… passed down from grandmother to mother to daughter. In the novel, A Yellow in Blue Water, it was a tradition of their heritage, that Rayona, Christine, and Ida didn't forget. Braiding is mentioned throughout the entire novel in each story of the…

… Tramps in Mud Time" seems to display Robert Frost's narrow individualism. The poem, upon first reading it, seems incongruent, with some of the stanzas having no apparent connection to the whole poem. The poem as a whole also does not appear to…

… is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions." - Woody Allen Throughout his plays and poetry Shakespeare imbeds numerous and diverse themes, many of them relating to love, sexuality, life,…

… of class were a major part of people’s daily lives. Victorian views on class and of that time’s social division in general, are described in great detail by Charles Dickens in many of his novels published during the Victorian period. Dickens’ Oliver…

… on the plays of William Shakespeare and definitions of what kind of play they were. The two most popular would be the comedy and the tragedy. King Lear to some people may be a comedy because they believe that the play has been over exaggerated.…

… the primary concerns of the Enlightenment, it also criticizes certain aspects of the movement. It attacks the strain of optimism, religion, women, nobility, and colonialism. The name of the barony, Thunder-ten- tronckh, a guttural name that sounds…

… of 326 pages. Voltaire's Candide is the story of an innocent man's experiences in a mad and evil world, and his struggle to achieve happiness without having to work and taking the easy way out of all situations. Everyone has to work and eventually…

… States has been growing for years. Legislators, privately owned companies, school boards and community organizations are trying to come up with intelligent ways to rescue children from deteriorating public schools, particularly schools located…

… 1800’s there was an increase in immigration to the great plains due to an abundance of free land offered by the Homestead Act. Many individuals and families went west to seek their fortune and a home on what was once called the great American desert.…

… was both relatively well to do and fairly eccentric. Athletic and imposing, Beckett was also awkward and socially maladjusted. This all comes to play in "Endgame" where we see the twisted remains of two couples, interacting with a brutal vocabulary.…