… from which the modern adjective 'weird' is derived, is a kind of synonym for 'fate'. Yet unlike the Greek concept - with everything preordained, predestined, fixed, wyrd is dynamic, active, a chaotic interweaving of choices and consequences, and sometime…

… small digits may turn January 1, 2000 from a worldwide celebration into a universal nightmare. With computers mistaking the year 2000 for 1900, virtually all businesses that use dates will be affected. Not only will the companies be affected, but…

… caring about the truth, they have the ability to throw the lights on for the reader.” (Anne Lamott) When a reader can see a situation in a distinct and realistic way that appeals to his emotion, he knows that the writer has written with great…

… “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” has a simple story line with great meaning against inflexibility. With outlandish humor Crane takes the town of Yellow Sky and their marshal Jack Potter through the change of time, proving nothing can stay stagnant.…

… Paper The Unnamed Woman Name, Identity and Self in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” Charlotte Perkins Gilman presents in the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” a narrator of dubious identity. If a reader infers that…

… Gilman In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the dominant/ submissive relationship between an oppressive husband and his submissive wife pushes her from depression into insanity. It is about the growing madness of a young…

… yesterdays world have a great deal of difference and only a spec of similiarties. Yesterdays world was more of a civilized place not including the act of war and unneccessary battles. Society is the topic of yesterdays and todays world. Years…

… on the main deck. I heard a loud crack from above. I ran up the stairs and what I saw shocked me. The small wooden boat was completely in flames! "Help, help, somebody please!" I slowly moved toward the sound being careful not to get caught in…

… Faith is accepting what you are taught or told without trying to prove or disprove it, rather than discovering it through experience. Atheism suggests that those who believe in God have blind faith-and they do. It has not been proven that God exists;…

… have problems with the community in which they live. Their conflicts are either with the people or the ideas of the community. In the story “Young Goodman Brown,” Nathaniel Hawthorne shows his main character having conflicts with his society.…