… that breath-stopping mind-curdling moment of severe humiliation. The kind of cringer where even months later when you think of the incident your brain freezes while your lungs take in an involuntary gasp, and if someone is talking to you during this…

… is a very interesting novel. It is full of magic, knights, witches and all sorts of unknown evil. In the beginning of the novel, Gaultry, the heroine, is in the town on market day, she’s attacked on her way home, but is saved by a knight, sent by…

… that I liked most about Ralph Lombreglia’s (RL’s) writing is that this story was actual bits and pieces from his own life. Then he took those bits and pieces and made them into a work of fiction. Not only was the work interesting to read, it also…

… and The Wicked Queen, a character from the story “Little Snow-White,” both share the same fear that their one and only child would take over their lives when they grow up. This conspiracy of theirs relates to the oedipal conflict theory, that a boy…

… stories are very similar. They both have characters that act the same way. As a matter of fact you would have thought the same person had written both stories. From Romeo and Tony to Tybalt and Bernardo the characters play the same role. Did the…

… real introduction to linguistics. I have been exposed to many new ideas and concepts. I now realize that there are many important factors concerning language that I was completely ignorant of. With my new found knowledge I have begun to notice the…

… in the novel The Awakening through the consistent use of aviary symbolism. Throughout the story she cleverly weaves images and descriptions of birds to express the psychological state of mind of her main character, Edna Pontellier. Perhaps the…

… rich and dramatic than that of any other of Shakespeare’s plays. Woven throughout the tragedy, are the recurring images of darkness, blood, and sleep. These images aid in portraying the evilness and the moral disintegration of the murdering tyrant…

… Laínez, was a member of the minor nobility (infanzones) of Castile. But the Cid's social background was less unprivileged than later popular tradition liked to suppose, for he was directly connected on his mother's side with the great landed aristocracy,…

… among men. His name was Eckules and his mission was to defeat the undefeated, to conquer the unconquerable. Eckules, son of Hercules and Queen Elizabeth II, had the strength of a thousand men and the courage of ten thousand. He feared nothing…