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An Analysis of “The Miller’s Tale ” and “The Reeve’s Tale “Two Stories in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales (958 words, 2 pages)

"The Miller's Tale" and "The Reeve's Tale", two stories in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, are fabliaux, bawdy and comic tales that build to a ridiculous and complex climax usually hinging on some joke or trick. One parallel observed between the two stories is the unfaithfulness of the wife in ... Read More

An Analysis of the Story Red Room By H.G Wells (1709 words, 2 pages)

The story Red Room by H.G. Wells was set and written in 1896. It is quite a typical example of a gothic ghost story, which was a genre quite popular in the late 19th century. Farthing House by Susan Hill, however, is based and written in 1992, although there are ... Read More

An Analysis of James Joyce’s Dubliners a Collection of Short Stories (1481 words, 2 pages)

James Joyce's Dubliners is a collection of short stories that offers a brief, but intimate window into the lives of a variety of characters, many of whom have nothing in common beyond the fact that they live in Dublin. Men and women of all ages, occupations and social classes are ... Read More

An Analysis of the Themes of Hardy’s Short Story “The Withered Arm” (5555 words, 6 pages)

A south-east England setting, in the 1800's, is the short story, 'The Withered Arm' by T.Hardy. This story involves four lives, where they all end up alienated and isolated, leaving them feeling alone. They are also isolated as they live in a small village far apart from the town or ... Read More

A Comparison of the Cask of Amontillado and Young Goodman Brown in Romantic Story (1106 words, 2 pages)

After reading The Cask of Amontillado and Young Goodman Brown, I have recognized the three components of the Romantic story. Gothicism, the Grotesque, and Freuds Interpretation of Dreams, are all key building blocks of the Romantic story. Consider the different way that each author entwines the Gothic fundamentals of literature ... Read More

A Review of the Short Story “Young Goodman Brown” (215 words, 1 pages)

Young Goodman Brown short story is about a hero who is a young man from Salem village who leaves his bride's faith and goes to forest for an evil and dangerous job in the middle of the night where he was shocked to see his neighbors and wife there performing ... Read More

My Personal Experience With the Importance of Travel (526 words, 1 pages)

Travel will probably be one thing that remains constant throughout the ages. Since the dawn of time, mankind has always felt the unquenchable thirst for travel, the acquisition of knowledge through exploration of the world. It is no surprise that the most meaningful experience for me would be my own ... Read More

An Essay on My Involvement in Community (571 words, 1 pages)

Throughout the years of high school I have been involved in my community almost from the start. Extracurricular school activities such as leader of Knite Lights a group which provides music to special events and dances, a member of the yellow Ribbon Campaign, a member of the GayStraight Alliance with-in ... Read More

A Summary of the Story, Trafficking by Berkly Rice (374 words, 1 pages)

Trafficking is written by Berkly Rice. It is a story about a couple of who fly air planes. The men smuggle Cocaine on those air planes. They made 40 Million dollars in 4 years, they smuggled a street value of 2 Billion dollars worth of Coke in to the USA. ... Read More

A Short Introduction of Myself and My Favorite Holiday, Christmas (716 words, 1 pages)

Hello, my name is Marycarmen Rivas, before I get down to my presentation I want to introduce myself better and tell you a little bit about me I was born on a beautiful Monday on March the 26th of 1984 here in the city of Puebla. I live with my ... Read More

Analyzing the Shock Factor in the Story of an Hour, the Lottery and the Yellow Wallpaper (1120 words, 2 pages)

Authors often write literature to have an emotional impact on the reader. These effects vary from work to work, and they may include happiness, sorrow, anger, or shock. Even authors who try to achieve the same effect may go about it in very different ways. This paper discusses three short ... Read More

An Analysis of the Topic of a Poem My Papas Waltz by Theodore Roethke (621 words, 1 pages)

In the poem My Papas Waltz, written by Theodore Roethke, the narrator has views on family that is untold by the author. Roethke allows the reader to see from the narrators eyes. The author uses great imagery to set a firm picture in the readers mind. The reader then deciphers ... Read More

A Creative Story About Charlie’s Problem (2455 words, 4 pages)

CHARLIE'S PROBLEM by Joseph Levins Charlie was sitting across from me and my spaghetti and garlic bread. I had worked a ten hour day and was hungry and tired. Though I knew anything he had to tell me would go in one ear and out the other, I said I ... Read More

An Overview of the Short Story Barn Burning by William Faulkner (776 words, 1 pages)

In William Faulkner's 1939 short story "Barn Burning", Sarty is a young boy who is at the mercy of his overbearing father Abner. Sarty is oppressed, naive and has a strong sense of right and wrong. Abner is a poor man who gets his revenge on anyone who he believes ... Read More

A Character Comparison of Harold Krebs in Soldier’s Home and Uncle Fred in My Uncle Fred (850 words, 1 pages)

Character Comparison Harold Krebs in " Soldier's Home" and Uncle Fred in "My Uncle Fred" both have one thing in common. They have experiences about a World War. Nonetheless, the two men have certain outstanding differences with regards to their characters. In "Soldier's Home", we encounter Harold Krebs, who is ... Read More

