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  • Orge Luis Borges’ Short Story Death and the Compass

    Orge Luis Borges’ Short Story Death and the Compass

    In Jorge Luis Borges’ short story “Death and the Compass”, there are two main characters -Lцnnrot and Scharlach- that are by and large ascribed as two sharply opposing figures. However, if one analyses the story in detail, he would easily see that these characters share a lot of common features in their personality and way of thinking as well as some of their personal background; though one is an detective and the other one is

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    Essay Length: 320 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Short Story "run"

    Short Story "run"

    He doesn't sleep for more than a few hours. He doesn't know why it is, just that he has never been able to let the night take him. The house isn't big enough to hold his thoughts. Everyday it's on his mind. The pain only comes when he tries to rest. He tries filling his time with activities to make himself better. Three a.m. is when he starts running. It's the best time to go

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    Essay Length: 627 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Yan
  • Story of Rapunzel

    Story of Rapunzel

    This summary is about the life of a couple who wanted to have children but they were unable to. They lived in a house where there was a small window at the back of their house which lead them to a garden who belongs to an old witch who was famous for her well-known power in the entire world. There was one moment which the wife was looking at the small window and there she

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    Essay Length: 605 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Jon
  • The Story Teller

    The Story Teller

    The AIDS hospice reeked from disease and neglect. On my first day there, after an hour of "training," I met Paul, a tall, emaciated, forty-year-old AIDS victim who was recovering from a stroke that had severely affected his speech. I took him to General Hospital for a long-overdue appointment. It had been weeks since he had been outside. After waiting for two and a half hours, he was called in and then needed to wait

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    Essay Length: 1,083 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Bred
  • Short Story Murderer

    Short Story Murderer

    Its a short story that literally never ends “I killed my best friend” I started sobbing right there in front of all Brenda’s relatives. I was expecting them to look shocked at the very least. I guess they knew the story, or thought they knew. “Rest in peace Brenda you would never be forgotten” I ended and walked off. I was told not to say �I killed my best friend’ but I had to. Let

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    Essay Length: 2,523 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Mike
  • Short Story

    Short Story

    Unwelcome Passenger The man looked familiar, and immediately I felt my pulse quicken. He wore oil-stained jeans and a torn leather vest, but no shirt. Straight black hair hung nearly to his waist. A snake tattoo circled his forearm. Mid-thirties, I guessed. I didn't realize I was staring so hard until he scowled and muttered, "Do I know you, bud?" I quickly averted my eyes, not wishing for an exchange of words and maybe more.

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    Essay Length: 1,468 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Yan
  • The Story of Painting: A Critical Review

    The Story of Painting: A Critical Review

    Critical Review on The Story of Painting The Story of Painting by Sister Wendy Beckett is a very insightful informational book. As it takes us through history on the back of art, it shows how the painters felt, maybe a little bit of their culture and a lot of their religious values. Through time, studying the different types of art and the different perceptions of how people lived. The very first artist in Biblical times

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    Essay Length: 494 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Story of the Desert

    Story of the Desert

    There is only one story that came to mind when I read the discussion assignment this week. My friend, Nettie, told me a story about the Arizona desert. Imagine looking out of your window everyday and not seeing any green bushes or trees. Imagine seeing only grey bushes and grey bushy looking trees. This is the view that my friend, Nettie, saw everyday when she looked out of her window in the Arizona desert. In

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    Essay Length: 250 Words / 1 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Stenly
  • The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

    The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

    New Life for Mrs. Mallard The third person short story, “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, takes place in the 1800’s in late spring, late afternoon in a two story house. This ironic short story looks at her joy that her husband is dead and she is free. But then it ends with her own death when she learns he is alive. As she is downstairs in the house, there she mourns the

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    Essay Length: 334 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Mikki
  • The Story Behind Vianne Rocher

