… mainly focuses on the characters and what part they play in this short story. It also addresses key points in the text. The short story "First Dance" is a realistic, challenging story. It is different from most short stories I have read, as I can relate…

… rid themselves of the pollutants associated with womanhood and take in the fluids that are necessary to becoming a man (Herdt). This rite of passage is based on the idea that women are pollution to men and when a boy becomes a man he must rid himself…

… the unlawful murder of Eratosthenes. This essay, or argument, is being used as the speech that Euphiletus must present on his own behalf at his trial, and it has been prepared for him by the famous writer Lysias. The issue at hand is whether or not…

… to me. She has been there for me since day one. My mother is a loving, caring, beautiful, and funny person. She has to have the characterictics because mothers are supposed to be that way. My mother is a teacher at a junior high school wh loves…

… the servants of the feuding noble families of Capulet and Montague. Benvolio, a Montague, tries to stop the fighting, but is himself embroiled when the rash Capulet, Tybalt, arrives on the scene. After citizens outraged by the constant violence…

… Walker tells a tale of how a daughter’s idea of heritage is distorted by society, and how her true heritage lies within her family. Walker conveys this theme by narrating the story from what is apparent to be the mother’s point of view of how Dee,…

… accepted the worst, we have nothing more to loose. And that automatically means we have everything to gain. ‘‘dale carnegie’’ This quotation has a very practical importance. I think that, sometimes, many people come to some point of life when they…

… character plot of good and evil. Iago is a male officer that is under the rule of Othello, the Moor. Iago represents evil in all of its glory. He is a demented man with only the selfish goal of furthering himself and ruining others that get…

… Jay Gatsby is portrayed as an individual who strives to achieve the American Dream through acts that would otherwise corrupt a common person in the 1920’s. F. Scott Fitzgerald, however, lived his life in the 1920s with ambition, devotion, and perseveran…

… and "I am Twenty-One" by Mary Robinson both main characters have suffered severe loses that have altered their lives as well as the lives around them. Although their losses are some what different, their emotions and what they feel are quite similar.…