The social structure of a story is often what motivates the actions of the characters. ... It is a story of heroic adventure. ... Each story has its own unique format, "The Canterbury Tales" being several stories in one as told from the perspective of different characters. ... Life for those under the feudal system was challenging, with peasants doing the brunt of the work and having a short lifespan. ... Despite the different topics of the short story, the social structure of the feudal system is the same throughout them all....

• Word Count: 1419
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• Grade Level: High School

Existentialism Hybridized identity leads to the search for recognition The story takes place in Kenya. ... In the short story Minutes of Glory by James Ngugi, the author reveals that people in the society tend to accept and recognize those who bear a certain western characteristics whereas they incline to neglect those who are ordinary black. ... This brings out the theme of the story - Existentialism. ... The protagonist of the story, who is a barmaid, has a hybridized African identity. ... For Beatrice, her Minutes of glory' is gained by risking her freedom for a short-lived glo...

• Word Count: 1952
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Many changes occur in behavior, attitudes, and feelings in a relatively short period of time during adolescence. ... The short story Boys and Girls, by Alice Munro, demonstrates this point excellently. ... In essence, relationships become vulnerable to drastic change in this short period of time. ...

• Word Count: 1761
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

They are surrounded by notifications, news stories, and profiles of people we know as friends and acquaintances. ... Although the Internet and technology has been around a short time in the overall timeline of the world, we know that it is changing the way we look at the society and ourselves. ... Besides the short term affects the Internet and media can have on adolescent brains, there is also the issue of development and behavior in young adults. ...

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Keyes' descriptions of Charlie's continual changes throughout the story, as far as individuality, intelligence and perceptions were concerned, arose deep feelings of empathy. ... A short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. ... Short, simple sentences started the story off, comprised of words spelt using the phonetic strategy. ...

• Word Count: 2011
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Therefore, I made the transition from joining long-term groups with the purpose of enhancing my childhood development to those that were short-term, and were designed to remediate specific problems or to prevent problems. ... It was really a traumatic experience for me since we lived in an apartment in a tall building, and most of the ten-story buildings had collapsed. ...

• Word Count: 1362
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Staring at my battle buddy across from me with his heavy, cold steel rifle in hand, covered in dry, day old, dirt from marching all day, and listing to the sounds of the night fire on our way back to camp; exhausted, and dazed. I know I can trust private Ojeda because his core values inspire him to ...

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This says whatever is portrayed in the media can be shown to have a direct effect on the behaviour of those who indulged in the media medium, in short it was proposed that people would mirror what they saw. ... Here opinion leaders were people who kept up to sped on the latest story, and appeared to be aware of all sides and opposing parties in any given topic. ...

• Word Count: 1536
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It has been fifth teen years since the release of the controversial movie, American History X. It was released on October 30th, 1998. Fifth teen long years later the movie still stands as a riveting and brutal drama about white supremacy and racism in America. The film was directed by Tony Kaye and ...

• Word Count: 2014
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• Grade Level: High School

Cultural values of the 1960s called for men to keep their hair short, and the greaser style is a clear rebellion of this social convention. ... This idea parallels the movie West Side Story where one gang is seen to be the menace while the other is the real root of the problem. ...

• Word Count: 1564
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"Porcelain Unicorn" is a short film that introduces us to an elderly gentleman who flashes back to a time during World War II in war-torn Germany. ... At this time the film continues the story with the elderly gentleman again standing on the door step with a box. ...

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Pip's journey exposes him to all levels of the social spectrum and he pines for a higher class life than the one he is living in at the beginning of the story. ... Just within the short amount of time that passed between Pip finding out about his secret fortune and when he had to leave, his whole idea of the social system had become different. ...

• Word Count: 1549
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To illustrate this idea Bauman uses a famous short story by Rudyard Kipling: "A centipede walked effortlessly on all her hundred legs until a sycophantic courtier began to praise her exquisite memory, which allowed her never to put down the thirty-seventh leg before the eighty-fifth, or the fifty-second before the nineteenth Brutally made self-conscious, the hapless centipede was unable to walk any more." ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Amy Heckerling's film Clueless is an appropriation of Jane Austen's Emma, closely paralleling the story in terms of plot and characterisation. ... Even Cher's transformation is portrayed through her change in dress sense, from wearing short, binding skirts to more innocent, conservative clothing such as pants and a pastel coloured shirt. ...

• Word Count: 1760
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Historical Antecedents Family histories are usually not recorded for future generations but they are passed down through the telling of stories from family members. ... When I was age four to six I repeatedly hid in the closet to cut my hair short, and emulated my brothers by opting not to wear a shirt on hot summer days. ...

• Word Count: 2124
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate