As Old Dudley slips and falls down a couple steps, he reluctantly requires the aid of an African-American resident. In spite of his distaste for the African-American's demeanor, he must accept his help. Sadly, Old Dudley cannot accept the attitude o Continue Reading...
In Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado," the setting is of a very different nature, but also concerns life, death, and the irony that often accompanies the interaction between the two. The main character and first-person narrator, Montresor, leads Fortu Continue Reading...
Mattie is possibility, while Zeena is reality. When Mattie and Ethan are in danger of being parted, Zeena is the main responsible party. Both Mattie and Zeena view this as a tragic end to their relationship, and in their panic to find a solution, th Continue Reading...
Who are the most important minor characters? What are their relationships to the protagonist? Select one minor character and show his significance to the novel. The most important minor characters are the gypsy and the king who urge Santiago to fir Continue Reading...
The use of objective criteria is important because it is through such criteria that a balanced agreement can be developed. Objective criteria lacks biased and as such the interests of both parties is likely to be taken into consideration. A subjecti Continue Reading...
The book is dedicated to the concept revolving around the "drugs, sex, and rock & r roll." Alig's entourage was one of the most diverse which one can imagine. Accountants, mafia lords, drug dealers, and club kids were all part of the scenery, w Continue Reading...
Baudelaire's poem makes clear that beauty is actually closer to a form of death, acting like a drug that poisons one's mind, creates addiction and finally brings one closer to death. The very title of the book of poems the flowers of Evil which ass Continue Reading...
Tristram Shandy Examining the Narrator's...."Helpfulness"...in Laurence Sterne's Comic Novel Tristram Shandy Tristram Shandy has earned a very mixed reputation in the several centuries since it was initially published; it is undoubtedly the work of Continue Reading...
The narrator in Balzac's novel is passing judgments and making comments related to the characters and their environments, in the purest realist style. He is observing and describing as if he was watching them through a huge magnifying glass. His own Continue Reading...
We accept these injustices because in theory the poor and the suffering can better themselves through hard work, due to the nature of the capitalist system. We try to rectify these injustices to some degree through social support safety nets: yet fo Continue Reading...
5) The connotations of the word "fungus," which Kingsolver uses to describe the term "want," is one of decay, unwanted growth, and a sort of taking-over by an alien body. Wants spring up unbidden just like fungi, and if left unchecked would swallo Continue Reading...
Under all of that, there is a theoretical angle that he brings to the table, and it is one that most other historians have really said very little about. There are many participants in the world that White (1991) describes. There are traders, colon Continue Reading...
However, people have had a choice, and, while they could have continued to grow their crops peacefully, they preferred to fight endlessly instead, having despair constantly present in the world. It is not certain whether or not people could have act Continue Reading...
1. "I can't see anything religious or pretty, for God's sake, about a bunch of actors carrying crucifixes all over the stage" (137). ironic in his rejection of martyrs. 2. "we looked at the stuff the Indians had made in ancient times" (118). This s Continue Reading...
He might have received his wish but that wish cost him 20 years. In "Young Goodman Brown," Hawthorne allows us to look at the frail nature of man through Brown's curious nature. He wants to know what is happening in the woods and does not stop to t Continue Reading...
"Specifically, it's an extension of the familiar Amazon store (where, of course, Kindles will be sold). Amazon has designed the Kindle to operate totally independent of a computer: you can use it to go to the store, browse for books, check out your Continue Reading...
This earns him the grudging respect of his peers, who were unpleasantly impressed by what Mrs. Fretag, his teacher, referred to not as deceitful, but "very creative." The narrator discovers one of the novel's main truths: "So, that's what they wante Continue Reading...
What is interesting is that Wind appears to believe that he is acting in an ethical manner by informing Pnin of their plot, rather than surprising him with it when they reach America. Wind also seems to think that he is being generous and ethical by Continue Reading...
Manhattan Project was one of the most documented events in American and World History. The discussion will provide an explanation of the Manhattan Project and how the project changed society forever. The purpose of this essay is to provide a historio Continue Reading...
Ethan becomes a caregiver, ironically, despite the weakness of his will, just like Mattie Silver, who ironically first joins the Frome household to care for Zeena becomes the physically weakest member of the household. Ethan's life is initially defi Continue Reading...
He also loses his robe in the process; this increases his pathetic quality and allows for a mantle to be passed on to someone with twice the art. Swift's Gulliver's Travels 5) Based on what you've read, is this really a work for children? What is Continue Reading...
The overall effect is like slogging through sucking mud -- there is a depressive inertia in the poem, as if one does not want to go on but must. 2) What does he mean by "blind skyscrapers"? What does this mean symbolically? The line before this one Continue Reading...
Each author subsisted to two (2) different kinds of perspectives, which make up the second and third critical elements of the comparative analysis component of this paper. Berger analyzed humor based on social and political perspectives. Usage of t Continue Reading...
Not only does he display his knowledge of race relations but also his understanding of classism and how the government treats poor people. More specifically, Dyson utilizes scholarship to points out the failings of the Bush administration and the Am Continue Reading...
Steinbeck utilizes the imagery to reinforce the mood of Elisa and the tone of her marriage. Symbolism is also significant to understand the underlying issues of the Allen couple. The most compelling symbol in the story is the chrysanthemums, servin Continue Reading...
When Benjamin has an affair with Mrs. Robinson, an older, married woman, the film shows a montage of activities of the two of them together, rather than a linear sequence of events. The fact that the sexual relationship is occurring is what is signi Continue Reading...
We cannot look to our circumstances for reasons to do anything wrong. Dimmesdale is no different from the young boy that grows up in an abusive household beating his wife and claiming that he is not responsible because of his environment. Finally, Continue Reading...
Jane and Bertha also share other characteristics that emphasize Bertha's significance in the novel. As an adult, Jane comes to certain realizations about her life and the world in which she lives. First she realizes that men and women are basically Continue Reading...
In other words, contemporary men and women have lost sight of the philosophical for the commercial, and have replaced the sociological enlightenments of socialism and democracy. That contemporary men and women consume without thought as to their how Continue Reading...
S.S. And the West. I personally did not believe that such good relations would last long; and, as events have shown, I wasn't far wrong. The novel is a great example of allegorical satire that doesn't go beyond its limits. it's very tasteful even if Continue Reading...
He also says that he wants to be more on his own, "not so completely a part of something else. Not just a cell in the social body" (90). Later, he tells her that he wants to "know what passion is... I want to feel something strongly" (94). The only Continue Reading...
In the case of Molly Peacock's "Desire," the primal instinct of procreation lies in the separation of reason from feeling; in this context, desire becomes "but more raw / and blinder and younger and more divine, too, / than the tamed wild -- it's th Continue Reading...
The earth lay white under the night sky."(Kawabata, 1) This opening phrase of the novel is very revealing: the hero comes from the intimacy of darkness (the tunnel) into the open blankness of the Snow Country. The setting thus translates the sense o Continue Reading...
For this, I found it to be quite interesting. With hints of rhyme, the progression of the tale expresses something dark, which is constantly eluded after the depiction of undesired ash. This poem altered in mere few, subtle absences and additions wi Continue Reading...
" Both Whitman and Rothkopf, like Fukuyama, refer to potential of globalization to build bridges between previously isolated worlds, and to harmonize what were once disparate cultures. Huntington is joined by countless others in a chorus of pessimis Continue Reading...
She writes, "The tendency among modern leaders to ignore constitutional or legislative restrictions when it suits their personal convictions on particular issues and to take secret actions, especially on foreign policy matters, is a serious problem Continue Reading...
Franklin, instead, was able to see the advantages in unfortunate situations, and to use them to his own benefit. He was able to admit that he was a marginal poet and go on to do other things rather than feel injured or insecure. Again, I feel that Continue Reading...
It would come slowly to one. They howled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity -- like yours -- the thought of your remote kinship with this wild and passionate uproar." (Conrad 105 Continue Reading...
Oliver and the other boys at the workhouse are also very nearly 'worked to death'. Oliver is (again figuratively) 'scared to death', at that key moment in the novel that that turns out also to define his fate (the extra gruel request scene) when he Continue Reading...
These were Homer's two main goals while he was growing up in Coalwood. Although the rockets Valentine wished to see had yet to reach perfection, the fact that they were worthy of her interest convinced Homer that what he was doing was right, even wh Continue Reading...
