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In Margaret Atwood’s Ka-Ching!, the passage has a nostalgic and contemplative tone as she reflects on her first job. She fondly recalls the small hotel coffee shop where she worked, describing it as clean, well-lighted, with booths, counters, and waitresses. Despite it being perceived as a challenging experience, Atwood looks back on it with fondness….

As an ancient style of body adornment, body piercing practices have been important for cultural rituals and as expressions of beauty (Shaffer, “Origins of Body Piercing”). II. Cultural Reasoning A. There are many cultural reasoning for the nose piercing, throughout ancient history to today’s society. 1 . The practice of nose piercing is still followed…

THE lesser tragic writers of this period, uninspired as most of their work seems when judged on its own merits, fall inevitably to a still lower level by comparison with the amazing literary powers of their great leader, Dryden. They have all his faults and only a small and occasional admixture of his strength and…

‘Macbeth’ is a play of witchcraft, deceit, and murder. Written for King James I in 1606 by William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616), the play lives on to capture the imaginations of audiences almost 400 years later. It talks of a King, made so through treason, and impassioned by his greed and ambition, and his wife…

Question Number One             In his introductory essay on Homer’s The Odyssey, Bernard Knox states that the term ‘odyssey’ refers to “a series of adventurous journeys usually marked by many changes of fortune” (3).Knox claims that this definition of the term was derived from the Greek word ‘odusseia’ which may be literally understood as “the…

Three characters from different stories are explored in this essay: the husband from Raymond Carver’s Cathedral, the narrator from Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper,  and Connie from Joyce Carol Oates’ Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? All three characters changed throughout the course of the story as a result of their decision…

The writer I have chosen to discuss is John Keats, a romanticist. Out of all the composers we have analyzed, I believe his ideas are the most effectively conveyed. Specifically, I have examined “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” “Ode on Melancholy,” and “Ode to Autumn.” Comparisons can be made between these poems as they contain…

One of the many people that get stereotyped are the African Americans or “Blacks” such as Maharani Bailey. Maharani is a 27 year old African American man from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Police stopped bailey four times between 2008 through 2010 while he was driving his Range Rover. What the police did not know was that he…

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall Plot Summary At the start of the story, Granny Weatherall, who is in her eighties, is lying in bed and being looked after by Dr. Harry and her adult daughter, Cornelia. Despite feeling annoyed by their care, it becomes clear that Granny is seriously ill and unaware of how serious…

John Steinbeck’s’, The Grapes of Wrath is read as a direct allegation of the U.S. capitalist system of the early and mid twentieth century. Although the book on the surface can easily be read as an anti-capitalist book, it goes further than that. The book both essentially and unusually supports structural changes in the economic…