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This article summary describes a study, Chen (2014), which pertains to nontraditional adult students and the application of adult ...

fact. In "The Black Cat," the narrator tells readers that he was "docile" and "tender of heart" as a youth, and that he retained t...

the night of a grand ball, an unexpected and unwelcome guest appears: the "mummer" is wearing the shroud normally put on a corpse,...

- into a "setting conducive to unrest and fears" (Fisher 75). The narrator reveals that his grief over his wife Ligeias death pro...

ironically named Faith) participating in what appears to be satanic rituals, Brown is so psychologically damaged by all he sees he...

as having "fungi" overspreading "the whole exterior," hanging "in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves" (Poe "Fall"). As this su...

of his life concerns his apparent alcoholism. There is, however, a great deal of speculation that he was not an alcoholic but rath...

to start a disturbance in the street when he visits the thief the second time. When the man goes to the window, Dupin grabs the le...

but was kicked out due to his gambling debts (Liukkonen). As a result, John Allan would disown him (Liukkonen). It was in 1826 tha...

In six pages this paper analyzes the classic elements of the poems 'Letter to F...,' 'Lenore,' and 'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe....

These two stories are contrasted and compared in seven pages in terms of how the protagonists' emotionally appeal to the reader al...

turn out for the good. A student working on this project can see that the following sentences present something of the tone Poes n...

reality in Poes work. And, the fact that it comes back to haunt the characters in the story further emphasizes the power of this "...

her, hearing her cough and moan, witnessing her tears at the knowledge that she must soon leave them... the mothers despair and an...

of revelation. Each of these stories begins with opening cryptic epigraphs that lay the ominous thematic groundwork. In "MS Foun...

all together. The characters are not three-dimensional in that they are more caricatures of types of people. Whereas Faulkner give...

The seventh and most western of the apartments was "closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries" and it was only in this room that...

"voluntary abortions and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children" (Swift 1641). At this point, Swifts narra...

establishing Mexicans as "people of corn." There are a number of issues associated with corn and its historical influence over th...

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

OConnors characterization of Joy/Hulga carefully builds up an image of a woman who has been very badly scarred by life, both physi...

then Ill tell her plain She sings as sweetly as the nightingale: Say that she frown: Ill say she looks as clear As morning roses ...

nineteenth century. Here, Marx in some sense provides a sense of irony. Marx & Engels (1998) talk about a "great battle between pr...

a nineteenth century war that the U.S. initiated with Mexico. Teacher Bill Bigelow describes how a traditional history textbook c...

careful selection of names and how they reflect the personalities of the characters, and in the hypocritical nature of the charact...

Diallo as a character would grow regardless of where he went to school. This is ironic as one would think that expanding ones hori...

hard we try to turn it aside. As far as ironic speeches, the play is full of them, but two that we can consider are at lines 59-6...

have been no time called too early" (Wilson 9). This statement indicates the major theme of the play, which is Troys rage at the i...

after all, they are completely covered, even if they are pushing the limits The second ironical situation is Sammys resignation. ...

personage than William Makepeace Thackeray, who loved Gulliver but who thought that Proposals moral was "horrible, shameful, unman...