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An Analysis of Two Short Stories from A Bird in the House

The focus of this five page paper is the storyline of two specific short stories in The Bird in the House. The writer compares an...

'Shiloh' by Bobbie Ann Mason

In four pages the short story's conflicts are examined in terms of their character implications. There are no other sources liste...

Ordinary in 'A and P' by John Updike

pin curlers even looked around after pushing their carts past to make sure what they had seen was correct" (Updike, 1274). The st...

Analysis of 'Solder's Home' by Ernest Hemingway

Kansas City Star, Hemingway himself "left Kansas City in the spring of 1918 and did not return for 10 years, [becoming] the first ...

Sammy Grows Up in the “A&P”

that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...

Andrew Dubus/Dancing After Hours

viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...

Literary Analysis: “Dubliners” by James Joyce

Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...

Willa Cather's Paul's Case (Analysis)

this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...

Three American Short Stories

Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...

Franklin’s Inner Conflict and Resolution in Judy Troy’s Short Story, “Ten Miles West of Venus”

May, Rev. Sanders decides to take a drive to her house to check on her. Mrs. Lyle has been keeping a very low profile since the s...

Short Stories

friend have many things they are experiencing, one of the most important being the changes they are facing in junior high school w...

The Power, and Pain, of Freedom: Chopin’s The Story of an Hour

grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...

Kate Chopin/The Storm

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

A Clean Well-Lighted Place by Hemingway

conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...

Literary Themes

a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...

Book Report on Alvin Kernan’s Memoir Crossing the Line: A Bluejacket’s World War II Odyssey

San Diego, California. For a young farm boy, the transition was nothing short of culture shock. The boot camp of 1941 was design...

Detailed Analysis of Kate Chopin’s Short Story, ‘Desiree’s Baby’

of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...

Sacramento CAFR 2007

It appears that the City makes full debt disclosure, but finding it is difficult. The table of contents lists "Other Special Reve...

Security and Secrecy Issues Following the Cases of Wen Ho Lee and Robert Hanssen

on both morale and confidence (Meek, 2001). Mole hunting measure need to be in place. These measures can include the use of random...

Kelvin Moffett/Tattooizm

and having food passed to her through a slot" (Moffett 146). When Dixon mentions his plan, she resists the impulse to yell and tel...

A Short History of Progress - Or Lack Thereof

past, we can use it to predict what our likely future is, and that should give anyone pause, for our past is not particularly whol...

U.S. Civil War and Political Compromise

In six pages this paper discusses how when various political compromises between North and South fell short civil war in the Unite...

Great Society Domestic Policy of President Lyndon Johnson

In twelve pages this paper examines LBJ's good intentions regarding his Great Society domestic policy but fell short of its implem...

President Bill Clinton's Misguided Attempt to Generate Public Support for an Iraq Invasion

In five pages this paper discusses the attempt by Bill Clinton to generate support for an Iraq invasion and how these efforts fell...

Amistad and Atlantic Slave Trade High Seas' Revolt

In eight pages this research paper examines slave revolts on ship and considers the impacts of the Amistad situation on Africa and...

Failures of Intent and 1996's Telecom Act

which included President Clinton, and promised to unleash the forces of competition and deregulation, thus producing the tangible ...

1996's Communications Decency Act and Telecommunications Act

In seven pages these legislative reforms are assessed in terms of their intentions and how they fell short. Five sources are cite...

Voting Methods in America and What is Wrong with Them

(BR), the alternative and repeated alternative vote (ALV-RAL), and the single transferable vote (STV). In terms of two general an...

Why Alternative Fuel Sources Have Been Inadequate

In a paper of eight pages the types of alternative fuels that have been tested and tried are discussed in order to reach the concl...

The Failure of Affirmative Action to Achieve Equality

In this paper consisting of five pages this writer argues that not only has Affirmative Action fallen short of its intended purpos...