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The Use of Irony in Two Stories Written by Kate Chopins (933 words, 1 pages)

Irony of The Story of and Hour and Desirees Baby In the two stories that Kate Chopin wrote, The Story of an Hour and Desirees Baby, she uses irony though much of both stories. And the way she uses irony in both of these stories are quite similar. They both ... Read More

Death Experienced by a Young Boy in the Short Story Indian Camp by Ernest Hemingway (493 words, 1 pages)

The short story Indian Camp is a sequel to the other Ernest Hemingway short story Three Shots. The ending is both of these stories are significantly different, and show a great change in the main character, a seven-year-old boy named Nick. In the first story Nick still had the mentality ... Read More

A Story of Reason Blinded by Ambition in Mark Twain’s Journal The Genuine Mexican Plug (461 words, 1 pages)

"... without the shadow of a doubt, a Genuine Mexican Plug!" (Twain 392). Anybody who knows what a plug is knows that the horse is dilapidated and useless. However, Mark Twain from his own journal "The Genuine Mexican Plug" is fooled by the speaker's energy. The story is about Twain ... Read More

A Comparison of Two Stories by William Golding and Gregor Jordan (1543 words, 2 pages)

In the prescribed text "Lord of the Flies", written by William Golding and the supplementary material that was viewed, "Two Hands" written and directed by Gregor Jordan, the subject of 'Changing Perspectives' is strongly shown between these two texts. The two texts share common links, ideas and techniques which all ... Read More

Keisha’s Choice: A Story about Racism and Intolerance (694 words, 2 pages)

He was a white man in a Confederate flag T-shirt come to a rally of the Ku Klux Klan. She was a face in the crowd, a black teen-ager who wanted to verbally harass him.'' But the crowd became a mob. They descended upon him, pummeled him to the ground, ... Read More

A Short Story about Personal Sporting Experience (888 words, 3 pages)

It was the last period, tied 0-0. I had the game on my stick, just me and the goalie. The clock was ticking down, 36...35...34. Did you just think that I was going to tell you what happened next? Nice try. I have to build up some suspense first. A ... Read More

Reading Stories as a Way of Finding a Meaning of Life on the Example of Salman Rushdie’s Haroun (910 words, 2 pages)

Stories are the central means by which we demonstrate our desire for a meaningful life. It is through stories that we convey our wishes, fears, and values. It is through stories, and through the sense of our lives as a story, with a beginning, middle, and end, which we create ... Read More

A Personal Story about Grandfather (641 words, 1 pages)

My Grandfather There are many people in my family that is special to me. There is one particular person who has really had an impact on my life. My grandfather, Luther James Marshall, was my inspiration. Although he died in March of 2001, he showed me how important life really ... Read More

The Consequences of Messing with Nature in the Story of Frankenstein (394 words, 1 pages)

The story of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is about a man who created something that messes with nature, and nature came back to mess with him because nature is more powerful than man. Victor Frankenstein was very interested in natural philosophy and chemistry and basically tried to play G-d by ... Read More

Comparison of Stories of Frankenstein and Prometheus (666 words, 1 pages)

Frankenstein Versus Prometheus What do a god and a crazy doctor have in common? Nothing right! Wrong! In the stories Prometheus and Frankenstein the protagonists are very alike in many ways. They both tried to play god, steal, and they both get punished for what they did. In the stories ... Read More

Four Great Revolutions in Religion (1340 words, 2 pages)

Throughout the history of the universe, there have been revolutions that shaped the history of the world. However, none have had such a great impact as the four great revolutions in thought and religion. Included, are the philosophy of China, religion in India, religion of the Jews, and Greek Philosophy. ... Read More

An Analysis of Flying Home, a Short Story by Ralph Ellison (1606 words, 3 pages)

Flying Home a Living Story. Ralph Waldo Ellison is perhaps one of the most influential African-American writers of the twentieth century. Ellison is best known for writing about such topics as self-awareness, identity, and the racial repression of African-Americans in the United States. His masterpiece, Invisible Man, chronicles the story ... Read More

An Analysis of Flowers for Algernon, a Short Story by Daniel Keyes (578 words, 2 pages)

Flowers for Algernon. In the short story Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, the main character Charlie Gordon has an IQ of 68 and desires to become intelligent. He is chosen to undergo an operation to increase his intelligence level to 204, however he is unaware of the consequences that ... Read More

Fate – a Short Story (876 words, 2 pages)

Fate It is a lovely Tuesday afternoon when our hero, Benny, meets his buddy Adrian on his way back home. Benny is very excited. He has just finished reading Oedipus Rex AND talked about the experience in First Year Seminar class, but he just cant get enough so he unloads ... Read More

Setting as a Means of Development of the Character in James Joyce’s Short Story Eveline (477 words, 1 pages)

Setting of Eveline The setting of the short story Eveline by James Joyce goes far beyond the physical characteristics. The setting goes past being located in Dublin, Ireland in an old room. The setting greatly influences Eveline in many different ways. The setting entraps Eveline in this short story. The ... Read More

An Analysis of Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell (1039 words, 2 pages)

George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four has been considered a very powerful piece of speculative fiction since its publication in 1949. In the novel, Orwell draws on his own understanding of totalitarianism to create a very believable world dominated by a totalitarian government. Readers come to understand the potentially devastating effects of ... Read More

Analysis of Araby, a Short Story by James Joyce (549 words, 1 pages)

Araby, by James Joyce, is a tale that examines first love and the confusions that surround it. The epiphany of the story is the boy's discovery that the ideal gives way to the real. This journey is a quick one and the author wastes no time setting the scene and ... Read More

A Comparison between How to Tell a True War Story by Tim O’Brien and Soldier’s Home by Ernest Hemingway (1179 words, 2 pages)

Chris Britz Prof. Nunez EN1102 3 March 2003 Patriotism in the Military As a former president once said " And so, my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country". Patriotism is found in every country, but it's ... Read More

A Comparison of Two Bush Stories – The Drover’s Wife by Henry Lawson and The Grazier’s Wife by Christobel Mattingley (801 words, 2 pages)

Traditional bush stories have always been a part of Australia's history involving many types of characters like Drovers and Shearers, just to name a couple. Many writers have portrayed these traditional bush characters in different ways! The two bush stories "The Drovers Wife" and "The Graziers Wife" are set in ... Read More

Edgar Allan Poe’s Tremendous Ability of Building Suspense in the Stories The Tell Tale Heart and The Pit and the Pendulum (1090 words, 2 pages)

Elements of Suspense Becki Cox The literary genre known as horror has intrigued readers' for centuries. One of the masters of horror, Edgar Allan Poe, uses many elements to horrify and captivate his audience. These elements include sense of sight, and sense of hearing. In the stories "The Tell Tale ... Read More

The Story of the American Dream, Gold Rush and Great Progress (1204 words, 2 pages)

Double Edge Sword After the civil war, we had thousands upon thousands of people looking for the "American Dream", and Horace Greeley, who stated the famous words "Go west young man", helped to start the great migration westward. There was plenty of cheap land west of the Mississippi, and gold ... Read More

The Importance of The Four Functions of Management in the Decision Making of a Manager (694 words, 2 pages)

The four functions of management are planning, organizing, leading and controlling. Management in a company or even in your home life is to be able to reach the goals set in an organized way by being as efficient and effective as possible. Management is creative problem solving. Planning is the ... Read More

A Story of How 3 White Men Educate Africans About Contraception (1408 words, 2 pages)

White Men's Medicine Until the introduction of the birth control pill in 1960, diaphragms and condoms were the primary forms of contraception. Early condoms were probably made from linen sheaths. The cervical cap was introduced in early 1800s, and the diaphragm was introduced later that century. In the mid-nineteenth century, ... Read More

The Character of Clovis Sangrail in Saki’s Short Stories (709 words, 1 pages)

Clovis Sangrail Clovis Sangrail is a character featured in three of the Saki short stories covered this semester. The three featured short stories are Tobermory, The Unrest-cure, and The She-Wolf. Clovis is undoubtedly one of Sakis preferred individuals because he is a reoccurring character. Since Sakis main intention was to ... Read More

Four General Approaches to Contemporary Chinese Politics (830 words, 2 pages)

Four general Approaches to Contemporary Chinese Politics In studying contemporary Chinese politics, there are four different approaches that can be employed ideology, organization, faction, and statesociety. Reviewing some of the major events in the post-1949 era, the most useful way to interpret the events is to apply these various approaches, ... Read More

A Paper on the Variations of Endings in the Story of Cinderella (1210 words, 2 pages)

Cinderella And its variation in endings What exactly makes a story a Cinderella story? Is it the ending? While there seem to be several interpretations of Cinderella they all seem to have the same conceptual endings. The main-character a girl named Cinderella who is mistreated by her two stepsisters and ... Read More

Analysis of the Character Mabel Pervins in D. H. Lawrence’s Short Story The Horse Dealers Daughter (1029 words, 2 pages)

Analysis On Mabel Pervins In D. H. Lawrence short story The Horse Dealers Daughter, he depicts the conflicts of a young woman named Mabel Pervins after her fathers death. Mabel who is describe to be a rather short, sullen looking young woman of twenty seven. (P.238) The story takes place ... Read More

Opening of a Short Story (253 words, 1 pages)

This short story opens with an irritated and sometimes hostile narrator whose wife has invited a blind friend to spend the night. The narrator tells us immediately that his visitor's blindness bothers him and that he is not looking forward to having a blind man in his house. The vehemence ... Read More

Extreme Individualism in Abelard’s Story of My Calamities (1458 words, 2 pages)

Calamitatum Of The Individual In the realm of critical thinking, Abelard undoubtedly ranked highly in his day. He was an expert dialectician, philosopher and theologian, and as a result led a movement towards individual thinking. He traveled a lonely path of individuality, and when his ideas were suppressed, he found ... Read More

Story of Ricky Arrival in America (625 words, 1 pages)

Buo Doi To understand who Ricky was and what he became you have to look at what he was exposed to and what he went through starting at a very young age. As a child in Vietnam he had no childhood as he worked selling bread on the streets to ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013