As the story unfolds we find that Emily is use to a life of prestige in her community living with her rich father who set the impression for her and the rest of the town that no man was really good enough for her. ... I say this because Homer Barron comes into town with a work party to fix the sidewalks where he is the white leader of this group of black workers. ... He also makes friends with everyone in town quickly. ... Than after a while some of the ladies of the town started thinking as Emily's father probably would have about their relationship saying, "it was a disgrace to the to...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As the story unfolds we find that Emily is use to a life of prestige in her community living with her rich father who set the impression for her and the rest of the town that no man was really good enough for her. ... I say this because Homer Barron comes into town with a work party to fix the sidewalks where he is the white leader of this group of black workers. ... He also makes friends with everyone in town quickly. ... Than after a while some of the ladies of the town started thinking as Emily's father probably would have about their relationship saying, "it was a disgrace to the to...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

African-Americans have a strong work ethic within our families. ... Within our families and community, there are more flexible roles, meaning that our parents do not necessarily have to be there all day everyday for us. Our grandparents, aunts, uncles, and sometimes cousins take on the role of mother and father while our real parents are working, out of town, or if for some reason our biological parents are no longer around. ... We sing, dance, shout, and cry during our service. ... The church is an extended family in our community, and this is seen in the fact that we call members of our c...

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He cannot say because he does not know and because he wants the reader to join "us"--"our whole town," "the rising generation," with its garages and its paved roads and its noses in everyone else's business. ... "A Rose for Emily" is about, among many other things, gossip, and Faulkner, through his narrator, tricks us into implicating ourselves as we gossip about his characters in a way that we usually reserve for neighbors--failing to truly understand them, revealing only our own phobias and fascinations. ...

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For most, we get our first taste of shunning in grade school. ... Because of these actions that are reported to the world around them, many people may shun a celebrity for what they have done in our society today. ... Hester was also given what was considered a "mild" punishment because during this time period of Puritan rule, the governments would have such people who committed adultery killed, atleast that's what the women in the town were discussing when Hester made her appearance on the scaffold. ... So the answer to whether or not public shunning is good or bad would have to be that ...

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Soon after, the seven women and three men quickly find themselves leaving town with only with an agenda to "pursue whatever pleasures and entertainments the present times would afford while shunning at all costs the lewd practices of their fellow citizens (16-17)." ... Overall, it appears as if Boccaccio is pointing out that as humans we must surrender to our sexual desires. ...

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The possibility of an amendment in our laws to permit homosexual couples to wed has at times affected people to agonize and to panic the unfamiliar. ... It is the indication by how they spoke to one another and acted towards one another, however that thought was disrupted by the reality that everyone in town saw Idgie as a man. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate