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that most of her time was spent in some form of entertaining or conversation with one person or another. From this perspective t...

From what many can piece together, Aziyade did really exist. She was a Circassian slave owned by an old Turkish nobleman. She was ...

grounds of how it reflects the necessary criteria of a good detective story, which characteristically includes the elements of cri...

shocked when driving a short distance from the slums of inner cities to the world of wealthy suburbs?" But it is not...

(Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent...

of some moral message in the end. Through danger the characters are made stronger, and they are developed more powerfully, truly p...

what anyone tells him at face value, though as the story wears on a touch of skepticism begins to creep in. Especially when he spe...

from the former Le Dynasty, which explains why Nguyen Du was unwilling to join the new government" (The Tale of Kieu: Vietnams Epi...

her article, Obdurate History: Dinh Q. Le, the Vietnam War, Photography, and Memory, Moira Roth has traveled back to Vietnam to le...

in order to be educated at a missionary school since her British uncle runs the school. What happens as a result is that Tambu co...

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

indicative of a disdain for authoritarian institutions. Vathek is a powerful man who indulges in vast excesses. Beckford makes it ...

tragic reality. It comes as no surprise to note that one of the most powerfully, if not the most powerfully, tragic individual ...

how so many consumers have come to think of shopping and accumulating things as something of a hobby, even a passion. People ident...

when the Beowulf poet writes "Fate always goes as it must" (43) and "Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good" (...

away. He stands as a man of a higher social class who has integrity. His mother, however, represents all that is bad in the upper ...

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

had a daughter who loved him"; however, Maggie received no such indications either from her father" or from Tom--the two idols of ...

room do not hear, the "hypocritical smiles" that are not there. He screams and tells them the heart is under the planks. He believ...

does not stray far from each authors original intent, he does infuse the stories with his own sense of whimsy and message. In Ant...

In a paper consisting of five pages the characters of Offred in The Handmaid's Tale and Bone in Bastard Out of Carolina are contra...

what makes some relationships as viewed by outsiders particularly scandalous. Indeed, the role of class in society represents bot...

unstable" (Bouson, 2001, p. 101). Bouson contends that it is really her shame that is Bones core; and that her deep sense of wor...

These day laborers are obviously the ones who are trying to get by and are juxtaposed to the people who are willing to hire them. ...

end of the epic. This is different from the Homeric hero Odysseus for we generally like this man right from the beginning. The god...

In three pages this paper examines how symbolism is represented in this epic tale. There are no sources listed....

a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...

Offred, whose first-person narrative comprises most of the text, falls somewhere between the two female extremes. Her first-perso...

The second analysis involves Victors perspectives of women and the monsters perspective of women. Victor is obsessed with his moth...

hold much power today. One author notes that the novel of Atwoods specifically seems to target "fundamentalist Protestants in Amer...