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Small Fires: Developed Perceptions with Readings

see some good in forced change such as this narrator suggests, and initiates. She simply feels impersonal and as though she is n...

O. Henry/Gift of the Magi

being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...

3 Expert Tales of Death

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...

Review of An Article on a Text on “The Yellow Wallpaper”

marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...

Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolff

the bank while there is a line of people waiting for service, but rather than agree with a fellow human being, he is caustic and s...

Roman Catholic Church's Mortal Sin Actions and Thoughts

In five pages this research paper discusses the Catholic Church's doctrinal differences between mortal sin thought and actions and...

Joyce, Faulkner, Poe, and Their Short Stories' Gender Relationships

In five pages this paper examines the gender relationships featured in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner, 'Ligeia' by Edgar A...

Complex Union of Marriage

does begin to notice the details of her life that she used to overlook, such as returning home, windblown and sunburned, and disco...

'To Build a Fire' by Jack London and Literary Style

In five pages the literary style in this short story is analyzed in terms of the story's direct and indirect evidence, deductive o...

An Analysis of Twain's, The Story of the Bad Little Boy

This paper analyzes thematic elements of the short story, The Story of the Bad Little Boy by Mark Twain. The author compares this ...

Comparative Analysis of Ray Bradbury's Short Stories' Conflict

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the conflicts in the short stories 'The Other Foot' and 'All Summer in a Day' by R...

Analysis of Kate Chopin's Short Story 'The Story of an Hour'

In five pages this paper presents an analysis of this short story in terms of how imagery, similes, foreshadowing and parallelism ...

Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' and Grandmother's Changes

that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethical values. It is the sheer weight of her social stat...

Kate Chopin's 'Story of an Hour' as a Good Short Story Example

makes the story powerful is that hour where the woman sits alone. And watching her character develop and learn is what makes the t...

Free Will and Saint Augustine

n.d.). God knew that humans would use their free will for evil but He also knew that good would emerge through His Grace (Anderson...

"No Easy Answers"

1997). She attributes the warnings to some sort of liberal conspiracy: "I believe those Republicans who think that theres been a c...

Identity: “The Story of an Hour”

she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...

The Tragedy of Loss in "Paradise Lost"

and why Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden; but Book I is concerned to a great extent with setting the scene. The ...

Irony in the Short Stories 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor and 'The Birthmark' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Therefore, Aylmer is destined to live a life of unhappiness, based not upon any inherently horrible thing about his life, but base...

Righteousness versus Sin

days would come when God would make a new covenant that would offer "total" forgiveness (Jere. 31: 31-34). The writer of Hebrews ...

Sin in Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple and Herman Melville's Pierre

that part covered). Even in her disconcerted and distracted mental state after the birth of her child, Charlotte is able to pray f...

John Donne's Works and the Themes of Sin and Death

In fifteen pages the themes of death and sin as they manifested themselves in John Donne's poems, sonnets and Biathanatos are disc...

Forecasting for a Fast Food Outlet

and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...

O. Henry & Hemingway, Plus A Little on Faulkner

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...

Raymond Carver/"Little Things" and "Mine"

word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...

Forensic Psychology and Juvenile Justice

Abstract This paper provides an overview of the multitude of roles forensic psychologist play...

Hawthorne/Scarlet Letter/Critical Perspectives

but while she wears a scarlet A, she changes the nature of this symbol with her needlework. She makes this A from- ...fine red clo...

British Literature and the Theme of Sin

In fifteen pages this paper discusses how sin is depicted in the Books of Genesis and Romans as well as how it is thematically dev...

Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathaniel West

In six pages this paper examines the theme of social alienation as it pertains to Nathaniel West's Miss Lonelyhearts. There are n...

Heroes in 3 Stories by Ernest Hemingway

In six pages this paper examines the depiction of heroes in the short stories 'Hills Like White Elephants,' 'Soldier's Home,' and ...