A Short Analysis of Faulkner’s Story The Sound and the Fury (1249 words, 2 pages)

Life's But a Walking Shadow Life's but a walking shadow a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. - Shakespeare's Macbeth Act V, Scene v, ... Read More

How the Setting Affects the Flow of a Story (882 words, 2 pages)

How Setting Affects the Story The location and time period in which a story is set affects the reader's understanding of the tale. It makes the text more believable, as events are more believable in certain time periods. People act differently in different time periods. While reading, one takes into ... Read More

People That Enormously Impacted My Life (1370 words, 2 pages)

There are many people that have made an enormous impact on my life to date. My childhood Zulu Nanny was the first to give me what all humans need, unconditional and unreserved love. The legendary Zulu medicine man, Inkosi Inkosikasi, endowed me with a mental refuge, a place where I ... Read More

An Analysis of the Topic of the Lottery Story (345 words, 1 pages)

The Lottery The Lottery is a story of a small farming community and a sick tradition that they follow each year. When the story starts off, the reader is unaware of the events that'll happen during the day - the boys gather rocks innocently enough and the rest of the ... Read More

An Analysis of the Imagery in Lucille Clifton’s Poem Homage to My Hips (300 words, 1 pages)

In "Homage to My Hips", Lucille Clifton creates some kind of imagery pertaining to her hips. She seems all into herself, more specifically, her hips. She makes it a point to convey that her hips are strong or powerful by the lines "they go where they want to go. they ... Read More

An Analysis of the Topic of the Short Story Boys and Girls by Alice Munros (1809 words, 2 pages)

Only a Girl Alice Munros short story, "Boys and Girls," explores the different roles of men and women in society through a young girls discovery of what it means to be a girl. A close examination of the elements of a short story as they are used in "Boys and ... Read More

An Analysis of a Story Set in the Cold War (1223 words, 2 pages)

This story, set during the cold war, is about a British spy, Leamas, who is controlling the spy actions against the east block (or zone) from West-Berlin. After he lost one agent after the other to his opponent Mundt of the counter-espionage of the party, he returns back to London ... Read More

An Analysis of Summer Sisters, a Story About Best Friends (383 words, 1 pages)

Summer Sisters In the summer of 1977, when shy and quiet Victoria Leonard is in 6th grade, Caitlin Somers, moved to "Vix's" school from Aspen. Vix was stunned when Caitlin asked her to go away with her that summer to her father's summer house Martha's Vineyard. Vix had a hard ... Read More

An Analysis of Brother Stories in the Christian Bible: The Story of Cain and Abel, and the Story of Jacob and Esau (468 words, 1 pages)

When I was younger my brothers and I would fight over the attention and gratitude of my parents. From reading the Stories of brothers in the Bible I have discovered that brothers have been fighting ever since the beginning of time. Through the stories of Cain and Abel, and Jacob ... Read More

A Personal Account of the Application of Charles A. Garfield’s Techniques of Becoming a Peak Performer on My College Career (327 words, 1 pages)

Becoming a Peak Performer Two techniques for becoming a peak performer as proposed by Charles A. Garfield that I have utilized in my college career are envisioning a mission and being results oriented. Garfields thoughts on envisioning a mission are that peak performers desire more then simply winning the next ... Read More

A Review of Battle Royal, a Short Story by Ralph Ellison (560 words, 1 pages)

In todays society the story Battle Royal by Ralph Ellison continues to have a great significance to my people. Many blacks today are still ashamed of their race and would rather be part of a majority that doesnt want them to be equal anyway. The narrator states, When I was ... Read More

An Analysis of Bartleby, the Scrivener, a Story by Herman Melville (379 words, 1 pages)

The Life and times of Bartleby Recently, I was privileged enough to read Bartleby a short story by one of Americas foremost authors, Herman Melville. The protagonist in this story (if one decides to call him that), his name being the title, can be well described as both unique and ... Read More

A Creative Story About Menopause (1180 words, 3 pages)

"Why are those people here?! I don't have it!" "How do you know that? You've never been checked! I organised this for you so you'd know what you have to watch out for, Mum!" I believe our lives start, revolve and end around the maternal figure in our lives. They ... Read More

A Comparison between the Attitudes toward Women in Two Poems: Andrew Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress and Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess (504 words, 1 pages)

Attitudes Toward Women Many poems have been written about the lives of woman and struggle of love they went through. Two of them are To His Coy Mistress written by Andrew Marvell and Robert Brownings My Last Duchess. There are some similarities, as well as differences in their attitude toward ... Read More

An Analysis of Atlantis in the Stories Critias and Timaeus by Plato (1207 words, 2 pages)

Atlantis, a place that Plato described as a Utopia, has been one of historys most intriguing mysteries. Did the island of Atlantis really disappear into the Atlantic Ocean without a trace? Researchers have been trying to figure out what happened to Atlantis or even if it really existed for years. ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013