YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :War Stories of Edith Wharton
Essays 121 - 150
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the conflicts in the short stories 'The Other Foot' and 'All Summer in a Day' by R...
that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethical values. It is the sheer weight of her social stat...
to see if they had a certain picture book, the librarian informed her that the book was in their collection, but was not suitable ...
his mother. Prior to the war, Hemingway lets the reader know that Krebs was in tune with small town life. He attended a Methodist ...
one last time. As this indicates, the love of Tristans parents is similar in intensity to that of Tristan and Isolde. As with the ...
in any real noble cause, he quickly succumbs to the realities that surround him, the bullets and the danger. This man has taken i...
condemned The New York Times and The Guardian for liberal content and left-wing sympathies, and their war coverage has come under ...
makes the story powerful is that hour where the woman sits alone. And watching her character develop and learn is what makes the t...
seem to state that the goal for all initiates is to come to the place where the desires are eliminated, not by ceasing the actions...
comprise Tim OBriens celebrated collection, The Things They Carried. OBrien was himself a "grunt" in Vietnam, and his view of the ...
charming and funny and sad, all at the same time. This paper explains the significance of the title by examining it using the diff...
the coast of Georgia and Florida under Colonel Oliver T. Beards command (Kennington, 2009). Their expedition, and raids, proved su...
notes the following: "He wondered why he did not feel some keen agony of fear cutting his sense like a knife. He wondered at this,...
the bank while there is a line of people waiting for service, but rather than agree with a fellow human being, he is caustic and s...
to the soldier, but to his family and the citizens in whose names he fought (Swofford). The author notes how those...
end of the story, because the man whose son was killed appears to be handling it well. He notes that life is difficult, and that w...
through different characters" (p. 268). While this theme is worked out principally through Newland Archers yearning for the "free"...
noted that the emperor had announced defeat, which meant surrender (Dower, 2001). Yet, the woman who Dower notes on the first pag...
Ross describes Isabel is similar to the way in which Martha, the narrative voice in "A Field of Wheat" endows this cash crop on wh...
is not often told is how the Pilgrims would have died without the help of the Natives, and how the Pilgrims, the Puritans, felt th...
that reveals to the reader a great deal about the characters involved. Pelagea is deeply in love with her husband, Yegor Anton Che...
sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream" (Goethe). Even if we didnt know that Werther was an a...
Herbert felt, were much smarter than himself. In particular, Herbert relied on his political adviser Carl Wanderer and his second-...
circle. It soon becomes apparent that everyone with whom Sharon and Frank come into contact know the rumor and believe it. This cr...
film taking on certain aspects of each others roles (Davis 80). Norika offers Tomi and Shukichi the respect that filial tradition ...
she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...
1997). She attributes the warnings to some sort of liberal conspiracy: "I believe those Republicans who think that theres been a c...
Congressional approval for armed intervention and in 1898 the Spanish-American War began (Trask, 2002). This is one of many confl...
navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...
Barry Zorthian was the "official voice of America" in Vietnam from 1964 to 1968 as director of the Public Affairs Office (290). In...