The reader can observe that Vashti practically worships the machine. ... Today, you can work from home, attend school from home, you can do just about anything in the comfort of your own home. ... Why walk or travel all the way to a library when we can just download what we need by one click on our devices? ... Everyone is too content with staying home. ... This fact can be verified by looking at all the virtual communication products and services we have today that were developed by us. ...

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The first perspective is that of Homer and the modern generation. ... Homer Barron is a cheerful character, a northerner, an outsider.Whenever you heard a lot of laughing anywhere about the square, Homer would be in the center of the group.? ... Emily fears that Homer's love will die away. ... so that she can still feel his love every night. Homer Barron ends up being Miss Emily's dried rose. ...

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Understanding the social life of a certain time can give the reader a greater knowledge base to understand the story. ... Before buying the arsenic, she came out form her isolation to date with Homer Baron, a northerner who was contracted by the town to pave the sidewalks and after she bought it, the town stopped seeing Homer Baron "A neighbour saw the Negro man admit him at the kitchen door at dusk one evening. And that was the last we saw Homer Baron" this passage makes the reader supposes that Emily killed Homer Baron with the arsenic. ... On a table is the grooming set for Homer ...

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Three days later Emily finally allows for the body to be removed from her home. ... In the final part, the horde comes and buries the corpse as Miss Emily can no longer deny entry (509)." ... How much can one love someone if their face is what bothers them the most? ... Pride and stubbornness are two characteristics that can be both good and evil. Too much pride can lead to a life of being alone and stubbornness can lead to a life, where people don't want to change. ...

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She begs her the narrator's father to walk her home every night because she always has a feeling her ex-lover is waiting to murder her. ... The town was finally relieved to know they could pity her until they noticed she was often in the company of Homer Barron. Rumors floated that he "was not a marrying man," meaning he was possibly a homosexual but when Emily bought a men's grooming set with Homer's initials engraved, the townspeople confirmed among themselves that they were together. Soon Emily suspiciously purchased arsenic from a local pharmacy, and people started to n...

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I believe that his life can also help one analyze this story. By knowing that Faulkner's strongest influence was his independent mother, one can guess that Miss Emily Grierson's character was based partly on Maud Falkner. ... She refuses to be criticized by the town when she gallivants around with Homer Barron. ... Hal Blythe provides a surprising motive for why Miss Emily Grierson murdered Homer Barron. ... All of these things allow Emily Grierson to murder Homer Barron with impunity (196). ...

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This wonderful story just proves that money is nothing, compared to the love that two people can share. ... Like the previous story, Madame Loisel also lived in a shabby, poor home. ... Upon entering their home, she had become hysterical when she realized that she had lost Madame Forestier's necklace. ... This story shows that looks can really be deceiving. ... That proved that looks, as well as money, can be deceiving....

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More than half of the nation's rape assaults have been placed in the victim's home. ... Her fantasy begins in a place where most rape assaults happen, in the victim's home. ... Through the story you will find that most people go by the facts of places were rape occurs because just like Greta, Chrissie's rape fantasy takes place in her home. ... "You can do one of two things, just shut up; which is something I don't find easy to do or learn on awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do." ... I liked the story because it made you think about whether you beli...

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In doing so, we become attached to the town because we can relate to what they feel for poor, unfortunate Emily. ... Death is perhaps the most tragic event any character can experience. ... Then, when a horrendous smell began emanating from her home, intruding on the town, the people didn't even have the heart to confront her about it. ... When the narrator and other curious townspeople return to Emily's home after her funeral they make the gruesome discovery that changes everyone's view of her forever. ... Homer Baron. ...

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Further more his own home life affected his work. ... The boys took off and Emily and Jack went home. ... "The Sneering- can be analyzed for the author's use of symbolism. ... "The Sneering- can also be analyzed for Campbell's use of tone, or his attitude toward a subject. ... He needed these types of characters to explain how depression can cause a man to go insane. ...

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On your way to work you attempt to get a McDonalds quick fix breakfast, only to find that in your morning hurry you left your money at home. ... The setting in this story helps to support the theory that forced tradition and love can not co-exist. ... When her sense of home is destroyed, she decides that there is no purpose for life. ... The repetition used is very effective in driving home the message that she was abandoned. ... Yellow can represent unfulfilled dreams, sorrow, being cut-off from a loved one, and also the desire to reject new ideas. ...

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Emily's house, once a grand Victorian home on a prominent street, has fallen into disrepair and sits alone among a row of unsightly gas pumps and garages. ... After Emily's boyfriend, Homer, is believed to have left, we are toldshe had grown fat and her hair was turning gray. ... A parallel can be seen in the narrator's description of her house. ... When she was dating Homer, the people of the town judgmentally gossiped about her as she would drive by. ...

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By the end, I found the spirit of my nation in roadside tents, modest homes and gifts of food. ... People who earn six dollars a day opened their homes to passing pilgrims and offered them food. ... Abu Saif, a Shiite man in his forties, opened his home to me and 14 other men. ... He earns the equivalent of five dollars a day, but each day he puts aside 20 cents so he can provide food and shelter to passing pilgrims. ... "But you are young and you can walk, and one day I will walk, as well." ...

