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Essays 241 - 270
This research report examines this story and talks about the difficultly of separating in terms of emotional needs and expectation...
In four pages Christianity is discussed in terms of women's roles with references made to Her Story Women in Christian Tradition ...
In five pages social and cultural ethnic representations in a Johnson short story, Divakaruni and Clifton poetic themes are discus...
In nine pages ths report discusses media politics in terms of how this extramarital affair between the President of the United Sta...
that she did not have the wherewithal to match the experience of the opposing gender. It can be argued that the very first words ...
In nine pages the stories of Captain Sally and Dr. Mary Walker's spy activities are chronicled in this overview of the US Civil Wa...
In fifteen pages this paper discusses the author's feelings concerning a father's role by blurring the past and the present in thi...
can be emphasized that it is the psychological landscape that matters, not the physical one in this use of setting. Porter begin...
This paper contrasts and compares the women's roles in these two stories featured in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer in 5...
In five pages Col. John Sartoris's role in the story is examined. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....
Carter's 1979 short story is the focus of this report consisting of five pages in which marriage as a social institutuion is criti...
to whom Sammy is attracted, enter the A&P, there is a problem. The manager berates them, and they are seemingly embarrassed. Samm...
If our theory is accurate, the digressions serve as portals of time, and remind the listener that he is able to move about in all ...
This paper examines the issue of gender in Le Guin's short story, Sur. The author discusses gender roles, symbolism, and thematic...
In six pages these two short stories are compared and contrasted in terms of girls' roles in each tale. There are no other sources...
In nine pages this paper examines women's role as conceptualized by Dhammapada in a consideration of the Buddha's 'five beauties' ...
concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...
Her husband has only used her sexually for that is his nature, and is representative of the oppressive patriarchal culture. But, s...
to them" (Rowe, 3). Intensely shy, he was nonetheless intensely sexual, and this was to present problems for him for the rest of h...
two they took and carried away alive" (Rowlandson). In this she is clearly just presenting the facts, as anyone would do, be they ...
Raymond Carver's A Small Good Thing and John Updike's Separating both deal with the family. This paper examines the two short stor...
being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...
and, indeed, inferior in learning only to the parson" (Irving). Interestingly enough, this also brings into play women, for the na...
than she is now, so her meekness is both infuriating and false. Then we have the prince, who falls in love with her at the ball ...
marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...
most others, however, she did not sit idly by and merely complain about the intolerable situation; as a young, black woman with a ...
was arrested by the cultural revolutionary forces and tortured for several months (Zhang 14). Otherwise, there was "usually enough...
opens the story by saying that he has heard that when people go through some sort of strange or supernatural experience, they usua...
are learning that every living being sometime, somehow, some way ultimately dies. Fairy tales have long utilized this concept as ...
33). This quotation indicates the precision with which Poe crafted his stories. Each word and image is chosen with care and, coll...