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…171) Poe did offer to posterity one tale with a moral. Written in 1841 at the dawn of Poe's most creative period, Poe delivers to his readers a satirical spoof, a literary Bronx cheer to writers of moralistic fiction, and to critics who expressed…

…Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., is the tale of a gawky World War II veteran/soldier, Billy Pilgrim. His wartime experiences and their effects lead him to the ultimate conclusion that war is unexplainable. To portray this effectively, Vonnegut…

…Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., is the tale of a gawky World War II veteran/soldier, Billy Pilgrim. His wartime experiences and their effects lead him to the ultimate conclusion that war is unexplainable. To portray this effectively, Vonnegut…

…Arthur Miller is one of the leading American playwrights of the twentieth century and a celebrity of nearly equal notoriety. He was born in October of 1915 in New York City, the son of a ladies-wear manufacturer who was ruined during the economic…

…William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" is a very sad story of two young lovers who take their lives after their families make it to difficult for them to live together in peace and happiness. The question in this epic tale is who was responsible…

…at high school and universities. There other reasons are the plot development and characters and their development. The action of Romeo and Juliet involves two carefully balanced groups of characters. At the head of the two feuding families of Verona…

…of these tales contain references to Poe’s past in their plots. The Ushers, the main characters in "The Fall of the House of Usher" were named after two good friends and co-workers of Poe’s birth parents. They were Noble Luke Usher and Harriet L’estrange Usher…

…of export of supplies of war in two great wars"2. The Mont Blanc was carrying over two thousand five hundred tons of benzol fuel, TNT, picric acid, and gun cotton ready to be shipped to the war effort. After all of the years of Halifax being a war city…

…What do you make of the various versions of Cinderella? Why do you think this story is so appealing to so many around the world? "Cinderella" is arguably best-known fairy tale in the word. There are many various versions but all of them share the idea…

…Edgar Allan Poe is one of the leading figures of American literature. He is known as a poet and a critic, but is most famous as the first master of the short story form, especially tales of the mysterious and gruesome. In Poe’s poems, like his tales…