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  • Short Story (ap English Midterm) 95

    Short Story (ap English Midterm) 95

    Tara and tom, part of an average family living on the northern coast of California, had a lot of family and friends but not many material things. Sure they were happy but they wanted more. Tara spent most of her day at a local clothing shop working and tom at a drug store just making there monthly bills and there small donation to charity. They barely had time to themselves Although Tara and Tom did

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    Essay Length: 393 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 27, 2010 By: Mike
  • Presentation and Important of Location in Two of the Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield

    Presentation and Important of Location in Two of the Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield

    Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories Discuss the presentation and important of location in two of the short stories you have studied In this essay, I am going to discuss about the presentation and important of location in two of the short stories of Katherine Mansfield that I have studied. The two stories are “The Garden Party” and “An Indiscreet Journey”. In “The Garden Party”, we have the Sheridan’s Family who live in the upper class side

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    Essay Length: 512 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 28, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • The Story of an Hour Written by Kate Chopin

    The Story of an Hour Written by Kate Chopin

    They Will be Missed “The Story of an Hour” written by Kate Chopin revolves around the reaction of Mrs. Mallard, the protagonist, to the death of her husband. Mrs. Mallard’s sister, Josephine, tried to ease the pain by breaking the news gently because of her sister’s heart problem. Mrs. Mallard instantaneously mourned her husband’s death and withdrew to her bedroom alone. The widowed Mrs. Mallard let her mind wonder and at that point in time

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    Essay Length: 892 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 28, 2010 By: Edward
  • The Story of an Hour

    The Story of an Hour

    “The Story of An hour” In the late 19th century, women were still succumbed to the hierarchy of the white man. He was ideal and expected to lead society with women at his side to respect, acknowledge, and love him. Women did not have another choice at this time, because the idea of one race empowering all was still practiced as the new century was born. As devastated as Mrs. Mallard seems in “The Story

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    Essay Length: 843 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 28, 2010 By: regina
  • Compare & Contrast Mrs. Mallard, "the Story of an Hour" to Jane, "the Yellow Wallpaper"

    Compare & Contrast Mrs. Mallard, "the Story of an Hour" to Jane, "the Yellow Wallpaper"

    Diverse authors use diverse strategies to catch a reader’s attention. Both Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman were women ahead of their time; they wrote stories that were socially unacceptable but are now considered some of the greatest. In Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour,” the protagonist, Mrs. Mallard, dies of a heart attack after hearing of her husband’s death. Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper” with a blasphemous plot at the time:

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    Essay Length: 334 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 29, 2010 By: Artur
  • My Story

    My Story

    1 Taking Attendance 1) Order in class2) Those not present will be marked as absent. Latecomers must take the responsibility to see the lecturer after class for attendance to be updated3) Definition of late- student not in class when attendance is taken4) The remark column in the attendance system will be updated with information of the absenteeism if the student provides the supporting document to the lecturer. 2 Introduction/ Learning Outcome (LO) 1) Students are

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    Essay Length: 376 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 30, 2010 By: Anna
  • The Story of the Universe

    The Story of the Universe

    The Story of the Universe "How did we get here?" This is a question that has puzzled humans for thousands of years. From the earliest times in human history, people have been proposing answers to this eternal question. The same awe that drives us to question today has spurred countless theories from humans of all walks of life. Until recently, these theories have all been religious in nature, placing credit squarely on the good whims

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    Essay Length: 2,674 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: March 30, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Video Game Violence Starter

    Video Game Violence Starter

    Video Game Violence Admiring the smooth barrel and full clip of bullets in his Sig model 552 Commando, Landros sat near the limestone corner listening to the footsteps and gunfire down the next hallway. Making sure not to be caught off guard by a lone commando, he set down a few claymore mines in the corridor behind him. Listening to the screams of both Terrorist and Counter-Terrorist clicked something in his mind... Time to clean

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    Essay Length: 607 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 1, 2010 By: Mike
  • The Functions of Ghost Stories

    The Functions of Ghost Stories

    The Functions of Ghost Stories A ghost story is a piece of dramatical fiction that joins the supernatural or the belief in the supernatural with reality. The idea of ghosts i.e., the supernatural, refers to a being that is unexplainable in scientific doctrine. There are those who live their lives searching for proof of the afterlife while others prefer to watch or read a fictional ghost story than to contemplate the supposed reality of ghosts.

