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Creative Short Story Romance

In five pages this paper presents an original short story romance which is followed by an explanation of the narrative form used....

Post 911 Fighting Fear and an Example of Narrative Writing

On the other hand, if the attack is primarily intended as a background setting from which the main character extrapolates their ow...

'The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas' by Ursula LeGuin

know the child is there, because each of them is taken to see it when they are quite young, perhaps 8-12 years of age. They cannot...

Vo Phien: "The Key"

ship dropped anchor "at 3 a.m. July 5, 1975" and passengers began to disembark (Phien). The first thing that greeted them was a ho...

Division Essay: Desiree’s Baby by Chopin

white masters raped their black female slaves and as such many of those females gave birth to interracial children who were slaves...

Louise Erdrich: ”Fleur"

amount of money (Erdrich). Fleur won, and refused to play any longer; in retaliation, the men got drunk and raped her; that same n...

Edith Wharton’s Roman Fever

about, but as the tension rises, a perspective that is discussed in the section on tone within the story, the reader senses that t...

Saving Face: An Analysis of George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant”

which he attended from 1917-1921 (Merriman). In 1922, Blair went to Burma, apparently following his fathers inspiration, and join...

War by Luigi Pirandello

potential, or realistic, loss of children during the war. War has always taken children from the parents and this is simply a very...

'The Lady with the Pet Dog' by Anton Chekhov

his otherwise dull life. When we meet the woman with the dog we begin to see that she is young and innocent and lonely. She als...

Poe and The Masque of the Red Death

decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...

Musset's Lorenzaccio & Hamlet

marriage of his mother to his uncle. Hamlet remarks that she overcome her grief and remarried within a month of his fathers death-...

Contrasting and Comparing "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien with "Luck" by Mark Twain

A seemingly reliable third-person narrator tells these stories. In "Luck," a clergyman tells Mr. Clemens about a revered Crimean ...

Ernest Hemingway's Attitudes About Women

In six pages this paper examines how Hemingway's rather condescending attitudes and low opinion of women are reflected in his shor...

Grotesque in the Works of Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner

In five pages the grotesque is analyzed within the context of Faulkner's short story 'A Rose for Emily' and O'Connor's short story...

The 1995 Short Story Winner

This paper discusses and analyses a short story. An alternative ending is written for the story. The writer discusses the main the...

Issues of Old Testament Scripture

This paper is made up of three short papers, the topics of which are the social role, position of the prophets, the role of Hokmah...

Heroes in 3 Stories by Ernest Hemingway

In six pages this paper examines the depiction of heroes in the short stories 'Hills Like White Elephants,' 'Soldier's Home,' and ...

Elements of Short Stories

Short story success is based on a variety of factors, and this paper examines those elements. For example, the use of surprise an...

'Emilie Plead Choose One Egg' by Paule Barton

In six pages this short story considers the author's diagnosis for what is ailing the Caribbean culture and how it can be cured as...

ECONOMICS, SHORT-TERM AND LONG-TERM COSTS

cost in the short term" versus "production and cost in the long term." The short-term, also know as the short-run, is the period o...

Italo Calvino/"The Adventure of a Reader"

rather read about romance and adventure, read the work of Stendhal, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Tolstoy, Flaubert and Proust, rather than ...

The Plague and Its Effects on European Society

course, plague was known so the deaths were not completely unexpected, but the disease interrupted lives, and no one knew who woul...

A Short Story

may be in similar situations as I have myself been subjected to. "I should start by telling you my name. My name is Beatrice McK...

'Trial by Combat' by Shirley Jackson

In five pages this short story examines the theme of identity within the context of this short story. Four sources are cited in t...

Raymond Carver and Relationships

that what they hoped for at collage. However, the betrayal by Duane despite the beauty of Holly. Carver starts to indicted the way...

Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway and the Portrayal of Women

for her money, but resents her for the power it has given her and the lack of ambition he himself embraces. He feels he has paid ...

A Strategic Case Study of Acorn Computers

In ten pages this paper considers a student supplied case study that applied short term rather than long term corporate strategies...

Sinclair Ross/2 Short Stories

Ross describes Isabel is similar to the way in which Martha, the narrative voice in "A Field of Wheat" endows this cash crop on wh...

Juan Rulfo and Alexander Pushkin on the Supernatural

age when a womans reputation was crucial to her welfare and future) on the slim chance that she can free herself from subservience...