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- 2651: Response to William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”
- Response to William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner is an excellent story. The narrator, a non-participant, through a third person point of view communicates the story of Emily Grierson. Personally, I ... a broader perspective. Faulkner is never clear about who his narrator for this story is. The only known fact about the narrator is that it (being he or she) is a member of Jefferson City’s townspeople. It is obvious that the narrator is a member by the narrator including himself (by saying we) with the townspeople when he speaks of them. The protagonist of this story is a woman named ... double meanings and themes that underlie this short story, Man versus Society is clearly the true underlying tone of “A Rose for Emily.” The narrator brings the audience to the story beginning with Miss Emily’s funeral. Attending Miss Emily’s funeral is all of the townspeople of Jefferson. None were immediate family. Instead, they were all there for their own reasons. “The men through a sort of respectful affection ...
- 2652: Creative Writing: The Man who Stepped into Yesterday
- ... of darkness, i come from the land of doom," he said, "i come from the land of gamehendge, from the land of the big baboon. but i*m never going back there and i couldn*t if i tried, 'cause i come from the land of lizards and the lizards they have died." he told me that the lizards were a race of people practically extinct from doing things that smart people don*t do, he said that he was once a lizard too. his name was rutherford the brave and he was on a quest to save his people from the fate that lay before them. their clumsy ... surely weigh him down and so he sunk. and as his body disappeared before me, I bowed my head in silence and remembered all the thoughts that he had thunk. But rutherford and forbin weren*t alone, and suddenly an unexpected movement caught his eye. on the far side of the river he saw a shaggy creature standing in the weeds who stared across at forbin with an unrelenting gaze. ...
- 2653: Martin Luther King Jr And Malcolm X
- ... man who received little schooling and rose to greatness on his own intelligence and determination. Martin Luther King was born into a family whose name in Atlanta was well established. Despite segregation, Martin Luther King's parents ensured that their child was secure and happy. Malcolm X was born on May 19, 1925 and was raised in a completely different atmosphere than King, an atmosphere of fear and anger where the ... great influence on black Americans. However, King had a more positive attitude than Malcolm X, believing that through peaceful demonstrations and arguments, blacks will be able to someday achieve full equality with whites. Malcolm X's despair about life was reflected in his angry, pessimistic belief that equality is impossible because whites have no moral conscience. King basically adopted on an integrationalist philosophy, whereby he felt that blacks and whites should ... through his speeches to rise up and protest against their white enemies. After Malcolm X broke away from Elijah Mohammed, this change is reflected in his more moderate speeches. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King's childhoods had powerful influences on the men and their speeches. Malcolm X was brought up in an atmosphere of violence. During his childhood, Malcolm X suffered not only from abuse by whites, but also ...
- 2654: U of T professors devise better way to test sight in babies
- U of T professors devise better way to test sight in babies In a darkened room at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, a baby, its head dotted with electrodes, sits in its mother's lap and watches flashing black and white checkerboards and stripes on a television screen. Soon after the test, doctors will know if the child can see and how well it can see. The testing ...
- 2655: The Bluest Eye - Protrait Of A
- Portrait of a Victim: Toni Morrison s The Bluest Eye The Bluest Eye (1970) is the novel that launched Toni Morrison into the spotlight as a talented African-American writer and social critic. Morrison herself says It would be a mistake to ... genetic approach is very relevant. To be truly effective, though, the genetic approach must be combined with a formal approach. The formal approach allows the unpacking of the rich language, imagery, and metaphors of Morrison s writing, and the genetic places it in the larger context of her social consciousness. In The Bluest Eye, Morrison s uses her critical eye to reveal to the reader the evil that is caused by a society that is indoctrinated by the inherent goodness and beauty of whiteness and the ugliness of blackness. In ...
- 2656: Romeo And Juliet - Comparisson To West Side Story
- ... passed between the original Romeo and Juliet and the premiere of West Side Story on Broadway in 1957. However, time did not change the message of the story, simply the creators’ unique visions evolved. Shakespeare’s delivery of the timeless tale of desperate love in his classic Romeo and Juliet proves to only intensify through retelling and modern interpretation. Audiences cherish Romeo and Juliet as one of the most beloved plays of all time from the Elizabethan Age to the present. Romeo and Juliet have attained the role as the quintessential lovers, and the noun, "a Romeo," is synonymous with " lover." Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is closely based on Arthur Brooke's tale, The Tragicall History of Romeus and Juliet. The language, attitudes, and customs detailed in the play are generally English, in spite of Brooke’s original Italian setting. In 1949, choreographer Jerome Robbins decided ...
- 2657: Why Hamlet Is A Hero
- Why Hamlet is a Hero A literary hero is someone who displays feats of nobility along with courage. In William Shakespeare s Hamlet, young Hamlet is obviously the hero of the play. Stranded in the middle of a court full of corruption, faced with his father s death and his mother s almost immediate remarriage, Hamlet somehow comes out of it a hero in the reader s minds. It is his courageousness and nobility that lead him through his revenge, virtually unscathed by the corruption of ...
- 2658: An Inquiry Into Ophelias Madne
- The character Ophelia in William Shakespeare s play Hamlet plays a very interesting and important role in the elaboration of the plot. In the beginning, she starts off in a healthy state of mind, in love with her boyfriend Hamlet, yet controlled ... her to death. So, due to all of the unfortunate events that took place with the people she loved the most in her life, Ophelia gradually becomes mad, and in the end passes away. Ophelia s and Hamlet s love for each other in the beginning was very real. Following the death of his father Hamlet falls in love with her, and is much attracted by her beauty. It is not uncertain, however, ...
- 2659: Cancer Treatments And Breakthroughs
- ... disease. It includes a large group of varied disorders that share major traits. The first sign of cancer is an enlargement of the area. The tumor then infects other cells near it, and if it's really advanced, these cells may break away from the tumor and spread the cancer throughout your body. Although many people believe that your survival rate is low if you're diagnosed with cancer, patients usually ... is quick, usually effective, and it accounts for the most cures. Many doctors must operate on their patients, but this treatment has several downsides. Just because a doctor has taken out the main tumor doesn't mean that the cancer cells are completely gone. They're too small to see, so doctors can't tell if they have taken it all out or not. So, just to be sure, doctors usually take out a lot of the healthy tissue surrounding the area. This could damage the person's ...
- 2660: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
- ... will call the "Gentleman,"-- to keep the confusion minimal between the old man and the old waiter -- in "A Clean Well-Lighted Place" cannot be happy without his wife. The two waiters represent the Gentleman’s battle of his inner consciousness. The waiters portray the demons of the Gentleman’s personal heaven and hell. We recognize this by Hemingway’s use of characterization. Hemingway never identifies a particular part to the extended dialogue, because ultimately it is one stream of consciousness (the Gentleman’s). This reveals everything is nothing to the old man; though ...
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