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'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin

In six pages this paper compares this short story's major themes with the life of Kate Chopin. Nine sources are cited in the bibl...

Techniques of Storytelling in 'Was It Heaven? Or Hell' by Mark Twain

In 4 pages the way in which Mark Twain constructed this story's melodrama is analyzed. There are no other sources listed....

2 Short Stories on Clashing Religious and Social Values

In five pages this paper examines how social and religious values collide in a contrast and comparison of the short stories 'The S...

Plotting and Suspense in 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In 5 pages this paper examines the short story's structure in terms of building the suspenseful foreboding and the plot that contr...

A Review of Great Falls

A 5 page review of the story by Richard Ford. Narrator involvement is the sad story is the focus of this review . 1 source....

Literature and Free Will

with the famous line: "None of them knew the color of the sky" (PG). The introduction is chilling. Why would no one know the color...

Women in The Sound and the Fury Faulkner's Femme Fatale Caddy Compson

5 pages and 1 source used. This paper provides an overview of the basic characteristics and central themes related to the charact...

Human Nature and the Writings of Lee K. Abbott

In eleven pages Lee K. Abbott's quirky exploration of human nature in the short stories collection Living After Midnight is examin...

Mind and Body in the Works of Judith Ortiz Cofer and Alice Walker

from thereon, looked different. She was no longer cute, but different. Other people did not seem to care that she looked different...

A Traditional Hawaiian 'Talk' Story

After two days with them, I felt sure I could stay with them forever. I remember the smells of their house, the ginger cookies,...

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

other nations, acting in commercial or diplomatic positions (The Literature Network). Then in 1385 he apparently lost his job as w...

The Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe

a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway and Alternative Outcomes

gone with him there are several ways in which this could have altered the story. The first example will discuss how the story coul...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich as Tolstoy's Commentary on Materialism

exorbitant fees for consulting them. Thus, Tolstoy is indicating that materialism diverts the true calling of the professional, su...

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter and the Narrator

earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...

Chitra Divakaruni's 'Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter'

When this story was first published "India was highly visible in the international arena for the cultural conflict among its relig...

'The Open Boat' by Stephen Crane

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 ...

'Everything That Rises Must Converge' by Flannery O'Connor and Denial

involved. Julians mother takes center stage as a black woman enters the bus wearing the same hat as his mother. While race certain...

Analysis of Five American Short Stories

for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...

Economic Status and Government of Japan

and other governmental matters. One body of these elected individuals form what we know as our Congress. Our government operates...

Japan and Russia's National Economic Systems and Innovations

In a paper consisting of sixteen pages the innovations of Japan and Russia that have translated into economic prosperity are consi...

Western Market and Fashions of Japan

quite clear in some instances but it can become muddled in meaning when multiple identities are involved within the context of one...

United States, Japan, and Flexibility of Labor

can make the new technological developments as well as embrace them. The reason for this success has been the adoption of ...

Japanese Effects of Pearl Harbor

Harbor" (Sageous, 2002). The fact that they went ahead with the attack was based on their assumption that the attack would elimin...

Global Violent Crime in the 21st Century

of the marriage, it is not uncommon to find a significant percentage of the married female population enduring regular and constan...

UK Dividend Signalling

seriously, further increasing the share value and further increasing the book to market ratio (Lippert et al, 2000). If we look ...

Everyday Life in Traditional Japan by Charles J. Dunn

alone could carry the long swords (Dunn, 1977, Sellen, 2002). Dunns appreciation of some of the key elements of the classes explai...

Post World War and Cold War Economic and Political Impacts

(5). Therefore, when the wall dividing East and West Germany was finally torn down, it is clear why this was such a powerful symb...

U.S. and Japan HRM

SANNO Institute of Management in Tokyo, 2000). There are two issues that are most often discussed whenever human resources in Jap...

Aesthetics of Japan

as Josiah Conder notes in his classic study of the subject, "the clipping and carving of trees and bushes into shapes such as moun...