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- 521: Impact Of Redifining Sexuality
- ... adverse affects of being outed to their coworkers. p. 5 Blue collar workers and those in the social service field reported being more secure in self-disclosure among co-workers (Morris, 1997). Personal accounts of stories of women coming out in middle adulthood also support the idea that they come out later due to fear of discrimination from the heterosexual community. Although these books, Wives Who Love Women and From Wedded ... redefine their sexuality. Scott, in her book, Wives Who Love Women , tells the story about Amy. Amy is 48 years old, happily married to Ben, with a 15-year-old son Tommy. Throughout Amy s stories she questions the strange desire she has to find a woman to love. She acknowledges having these feelings earlier in life but was told by her mother that it was a phase and that it ... Amy and June continued a deep and caring friendship but never crossed the proverbial line. Deborah Abbott and Ellen Farmer edited a book entitled; From Wedded Wife To Lesbian Life which is an anthology of stories of coming out by different women. In her story, E.S. describes a feeling of dutifulness to her husband, of being defined by her marriage, the feeling of relying on her husband s name ...
- 522: To Be, Or Not To Be
- ... goer. It might be asked, What does a doppelgänger have to do with a paper on Joseph Conrad? The answer is a lot, especially if Conrad s The Secret Sharer is being discussed. In this short story, the two characters, the captain and Leggatt, share many similarities, as well as differences. When comparing the similarities and differences, they can be used to show the duality between the captain and Leggatt. Conrad ... an American ship, the Colorado. Four days later, Smith committed suicide (Daleski 171). Smith had not wanted to be tried for his murder. This experience is particularly interesting when one compares it to Conrad s short story, The Secret Sharer . Conrad directly used his knowledge of the occurrences aboard the Cutty Sark for that particular story. The Secret Sharer is a psychological masterpiece that dramatizes the act of sympathetic identification with ... The captain realizes that he can and does measure up to the ideal conception of ones own personality that every man sets for himself secretly (Graver 153). It is evident that when Conrad wrote this short story, he had the idea of a doppelgänger in mind. His repetitive use of certain terms only adds to the conclusion that Leggatt is indeed the reflection of the captain s self. That doesn ...
- 523: Alice Walker
- ... as she explained, "I no longer felt like the little girl I was. I felt old, and because I felt I was unpleasant to look at, filled with shame. I retreated into solitude, and read stories and began to write poems." In 1961 Walker won a scholarship to Spelman College in Atlanta, where she became involved in the civil rights movement and participated in sit-ins at local business establishments. She ... she expresses her ideas of races, gender, environment, love, hate and suffering, the same topics she writes about in her novels. In addition to her novels, and poetry, Walker has also published two volumes of short stories, In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973) and You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories (1981), both of which evidence her womanist philosophy. Overall Alice Walker has been a very ...
- 524: Young Goodman Brown: The Downfall of Young Goodman Brown
- ... hour was gloom." Works Cited Capps, Jack L. "Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown", Explicator, Washington D.C., 1982 Spring, 40:3, 25. Easterly, Joan Elizabeth. "Lachrymal Imagery in Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown", Studies in Short Fiction, Newberry, S.C., 1991 Summer, 28:3, 339-43. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. "Young Goodmam Brown", The Story and Its Writer, 4th ed. Ed. Ann Charters. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1995, 595-604. Shear, Walter. "Cultural Fate and Social Freedom in Three American Short Stories", Studies in Short Fiction, Newberry, S.C., 1992 Fall, 29:4, 543-549. Tritt, Michael. "Young Goodman Brown and the Psychology of Projection", Studies in Short Fiction, Newberry, S.C., 1986 Winter, 23:1, ...
