However, in the short story "Hills like White Elephants" Ernest Hemingway uses abortion not to represent the liberation of women but their oppression by using an argument between a couple to open our eyes to the exploitation of women, within American Society. Similarly, Russell Banks uses an argument about this same issue to expose the mistreatment of Minorities within society in his short story "Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat". ... When reading a story it is important to decide what issues the author is discussing, in his story Hemingway makes it clear that the only issue ...

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Flannery O"Connor's "Everything that Rises Must Converge" tells the story of a middle-aged white lady, the descendant of an aristocratic slave-holding family in the deep south, that is on a journey to the YWCA to attend a "reducing class" that was recommended to lower her blood pressure. ... The theme of the story is that of the plague of social bigotry of the people of the South in the time of desegregation. O"Connor suggests to us, not only in the title but, throughout this short story that people often resist to growing away from egoism towards self-awareness and love for all humank...

• Word Count: 806
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The Comet and Aye and Gomorrah are two science fiction short stories that discuss racism and sexuality in post-apocalypses, respectively. ... Additionally, both Du Bois and Delany make use of apocalyptic language and set stories in post-apocalyptic situations; however, their apocalyptic language is presented differently and used for different purposes. ...

• Word Count: 2007
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Writer Ralph Ellison, through the use of symbolism, often conveyed the realistic difficulties of being African American in a society monopolized by whites males. Ellison's short story, "Battle Royal" cleverly uses symbolism to illuminate the struggle for equality for African Americans. These distinc...

• Word Count: 677
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The effect of using "I" and "cool" so many times and right next to each other gives the reader a sense of the reader's tone, mainly an air of deserved superiority that may initially seem pompous of the author but provokes the reader into continuing the story in order to ascertain if these claims can be proven true. ... He starts out his fourth paragraph using, "Once upon a time ." only to describe the story of how "niggas" came to be, and how they differ from black people. ... The use of short sentences throughout the whole first paragraph illustrates for the reader an importance with wh...

• Word Count: 1153
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I am just a poor boy, Though my story's seldom told, I have squandered my resistance For a pocketful of mumbles, Such are promises. ... "A True Story- exhibits the cruelty and dehumanization faced by slaves, displaying Twain's sincere empathy concerning the "black condition."" ... In short, she becomes "the dupe of her own deceptions."" ...

• Word Count: 3141
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Durham NC, Carolina Academic Press, 2011) provides a unique and informative source of stories, poems, and discussion from such varying artists as Lord Byron, Helen Keller and H.G. ... Roosevelt (American president) and Stephen Hawking an author, physicist, and mathematician who wrote A Short History of the Universe. ...

• Word Count: 905
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1.3) Contextual Introduction Born in Dakar in the year 1945, Mbaye is an artist Senegalise contemporary painter, sculptor and art teacher. He goes by the nickname "Tita" and used to be an assistant and then a professor of plastic arts at the Academy of Arts of Dakar and a graduate of the Arts Education High School (Magnin, 1996:88). He completed an internship in cartooning and set design under the aegis of the French Community of Belgium. It is important to note that very little information is available on Mbaye because of his isolated location in Africa. It is known that he has a pa...

• Word Count: 3101
• Approx Pages: 12
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate