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We have all been guilty of doing something bad and not realizing it because we are easily blinded by people and things. Almost anything can blind us: love, looks, and even wealth. Being ignorant and innocent while obviously doing something wrong is one of the many things in the story “Nairobi.” In “Nairobi,” the author Joyce Carol Oates, tells the story of Oliver and Ginny who fake being a couple and go to dinner with some of Oliver’s friends. The theme of cheating in this story is illustrated…

Is Doping in Sports OK? 73 home runs in a single MLB season. That is almost an unthinkable thing to accomplish at the highest level of baseball. When Barry Bonds completed this feat in 2001, many people speculated on whether or not he was helped in any way… they meant steroids. Doping, which is the use of steroids, is now a major issue within pro sports and has helped many athletes accomplish feats they might not have otherwise done. Even though doping does not always make that much of a…

beneficial to Florence, in my opinion. The Medici family started out as bankers and wool merchants. Both businesses were very successful, making quite a bit of money, causing the family to become wealthy. The Medici were first brought to power by Giovanni de Medici in Florence, by opening the Medici bank. They are most known for their patronage of the arts. The Medici patronage has a major impact on the Renaissance, granting artists a chance to concentrate on their work without having to worry…

Guy De Maupassant’s short story,”The Necklace” portrays Mathilda, a French middle-class woman, as someone who is very unhappy with her life. Throughout the story, the protagonist’s actions and Maupassant’s direct characterization demonstrate Madame Loisel’s transformation from a shallow and insecure girl, to a matured self-accepting woman. The theme, pride can be a personal obstacle, is reflected throughout Mathilda’s journey into becoming a strong, and changed woman. Initially, Mathilda is…

well-known dictum that everyone has heard and everyone has found conflicting. Mom always said it is true. Not everyone is honest if the truth could cause trouble. Madame Loisel struggles with being honest in the short story “The Necklace.” The author, Guy de Maupassant, displays the reality that honesty really is the best policy in the story through the use of irony. Mathilde Loisel was embarrassed about being poor, but if she was honest about her wealth she would not have had the initial…

Paying a greater debt than necessary is utterly ridiculous. In the story The Necklace by Guy De Maupassant, the protagonist and in a sense the antagonist as well, Mathilde Loisel, loses a borrowed necklace that she believes costs 40,000 francs which in today’s dollar amount is approximately $151,000! She foolishly does not think about her situation, and immediately starts working to pay for an assumed synonymous necklace (the necklace was in fact worth only 500 francs). Her prideful attitude…

Tiffany Macio Professor Ronson English 1 28 September 2016 Section 1: Introduction In Guy De Maupassant’s short story “The Necklace”, Mathilde suffers emotionally and physically because of her decisions concerning the necklace. In “The Necklace” Mathilde was a beautiful and “charming” woman (Maupassant 163). One day Mathilde and her husband got invited to a ball, but she owned nothing elegant enough to attend it. Her husband offers her funds to purchase a gown, Mathilde was still unhappy,…

first instead of thinking of the group as a whole. When it comes to voting, citizens are very politically apathetic, which is not the most ideal behavior in a direct democracy, but is more suitable under representative democracy. According to Alexis de Tocqueville, Americans tend to have the same views that go under representative democracy: liberty, equality, democracy, individualism, the rule of law, nationalism, and capitalism. Americans believe in the right to be free, as long as…

Imagine that you are a nineteen-year-old boy working in a grocery store. How exciting, but honestly not at all. It is summer time and you live five miles from the beach, you want to be out having fun enjoying your teenage youth. Instead you are stuck in a boring A & P and working. You just stepped into the life of Sammy, the main character from John Updike’s short story “A & P”. To conclude this short story Sammy quits his job, but why? Sammy quits his job at the A & P because Sammy is…

normal. Authors include these characters to interest the reader. Three authors, in particular, have developed characters to keep readers intrigued. Richard Connell created Rainsford; a man who is determined to find his was out of being murdered; Guy De Maupassant created Matilde; a self-centered woman who doesn't pay attention to what she has ad only focuses on what she does not have; James Hurst created Doodle; a disabled boy who has one of the biggest hearts imaginable. Authors provide strong…