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Upper and middle class women were able to get jobs in family businesses, but the economy and society dictated that women should work in their homes doing housework like cleaning, looking after the children, and cooking. ... In this time period, Louise does not hold much power in her own home or in society, but with her husband now dead she does have power. ... She could use this new opportunity to create an example that women can be just as successful as men can. ... When Louise's husband arrived home back from the dead, she was shocked and overwhelmed with the realization that her imagin...

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After completing the story, my hopes of the kind of man Nick Adams would grow to be began to dwindle because whether you are only a little child or even a grown man, the matter of witnessing a death is not one that can be dealt with easily. ... Regardless of Nick's close experience with death, he was still not prepared for the ultimate devastation a human being can undertake---a broken heart. The story, Ten Indians, begins with an older Nick than the previous stories, along with a few of his friends coming home after enjoying a fabulous Fourth of July evening. ... Subsequent to his arr...

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There are many example of this theme can be found his most popular short story "A Rose for Emily."" ... Reading the story today, readers can find the complete contrast between Miss Emily's passion and modern love. ... Perhaps, this is the only way she can keep a Yankee construction foreman beside her for forty years. ... Similarly, the younger generation finds it easier to accept her relationship with Homer Barron while the old folks deal with it critically. ... In a way, readers can find sympathy for Miss Emily, as a faithful lover and a lonely spinster. ...

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One night during winter, after his wife had been to the theater, she came home with a cold, and eight days later, she died of pneumonia. ... Lantin did not want to go at all to the theater so, he begged her if he could stay at home when she went to the theater. ... Sex outside the marriage can be a knife through a spouse's heart. ... Emotional affairs can be as bad as sexual affairs. ... Affairs can occur in happy marriages as well as in troubled ones. ...

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Francis, a World War II veteran, has experienced many horrific situations in war, and he subsequently has difficulty returning home to the perfect little town of Shady Hill. ... He is showing his inner thoughts which reveal that there is no one in his society that can understand his experiences, because they did not personally experience them. ... Family members and acquaintances that were left at home have conformed to their own ideas of what society should be. ...

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The setting is restricted to a restaurant, Rita's place and the waitress" home and they are briefly described. ... An example can be found in "Fat" where Carver stops at the point when everything is about to be uncovered: My life is going to change. ... We can say that Carver's style is simple on the surface, but underneath you can see that something else is going on. ... At the same time, the question arises whether an author can communicate a story. ... (cf. supra) This feeling of dissociation is enhanced by the situation at home; the waitress doesn't love Rudy anymore. ...

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Without practicing you can't get better nor can you create a better bond with your team. ... It simply means go hard or go home, don't let up, and give it your all every play of the game and don't let a reputation be wasted. ... Overall the best part of being at this place called a football, is that is has a lot of room and you can do tons of things on it. ... Both sides of the field has stands and water fountains so you can hydrate and have some more fun. ... The experience I had at the stadium back home in Nebraska was something I would love telling and showing anybody how gre...

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"there were only about three hundred people, the whole lottery [takes] less than two hours, so it could begin at ten o'clock in the morning and still be through in time to allow the villagers to get home for noon dinner"(137). Obviously, the whole process of the lottery will end in two hours so that it even will not delay the villagers to go home for lunch. ... Each winner of the lottery has to die, and the tomb is only the winner's home after death. ... Any public activity can thrive for centuries because it is supported and advocated by people. ...

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John had so little faith in himself that he did not believe that he can fulfill his wife's desires. ... Anne wants him to hire some help so that he can spend some more time with her but he won't. ... They end up sleeping together, and Anne is laying awake thinking about what would happen if John were to return home at that moment. ... Their relationship is stressed even further when Ann is left at home alone with nothing to think about but their relationship because John has to go to his father's house. ... She sees Steven as the only person who can give her the love and affe...

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He does not attempt to expand on earlier biographical accounts but instead focuses on the Baldwin's relationship to Harlem, where Baldwin was born in 1924, "what home meant to Baldwin and what it meant for and to Baldwin to call Harlem home" (Smith 238). ... We can see "Baldwin as a key figure who opened up possibilities for African American writers in terms of love, desire, and sex" (Thorsson 628). ...

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Her short stories, "A Good Man is Hard to Find,"" and "Good Country People," "can be helpful tools for those looking for perfect examples of O'Connors unique and brilliant writing style. In an interpretation that requires less reliance on the beliefs held to be true in O'Connor's worlds and likely held by the author herself as a Catholic, the grandmother can be seen as responsible not only for the death of her family but even for the creation of The Misfit himself (Renner). ... In this story, a young man purporting to travel the countryside selling Bibles catches the eye of ...

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However, she lost tract of time, became busy, and the verity about home slipped her mind. ... As the excerpt from the story says, "I can face it no longer! I can bear it no longer!" ... It can be revived. ... The narrator envisions that she was weak, being oppressed, and can do nothing. ...

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