Sheridan Le Fanu was born 1814 in Dublin, Ireland, attended Dublin University and apart from brief periods to the contrary spent most of his life in that city; as a result much of his work is deeply entrenched in Irish folklore. ... Due to word count restraints I will only be able to examine these two tales in depth. ... Dr Hesselius is a unique an important and character within the stories and within the tradition of Victorian Supernatural tales as well. ... At the tales outset she is gleefully anticipating the arrival of a new friend whom will be staying in the castle for a brief period. ...

• Word Count: 1988
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He witnesses two strange little men wandering the city under cover of night. ... Two days later the dealership called him at about five or so in the afternoon. ... I started thinking of Bangor, where I had lived, with its strange canal bisecting the city, and decided that the bridge could be the city, if there was something under it. What's under a city? ... Here I found a rather steep slope littered with auto parts and a brawling stream at the foot. ...

• Word Count: 1845
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The teachers aren't allowed to tell fairy tales in school, if they do, they are immediately fired and/or stoned. ... "For 6 and 30 moons past" the two sides have been at war, With this event in the story, Swift satirizes the needless bickering and fighting between the two nations, by using the egg breaking difference, instead of the language difference between England and France. ... And, most importantly, note that Gulliver stopped his game when someone got hurt. ... The first thing Gulliver does in Chapter IV is visit the capital city, Mildendo. Again, he is tremendously impressed b...

• Word Count: 1949
• Approx Pages: 8

After reading through all these, I consulted my notes and selected the information and passages I would later need. ... After carefully selecting the texts and reading through my notes. ... Some people have ascribed the writer of these two works to be Luke, the Physician of Antioch and is widely accepted to be that. ... Thus the author used two Greek words, theos which means God and phillen, which means to love. ... A tanner in those days was considered unclean and was forced to live near the city. ...

• Word Count: 2418
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Present-day interpretations of these tales are often moot regarding woman's status, but the ideas of the stories vastly impacted Greece's history. ... We get our first detailed descriptions of the Greek deities in these epic tales. ... People who lived full time in the country were considered inferior to the city dwellers that also worked the fields, but lived in the cities. ... Not all city-states arrived at the democratic stage like Athens. ... Athens and Sparta became not only the two largest city-states, but perhaps the most diametrical opposites. ...

• Word Count: 7196
• Approx Pages: 29
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Much like a fairy tale Sylvia was taken out of her hard life in the city and brought to the country by her grandmother. ... This story uses the fairy tale like method as it centers on a young child and uses the country and wood setting often seen is fairy tales. ... When he found out the reason for the change he knew how happy it made the two women to be working that he could not even be angry. The two women in this story choose to do what makes them happy and gives them satisfaction only after a near tragedy. ... She begins locking her door to avoid his calls so he leaves notes. ...

• Word Count: 4562
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School

Weshoven quotes "veiled happiness- from page 223, taking two words out of context to support her argument. ... Although the relationship of Priscilla to Coverdale is important because it is through his eyes that we, the readers, see the story, their relationship is not as important as the two to be discussed below, because, as Coverdale says, "Priscilla's heart was deep, but of small compass; it had room but for a very few dearest ones, among whom she never reckoned me- (133). ...

• Word Count: 4739
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography

Kingston's mother tells her the story as a cautionary tale, in the years Kingston begins to menstruate. ... In times of plenty, notes Kingston, adultery might have been "only a mistake"; when the villagers needed everyone to work together to provide food, however, it became a crime. ... (Note that for Kingston's mother, the word "ghost" is used in the opposite sense, to refer to the Americans themselves.) ... (Note that the fantasy is written in the first-person, in the present tense. ... The girl yearns to save her husband and brother, but her mentors tell her she is not ready, ...

• Word Count: 6134
• Approx Pages: 25

Whereas the Chartist is described by Carlyle as one to who "the four-and-twenty letters of the Alphabet are still Roman enigmas to him-, Bleak House notes how it must be strange for a figure like Jo "to see people read and not to have the least idea of all that language -to be every scrap of it, stone blind and dumb". ... "Jo and his order" (BH 258) are in may wqys similar to the characters portrayed in A Tale of Two Cities. ... Unlike the two women who are softened, albeit shocked, by the compassion shown by Esther and Ada, the men's hearts have hardened. ...

• Word Count: 3779
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography

The government gave limited funding for their schools and the city was segregated. ... When Jefferson died, sally spent two years at Monticello due to the law that she had to stay until 2 years wore up. ... There were two types of slave music in the United States: a secular music that consisted of field hollers, shouts, and moans that used folk tales and folk motifs, and that made use of homemade instruments from the banjo (which became a standard American instrument in the 19th century, largely through minstrelsy), tambourine, and calabashes to washboards, pots, spoons, and the like. ... The...

• Word Count: 3713
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

The English patient longs to "walk upon such an earth that had no maps" (261) while, in his incarnation as Almasy, maps were his raison d'etre, a way to translate the world into two-dimensional space, to "fill the world with writing." ...

• Word Count: 6215
• Approx Pages: 25
• Grade Level: High School

To better illustrate the crippling impact of conspiracy theories as they pertain to efforts and to the African American community, take note of a survey conducted by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. ... Poez (1997) notes key elements on advancing conspiracies, one of which is victimhood. ...

• Word Count: 9660
• Approx Pages: 39
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School