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    Essay Length: 4,030 Words / 17 Pages
    Submitted: April 2, 2010 By: Andrew
  • In Walker Percy’s Story the Moviegoer

    In Walker Percy’s Story the Moviegoer

    In Walker Percy’s story The Moviegoer, Binx Bolling, a Stockbroker on the verge of turning thirty is on a quest. Set in 1960 New Orleans during Mardi Gras Binx, an upper class southern gentleman sets out to find out about himself. Answer questions that have tugged at his soul. Questions about despair, everydayness, religion and romance. Binx is stuck in a quagmire. He must break out from this cloak of ennui and find the essence

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    Essay Length: 931 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 2, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Old Story Time

    Old Story Time

    Today’s Jamaica seems overly preoccupied with the issues of class and colour. In Old Story Time Trevor Rhone mirrors a Jamaica struggling with the same subject in the Mid Twentieth century. Discuss these concerns of the play in detail making comparisons/contrasts to the current Jamaican and Caribbean societies. In Old Story Time Trevor Rhone mirrors a Jamaica struggling with similar subjects in the mid century. Concerns that are brought out in Old Story Time are

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    Essay Length: 1,361 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: April 3, 2010 By: Mike
  • Kate Chopin Short Stories

    Kate Chopin Short Stories

    Kate Chopin was an American feminist fiction writer and a woman ahead of her time. She lived in the socially conservative nineteenth-century, but in her stories, she wrote about unconventional characters, particularly women, that caused others to question her morality. Similar to the female characters in her stories, Kate Chopin was an independent woman. She would often smoke cigarettes or walk in the streets unaccompanied; these practices were considered unusual for a nineteenth-century woman to

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    Essay Length: 623 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 5, 2010 By: Jon
  • Short Story “a Conversation with My Father”

    Short Story “a Conversation with My Father”

    The short-story “A Conversation with My Father”, by Grace Paley, combines several themes and the author uses the elements of abandonment, denial, irony, humor and foreshadowing, to bring this emotional story together. This story is mainly about the relationship between a parent and his/her child. The primary characters are a father, and his child. There is no mention of whether the child is his daughter or son. The tone of the story and the conversations

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    Essay Length: 993 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 5, 2010 By: regina
  • Dead Man's Path By: Chinua Achebe What Critical Approaches Are Useful for Analyzing This Story? Why?

    Dead Man's Path By: Chinua Achebe What Critical Approaches Are Useful for Analyzing This Story? Why?

    Dead Man's Path by: Chinua Achebe What Critical approaches are useful for analyzing this story? Why? This story is about Michael Obi, a young man in his twenties who gets promoted to a new job as the headmaster of a unprogressive school. He is an educated man and has many goals set to improve the conditions of the school. His wife, Nancy, is a very superficial woman that although is decided to support her husband’s

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    Essay Length: 427 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 6, 2010 By: Artur
  • Ben Lomans Success Story

    Ben Lomans Success Story

    Look up to Uncle Ben The ultimate goal in their existence for some individuals is to be as successful as one can be, to have more of everything in life. Achieving this can be a complicated difficult task which requires hard work and dedication to strive for success. To live the American Dream is to be as rich as possible, to have everything any individual can ever want, and material items is essential. However, the

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    Essay Length: 714 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 7, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Kate Chopin, "the Story of an Hour" on Mrs. Mallard

    Kate Chopin, "the Story of an Hour" on Mrs. Mallard

    In this paragraph, the narrator’s depiction of Mrs. Mallard’s brief moment of illumination is illustrated in a very mellow-dramatic way. The reader can get a slight sense of sarcasm in the narrators tone and at the same time feel sorry for Mrs. Mallard. Mrs. Mallard seems to be quite selfish. She is not sad about her husband’s death; she is only thinking about how her life would be now that he is gone. Mrs. Mallard

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    Essay Length: 1,805 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: April 9, 2010 By: Stenly
  • The Story of an Hour

