From the lack of critical commentary on Homer Barron's sexuality, we might conclude that scholars are ignoring a question often raised and vigorously answered by undergraduates, who can be homophobic or just fascinated with even mild sexual references in literature: Homer Barron, they insist, is homosexual. ... But if he is an alderman, how does he know so precisely what took place in the druggist's shop or in Judge Stevens's office? ... Homer's visit occurred forty years before the narrator writes. ... When she had first begun to be seen with Homer Barron, we had said, "Sh...

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In Joyce Carol Oates" story "Shopping," Oates tells a story of a mother and her daughter spending the day shopping together. ... With Nola at home for spring break, Mrs. ... By going shopping with Nola, Mrs. ... That connection is shopping. ... She is hurt when Nola forgets to call home or write. ...

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The wife is a stay at home mom and the husband is the breadwinner. ... The husband leaves early in the morning to go to work and comes home in the early evening. ... She probably does household things like cooking, cleaning, and grocery shopping. ... They do not do much together except for shopping and lounging around the house on their days off. ... The mother used to go out and party and was not home on the weekends. ...

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"At home, you are dependent upon your parents. Once you leave home, you are dependent upon your friends." ... Now, almost every Friday night, my friends and I go to watch a movie in the theatre, or play pool, or even just have a chat in a coffee shop. ...

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Grandpa In a stark room with the lights turned out, I sit alone thinking. In all of my years I have always had stability. There have been no drastic changes in my life. There was the endless time when my aunt had breast cancer, but somehow I knew she would pull through, so it did not really ph...

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Theirs was a place that always felt like home. Lila didn't know a stranger, anyone was welcome in their home and would be treated as family. ... Nick worked at the butcher shop and did side jobs of shoeing horses. ... A trip to the barber shop to get your hair cut and then lunch at the diner that served hamburgers way bigger then my head. ...

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But even since then I have noticed when I go shopping with my mom I pay attention to what she looks at but doesn't buy because she doesn't want to spend the money so I can go back to that place and get it to make her "happy" that she has it. ... Another example I wanted to make her happy so last weekend I went home without telling her I was going to come home to surprise her. ... Once I got home I rang the doorbell and as soon as she answered she was just extremely happy that I came home. While I was at home I made sure that anything that she needed to be done was done before I we...

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All You Need Is Love Romeo and Juliet Montague recently celebrated their fourteenth wedding anniversary, a quiet dinner at home, no banquet, no family invited. ... I watched with voyeur's fascination as the couple in their eighties slowly seated themselves in the rural Wisconsin Holiday Inn coffee shop for a Sunday breakfast. ...

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Evans, a man who worked at the mental hospital, helps Karl get a job fixing things in a neighborhood Car Shop. ... Karl goes back to his old childhood home, to find his father sitting in the living room. ...

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The problem of our relationship became more serious than ever because of an argument when I came home from my friend's birthday party. ... From that night, my mother did not work at home anymore and she spent all evening for family. ... We also went shopping and she chose clothes which match my style. ...

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It was time to go home a place where love was confused by money. ... "I'm home!... We sat there for hours and just talk about everything such as school, boys, her job, and going shopping for prom. ...

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Through Rose's eyes, her husband has built a good life; he has a home, a family, a loving wife, a thriving business that is a good life. ... While on her way home, Loretta stops by the Cinderella beauty salon, the film links Loretta and La Boheme's Musetta in many ways, "a sprightly instrumental motif from Act II of Puccini's La Boheme, when Musetta is admired by shop women and Loretta purchases an evening dress" (Citron, M. ... After the opera Loretta goes home with Ronny, and after much convincing Loretta goes upstairs to Ronny's apartment, the full moon shini...

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In order to achieve this goal, he opens a shop to gather enough money to take him there. ... At one point when crossing the desert, Santiago's life is at risk and the decision at hand is either to continue or to return home. ...

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Eveline was a poor and desperate 19-yearold woman who worked in a shop in Dublin and took care of her father. ... Frank is a sailor with a home in Buenos Ayres, who loves and treats her with great respect and tenderness and entertains her with stories from his travels. ...

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The moment my mother arrived home my father had decided to take her back. ... We talked on the phone, worked out, did homework, went shopping, played video games, went on trips, we did everything you could think of together. ...

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She cultivates them and makes them into beautiful adornments for her perfect home. ... She has, up until this time, felt only pragma love towards her family- they fulfill her shopping-list requirements. ... Would his wife have shot him had she come home before Frank? ...

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The telescreen( which is a monitor that everyone has in their homes) makes everyone work out and Winston is included. ... Winston and Julia start to meet in a place above a shop regularly, making love and discussing the government. ...

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It was a sunny and windy day in late September with the prime traces of autumn beginning to pull the bright colored leaves from the trees. As I traveled in my car, heading to a mall, I could find myself thinking about life and how beautiful it is. Could it be more beautiful? Anything is possible an...

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To express the warmth that flutters within you when beside a fire in a small home in Shilovka, with snow piling upon the windows, closing you in for the night, you feel for the first time the touch of your lover's hand. ... As we walked up from Columbus Circle we stopped at small coffee shop. ...

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The character of Robert Cohn in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, is a compelling one for a host of reasons. Although Cohn is a central character in the novel, it is impossible for the reader to gain an unbiased depiction of his personality. Therefore, although his actions speak loudly for so...

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In 1991, a young man by the name of Ville Hermanni Valo decided to form a band. At the time he was working in his Father's sex shop located in a small suburb in Finland and decided that he needed to do something more creative with his life. He made a few demos with himself playing the guitar parts o...

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