Essays 361 - 390
the tiny little life boat. At one point they believe they see land in the distance, and then they realize it is land. However the ...
course, plague was known so the deaths were not completely unexpected, but the disease interrupted lives, and no one knew who woul...
by Robert Altman of the same name. Many believe that this collection of short stories is an example of Carvers writings when he w...
appropriate, but notes that there are no pharmaceutical treatments available specifically for short term memory loss. The c...
our traditional notions regarding love and romance. She doesnt want any one "box" to define love or sex. The lesbian with a man ...
A seemingly reliable third-person narrator tells these stories. In "Luck," a clergyman tells Mr. Clemens about a revered Crimean ...
In five pages this short story examines the theme of identity within the context of this short story. Four sources are cited in t...
In ten pages this paper considers a student supplied case study that applied short term rather than long term corporate strategies...
may be in similar situations as I have myself been subjected to. "I should start by telling you my name. My name is Beatrice McK...
cost in the short term" versus "production and cost in the long term." The short-term, also know as the short-run, is the period o...
In six pages this paper examines how Hemingway's rather condescending attitudes and low opinion of women are reflected in his shor...
In five pages the grotesque is analyzed within the context of Faulkner's short story 'A Rose for Emily' and O'Connor's short story...
because her mother ended up marrying Donnas former lover. In an ironic twist of fate, therefore, Donnas lover ended up becoming he...
In six pages this paper examines the depiction of heroes in the short stories 'Hills Like White Elephants,' 'Soldier's Home,' and ...
In six pages this short story considers the author's diagnosis for what is ailing the Caribbean culture and how it can be cured as...
This paper discusses and analyses a short story. An alternative ending is written for the story. The writer discusses the main the...
insanity, which becomes her only way she can avoid the domination that threatens to totally suffocate her individuality. In his di...
example, the author describes how her mother always shopped for fresh ingredients, and prepared fresh herbs, such as "parsley, cil...
I must master the processes associated involved in writing clearly as my ultimate goal is to teach middle school, and I must, ther...
those who enforce religious laws" (Mernissi). In other words, by being larger than a size six, Mernissi, in the salesladys opinion...
that are beyond their control. In other words, there are factors that affect the way in which an event is evaluated morally that a...
being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...
the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...
waiter, like the old man who is their customer, has no connections in the world. While Della and James have love and a deep inti...
The seventh and most western of the apartments was "closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries" and it was only in this room that...
word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...
decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...
century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...
he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of ...
marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...