This short story Harrison Bergeron is a satire of the USA today. ... However, despite all this, they do not, and cannot make a person thoughtless, or control his thoughts, and that is why this is the most oppressive law in the story. ... Many times in the story, George Harrison is on the verge of having an independent, and possibly slightly rebellious thought, and his brain is rattled with a loud piercing sound. ...

• Word Count: 380
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In "The Cask Of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe, the personality of Montresor is explicitly demonstarted to the audience through numerous literary techniques employed by Poe throughout the story. ... This frame of mind carries through Poe's short story as we are taken down a road of Montresor's one track mind. ... As previously mentioned, it is obvious that Montresor dislikes Fortunado from the very opening of the story, however as we read further we see the deeply homicidal and blood lustful aspects of Montresor's thought process. ... But he wants it on his own terms, and to re...

• Word Count: 524
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The poet and author Nathaniel Hawthorne illustrates these natural truths in the outward appearance of a short story titled " My Kinsman, Major Molineux." ... The story is divided by the first person point of view of Robin, along with several omniscient third person remarks from the narrator, projecting future events yet to come. ... The story takes place during the early events leading up to the American Revolution. ... Nonetheless, the central idea of the story could not fully come to surface, without the exemplary use of language techniques. The language that Hawthorne uses to help def...

• Word Count: 1004
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Night Face Up by Julio Cortazar is a short story written back in 1967, and "Go Back to Where You Came From" director by Ivan O'Mahoney are both very similar as they explore different worlds of various perspectives. ... " This new sensation of smelling foreshadows the ending of the story, in which the protagonist realises that the dream is actually reality. ... In the final moments of the story in which the protagonist is being held prisoner and a figure is approaching him with a knife, he comes to the startling realization that this is not a dream. ... Raye makes a conn...

• Word Count: 1104
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In my view the absence of these vital features of structure are a let down for the reader's expectations, but it is made up for by a sizzling background story filled with love, betrayal and murder. ... An interesting and distinctive point of the structure is the development of chapter length from short to long as the book progresses. ... Sometimes not conforming to Standard English language conventions and thinking a bit outside the square can lead to a more believable and appealing story....

• Word Count: 1041
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A global study was done years ago by the New Economics Foundation to find out the long pondered question, which country is the, "happiest". Costa Rica, surprisingly, is ranked first as the world's happiest country. Costa Rica ranks 71 in the World's richest countries so how can they be so, "happy," (Greenfield)? According to the New Economics Foundation, "Costa Ricans report the highest life satisfaction in the world and have the second-highest average life expectancy of the new world (second to Canada)" (Kristof). Despite the perfect climate, and la...

• Word Count: 2338
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate