are expl...

Hebrew Poetry - An Analysis

In a paper of ten pages, the writer looks at Hebrew poetry. Short essay answers and definitions to common poetic terms are given. ...

Angelou Short Story

The short story is Sister Flowers. This essay describes highlights in the story. There is one souorce listed in the bibliography o...

Construct Intelligence Creativity

This essay provides definitions and short discussions of different terms in psychology, such as construct, intelligence, and creat...

Religion and John Updike

This essay focuses on three works of John Updike, which are his novel A Month of Sundays and his short stories "Wildlife" and "Far...

A Film Adaptation/Soldier's Home

adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway short story, directed by Robert Young and produced in 1997. The protagonist of this short film ...

Tom Franklin's "Grit"

story "Grit" portrays the intense conflict that arises between Glen, the manager of the Black Beauty Minerals Plant located in Mob...

The Age of Empires

into its own sovereign state. 27. Political fragmentation Definition: Term used to describe the breaking of a geopolitical reg...

"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

This essay offers interpretation of Hawthorne's short story " Young Goodman Brown." Three pages in length, two sources are cited. ...

Discussion Questions for Huck Finn

to be Hucks fault in two key ways. Practically speaking, Huck is at fault because he put the dead snake in Jims bed that eventuall...

The Mona Lisa

to be the quintessential example of a Renaissance man, as his talents encompassed a breadth of subjects, from art and sculpture to...

More Discussion Questions for Huck Finn

drawn eight sets of arms on the figure in her final, unfinished drawing, because she intended to later go in and remove all the se...

"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner

reader with an insiders view on the Southern culture of the era because narrator frequently describes the reactions of the townspe...

Overview of Cognitive Therapies and REBT

had generalized anxiety disorder, and experienced symptoms of panic whenever exposed to triggers such as crowds or passing over br...

"Dr. Glass-Case" by De Cervantes

Cervantes "rather formulaic" descriptions of Italian cities were "perfectly in tune with the rhetorical canons of the time" (Cerva...

Comparative Analysis of 'Ligeia' and 'Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

banks of a "black and lurid tarn" (Poe Usher). As the narrator in both stories is fully aware of who he is, he never bothers to in...

'August 2026 There will com soft rains' by Ray Bradbury

tells the reader that whatever happened to the occupants occurred recently, as obviously the house still has electricity. The per...

Disputes and Western Civilization History

the author indicates were very gracious to those they conquered and allowed them the right to still possess their traditions and t...

'The Bridegroom' by Ha Jin

concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...