    The Story of an Hour

    Kate Choplin's, "The Story of an Hour," is a short story of harsh irony. As the story unfolds; it is an emotional rollercoaster. The story deals with real issues such as life, death, marriage and freedom. Louise and Brently Mallard's lives would change forever in just sixty minutes. The freedom would alter their marriage and personal relationships. Brently's friend, Richards, came across an article in a newspaper with his name in it, written above

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    Essay Length: 309 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 10, 2010 By: Mike
  • Elements of a Short Story

    Elements of a Short Story

    Elements of the Short Story Ellison’s “Battle Royal” and Kincaid’s “Girl” were extremely difficult but interesting novels. As I explored these readings, I realized that they had some differences and similarities, but the one’s that stood out, helped me get a better understanding of what these individual characters were facing. They displayed very distinct themes However, uncovered very similar social settings. In Ellison’s “Battle Royal” theme, our narrator is physically humiliated in the "Battle Royal"

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    Essay Length: 451 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 10, 2010 By: Fatih
  • The Story of an Hour

    The Story of an Hour

    The story reveals how the institution of marriage in the lat 19th century still is a reflection on the 21st century. Mrs. Mallard was not happy at all in her marriage, but she stayed because back then divorce was unheard of. Mrs. Mallard was saddened by her husband's death, but on the other hand she was happy because now she could be free to do all of the things that she wanted to do. For,

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    Essay Length: 332 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 11, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Short Story Characteristics

    Short Story Characteristics

    The short story is a concise form of narrative prose that is usually simpler and more direct compared to longer works of fiction such as novels. Therefore, because of their short length, short stories rely on many forms of literary devices to convey the idea of a uniform theme seen throughout the script. This theme is illustrated by using characteristics that are developed throughout the story such as, plot, setting and characters. The three main

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    Essay Length: 656 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 14, 2010 By: Tommy
  • The Story of an Hour

    The Story of an Hour

    In “The Story of an Hour,” I can relate to so many different things that go on in this short tragic story. After reading the story I almost felt like Louise Mallard and I were living the same life with different events and a different outcome. Everything about the two of us comes down to being always misunderstood and just wanting to be free. In the beginning of the story, we look at Louise Mallard

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    Essay Length: 482 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 17, 2010 By: Andrew
  • A Fork in Davids Road.A Story About My Father

    A Fork in Davids Road.A Story About My Father

    Homer Bell Narrative Biographical Mrs. Kahn 12/12/05 David’s Fork In The Road The rain was so intense, the Sacramento River was on the brink of spilling over. The gray clouded sky expressed all that David felt deep in himself. Waiting on the cold table searching the walls for a soothing sight but all that’s found is thermometers, cotton, tongue depressors, and gauze. Someone’s footsteps could be heard in the distance. They seemed like his executioner

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    Submitted: April 18, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Characterization in Salinger’s Nine Stories

    Characterization in Salinger’s Nine Stories

    Characterization in Salinger’s Nine Stories J. D. Salinger’s style of characterization is very specific, distinct and unique. Nine Stories in particular has it’s characterization has three types: An adult character that is jaded tired of life, and lacks innocence, purity and understanding. Quite contrary to that is the child character that is full of purity and innocence. In the middle of the two is the transitional character, which is suspended between jaded adulthood and childlike

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    Essay Length: 640 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 20, 2010 By: Yan
  • September 11th: The Story Behind

    September 11th: The Story Behind

    In 1979 Jimmy Carter was the president in America and he was very furios when Soviet army invaded Afghanistan. The Soviet army killed the Afghan President and chose a President who was Communist and was a friend of Soviet. By invading Afghanistan Soviet Union managed to have control over an area which was closed to the oil sources in the Middle-East and the Persian Gulf. Americans waited to know more about invading Afghanistan in order

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    Essay Length: 369 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 20, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Creative Story

    Creative Story

    OJIBWE HERITAGE The Anishinabe people call the Creator Kitche Manitou. We do not have the need to try and find out what it is or why it is there, it is enough to know that it is everyone and everything. It will always remain a mystery to us. A common thought is that native culture is a religion. The truth is that native culture is a way of life and not a religion. Native culture

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    Essay Length: 276 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 21, 2010 By: Monika

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