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… Scotland, Miss Jean Brodie--teacher extraordinaire--is unmistakably, and outspokenly, in her prime. She is passionate in the application of her unorthodox teaching methods, in her attraction to the married art master, Teddy Lloyd, in her affair…

… In a high school bathroom, a young girl is casually taking narcotics, the twelfth visitor that the lavatories have seen this day for the same purpose. A man peers into a bottle in a science lab as he pours more DNA samples into the container. As a woman…

… College of Morris " A&P " In "A&P", the supermarket represents the American Middle-Class Value System. This value system plays a major role in the lives of the customers and the townspeople. Conservativeness and old-fashio…

… of Spades is a complicated story about greed, the supernatural, love, desires and secrets. The card game in the story The Queen of Spades is one of the oldest games of chance. What I will try to determine is whether the Countess' seemingly real ghost…

… Anaya incorporates elements from his childhood and his emotions into the masterpiece, Bless Me, Ultima. As you read deeper and deeper into the book, you feel as though you are looking into the memories of the writer. You feel what the main character,…

… February 8, 1850 in St. Louis, MO. The daughter of an Irish father and a French Creole mother, the O'Flaherty's were members of the creole social elite and were fairly well off. When Kate was very young, her father Thomas died in a work-related accide…

… this is vividly and eloquently proved in Orwell's short novel. "Animal Farm" is a simple fable of great symbolic value, and as Orwell himself explained: "it is the history of a revolution that went wrong". The novel can be seen as the historical…

… remember the significance of Pechorin's struggle not only with social conventions, but also with concepts of fate and will. The context in The Fatalist provides the reader with the greatest significance of the confrontation between the opposing philosoph…

… two main characters, Vladimir and Estragon didn't accomplish anything through the entire book. Yet, when looking at the book through an existentialism view, the characters are portraying what the true meaning of like really means. The use of repetition…

… said that people pursue the "Great American Dream," but what exactly is it? For some it is getting rich quick, inventing something incredible, or simply living a good life and raising a family. Many also believe that one of life's goals is to write…