In the story "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky", by Stephen Crane, we are introduced to a newlywed couple traveling from San Antonio to their hometown of Yellow Sky. ... As we see from conversation between saloon owner and one of the visitors, that Scratchy Wilson often goes on a shooting rampages when he is drunk, and the only person who can tame him is Jack Potter. ... Jack allowed him to let the steam out, to get back to the days when he was a part of "old gang that used to hang out along the river". (46) One might even say that Jack and Scratchy are not so different. ... But as Jack says, "I&...

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In the novel Go Tell It On the Mountain, by James Baldwin, religion is a central theme, and three main characters struggle with religion in three different, but similar, ways, as each struggle to live by God's laws. ... In that final scene, John is stricken on the floor of his church and goes through a transformation: John realizes that he and God can have a direct relationship, a relationship of which Gabriel is not a member. ... I'm going to serve the lord." ... Though Gabriel truly wants to abide by God's laws, when it comes down to the harder, temptation-challenging, choice...

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Why, go on and get them fulfilled somewhere else. ... She too was dumbfounded, more so at the fact that Diego had not told her yet, and come clean. ... But, he did not succeed at killing him, just critically injuring him, and in doing so brought Victoria back to him. She forgave him and they now are back in love. ... He has cheated on throughout those marriages, numerous times, but they seem to just keep enduring the worst and she keeps going back but, she does not know yet about the passionate kiss that her daughter in law and husband have recently exchanged. ...

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Many questions will come in everybody's mind like: are you in a very satisfy relationship, career choices, in a good financial situation or in other aspects of your life? ... For most of us are some days that we want to change everything and to go back in time, I would say that the same thing happen and to me sometimes. ... I am going back to school. When I see my friends that are teachers now and working, I am like 'I want to go back in my country and work there' but I can't go back there anymore because I have my new family and they are here. ... I hope to finish my sc...

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My dad came back from work at 5:00, and went to church at 6:00. Then, he got a letter saying that he won the lottery, for a school he applied for in America, and that he was able to come, expenses paid. ... My parents thought that they would come back to Africa, but then, they thought, let's just start afresh. ... So, after some time, my dad started going to school. ... A couple of years later, my dad went back to school, and is currently still in college now. ...

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The plot of my story is about two gods that were going to marry but when they got to the wedding ceremony so that the god of marriage could make them husband and wife, the god of marriage turned at them with a sad face and told them that their marriage would not last for long because Eurydice was going to die. ... When Orpheus came back he couldn't believe that the prophecy and come true. ... He knew he could get her back by going to the underworld and bringing her back to the living world. ... Orpheus kept on going when he saw a river that carried all the dead souls to eternal pain becau...

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It's well known that marriage was very different back in Elizabethan times. ... When Petruchio comes to Baptista to tell him he wants to marry Katherine, Batista tells Petruchio that he must first win Katherine's love. ... When Petruchio and Katherine are at their wedding banquet, he tells her that they must go. when asked why he can't go and she can stay he replies that "She is my goods"(Act 3, scene 2, line 236) he compares her to his house and his ox like she's an inanimate object or an animal. ... Marriage has changed a lot since back then. ... Though love ma...

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The Factory was sucking the life out of her husband and she wanted him back. The narrator's jealousy comes from the factory consuming his life and priorities. ... "Eric always goes to bed early.... When Eric comes home from work, there is no communication between them. ... She was ecstatic seeing the Factory burn down, because in that moment, she knew she would have her husband back....

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He goes ballistic and almost beats the man to death. ... He promises that in a year, he will come back to marry her. ... That is why he took the baby and never looked back. ... He went to Almita's to tell her that he was back. ... He comes back the next day and attacks Jose with a switchblade. ...

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When I arrived at his house, he met me at the door and asked me to come in and have a seat on the couch, I was a little worried at this time. ... When we finally broke apart and I sat back down on the couch, he took the ring from its small black box and placed it on my finger. ... I have to go now, because I have so many others to tell," I explained to my grandparents. ... The evening breeze hit my small body, sending shivers up my back. ... My mind focused on my proposal, and my life to come with my fiancee. ...

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In chapter two, The Mother's Mother, the book goes back in time. ... I shall come back to your household, but as a legitimate daughter. I shall come back- Soon after the funeral Ona becomes pregnant with Nnu Ego and the baby is allowed to stay with her father because the baby is a girl because if the baby were a boy he would become her father daughter since he never had a boy. ... A friendly neighbor assist in feeding and nursing them back to health. ... Chapter 16- A Mother of clever Children Summary: Oshia was going off t...

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It doesn't go quit as planned, however and he ends up being the hero the turned the battle around. ... John Dunbar's choice is to go west to the Indian frontier. ... The white soldiers did come and the tribe had to move. Dances with Wolves tried to go back for his journal so that no one would track them, but ended up getting trapped. He eventually got to go back to the tribe once he was rescued by some of the Indians. ...

