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Life Without Parole by Victor Hassine

guilty. However, Hassine did find a "voice." He happened upon some examples of prison authorship and realized that he "really di...

Commercial Culture of Miniature Roses

the hobbyist grower, however, rather than the grower attempting to produce miniature roses as a commercial crop. The growth...

Blue Collar Work and Assumptions of Intelligence

This 3 page paper gives an explanation of the essay by Mike Rose about blue-collar workers and intelligence. This paper includes e...

Organization of Plot in A Rose for Emily by Faulkner

time reader knows the story may move on logically from her death to another consecutive event. However, after a couple of paragr...

Doris Kearns Goodwin: No Ordinary Time

than the others. It may be that they are all true. However, FDR did change his will to leave half of his fortune to Missy, antici...

A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Bird

was its initial audience?" The audience appears to be anyone interested in a first hand account of a place that they will likely n...

Lives of Quiet Desperation

other people, and from the conventions that bind us together. We might also consider the way in which Thoreau considers his hous...

Two Views of Love

he will bring the excitement back into her life. When she gives him a cutting from her prized mums to give to another woman (its a...

Loneliness: Faulkner and Hemingway

is also presented in a manner that makes the reader see what a sad and lonely life she has likely led. This is generally inferred ...

Beti/Poor Christ of Bomba

see the truth, that is, that the Talas supposed conversion to Christianity is a delusion. A principal focus of Drumonts evangeli...

Thompson/Concentric Circles of Concern

Dr. Thompsons classic work, which was published posthumously and revised by Claude V. King, the reader finds a detailed model for ...

Kurt Eichenwald/The Informant

than one hundred participants," and involved examination of thousands of documents (Eichenwald 569). However, in other ways, it i...

"The Jungle": Unfairness in America

them. Connor is despicable; if this were present day, Ona would have him up on charges of sexual harassment. But it is not present...

Setting in Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily

whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Goffman

that, in general, matters are what they appear to be" (Goffman 1959; 17). This essentially sets the stage for understanding some...

Gatsby & the American Dream

is when Gatsby holds out his arms toward a small green light in the distance, which the reader learns later is the green light on ...

Edgar Allan Poe's "Ligeia" and William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" Uses of Gothic Symbolism

- into a "setting conducive to unrest and fears" (Fisher 75). The narrator reveals that his grief over his wife Ligeias death pro...

Understanding the City

the feminine.1 Woolfs gendered city is found in her "all-pervasive metaphor of street life as river-like, conveying a sense of dyn...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

her story and by not putting in the names of locations either. Other than that her story is true. This is further documented in th...

Orwell’s Nightmare Made Real

them open to all kinds of abuses, including torture. Many Americans feel that torture is justified if it will save innocent lives,...

The Rule of St. Benedict

routine tasks we do every day. Suetonius lived in the late first and early second centuries. His father was wealthy and belonged...

Functional, Colonial and Postmodern Perspectives of Experiences in Britain

These three perspectives are used in order to assess the experiences that P Toynbee describes in the book “Hard Work: Life in Low-...

Logotherapy in Man's Search for Meaning

primary and not a secondary rationalization related to instinctual drives. This is a bold position. For instance, when someone has...

Nicholas Copernicus and His Times

the duty of an astronomer, which is to observe the motion of celestial bodies and then devise explanations for these motions (Osia...

"A Rose for Emily": William Faulkner's Elegy for the Old South

literary criticism entitled, The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction, Judith Fetterley described "A Rose for...

Emily Grierson a Grotesque Character

late at night and sprinkling lime around, presumably on the theory that her servant killed a rat or snake and they smell its decom...

Comparing Jacobs and Wilson

of slavery, as she was not free by any definition of this term and she was treated as property, in a manner that is equivalent to ...

Utilities Company in Southern California

the backcountry, where the weather gets very dry and then, pass on any of their costs to customers instead of holding the company ...

A Rose for Emily/Use of Narration

of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...

Life of an Ordinary Woman by Anne Ellis

This book reviews is on "Life of an Ordinary Woman," an autobiography by Anne Ellis. The author describes her childhood experience...