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Concepts in Short Stories

cases from the point of view that the person on trial is guilty. There is no presumption of innocence until proven guilty-he start...

Toni Cade Bambara's Community of African American Women’s Identity in ’s Gorilla, My Love Short Stories

a political fundraiser with a blind man named Bovanne. She shocks her daughters by behavior they regard as unbefitting for a woma...

Survival Stories

This man, stranded on an island, also living there for 4 years, like Selkirk, and also managing to survive on what he could find a...

My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story by Abraham Verghese

coming home from the city, he is ill and he knows why but when he is admitted to the hospital no one has any idea what his trouble...

A Comparison of a Biblical Story with Racine's Phaedra

both works. The fact that Joseph rejects the advances of his bosss wife does not mean he is not interested in her. While she was p...

The Impacts of Sensational News Stories

In a paper of five pages, the author reflects on the use of tabloid journalism, especially sensational news stories, that foster n...

Two Ghost Stories, Dickens and Bronte

attitudes that he has embraced have robbed his life of meaning and value. The ghosts remind him of his past and the choices that h...

Three Short Stories and Analysis

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at three short stories including "The Cranes", "Carnal Knowledge", and "The Necklace"....

O'Brien and Hemingway - Disconnection in War Stories

In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at Hemingway's "Soldier's Home" and O'Brien's "How to Tell a True War Story". Various ...

"The Story of an Hour," Effect of Patriarchy

This essay pertains to "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. The writer presents the argument that the principal point that Chopi...

Slavery Worse for Women, the Story of Harriet Jacobs

This essay is on Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. The writer describes the various ways in wh...

"Music Within," The Story of Richard Pimentel

This essay presents a movie review of "Music Within," (2007, directed by Steven Sawalich). The film stars Ron Livingston as Richa...

The Story of Filippinno Emigrants

This essay provides an overview and analysis of American Son by Brian Roley, how the adolescent sons react to the great changes an...

Short Story by John Cheever

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the short story called The Country Husband. This paper includes issues of trying to escape ...

Alcoholism, Soldiers' Stories of Addiction

This paper discusses the personal narratives of soldiers and indicates the parts of these narratives that are applicable to Procha...

Sexual Orientation and Race Relations in Greer's Story of Marriage

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...

The Jesse Logan Story

verbal assaults as the final straws that led to her daughters death. Even Cynthia Logan maintained that she had no idea that th...

Setting in The Story of an Hour

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...

Joyce and Hughes/Loss in 2 Short Stories

OShay, the vice principal of the school, tells Nancy Lee that the scholarship was rescinded when the nominating committee learned ...

Hannah and O'Brien's War Stories: The Sacred and the Mundane

Whitelaw from their hometown, and the narrator imbues this physical artifact with a great deal of emotional significance. In parti...

The Google Story

set their sights high, despite being rejected early on by some potential business partners and investors, and their enthusiasm con...

UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES: THE TRUE STORY

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...

Laurent Dubois' "Avengers Of The New World: The Story Of Haitian Revolution"

other ways, as well - to lead a rebellion due to his ability to read, write and obtain a superior understanding of the world beyon...

Societal Suppression in A Rose for Emily and The Story of an Hour

utterly free. When Emily discovers that her boyfriend is gay, her instant fear of what the community would think of her leads he...

Heating and Cooling Considerations in a Four Story Building

best in this particular situation is the installation of a geothermal heating and air conditioning system. This is particularly t...

Two Short Stories by Jin and Chopin

comes to bail him out is tied to a tree in the jails courtyard and tortured; finally the ordeal ends when Mr. Chiu signs a false c...

Two Stories by Thom Jones

no choices" (Jones). This is obviously untrue-there are always choices. But Herbie has convinced himself that this is his only op...

Reader Response to Kurt Vonnegut’s Short Story ‘Welcome to the Monkey House’

agendas with propaganda and information misrepresentation reportedly in the name of national security. In this story, the governm...

Stories: Japan

boy of 16, was less than polite to the Nakamura family and seemed very racist, constantly telling the family he had wanted to go t...

Loneliness in the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

letters and "The letters cover everything from the emptiness Hemingway felt upon completing a novel to their shared loneliness" (P...