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If the reader proves victorious at ascertaining the entire concept as a whole, while comprehending the connection of the detailed ...

ties this theme together" (Universe). In combination with this theme, the theme of foolishness, is the theme of disguise. In su...

cohesive literary glue that holds it all together. One of the ingredients of that glue is the use of language. His particular use ...

has written that he remembers his father scraping off or painting over the offending symbols (Parmet 79). Considering this backg...

see the beauty in one who does not like reality, while Walkers story offers up, in many ways, a negative look at one who is not wi...

purposes of his text, Cleveland defines the "Middle East" as that region that extends from Egypt in the west to Iran in the east a...

to a head. To understand those differences it is instructive to look at writing from the early years of our history. Tocqueville ...

in coping with such "discipline problems" at the university or college level, the Anti-Coercion Discipline Model of William Glasse...

emphasis on "mind-forged" shows that these are mental attitudes rather than physical chains, but their effect on human freedom is ...

succeed. Secondly, he states that the parents and the communities, whether they knew it or not were part of this cycle of lowered ...

African American vernacular (Crowley, 1997). One can easily drawn parallels between the linguistic construction in many West Afric...

reinforced by the companion article by William Raspberry called, Its Not Easy Being White. His satirical outlook on being white do...

observed between blacks and mainstream society. What we are observing in modern day society in regard to the refusal of cer...

for his life influenced his work and perhaps created in him the need to express what he experienced and saw. With that in mind we ...

This was only the first of many contradictions that would emerge in William Faulkner that would make his life more difficult than ...

race "at the mercy of machines" (Joy, 2000). The kind of panicky point of view maintained by Joy as a result of the constantly im...

of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...

The allusion to Oscar Wildes epigram--What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities--...

There are some things in this life that just are, that result from the intersection of natural law, cultural context, interpersona...

limited means to make a living. The fires he sets may be construed as the rage that burns inside of him. This arsonist is continua...

of the bible belt that anyone who is connected to the clergy are inherently good people when in fact clergy are human beings, subj...

As Tom was a sleeping he had such a sight!/ That thousands of sweepers Dick, Joe, Ned, & Jack,/ Were all of them lockd up in coffi...

in psalms (Liu 26). The repetition of the first line, which is subtly varied in the second stanza, is also psalm-like in that Hebr...

tale that he is a eunuch, otherwise impotent. With the aid of his friend, Doctor Quack, he manages to land himself in the lap and ...

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

intracellular structures such as chloroplasts and mitochondria. It was not until the second half of the 19th century that "a nucl...

in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...

behaviours: one of the reasons for the study was to assess whether there were elements of the playschool environment which were tr...

that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...

did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...