The author has great credibility and experience in her field and can easily back up her statements. ... The author's credibility is determined in a few ways throughout this text. ... She shows her view on this from a quote by Leon Kass, which states, "That's one of the big problems of the contemporary scene. ... Another error would be that the author seems to change her stance in the last paragraph. ... The author demonstrated her own credibility by telling the reader of her own experiences and occupation. ...

• Word Count: 1235
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The short story First Confession is about a problem, which is very relevant to be occupied with in our contemporary society. ... Secondly Frank O"Connor is one of the well-known Irish authors, and the story can very well be a incident from his own life and native country. ...

• Word Count: 618
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

She has a unique way that she deals with disrespect from those she meets along her journey, which has brought on criticisms from contemporary authors. ... She has dealt with disrespect from all that she met in this story, but also from contemporary critics who wrote about this story. ...

• Word Count: 1006
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" also is redeemed from derivativeness by its ties to specific historical backgrounds and to contemporary social and political issues. ... The haunting at the core of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is directly connected to social and historical dislocations attendant upon a contemporary phenomenon that at first would seem antithetical to ghost stories: a "great torrent of migration and improvement" (p. 274) that had particular salience in the New York area. ... It is even unclear who is the author of the story as the reader receives it: If the postscript explicitly ...

• Word Count: 1590
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The objects they carried often weighed of necessity to protect them from the bullets escaping the barrel of a Vietcong soldier and of the safety, although the author said it as "the illusion of safety" keeping their emotions from objects that kept themselves intact harboring their emotions at bay away from the others in the platoon (O'Brien 235). ... Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. ...

• Word Count: 1571
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

For a debut novel, it brought the author rare attention, first as a winner of the Governor-General's Award of Canada and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, then as an entry on the shortlist for the Booker Prize. ... As far as Parsi life goes, though, Mistry has some competition, because the Pakistani writer Bapsi Sidhwa, now a United States citizen, has written a robust novel that portrays this community during the colonial period, The Crow Eaters (1980), another that depicts a Parsi family in Lahore during the time of Partition in 1947, Cracking India (1991), and a third set in the postcolo...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For a debut novel, it brought the author rare attention, first as a winner of the Governor-General's Award of Canada and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, then as an entry on the shortlist for the Booker Prize. ... As far as Parsi life goes, though, Mistry has some competition, because the Pakistani writer Bapsi Sidhwa, now a United States citizen, has written a robust novel that portrays this community during the colonial period, The Crow Eaters (1980), another that depicts a Parsi family in Lahore during the time of Partition in 1947, Cracking India (1991), and a third set in the postcolo...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate