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he decides to proceed anyway. Clearly, the dark, cold, unforgiving surroundings that encapsulate the guest as his driver leaves h...

track marks still showed. The fact that Lenny articulates the protagonists hidden thoughts and desires provides substantiation th...

by pairing books against each other, thus pitting classical works against modern counterparts. For instance, Swift includes such ...

Elisa carried with her always, always feeling and smelling and tasting the day. The garden hose water, which tastes like no other ...

how so many consumers have come to think of shopping and accumulating things as something of a hobby, even a passion. People ident...

away. He stands as a man of a higher social class who has integrity. His mother, however, represents all that is bad in the upper ...

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

what anyone tells him at face value, though as the story wears on a touch of skepticism begins to creep in. Especially when he spe...

from the former Le Dynasty, which explains why Nguyen Du was unwilling to join the new government" (The Tale of Kieu: Vietnams Epi...

her article, Obdurate History: Dinh Q. Le, the Vietnam War, Photography, and Memory, Moira Roth has traveled back to Vietnam to le...

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

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-...

tales have circulated for so long their origins are in ancient Egypt, others made their way to Germany via France (Zaleski, 2001)....

of shallowness in schemings clothing, while rejecting the honest and heartfelt response of Cordelia, the only daughter who truly d...

Clearly this essential theme is one that speaks of a cultural nightmare for the idea of feminism. Women today are women who unders...

he was kept as a virtual prisoner of his house by his brother. Nathan, and out of public view as much as possible. For the childr...

It comes to pass that Don Quixote and some of his friends are staying at an inn, and the innkeeper is nearly as...

not something that had occurred to him earlier. The murder appears to stem solely from the fact that the narrator has the power in...

well. Interestingly enough, when small businesses make millions other innovations and turned into larger businesses, sometimes th...

stir" as it was the date of a double festival: that of the Festival of the Three Kings and that of the Feast of Fools (Hugo, I, I)...

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...

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...

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

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

stars for me, weaponed me to make my way in the world...Did I slay him, what horror would come upon me and mine?" (Anderson 305). ...

She is never allowed any control over her environment or her circumstances. Her opinions are always discounted by her husband. Whe...