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before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers, of my sagacity. I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph" (Poe). ...

to see if they had a certain picture book, the librarian informed her that the book was in their collection, but was not suitable ...

when examining the beauty in nature. According to a student writing on this subject, Bass (1990) provides many examples of the f...

love but rather sees it as simply a different option he is being offered in terms of continuing to love her and be devoted to her....

of men" (Dickens V). Carton looks quite a bit like Darnay, however, and in this reality Darnay is set free because it cannot now b...

artists intrinsic complexity. Kneeling at the base of a delicate tree with head tipped upward, eyes closed and hands brought toge...

the children, "It was festival, carnival" (line 15). These contradictory images to how house fires are generally perceived are mad...

that instead of continued efforts toward gender equality, the social "pendulum" might actually carry society backward in regards t...

her husband in their youthful days. She loves Polixenes as a brother because he is the best and oldest friend of her husband. In t...

to take up arms; they are not compelled as are the men. They are also encouraged to strive professionally and intellectually and c...

with the color of Oz, which is lush and green. In Oz, Dorothy has many adventures, but keeps working to find a way to get back ho...

not take a sedate woman? That would be more fitting than a little skittish thing of a girl." However, Ronan could not be stopped, ...

the reader is actually living the life of Offred, seeing and making the same assumptions she is making. This style of approach to...

of the protagonist that Poe sets up the terror inherent in the story. The sheer madness of his thought processes are chilling, bu...

him an hour just to move his head into the room. The protagonist exclaims, "Ha! Would a madman have been so wise as this?" which i...

meant to illustrate the dichotomy between and among all the interwoven traits attributed to a girl of her age. On the one hand, s...

women throughout history. In these respects we see how Genji is attractive. Genji seems to know what women feel, how they think,...

or purchased by her ancestors. For example, she notes the rugs that her mother and her grandmother made in her house that was buil...

most minute of clues. (After all: "There is no vehicle save a dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you sit...

- Chapter 4 - The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Fiction). Poe seemed to regard society and the Industrial Revolution in particular ...

It is this "darling," who, according to Chekhov, "could not exist without loving" (Chekhov, 2002). She falls in love with Kukin, w...

slept wherever he could. For associating with Huckleberry Finn, Tom was whipped by the schoolmaster and ordered to sit on the girl...

an integral part of the travelogue. These obstacles are met and either overcome, or the obstacles serve as catalysts to propel th...

and gagged her and pulled a plastic garbage bag over her head before leaving her in a locked bathroom. Putman suffocated. As a r...

of irony ("Literature" PG). Swift emphasizes the horrible poverty found in eighteenth-century Ireland as he ironically proposes th...

a time of many contrasts. While many history books prefer to remember it as a time of self-help, entrepreneurial spirit, laissez-...

deed, he nevertheless is overcome by his guilt which seems to lead him to insanity. He begins the story however by not denying his...

the contractors were building shoddy buildings, and nobody was getting reported for any of it. Of course Guttierez had no knowled...

his mother dies he was over six feet tall and with his blond hair was an imposing figure, he used the money to set up his own busi...

with immediate commercial success, however, it was later transferred to screen with a film adaptation, indicating the real value t...