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  • The Story Of An Hour

    The Story Of An Hour

    _______________________________________________________________________________________ Summary Summary of "The Story of an Hour" This short story is about an hour in the life of the main character, Mrs. Millard. She is afflicted with a heart problem. Bad news has come about that her husband has died in a train accident. Her sister Josephine and Richard who is her husband's friend has to break the horrifying news to her as gently as possible. They both were concerned that the news

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    Essay Length: 307 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 18, 2011
  • Religion In Hawthornes Stories

    Religion In Hawthornes Stories

    Religion like in much of history plays a major role in Nathanial Hawthorne's stories. Hawthorne in many cases in his past was involved with religion including his ancestors being Puritans which is what caused Hawthorne to write about religion in the manner he did. He used religion as a tool to write his stories such as Young Goodman Brown and The Birthmark. In The Birthmark Hawthorne uses Dr. Aylmer to represent a God figure in

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    Essay Length: 701 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 18, 2011
  • Disability Story

    Disability Story

    “Dad I’m gay”. Charles’ words seemingly reverberated off the oak china hutch and mauve curtains, circling the room before coming to rest in his father’s ears. “No you’re not.” Charles father replied. “You’re just being lazy with girls, that’s all”. Charles could not believe what he was hearing, and thought perhaps his father did not know what “gay” meant. “Dad, I’m gay, it means I am not attracted to girls. It has nothing to do

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    Essay Length: 586 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 19, 2011
  • Sarah Hawthorne (Narrative Short Story)

    Sarah Hawthorne (Narrative Short Story)

    Born of hollowbrook, was a brown hair, blue eyed beauty by the name of Sarah Hawthorne. Wealth was unheard of in hollowbrook as Miss Sarah grew up, certainly without wants and sometimes even needs. Sarah was known for her elegant style, and her luminous skirts that seemed to flow as though rivers through a spring meadow. Her culminating beauty was captivating and her knowledge, absolute. Yet she was the unpredictable. Sarah Hawthorne was a peasant.

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    Essay Length: 625 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 20, 2011
  • Fatalism (Monkeys Paw Shory Story)

    Fatalism (Monkeys Paw Shory Story)

    Julie Cardenas September 20th, 2006 In literature we often find themes that can be related to real life. "The Monkey's Paw", a short work, uses the theme of Fatalism to drive the story. However, this is a fictional work and Fate has no relevance in life. It is not difficult to see why people believe in destiny when movies, and books, use the romance of fate to sell their product. People have always emulated what's

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    Essay Length: 390 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 20, 2011
  • 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 23, 2011
  • The Story Of Jurgis

    The Story Of Jurgis

    The story of Jurgis, in the beginning seemed like the story of any immigrant worker, but as one reads through the book and reaches the end, the everyman character Jrugis becomes a strong man and a strong leader. The story of Jurgis seemed somewhat familiar to me, it felt like a tune I have heard before. That is when the it struck me, my father, as an immigrant in the 70’s had a similar story,

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    Essay Length: 855 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 26, 2011
  • The Story Of An Hour Analysis

    The Story Of An Hour Analysis

    In "The Story of an Hour," Chopin describes for us a story of great irony. We are introduced to Mrs. Mallard a woman who has just been informed that her husband is dead. At first she did cry and was saddened by his death, but then she was filled with an overwhelming sense of happiness and freedom. In the end though, Brently Mallard returns home. At the sight of her husband, alive and well, Mrs.

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    Essay Length: 765 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 26, 2011
  • "The Novel Tells A Story" (E.M. Forster). What Else, If Anything, Does Forster Do?

    "The Novel Tells A Story" (E.M. Forster). What Else, If Anything, Does Forster Do?

    Upon a most rudimentary evaluation, A Passage to India is simply a story, a tale of two countries through which we follow a handful of central characters. As readers, we watch as these characters travel from England to India, into mosques and temples and through caves. We are given a window through which to view their interactions and whereabouts. It is undeniable that A Passage to India tells a story, however; to say that telling

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    Essay Length: 1,737 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: April 27, 2011
  • 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: 1,107 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: April 28, 2011
  • Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh As A Story Of Bombay City

    Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh As A Story Of Bombay City

    In 'The Moor's last Sigh', we witness a reeling pageant of mad passions and dark secrets, deep crimes and high art, poignant innocence and cruel revenge, hopping in a careful, calculated manner across four generations of a rich and demented Indian family. Salman Rushdie's cynical post-modernistic novel 'The Moor's Last Sigh' laughs mischievously at the world and shivers from its evils. It is also, by analogy, one version of the history of India in

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    Essay Length: 1,640 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: April 29, 2011
  • Creative Story

    Creative Story

    Janie's own porch. "Why yes Mrs.. Peaches that game of checkers out on that ol' porch last night was something! The jars of food that my hands done come so accustomed to stacking and selling are mah only company and are da few things that really listen to wha ahs got to say. Mah ol duster be mah best friend, following all mah strokes and chasing away the dust bunnies. When I talk, mah

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    Essay Length: 431 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 29, 2011
  • Short Story Plot Analysis

    Short Story Plot Analysis

    In "The Moment Before the Gun Went Off" by Nadine Gordimer, she tells us about the forbidden truths of a shallow, racist society in South Africa. Apartheid is defined as racial segregation; specifically : a former policy of segregation and political and economic discrimination against non-European groups in the Republic of South Africa. (Webster). This policy would help assure there were no inner-racial relationships besides those that were professional, like the relationship portrayed in Marais