- 525: Herman Melville: A Biography And Analysis
- ... was not contributing to the family's income and felt ashamed. At the same time, he was unable to decide on a career or event settle down to a job. Perhaps because he remembered the stories of his uncle and two cousins who had gone to sea, Herman decided to try his own fate at sea. He asked his brother Gansevoort to look for a ship's berth for him, and ... England ship to be sent home, and the Acushnet left Rio after only one day ion the scenic port Melville called “the bay of all beauties.” As they approached Cape Horn, Melville heard many dire stories from his fellow crewmen about these wild southern waters. The men also told whaling tales, of course. Some of these tales concerned an unusual sperm whale called Mocha Dick. Unusually pale, almost white, Mocha Dick ... first novel, Typee. It was here they remained until another whaling ship, the Lucy Ann, arrived at the island. The ship heard rumors of a white man being held captive by the Taipi, and being short of crew, they embarked on a “rescue mission,” and took Melville as a member of their crew in August 1842. Ironically, the voyage on the Lucy Ann proved to be even more miserable that ...
- 526: Flappers Such As Clara Bow And Zelda Sayre Represented The Popular And Devilish Women Of The 1920's
- ... Devilish Women Of The 1920's Thesis: Flappers owned their name through their outlandish and innovative dressing style. I. Beginning of flappers B. Women wanted fun C. Gave women an identity IV. Dressing styles E. Short skirts F. Revealing shirts VII. Devilish acts H. Smoking I. Partying J. Staying out late XI. Flappers importance L. Represented young women M. Earned women attention XIV. Famous Flappers O. Clara Bow P. Zelda Sayre ... They basically concentrated on beauty by caring for their looks. Make-up was applied, and hairstyles with bobbed up hair were the thing to have. Some people even wanted to make a law on how short a skirt can actually be because of the fact that flappers wore them so short. The statement," They're all desperadoes, these kids all of them with any life in their veins; the girls as well as the boys; maybe more than the boys,"4 showed that the girls ...
- 527: Censorship And The Internet
- ... Rights, http://www.eff.org/pub/Censorship/human_rights_960420.article (Spring 1996). 5 Bryan Bradford and Mark Krumholz, "Telecommunications and Decency: Big Brother goes Digital," Business Today, Spring 1996 : 12-16. 6 Bruce, Sterling, "Short History of the Internet," The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, http://www.isoc.org:70/00/internet/history/short.history.of.internet (17 Apr. 1996). 7 Bruce, Sterling, "Short History of the Internet," The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, http://www.isoc.org:70/00/internet/history/short.history.of.internet (17 Apr. 1996). 8 Shari, Steele, "Taking a Byte Out of ...
- 528: A Comparison of the Magic in "The Rocking-Horse Winner" and "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings"
- ... next horse race will be. In the Marquez story, a nameless and elderly angel lands on earth to experience first hand the human behavior he strives to correct. The magic in the air gives these stories a feeling of suspense. They are horrifying, if not in the Stephen King horror genre. These tales encompass an undeniable amount of magic, faith, greed, vindication and misunderstanding. Pelayo and Elisenda, in the Garcia Marquez ... of an angel landing? Meanwhile, Paul doesn't show when he discovers the magical power of the rocking horse he received as a gift one year. He does ride it often as Lawrence describes. The stories are bound by the fact that the magical things they discover are unbelievable at best. They often criticize Paul for his affection for a horse he should have outgrown long ago. No one would believe ... form of greed in this story. The actual freak is probably just a costumed human trying to make money off people's stupidity. Flaws are obvious in the main characters of each of these two stories. In "The Rocking- Horse Winner" Paul has the flaw of emulating his parents' footsteps. Because they set the example always to want more money, taking on their greed flaws him. In Garcia Marquez's ...
- 529: ... those were the books she enjoyed most reading. Of her writing technique, she once said, "Although I've been told that some authors start writing with only a general idea in mind and let their stories evolve on their own, I couldn't work that way. My books are tightly plotted and carefully constructed; every sentence is there for a reason. Personally, I can't imagine writing a book without knowing ...
- 530: ... to regret. As Fascist Itlay fell to the Allies piece by peice, Mussolini would fall with his fascist state into the histroy books (A&E). The dou of Mussolini and Hitler are of the greatest stories of how one man could change the face of history in their country and the world’s. The difference between the men in there drive, Hitler’s regime was more repressive, tyrannical, and murderous of ...
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