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- 6771: “A Christmas Memory”: Truman Capote
- ... have the ability to observe and remember details of specific situations and instances yet lack the ability to describe them. Truman Capote, as a grown man, took advantage of his vivid memories and composed the short work, “A Christmas Memory.” The story begins in late November, a month symbolic of all the years gone by that Capote could remember beginning preparations for Christmas fruitcakes. The year he has chosen, though, is ...
- 6772: How Much Land Does A Man Really Need?
- ... or the Devil, killed Pahom. Without this false sense of security, Pahom wouldn’t have gone after more acreage. One of the contributors to Pahom’s motivation is the setting of the story. In many stories, as well as in reality, times and places can give people false senses of alarm or on the other hand it can give them false senses of security. The sad truth is that many times ...
- 6773: William Butler Yeats
- ... Gonne was an Irish patriot and an inspiration to Yeats. Yeats frequently accompanied here to political rallies even though he usually disagreed with her extremist tactics. Their relationship went through a lot including Gonne’s short-lived marrige to John McBride. Most of Yeats’s poetry is addressed to her. Yeats associated her with Helen of Troy, whose capriciousness led to the destruction of a civilization. In 1986 Yeats became friends ...
- 6774: As For Me And My House and Surfacing: Heros
- ... of Horizon and the rationalist reality. The literal religiosity of the town is described by Mrs. Bentley in the following passage: "[Horizon] is a fundamentalist town. To the letter it believes in the Old Testament stories that we [Mr. and Mrs. Bentley] wisely, or presumptuously choose to accept only as tales and allegories" (Ross 146). For Mr. and Mrs. Bentley, the beliefs of the town are not in harmony with their ...
- 6775: Aedies Aegypti
- ... on nutrition, temperature and humidity (Womack 1993) as well as its ability to avoid predators such as reptiles or even sometimes other types of mosquitoes (E.B. 1999). The male mosquito can only live a short time ranging from a few days to a couple weeks whereas the female can live up to a month which allows her to reproduce longer (Womack 1993). They lay their eggs in artificial containers on ...
- 6776: "Clay Beats Liston: February 25, 1964"
- ... that high school basketball received almost a page of coverage, I am alarmed by the fact that this one page of coverage on basketball was the same amount of coverage for the boxing match. The stories by Associated Press and United Press International illustrate two more facts about Kentucky during the 1960's, primarily that most of Kentucky's newspapers were too poor to send their own reporters to Miami Beach ...
- 6777: William Faulkner
- ... Canadian Royal Air Force in 1918 but the war ended before he spent any time in service. After the ending of the war, Faulkner took some classes at the University of Mississippi and spent a short time working at the university post office. The majority of his education was due to his promiscuous time he spent reading. Faulkner had started writing poetry as a young schoolboy. In 1924, he used his ...
- 6778: The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses: Actions Have Consequences
- The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses: Actions Have Consequences In the short story "The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses" by Bessie Head, an old political prisoner named Brille lost control in his life by ending up in jail and not taking care of his kids. The guilt was ...
- 6779: Conflict In “A Worn Path”
- Conflict In “A Worn Path” Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path” is a short story about an old black woman who periodically makes a journey to town. In this story Phoenix Jackson faces many trials on her way to town. Many of the conflicts she faces seem insurmountable but ...
- 6780: Do Unto Others, As You Would Have Them Do Unto You
- Do Unto Others, As You Would Have Them Do Unto You This short story is about a woman, Mrs. Wright, who is accused of killing her husband. Twenty years ago, she was remembered as Minnie Foster the town girl who was lively, sang in the choir, and wore ...
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