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…Does power corrupt? In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Miller takes his readers on a journey back to 1692 to revisit the Salem witchcraft trials. He cleverly portrays a small Puritan town and the disappearance of their commitment to each other…

…first hand much of this migration to the West and he wrote many books pertaining to his home state. Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath are two such examples, examining two very different migrant families during the 1930s. Steinbeck's books have often…

…. Brief History of Joan of Arc At the time of Joan's childhood the land of France was caught up in the Hundred Year's War. Joan's home town of Domremy was placed somewhat in between the forces of the English…

…of the prejudice, lifestyle, and attitude of an average southern town. There are several crucial carachters in To Kill A Mockingbird and it would take forever and a day to do each one justice. However the most (not only) important carachters are Atticus Finch…

…was fasting and therefore in a state of blessing (105, 1958). Ramadan begins when the new moon appears. The mullahs (Muslim religious teachers) in their respective holy shrines from town watch the sky for several days before and when the chief mullah sees the new…

…with everything else in his fantastical summer, and Ray Bradbury expertly gives the same sense of wonderment to death as he gives to life. (Bradford 69)         The ravine that divides the center of town in Dandelion Wine, bringer of death and home of the Unseen…

…. As a fisherman, Nick is greatly moved by the place he has been fishing and all the experience related to the fishing itself. <Tab/>In the very beginning of the first part of the story the author gives the full picture of the remains of a town, which…

…“When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old manservant – a combined…

…“When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old manservant – a combined…

…concept as long as the individual can accept and move on with the changes in the modern world. The acceptance of change is noted to include your home also. Emily Grierson's house was not modern inside or out. "It was a big, squarish frame house that had once…