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both the peasantry and their oppressors, Turgenev invented the very word "nihilist" in "Fathers and Sons". He writes:...

since he was seven. All he knows is "broils and battles," but he has traveled extensively in mysterious regions, met with "cannib...

number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...

how and why they would be drawn to one another. Perhaps they see in each other traits that they would like to learn or possess. Th...

different from most modern Western cultures. Their way of life worked for them and was ultimately destroyed with the colonists. Wi...

Hemingway offers the tone and internal dialogue of Jake that sets the stage for understanding his emotional rut: "This was Brett t...

Macbeth says only "We will speak further" (I, v, 71). The next time we see Macbeth he has a long soliloquy in which he enumerates...

portrays him as being. Jacks childhood environment is riddled with dysfunctional elements, everything from domestic violence to ...

maintaining all the latest electronic devices, such as a plasma television, DVD player, or a home stereo surround system. And book...

affair as forgivable. Of course, that is not all he does. Still, when evaluating this character as a whole, there is a sense of mo...

for traditional values and is attracted to the fast-life epitomized by Jay. Nick comes to understand that Gatsby, rather than the...

it is in a few words: "The sun was risen above the frost mists now, so keen and hard a glitter on the snow that instead of warmth ...

who suffered a serious ax wound and is lying on the top bunk, above his laboring wife. When he heard this comment he "rolled over ...

set down for them without making any fuss. Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen, authors of Writing and Reading Across the Curri...

Fang Deng and Fang Da are inseparable siblings, depicted before the earthquake "swaying in unison in front of a rotating fan" (Hal...

Help, the character of Aibileen, who is loving, caring, insightful and maternal, is, by far, the most admirable person envisioned ...

variety of educational models that underscore learning as an element of individual nature as well as cultural and social variables...

comes to represent the underdog of lifes unrelenting disappointments, forever struggling with issues of control. "The subsidiary ...

This essay pertains to Ibsen's "A Doll's House" and discusses the character of Nora. Five pages in length, four sources are cited...

bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...

"The Dew Breaker". This paragraph helps the student begin to explore the themes that dominate Danticats first novel, "Breath, Ey...

around the world. This is evidenced in the Pelasgian Creation. In the Pelasgian myth, Eurynome was the Goddess of All Things,...

will marry, her childhood sweetheart who may be a poor tailor, but she is her true love and she will not agree to marry anything l...

her own backbone and eventually would have left Torvald. Krogstad does not purposely cause the marital strife, some would argue, b...

a purpose that is perhaps very subtle. In the beginning of this play we know that there is great tension between England and Fr...

feelings for her, and she knows that she feels the same. However, she knows that, though she loves him, he will never leave his wi...

person or another, manipulate this situation or another, all in an attempt to ensure her birth. Through all of these mysterious ti...

story (Sparknotes). Her husband is Roskus, a man who suffers greatly from rheumatism, a condition that will kill him. T.P. is...

have a woman who does not necessarily understand what is going on with Hamlet. Both of them are deeply concerned with Hamlets ment...

(Chopin Chapter VII). She then meets Robert and her life takes a powerful turn. Not only does she engage in a very passionate a...