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Essays 451 - 480
World Trade Center, damage the Pentagon, bring down three planes and kill thousands of people; they also confused Americans as to ...
was able to inspire eBay employees to come up with great ideas on ways to move the company forward when its founding management di...
as "jolly, slapstick comedy," but also criticizes it for lacking the "almost eerie humanity that infused" the earlier movies, writ...
the Bible and reading Josephs story in the Quran is rather like the difference between actually reading a novel and simply reading...
the background of my mind because I do not want to deal with it and my ego tells me it is not going to make life easier. But, my e...
Don DeLillo are both stories about observation, but they are completely different, and the difference is unsettling for people who...
as an "honest man" who kept a "little hut for the entertainment of travelers, serving them with meat and drink" but seldom offerin...
in this sort of limbo (Carver). He seems to be dealing with it, but he knows how hard it is on the children, who are crying themse...
son" (Rivera 108). The next day, he will be in charge of his brothers and sisters working in the fields. She warns him "Dont overw...
active service with the Republicans, though not as a soldier but as a medical corpsman (Donahue). Although such a position was a "...
woman who has given her life to being a wife and a mother and she is simply trying to understand why her son expects to live his l...
the late nineteenth century (the same time the story was written). This setting is of vital importance because at that time, weal...
and Tamar, to be an anomaly and out-of-place at this point in Genesis, Richard Clifford argues in his analysis that Judahs story f...
Gregory talks about how his mother got angry when he threw out a free coat and Williams speaks of how his parents loved the kids, ...
dies "of heart disease--of the joy that kills" (Chopin). Her position in the story seems to be one of a woman who has simply res...
to exhume personal details of the episode that bear no benefit to the reading audience other than to give them an inside glance to...
set their sights high, despite being rejected early on by some potential business partners and investors, and their enthusiasm con...
Holland was a shell of a soldier, sitting on a bench at the beach in San Francisco when Pearlie saw him and recognized him instant...
another job. There are those who are out of work, who have given up looking for a job. There are those who are out of work, who ha...
Whitelaw from their hometown, and the narrator imbues this physical artifact with a great deal of emotional significance. In parti...
utterly free. When Emily discovers that her boyfriend is gay, her instant fear of what the community would think of her leads he...
her and is keeping her emotions and thoughts to herself, never letting them in. In fact the only one who is allowed in is the read...
OShay, the vice principal of the school, tells Nancy Lee that the scholarship was rescinded when the nominating committee learned ...
the approached adopted in the investigation and in the article that there is a separation of the events into a cultural context, p...
of Stories, by creating a fascinating cast of characters, placing them in a fantastical world, and giving Haroun and his father an...
the last thing he says is "My boots are filling" and hes gone (Erdrich). Lyman jumps in and searches for him until the sun sets, b...
anthologized works in literature and for good reason. The story is simple, follows a linear structure, and within that basic frame...
the mind of a murderer, who casually confesses to his crime to an unnamed acquaintance some fifty years after the fact. The narra...
In a paper consisting of five pages the argument is presented that within the short stories 'The Darling, 'The Betrothed,' and 'Th...
Tony Hillerman's collection of stories are discussed in an analysis of historical detail with 'The Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo' b...