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Dominance and the Quest for Self in Alice Walker’s ‘Everyday Use’ and Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Hills Like White Elephants’ Alice Walker’s Everyday Use” and Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills like White Elephants” feature characters of different genders who strive to attain a sense of identity and individuality. In “Everyday Use,” Dee attempts to carve out her own place…

Walt Whitman was an American Poet who was very influential and controversial due to his sexual imagery in his works. He’s a bold poet who brings to light shameless sexual desires and homosexuality that no one before him have since it was seen to be scandalous and unusual during his time. The theme of sexuality…

In this story “Everyday Use,” Alice Walker gives us a great story about grandmothers. Education was very rare in the nine teen forties and African American mothers made sacrifice to take care of their families. This story will allow a person to realize that everyone has a mind of its own and it needs to…

Literature is relevant because it helps the person better comprehend what he or she is reading rather than just skimming through it. In our everyday lives, we use literature for critical thinking purposes. It helps us see ourselves see from a third-person point of view. Literary fiction creates a large amount of pure entertainment by…

In her book “ Poverty, Chastity, and Change ” , the writer Carole Garibaldi Rogers interviewed 94 nuns from 40 different spiritual communities in North America. She gathered unwritten histories sing the nun ’ s academic, spiritual, and emotional troubles that were encountered throughout their lives. Each interview lasted a twosome of hours and three…

Note on The Great Gatsby Chapter One The narrator, Nick Carraway, begins the novel by commenting on himself: he says that he is very tolerant, and has a tendency to reserve judgment. Carraway comes from a prominent Midwestern family and graduated from Yale; therefore, he fears misunderstanding those who haven’t enjoyed his advantages. He attempts…

The world works in mysterious ways. This class has determines that people must be able to adapt to environmental changes if they are to survive. The inability to adapt has proven to be the collapse of a particular society time and time again. This essay traces the rise of Cahokia and Chaco Canyon and the…

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born in 1842 into a fairly poor family as the youngest of nine children. He lived in a log cabin in Horse Cave Creek, Ohio as a child. The only formal education he ever received was a single year at the Kentucky Military Institute when he was seventeen years of age….

Bulgakov’s Heart of a Dog is tale of creative personality who in true essence is noble, yet arrogant creative effort ends if not in tragedy, then at least in moral ambiguity. This is an exceptionally interesting novel in terms of construction, a sci-fi novel. Bulgakov wrote this novel by the end of World War I,…

In the novel Moby-Dick Captain Ahab represents aspects of capitalism in many ways. One of the most prominent ways is through his single-minded quest to kill Moby Dick and his methods of convincing the crew to go along with his plan. It is true that by going on this quest of revenge the Pequod would…