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    Essay Length: 1,108 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: April 29, 2011
  • Ironic Story

    Ironic Story

    Ironic Story When I was little I was very shy. I never was very social at school or outside events. It always took me a long time to make friends and associate myself with different kinds of people. I guess you could say my mom was my best friend. I got a lot of attention when I was little because I was the only girl. My mom made sure to give me whatever I wanted

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    Essay Length: 305 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 30, 2011
  • Max The Cannibal And His Phobia, Creative Story

    Max The Cannibal And His Phobia, Creative Story

    creative story :D [[The following is a written version of Max Adams EXACT confession, with accurate punctuation and precise full stops, commas and etc. in specific places, according to the tape V30072 from state police. Some areas are claimed to be false. This is all was said from Max before his release, this is confidential and has been disapproved by the court and should be shown to no one.]] "Phobia? I don't have a phobia.

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    Essay Length: 2,637 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: April 30, 2011
  • Max The Cannibal And His Phobia, Creative Story

    Max The Cannibal And His Phobia, Creative Story

    creative story :D [[The following is a written version of Max Adams EXACT confession, with accurate punctuation and precise full stops, commas and etc. in specific places, according to the tape V30072 from state police. Some areas are claimed to be false. This is all was said from Max before his release, this is confidential and has been disapproved by the court and should be shown to no one.]] "Phobia? I don't have a phobia.

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    Essay Length: 2,637 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: April 30, 2011
  • Laoshe’S Short Stories And The Sprit Of Chinese Civilians

    Laoshe’S Short Stories And The Sprit Of Chinese Civilians

    Laoshe is one of the most famous writers in the early 19 century. The short story “Something” taking from “ Huo Che Ji” (Ð*Ѓ«Ð¸Ð...¦Ð¹›†) describes the lower class people in the old time of China. In his literature, Laoshe portrays several minor characters, and as everyone knows, these minor characters come from ordinary civilians. But why Laoshe pays such a big attention to these ordinary people? According to the comparison between two of his short

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    Essay Length: 981 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 2, 2011
  • Maruti A Success Story

    Maruti A Success Story

    CSAE STUDY : MARUTI (I) LTD. A SUCCESS STORY IN INDIAN CAR MARKET By- V. K. S. Bankoti Industry Overview The de-licensing of auto industry in 1993, however, opened the gates to international automakers into the country with an idea to tap the large population base in India. Car sales managed to cross the 500,000 mark in 1999. Year 2001 was a spate of new vehicle launches as well as controversies, financial troubles, mergers and

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    Essay Length: 6,285 Words / 26 Pages
    Submitted: May 4, 2011
  • Child Story

    Child Story

    Mickey Saves the Day On a new Sunday morning before the sun rose, preparing his oils and brushes God wiped out the stars and began to paint the awaking sky. Sleeping peacefully in homes under a beautiful undisturbed prairie was a small village of gerbils. Awakening from a pleasant sleep, Mickey Black Mittens raised his head from his straw pillow and let out a squeaky yawn. Mickey Black Mittens is the only black footed gerbil

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    Essay Length: 455 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 7, 2011
  • 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: May 11, 2011
  • Should I Stay Or Should I Go - The Elian Gonzalez Story

    Should I Stay Or Should I Go - The Elian Gonzalez Story

    Should I Stay Or Should I Go The Elian Gonzalez Story By: Michael Exclusive usage rights given to oppapers.com. This paper may not be turned in to your teacher as it would be playjarism. In November of the year 1999, Elian Gonzalez was just a boy. Along with his mother, he rafted dangerously toward America on just an aluminum raft with a bad engine operated by his mother's boyfriend (Wikipedia: Pg 2). Once he arrived,

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    Essay Length: 930 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 14, 2011
  • Analyzing Short Stories

    Analyzing Short Stories

    "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan The story "Two Kinds," by Amy Tan is just one of the stories about the relationship between mothers and daughters in the book, The Joy Luck Club. We start this story with a mother, a Chinese immigrant to the United States, telling her American born daughter, Jing-mei, at a very young age that she can become anything she wants to become in America; more specifically, a prodigy of some sort.

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    Essay Length: 3,846 Words / 16 Pages
    Submitted: May 15, 2011
  • Irony And Abuse In The Story Of An Hour

    Irony And Abuse In The Story Of An Hour

    Essay about the "Story Of an Hour" Irony and Abuse The story of an Hour was written by the American writer Kate Chopin who was an author of short stories and novels. She is now considered to have been a precursor of feminist authors of the 20th century. The Story Of an Hour is about a woman who suffers from the repression of her husband. This story reflects what Chopin felt toward the customs of

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    Essay Length: 510 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 17, 2011
  • Story Of An Hour

    Story Of An Hour

    The Freedom That Never Was "The Story of an Hour" was written by Kate Chopin in the nineteenth century. This story takes place in Louisiana. Although at first Mrs. Mallard seems to be a dutiful and devoted wife, upon closer examination she is seen as a person who is confused, depressed, repressed, and self-assertive. In the beginning of the story, Louise Mallard appeared to be frail but dutiful, and devoted by the way she was

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    Essay Length: 779 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 18, 2011
  • Short Story

    Short Story

    MICE OF MEN ALTERNATE ENDING Lennie got up and watched Curley's wife for a while. He finally picked her up and tried to make her stand but she would just fall since she was already dead. He panicked and didn't know what to do. He made a shape of a chair out of the stack of hay. He made her sit and stand and he finally realized what had just happened. He knew he

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    Essay Length: 583 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 20, 2011

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