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abilities, illustrating how and why she wears the clothing she does: "I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for wa...

says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...

by Robert Altman of the same name. Many believe that this collection of short stories is an example of Carvers writings when he w...

that he despises genius, "the greater the genius the greater the ass" (Poe). At this point, Proffit sounds like a particularly pom...

to my mind)--perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster. You see he does not believe I am sick!" (Gilman). Because her...

tale was reduced to feeding pigs in order to survive. Augustine writes, "Where then, wast thou and how far from me? Far, indeed, w...

as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...

sixteenth century when Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk, nailed 95 complaints against the Roman Catholic Church on the church do...

an ever-present element in "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe manages to keep it just below the surface of the plot until that final ...

connection to the past somehow. The young men do not possess a strong link with their past and this causes them problems. They do ...

environment, which is rare anymore, is often a very dangerous environment that can threaten ones life. This makes the reader under...

meaning information positive to the organisations goals. However, for governments, especially in countries where there is freedom ...

meant to be - mixing with society people and being decorated with fine jewelry. However, she ends up losing the necklace...

lost. This brings us to one of the differences in the story, yet it also involves a similarity. With Mabel we have a woman who ...

the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...

in humanity until he hears the voice of his wife. When he stumbles out of the woods the next morning, he is a changed man. He ha...

concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...

keep from feeling frightened. The residents are startled, no doubt, and even perhaps afraid, but they dont react appropriately to...

to justify the decision we make that we are uncomfortable with. This is also seen with the consideration of walking up to the elep...

domestic tendencies in their society. In "The Lottery" there are many characters and in "After You, My Dear Alphonse" there are ...

thinking about making a living. But a predominantly capitalist economy meant that all goods and services, including works of art,...

it right in front of him. However, in The Birthmark we are also introduced to the character of Aminidad, who...

Therefore, Aylmer is destined to live a life of unhappiness, based not upon any inherently horrible thing about his life, but base...

suggests that it belongs to Rachel, the teacher, Mrs. Price pounces on this piece of knowledge and insists that Rachel accept the ...

a young woman who feels that beauty and frivolity are the most important things in life. She does not see that life is not as simp...

being. But, she is a fighter it seems, represented by the fact that she has many missing teeth due to struggles with the white man...

sometimes the only way to achieve peace. Doniphon admires the idealism of Stoddard and the two form an unlikely bond. The movie cl...

was lived during her time. Her work deals a large amount with the oppressiveness women felt within their married lives and their d...

of his talent. He sees and then conveys meaning in the smallest of details and, again, weaves them together in ways that create th...

some people spend their whole lives asserting that innate desire; it is this quest for improved social, economic, political and cu...