Essays for Revision

In Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People," one of the main characters, Hulga, suffers from a handicap. She has only one leg and uses a prosthetic leg to get around. She…

"The Ransom of Red Chief," a short story by O. Henry, is a classic because of its brilliant irony. The focus of the story, an image or concept that the…

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle frequently has Sherlock Holmes make deductions about his clients in the opening scenes of his stories. Typically, the visitor is astonished by what seems like psychic…

In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado," Montresor lures Fortunato into the catacombs. He uses the pretense of having acquired a "pipe of Amontillado" whose value he questions, and…

The first contest of the presidential election campaign is in Iowa because that has become traditional. There is nothing about Iowa that makes it deserve to be the first state…

Ariana Grande is a currently twenty-two year-old (her birthday is June 26th, 1993) American singer of Italian descent who decided to seriously pursue a musical career at age thirteen. Grande…

Atticus is becoming stressed out about the trial because he is about to embark on the difficult task of defending a black man in front of a predominantly prejudiced community.…

There are many quotes throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird that identify the prominent prejudice throughout the community of Maycomb, Alabama. The community of Maycomb is highly prejudiced against…

Since this question asks to discuss over 5,000 years of Chinese history, it is going to be difficult to discuss any one of the periods at great length. The Yan…

Motifs and themes are deeply interconnected; however motifs can be understood as a literary device that is deployed in order to build or concretize a particular themewhereby the theme is…