Guy de Maupassant

In 1982, Vera Bradley was founded with an idea of two neighbors, a work space of a ping pong table, and $500! The founders were disappointed while traveling that baggage was no longer beautiful and they started their own brand. The company was named after founder, Barbara Bradley Baekgaard’s mother, Vera Bradley. Vera worked for the company as a sales person until she passed in the early 1990s. The stores still celebrate her birthday each year (“About Vera Bradley”)! Vera Bradley is…

Realism: Realism is a literary movement which began in France in middle of nineteen century. It deals with the themes and ideas associated with daily life. A realistic picture of society with issues related to common man and social and cultural system are portrayed as it is. Realism was the reaction against “Romanticism” where life is depicted with all its harsh and soft realities, where relations and situations are presented without idealizing, flattering or romanticizing. It deals specially…

In general, humans want to be happy. To not worry about food, shelter, clothes; to make ends meet. But people who already has these things want more. They want to let people know, friends especially, that they have things that ordinary people don't or just others in general. Humans are so driven by societies image, they forget who they truly are. They go as far as changinbg the people around them, what they're comfortable with, how they act. They want or want to be, what's trending around them…

How to Choose the Cut and Colour of a Diamond by its Size Medium-sized princess cut diamond. Large round brilliant cut diamonds. Small-sized fancy cut diamonds. Yellow diamond. Orange diamond. Blue diamond. Red diamond. White diamond. Cognac diamond. Just like people, diamonds are unique. They come in many sizes and colours and can be cut in numerous ways. Also, similar to people in the respect that works well on medium-sized memorial diamonds might not work well on large cremation diamonds,…

Ang Lee challenges the racial stereotyping and heteronormativity present in Hollywood through his film The Wedding Banquet. The Wedding Banquet is a 1993 film about an interracial, homosexual American couple, Wai Tung and Simon. Due to the patriarchal nature of Taiwanese culture, Wai Tung cannot reveal his sexual orientation or his relationship with Simon to his parents and is therefore incessantly pestered by his parents in Taiwan to get married and have children to carry on the family name. In…

I would like to have the husband as a friend in the story, “The Necklace”. His wife, Madame Mathilde Loisel was very unhappy because she was part of the lower class. Loisel’s husband came home one night with an invitation to a dinner party. The invitation had upset Loisel because she did not have an evening dress or jewelry to wear. The husband was so thrilled to go to the dinner party he was willing to buy her a simple dress for four hundred frances. That money was being saved for the husband…

Mathilde Loisel was a selfish woman. She always had thoughts of herself. She dreamed about living like she was an upper class woman. One could say that she did not love her husband because of the selfishness she implied. This selfishness along with her greedy personality brought her to her downfall. She caused her and her husband to become poor and have to work hard to pay off a priceless necklace. Her husband sacrificed everything for her. He spoiled her even though he did not…

In life, people will be led unknowingly into situations where they will feel betrayed by the end. In The Stolen Party, Liliana Heker has her central protagonist blindly led into a situation and at the end be betrayed. Rosaura believes she is going to her friend’s party as a guest, when really she is going as a maid. Heker uses description to create scenes and characters. She also plays with feelings to form emotional bonds with the characters. During the course of the tale, readers feel what…

Sometimes in life a person has to learn from his or her mistakes and the girl in this story learned from her mistake to always tell the truth and to never try to be someone you are and always be yourself. Madame Loisel learned to always tell the truth and if she would of told the truth shouldn't of had paid way more money than she would have had to pay if she told her friend she lost it, the necklace Madame loisel used was a fake and could of bought it for 500 dollars. When Madame Loisels…

This story centers a forbidden love affair and secrets. It takes place in Yalta, a seaside town on the Black Sea coast. Dmitri, a married and successful man, lives an unhappy life together with his wife, and three children. Married at a young age in his second year of college. Gave up his dream of had been an opera singer, and now works in a bank. Totally opposite careers that leads him into dissatisfaction. Occasionally, he cheats on his wife, and often travels looking for new arrivals. He…