Alexis de Tocqueville

The two stories, “Good Enough” and “The Quinceanera Text” are very interesting passage with deep thought written into them. “Good Enough” is about Dori who wants a very expensive shirt but her family is very poor. The shirt that is received is a fake but Dori comes to realize that Ana does not care what people think and comes to love the shirt. “The Quinceanera Text” is about fifteen year old Ana wanting a phone. Many other presents are received but Ana’s parents cannot afford a phone. Something…

Abstract Saadat Hasan Manto is one of the greatest short story writers in Urdu literature who has produced twenty two collections of short stories dealing with different subjects such as partition, human life, social taboos, communal violence, so on and so forth. His stories revolving round the subject of partition of the subcontinent after independence in 1947 are more famous and more known than his other stories. Toba Tek Singh is one such story, a masterpiece, which is interwoven with the…

The character Mme Loisel in Guy de Maupassant’s The Necklace can be hard to relate to. She can be vain, selfish and greedy although readers do feel bad for her sometimes. Mme Loisel was born into a family without money or a proper home. The author describes how she suffers from her lifestyle of being middle- class. She was described as being ‘unhappy all the time’ due to not having the luxury and fine dresses she dreamed of. She is also simply not content with what she has. All Mathilde wants…

We hold many values in our lives today, but by far friendship remains the most significant. A good friendship includes honesty, loyalty, sincerity and most importantly trusting each other. Trusting each other in a friendship remains crucial because it shows reliability and confidence between two people. This helps friends become closer and feel more safe. In the play Romeo and Juliet and the book Digital Fortress, the significant relationship of friendship exists through trust. Within the…

Speech #1 Edward R. Murrow, a CBS reporter and war correspondent delivered a report from Buchenwald, Germany on April 16, 1945. He delivered this dialect upon seeing the atrocities committed by the Germans towards the Jews. He addresses the American people, describing the scene he had witnessed at this labor camp, which he found the scene to be so unbelievable that he is rendered speechless many times through out his speech. Murrow’s outrage is so apparent through-out his account, that it is…

Ismaeel Olukoga Professor Baker ENGL-1302-50261 Assignment 1 “A & P:” Short Story Analysis John Updike short story “A&P” portrays the mind of a young cashier, Sammy, working in an A&P store while admiring and analyzing customers, but especially the three girls walking around the store in bathing suits. Ultimately their defiance of standards of the community affects Sammy strongly. Updike uses action, dialogue and…

A Long time ago in India, women were criticized and stereotyped for their femininity, in particular how they react in a crisis. In “The Dinner Party” by Mona Gardner, women are falsely accused of being weak during a crisis. “The Dinner Party” is set in India, where there is a huge dinner party going on. The colonel makes a false accusation that during a crisis, women usually scream and have less self control than men do. However, the hostess of the party proves him wrong. There is a cobra in…

In Liliana Heker’s “The Stolen Party,” Rosaura is invited to Luciana’s birthday party. Luciana’s family was considered to be a rich family with a high class ranking as they are provided with a maid which is coincidentally, Rosaura’s mother. However, through the work of her mother, Rosaura was able to meet Luciana, who seemed liked a charming young girl. Every work day, Luciana and Rosaura would do their homework together while waiting for Rosaura’s mother to finish up. From this eventful…

There are too many similarities to de Vere’s life. The plays Shakespeare wrote were generally longer in length. These plays took hours to perform, let alone write. For Shakespeare to write all original plays in the quantity in which he did; it seems unrealistic for one man. Especially…

“As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. To me, being gangster is better than being president of the United States.” It is the first voice over line from Henry in Goodfellas; and it also sets the tone of the whole film. Martin Scorsese builds an incredible but also cruel gangster world in 146 minutes. Scorsese tells us a story from the angle of the most basic and lowest level gangsters. It is also the same story-telling angle in Mean Street. We can feel the main…