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beings can sink. On December 9, 1937, Japanese troops attacked the city of Nanking; on the 13th, the "6th and 16th Divisions of th...
young blacks and how they were "growing up with a rush...their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possi...
the community as an oddity, "a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town" (Faulkner 433). She ...
when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). Her husband...
"girl" in reference to this female, a choice which would appear to indicate that she is somewhat younger than her companion yet He...
thinks the woman will die. Arsat is very sad and while he waits out the long night he begins to tell his friend about how he came ...
a young woman who feels that beauty and frivolity are the most important things in life. She does not see that life is not as simp...
to convince her that having the abortion is no big deal. PATTERN OF SYMBOLS ASSOCIATED WITH MODERN WORLD It is an interesti...
In comparison to the many overt forms of change these villagers have been forced to experience over time as a result of colonialis...
that if they go to Florida, where it has been rumored that there is an escaped murderer loose, they will all be killed. The family...
apply and be accepted into the graduate creative writing program at Boston University; eventually getting her Masters in English, ...
sharpness of selfish satisfaction" (217). As this suggests, Dr. Jenkins feelings toward his hoard of art are not completely altrui...
tidbits that enabled the readers to journey back in time. The film alters this setting somewhat with a present-day Evelyn Couch s...
tales. While "The Oval Portrait" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are distinctive in setting they share certain simil...
the castle hallway and charged into her room...There they routed Bluebeard out onto the parapet. There and then, with swords, they...
old-age (Pipher, 2000, ch. 1). Its certainly not what many had imagined, and among the greatest of differences is that they find ...
is on its way, OConnor emphasizes that the grandmother is totally lacking in any sort of sympathetic or empathetic feeling. The ...
being. But, she is a fighter it seems, represented by the fact that she has many missing teeth due to struggles with the white man...
and monitoring others. He does not merely sit back in his office, but likes to possess the power that can make the young boys crin...
a grandfather is made clear as soon as Robert ushers Mr. Winfield into the car. Wiinfields granddaughter, Sheila, greets him. With...
who had nothing to do with the death of his father. When Hamlet does figure out what is right for him, in terms of addressing the ...
an ever-present element in "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe manages to keep it just below the surface of the plot until that final ...
and their three children. Hearing of the escape of a dangerous Florida killer known only as The Misfit and his band of thugs prov...
connection to the past somehow. The young men do not possess a strong link with their past and this causes them problems. They do ...
as "tiny jewels glowing behind the cover," which weave a "tapestry of transformed lives." This point is exemplified by the first s...
barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind. It was all as lonely as could be; and ther...
to assist him in his most basic needs, provides the kind of care and understanding required by the dying and increasingly isolated...
of Brown. It is essentially natural worshipping, however, with many different types of people coming together in a more ritualisti...
as Grange becomes unhappy with his simple life. He leaves behind this wife and child in order to find something better. And, it is...
this day, of course, will differ from all others. What makes this a significant day in Miss Brills life is that she is about to be...