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The same thing goes for wives too. ... Domestic violence is not something that has come up all of the sudden. ... Many men would go out and get drunk, and when they came home, they would beat their wives in a drunken state. ... There is also a controversy when it comes to domestic violence. ... She divorced him but he kept coming back to her still threatening her. ...

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"If you work hard, good things will come your way", was a motto he often told himself when times got rough. ... Many men, including him, had a family back home. ... Times got extremely difficult when he was put back on sea duty. ... Finally, the time had come when he was forced to make a decision: retire or leave for another six-months. ... Pittman insisted that "he was not going to go back to sea", so to make her and the children happy, he decided to retire after twenty-three long years. ...

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The first story I am going to talk about is Everyday Use. ... She sees things in the world that she wants and goes after them. ... When Dee comes home she is with a man who her mother seems to think is her husband. ... Other than that she never wanted to come back that house. ... She has never stood up or back talked to Dee in her life. ...

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Is it possible for things to go wrong in this society? ... Cassia has always trusted the government choices for her life, but as time goes on, she begins to understand all the bad things about her society, and comes to see that by removing people's self determination, the society has a created a pseudo life, where inner desires aren't realized.  ... In our society and Cassia's society, the basics are the same when it comes to family love and romantic love. ... Plus, we don't know where information is going, or how its going to be used. ... Websites like facebook with our e...

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Back home in India, Lata was happy, energetic and funny. ... Let's go home." ... She was brought back to the present () Lata sat in the car and burst into tears. ... When she comes back from the movie that almost brought her back to India for three hours, she sits in the car, and begins to cry. ... This is also the case In The Boss Came To Dinner, where the mother and the son are also very different when it comes to culture. ...

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Leonce, also views Edna as a piece of property; he never really spends time with her but he expects her to come when he calls. One example from the story is when Edna wants to stay out on the porch and Leonce keeps ordering her to come back in the house. ... The Pontellier family leaves to go back to the city after the summer with no word from Robert. Adele and Edna become good friends over the summer, and their relationship continues when they go back to the city in the fall. ... She was meant to be an artist and live freely without anything holding her back. ...

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Interpretation of chapter 17 Holden and Sally go on date, Holden waits for her in the lobby of the matinee. ... Instead of going to a "matinee" they go to a movies. ... We"ll make he come out of the bathroom fixing her hair and she"ll be wearing jeans and a very cute top to match the shoes. ... We are keeping the part of when they go out to smoke a cigarette . so when they go back to the lobby, sally sees a guys she knew from the past and runs to him to say hi. ... Holden feels like he hates her by the time that she came back from hugging him. ...

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She "...cries every day for the man who left without even leaving a dollar for bologna or a note explaining how come." ... "She sit at home because she is afraid to go outside with out his permission."... " "... she comes over black and blue..." ... She is very homesick and wants to go back home, but can't. ... (p. 77) She does not want to improve her English vocabulary in fear of loosing her hope of ever going back home. ...

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With the help of my sponsor and my family I started making plans to go back to school to start a new career. ... I began attending church and going to the gym on a regular basis. ... I often look back at my past and the big mistakes I had made. ... I would never turn back to the person I was before. I have come a long way and have made better choices. ...

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They were used to the old master's easy going and indulgent lifetime. ... Madame Valmonde sent for her daughter to come home to her with the baby. Desiree asked Armand what she should do, so he told her to go. Desiree walked out with her baby into the bayou and never came back. ... Strangely there was a letter in the back addressed to his father from his mother. ...

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These types of fighters are very few and far between, but when one comes around they say it is very hard to beat one because they can counter your every move. ... We would take weekend trips to places like Chattanooga Tennessee or Charlotte North Carolina just to go and have fun, we would go to different NASCAR races from Nashville and Bristol to Talladega and Indianapolis. We would go to so many big sporting events like Titians or Volunteer football, Predators hockey, and many more. One day coming home from a NASCAR race in Indianapolis, my dad told me of a fight he was going to be in and th...

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He is a salesman, and when he is away on business, all she does is wait for him to come home. She has no ides of what goes on behind her back. ... When he goes out on business trips, he has a girlfriend to keep him occupied. ... He had flunked a class and goes to tell Willy, who does not expect him there. ... "Either he's your father and you pay him that respect, or else you're not to come here (Linda, p55)."" ...

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The reader may come to this conclusion by a few lines at the beginning of the story. ... As he walked back along the halls he thought of Luz in his bed"(359). ... The man goes to America to get a job so that he and she can get married. ... While he is there, however, some things do not go as he intended. ... Luz is paid back for her actions when she has to realize that the major only used her and he was not going to marry her. ...

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