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…again left with no other option but to fight for survival, a hopeless fight that would bring nothing for his people but extinction. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a work of non-fiction, attempts to tell the story of the American West from…

…and symbolism in three of his short stories, “The Black Cat”, “The Cask of Amontillado”, and “The Tell-Tale Heart”. The short story “The Black Cat”, written by Poe, has a plot which is based on irony. The biggest contributor of this is the love that the narrator has…

…that these incidents tend to become the heart of the plays, rather than character development. Melodramatic plays began in France with Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Pygmalion which was first performed in 1770. Dion Boucicault was a nineteenth century playwright who wrote…

…confession, to an implied listener, of a crime that has tortured him for fifty years. At the conclusion of the tale, the apparently remorseless Montresor recounts the sudden sickening of heart he felt at the end " - on account of the dampness of the catacombs…

…tale of Camelot and King Arthur, putting a human face on the mythical character of Merlin, and allowing him to stand as a character in his own right. The cast is simply…

…The Letter and Human Frailty Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author of The Scarlet Letter, tells a tale of human frailty and sorrow through each and every character. When you first meet Hester Prynne, the main character, she seems quite innocent. Only…

…Essay on The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara Toni Cade Bambara's The Lesson is a very well written piece of history. This is a story from yesterday, when Harlem children didn't have good education or the money to spring for it. Bambara's tale tells about…

…Many movies charm us with their age-old tale of boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, both live happily ever after. The Rules of Attraction however, does anything but this. Rules is not the typical teeny-bopper gross out college comedy…

…first speaks to Hamlet. “I am thy father’s spirit Doomed for a certain term to walk the night And for the day confined to fast in fires Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid To tell…

…The most common tale we hear of lawyers today is one of fast-rising, high-billing, no-feeling type of lawyers. Most people overlook the lawyers that do pro-bono work. (That is work for free for the charity of those who can't afford it.) Michael Brock…