Formally known as Guy de (Henri René Albert) Maupassant, he was a French novelist and short-story writer. He is deemed one of the modern masters of the art of the short story and has influenced practitioners of that genre from his time to the present. ... (http://www.online-literature.com/maupassant/ Literature Network) As is evident with the short story of Mother Savage, the author was greatly influenced by the war. ... The Story of an Hour In the short story The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin we learn of what a now widowed woman (Mrs. ... Before we get into the meaning of the st...

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Clarke assembles eight short stories each having unique characters and plots that tell about different aspects of the lives of immigrants in Toronto. Most of the stories are recounted in first person by vivid, comical and often grim characters and describe in great detail the ordeals faced they face as they adjusted to a new culture and its people. ... In the short story entitled "They"re not Coming Back" the mother, named Claudette, is a single parent of two daughters. ... The irony of the story is manifested at the end when Claudette's mother tells her daughter to "sleep" which is a ...

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In Bloodlines; Odyssey of a Native Daughter, Janet Campbell Hale utilized short stories to chronicle various stages of her life as the daughter of a Coeur d" Alene. ... After a turbulent adolescence, Barnes recognized that she wished her mother was able to give her "a story, a narrative to give meaning to her life and mine." ... After recounting numerous stories of the treatment she received as a child, Hale described her inability to challenge her mother's actions: "Confronting my mother was always out of the question. ... Hale's mother frequently told her stories of her father&...

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As the disease progresses, the affected person may experience "greater memory loss, short attention span, problems recognizing people, restlessness, motor problems, weight changes, loss of writing and speech skills including a tendency to repeat things, and wandering (Weddington, 1994, p. 13). ... As an example of one simple support group system which illustrates the strain on family members, we examine some stories offered at a web site that are intended to make family members feel they are not alone. In one story, a 15 year old girl whose grandmother has Alzheimer's, describing h...

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Only three short days later, Miss. ... Also Bathsheba, Deborah's Grandmother told her many stories of female heroism. ... Deborah remembered her grandmother telling her many times in her French accent the inspiring story of the heroine of France, Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orleans who in a pair of breeches led the French army to victory over the British. ... There were some stories that told of Deborah going and disappearing for days on end, supposedly staying with near by Indian tribes. ... Although these stories were stated many times it unsure whether or not they are true. ...

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By having to take care of the little life he was able to forget about his own worries for a short period of time. ... She uses the word 'bereavement' but listening to the survivors stories it was more like the children forsaken their German culture and language. ...

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His plays are dark, pessimistic stories in which the characters all end up suffering in the end. ... They were becoming much more autobiographical, going into O'Neill's suffering past and more so into the O'Neill family story. ... The reason for this was so that the Tyrone story, which mirrored the O'Neill's, would hurt no one. ...

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Naylor's description of Nedeed with his "short squat body" and protruding eyes,""(3) conjures up an evil and almost satanic picture in the reader's mind. ... The story is built around the great great grandson of the original Luther and his wife Willa. ...

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Setting The action takes place in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century on two Louisiana plantations, one called Valmonde, a family name, and the other called L'Abri (French for shelter). The story begins in the warm-weather months and ends in autumn. Characters Desiree: A young woman de...

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The story Hard Times is set in an imaginary town by the name of Coketown. Coketown "was a town of red brick, or of some brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like a painted face of a savage. It was a t...

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Communication Studies Research Methods In recent years, as divorce rates have climbed and family structures continue to deviate further from the two-parent household, much has been made of absentee fathers and the impact that it has on children, particularly boys. Many studies have suggested...

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In his plays, O'Neill has embodied the trends and conflicts of his own time; he rebels against the narrowness, mindedness, hypocrisy, crudeness of feelingness, and the materialistic short-sightedness of his age.16 Throughout his plays, O'Neill reflects the reality of the American society. ...

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My four year old sister was diagnosed with Down syndrome. We are both of Mexican-American descent. Our parents were recently deported back to Mexico and due to the fact that I am 25 years old, I was granted primary custody of my four year old sister, Isabella. I am currently in the Reserves which al...

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You could not have an extended family that included servants, apprentices, and other non-kinfolk in a house that measured twenty feet by twenty feet and raised only a story and a half. ... Men started out wearing powdered wigs and breeches and changed to wear long pants and short hair. ...

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Summary - This is the story of two families who have been neighbours for a long time. ... And in a very short time Joe owned one of the biggest shops (factories) in town and became a respected business man. ... Keller had to make up that story about being sick to cover up for his crime. ...

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• Grade Level: High School