    The Story Behind Vianne Rocher

    The Story Behind Vianne Rocher What would you do if everyday was a constant battle to be accepted in your own home? In Chocolat, Joanne Harris takes the reader on a journey with Vianne Rocher, as she settles into a town that immediately labels her an interloper. Vianne is challenged by the followers of the town’s priest when she opens a chocolate shop. Though she struggles through many obstacles, she eventually overcomes the odds. Throughout

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    Essay Length: 636 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Max
  • The Short Story online

    The Short Story online

    And...there goes Roy. Aidan quirks a brow at his friend's sudden vanishing act. "Wonder what got him riled up, then..." Shrugging, he lightly jabs at Jonquil's back, effectively "slaying" her if she does nothing to stop it. "That's the price ya pay for turnin' ya back on a forest bandit!" Of course, he doesn't notice the prefect, cause he's too busy being a crazy forest bandit and all that. :waves his sword in the air,

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    Essay Length: 726 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Gender Roles in the "the Story of an Hour" and "the Necklace"

    Gender Roles in the "the Story of an Hour" and "the Necklace"

    From ancient years to the middle of 20th century being a woman meant being a housewife. Women were repressed. Not only they did not have any rights, except to stay home, do the housework and care for a husband or children, women were considered only a half of human being. As one Russian saying says: “It would be very funny, if it was not so sad”. Nowadays, when there are so many feministic coalitions, it

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    Essay Length: 1,353 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Mike
  • Pet Store Short Story

    Pet Store Short Story

    In the "pet store" or jail there weren't rather any words much morely pictures to explain the things, but here there were words galore. It was the most interesting room I ever seen! Words were everywhere they were educating silly and often amusing. So far reading on the walls I've learned that they call this place a second grade class room and the sweet lady was a teacher and the called her Ms. Lemons. A

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    Essay Length: 577 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Top
  • Kate Chopin: The Story of an Hour

    Kate Chopin: The Story of an Hour

    Kate Chopin: The Story of an Hour (1894) ________________________________________ Kate Chopin was a forgotten American voice until her literary reputation was resuscitated by critics in the 1950s. Today her novel The Awakening (1899) the story of a sensual, determined woman who insists on her independence, is widely read and highly honored, a feminist work which was decidedly ahead of its time. Born Katherine O'FIaherty into an upper-middle-class family in St. Louis, she married Oscar Chopin

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    Essay Length: 1,247 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Vika
  • A Success Story of Reliance Infocomm in a Mature Market

    A Success Story of Reliance Infocomm in a Mature Market

    1. INTRODUCTION What kind of a company enters an industry with competitors already entrenched? Which ones actually succeed? The answer to both the questions is Reliance Infocomm now known as Reliance Communication. Reliance Infocomm is a confident and smart company that was able to enter a saturated and highly competitive industry, and emerge at the top. The cut-throat competition in the telecommunication sector of India posed a great threat to the development of Reliance Infocomm.

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    Essay Length: 2,229 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • What Ethical Principles Should a Reporter Follow in Reporting/writing a News Story to Ensure It Meets the Standards of Professional Journalism?

    What Ethical Principles Should a Reporter Follow in Reporting/writing a News Story to Ensure It Meets the Standards of Professional Journalism?

    Introduction Nowadays, more and more people are place importance on journalismЎ¦s ethics. It is because everything that a journalist writes or says, or neglects to write or to say, in some or other way has an influence on many people, and that influences can be good or bad. The principles of good journalism are directed toward bringing the highest quality of news reporting to the public, this fulfilling the mission of timely distribution of information

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    Essay Length: 1,422 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Steve
  • Citizen Kane - the Story of Kane’s Life

    Citizen Kane - the Story of Kane’s Life

    Citizen Kane was narrated by more than one person. The story of Kane’s life unfolds in overlapping segments that add more information as each narrator adds their story. The entire story was told in flashbacks. Each narrator had different opinions of Kane, so the viewer gets to see Kane from many different perspectives. Because the narrators are telling their stories at an older age they are sometimes unreliable and often contradictory. Also, the stories

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    Essay Length: 375 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Janna
  • Detective Story

    Detective Story

    Author: Sadeer Nasser Trainee Detective D.A. Corbett stared at the abyss before him. The man he was chasing had leapt it easily enough but could he? The man had planted a bomb in the middle of a town, people were dead and abyss’s like this had appeared all over the road. They weren’t very deep but were still wide enough to make it hard to jump and deep enough to break a leg or an

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    Essay Length: 4,430 Words / 18 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Andrew
  • The Story of an Hour Analysis

    The Story of an Hour Analysis

    In “The Story of an Hour,” Kate Chopin relays the events as they unfold of a woman’s reaction to the sudden death of her husband. While, she grieves, she is also overcome with the elation her newfound freedom brings. Chopin utilizes characterization, point of view, and symbolism in her description of setting to move her story. Chopin’s focus is on female characters throughout most of her works, and “The Story of an Hour” is no

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    Essay Length: 751 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Feminism in the Story of an Hour

    Feminism in the Story of an Hour

    Ebonee English Comp II Wylee Rogers M.A. January 29, 2007 Feminism in “The Story of an Hour” Feminism is an ideology dealing with women’s struggles for the same rights as men. It proposed that all women should be politically, economically, and socially equal to men. The idea arose in the 19th century and is synonymous with the Women’s Rights Movement of the 1900s. To get a glimpse of what many women were faced with in

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    Essay Length: 2,461 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • To Build a Fire - Anthologized Short Story

    To Build a Fire - Anthologized Short Story

    “To Build a Fire” (1902) is one of London's most redoubtable and frequently anthologized short stories. The initial version of the story appeared in Youth's Companion in 1902 but was considered strictly a children's cautionary tale. A revised version of the tale was published in Century in 1908 and collected in London's volume of short fiction entitled Lost Face in 1910. Both versions of the story concern man's struggle for survival in nature, but the

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    Essay Length: 501 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Top
  • The Josephine Baker Story

    The Josephine Baker Story

    Josephine Baker was born Freda Josephine Carson in St. Louis, Missouri, on June 3, 1906 to washerwoman, Carrie McDonald, and vaudeville drummer, Eddie Carson. Josephine's father abandoned them shortly after her birth and her mother married a kind but perpetually unemployed man named Arthur Martin. Their family came to include a son and two more daughters. Josephine grew up cleaning houses and babysitting for wealthy white families until she got a job waitressing at The

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Story of an Hour and a Sorrowful Woman

    Story of an Hour and a Sorrowful Woman

    Relationships are only successful when they are filled with love, trust and commitment to one another. When speaking specifically of marriage, these feelings should be exceptionally strong and the couple should experience unconditional love towards each other for the rest of their lives. However, time tells many couples that this is not always the case and that perhaps their love for one another isn't strong enough to mend their differences. Gail Godwin's "A Sorrowful Woman"

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    Essay Length: 673 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: David
  • West Side Story Analysis

    West Side Story Analysis

    Characters/Roles. 1. Riff- He is the leader of the Jets. Founded it with Tony. A wild man that acts like a punk and dies in a fight. 2. Bernado- Leader of the sharks, the Puerto Ricans, he is a young immigrant to America. He dies in a fight with Riff, but Tony kills him. He is integral in helping to spur the gang rivalry between the Sharks and the Jets. 3. Maria- She falls

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    Essay Length: 493 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Victor
  • Romeo and Juliet Compared to West Side Story

    Romeo and Juliet Compared to West Side Story

    Romeo and Juliet Compared to West Side Story We have recently been studying two different stories in our class. We read the first act of Romeo and Juliet and watched the movie West Side Story. I was surprised that I actually enjoyed both. Our assignment is to write a compare/contrast paper on what we have read so far in Romeo and Juliet and what we saw in the move West Side Story. I found that

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    Essay Length: 528 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Tasha

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