… written be Kate Chopin, is not an awakening but a tragic event. If one takes into consideration the emotions and pain that Edna felt they may begin to understand what it was that drew her to her own demise in the sea. It may even become clear…

… a link into the Kiowa culture that otherwise would have been lost. His emphasis throughout the piece is concentrated mainly on his grand mother who had just passed away. Her death represents the death of the Kowa culture. She was the last to dance…

… two different time periods, in the first story involving June, she depicts an ideal women of that time period as being independent and relying on herself, but as in the case of the other stories the children had lots of respect for their parents and…

… may never know if their creation will be popular, liked, or just plain forgotten, but they can rely on one simple fact, that no matter what eventually someone is going to read their book and criticize it in one way or another. There are many different…

… patented in 1914 by the German drug company called Merck (Eisner, 1994). It was thought that this drug could be used as an appetite suppressant. In the 1970s, it was given to psychotherapy patients because it helped them open up and talk about their…

… Juliet, by William Shakespeare, love probably first comes to their mind and surfaces in their discussion. Love, however, can represent different things to different people. Love, like fire, can be either purifying or destructive. In this play, Shakespe…

… and activities directed against Jews. The term is now used to denote speech and behavior that is derogatory to people of Jewish origin, whether or not they are religious. The word Semitic originally was applied to all descendants of Shem, the…

… Fitzgerald, a major theme is the American Dream versus Gatsby’s dream, the ideal dream, and the corruption and destruction of the dream. Fitzgerald reveals that the American Dream was transformed from a pure idea of security into a scheme of materialisti…

… no future/ It is and that's all it needs to be..." (Bach). In Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim, Jim must release his notions of perfection in order to begin his “downward path” toward truth. Before Jim can descend into a heightened realm of truth and existence…

… like Greece’s Plato have claimed that the highest ethical good is universal. They believed in objective values or pre-determined moral codes. The Nineteenth-century Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard reacted against this tradition, claiming…