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33). This quotation indicates the precision with which Poe crafted his stories. Each word and image is chosen with care and, coll...

consumers who become "fans" of a certain film, TV series, or book and subsequently reread it multiple times. Rather than lose inte...

in the form of dialogues that she has between her English self, Eva, and her Polish self, Ewa. One gathers from the context of the...

the leading black American of his era, gave at a primarily white audience in Atlanta in 1895. This speech became known as the "Atl...

with seemingly no end in sight. With businesses continuing to fail at record levels and unemployment rates at an all-time high, i...

indicates that a well-written interview with Williams could show that the murder was not premeditated, but due to his psychologica...

(Chaucer). Nevertheless, he soon speaks to her of love and pledges his faithfulness. In the privacy of his own thoughts, Chaucer r...

draw and paint, which is a "direct expression" of "her interior life" (Young 29). When she is finally able to walk again, she visi...

of the soil" (Thoreau 326). In one of most famous lines in his text, Thoreau writes that "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desp...

beginning of this stanza creates an image that says to the reader that the nature is hard; it "mows" you down. Society tries to im...

her mothers home country of Sweden. Ben had the "America fever" and stole the money in order to obtain passage to the US (Johnson ...

opens just after her birth. Like all babies, she is crying. Lucinda, a rather stupid fairy, is intent on giving Ella a "gift" and ...

"Peraean section."9 It is in Mark who depicts Jesus last journey to Jerusalem as being through Peraea, which is east of Jordan.10 ...

home, but in a mythical way that remains difficult to obtain and hold on to. The first episodes of the series begin the process of...

voyage, he saves the Lilliputian emperors palace from certain destruction by urinating on it in order to put out a fire that th...

surprised by change. To him it is has if the village and his family stayed frozen as they were in 1928. In his absence, his father...

to protect their anonymity; however, the actions and attitudes that Glittenberg describes reflects the cultural orientation of the...

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

in the only way that is culturally significant, as he would link her present to that "golden chain of male to male" (Lee 31). As...

in an internment camp and two years in prison. It charts his efforts at reintegration into American society. From this perspective...

century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...

find and rescue her. Early on, the reader is also introduced to Cap Huff, an adult friend of the Nason family, and Phoebe Marvin, ...

incredibly shallow, supercilious and caught within such a fierce atmosphere of competitiveness that they use the millions at the d...

himself to be a benevolent master, and after his death, his wife Caldonia tries to uphold this legacy, the novel nevertheless show...

and supportive, as well as including the usual element of sexual attraction. The problem that Allie and Noah faced early on was ...

pain and trying to find herself as she divorces herself mentally from her poor beginnings when she was married at fifteen to a hor...

and "one day could not explain some term of horsemanship to her that she had come across in a novel" (Flaubert 29). Emmas disappoi...

scholarship addressing the character of Pearl have seen her as the "sin-child, the unholy result" of an adulterous love and a symb...

has absolutely certainty in his own value and the value of his "modern" ideas. However, by rejecting older, more traditional appro...

"Dead Mens Path." It seems at first glance to be a very straightforward tale. However, as one critic points out, "In the post-Fouc...