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Essays 361 - 390
In six pages this essay discusses the positive characterization of the blind man in the short story 'Cathedral' by Raymond Carver....
In six pages this essay considers how this short story by Ernest Hemingway describes 'nothingness' and the despair of loneliness. ...
An eight page assertion that economics iare a primary consideration in modern day corporate management. This paper contains sever...
Short essays totalling ten pages consider dying and death or 'near death' in writings by Waechter and Moody and bereavement accord...
to kill, the speaker insists on frequently and rather adamantly reminding us that he is not mad. As the story reads on, I found m...
In two pages this essay examines how the structural collapse of the house in Poe's short story represents the collapse of the fami...
free; and Joy, whose miserable disposition is anything but joyful. It is Joy who is the chief protagonist, an educated 32-year-ol...
In five pages this research essay explores the abortion debate within the context of Hemingway's short story and how important saf...
In five pages this essay considers the 'everything' or 'nothing' connotation of oneness as represented within these short stories ...
In five pages this essay analyzes the development of the protagonist Elisa in a consideration of this John Steinbeck short story. ...
In three pages this essay examines how women are treated in the symbolic portrayal of Emily as being a rose in this short story by...
Short essays totalling three pages respond to and analyze specific criminal justice textbook cases concerning criminal liability d...
In five pages this essay examines how Puritanism and witchcraft contribute to the setting of this short story by Nathaniel Hawthor...
In five pages this essay considers whether the events that transpired in this short story were real or were in fact a dream. Ther...
in Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...
This essay consisting of two pages examines the symbolic representation of flowers within the context of this short story by Kate ...
"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...
have to occupy the nursery with the horrid wallpaper" (161). As befits a woman who is practically a nonentity, the narrator in "...
about it in the morning paper on the subway on his way to work. Sonny "had been picked up, the evening before, in a raid on an apa...
there is the suggestion that Elsie is a good mother. OHara writes that the "only thing," that Elsie "held against" her children, i...
he used to own and wear while he was working. The fact that Tom wore a tuxedo while performing suggests that he played at the best...
a person tried hard, anything could be accomplished. Therefore, she saw it as her duty to lead her daughter towards becoming an A...
above her on the social ladder, Sophy accepts him when he proposes marriage. She marries, not from love, but more from a standpoin...
by the men on the train platform, and then by the overly dramatic grief of Merricks mother. The contrast between the nature of Mer...
the bank while there is a line of people waiting for service, but rather than agree with a fellow human being, he is caustic and s...
what to plant and where, and so forth, comprehensively covering the major areas of a womans life. Thrown into this long rambling...
young blacks and how they were "growing up with a rush...their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possi...
was teased in school, initially, he was called a Nordic because he was tall and blond, later, he was teased because he was Jewish ...
home. That ended their affair and the couple saw each other only one more time, for "one sorrowful and bitter drink" (Ford, 2009)....
the Old South and the New South which further complicates the matter. In the Old South, the South ruled and supported by slavery...