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been thinking about her since. Rider decided that today was the day he was going to ask her out on a date. It was the end of the day and Rider was waiting outside of the school’s swimming pool waiting for Shiho’s team practice. Rider had a dozen roses and he was nervous as fuck right now…

the Wars of the Roses to an illegitimate bloodline which traces its roots back to John of Gaunt duke of Lancaster. This lineage belongs to the House of Beaufort, which was established when John of Gaunt had his son who was born of a mistress legitimized. The only stipulation to this legitimization was that the Beaufort line would never be able to enter the line of succession for the Throne of England. Sadly, the Yorkists which would oppose the Lancastrians in the Wars of the Roses never came to…

between this common misconception that everyone can achieve this picture-perfect life and what life often entails for many. In fact, Gwendolyn Brooks’ “Kitchenette Building,” Langston Hughes’ “Let America Be America Again,” and William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” all explore this difference between the “American dream” and real life in America. Specifically, although approaching the subject in different ways, ultimately these three works all show that there are various common misconceptions…

Emily’s father, her inability to accept the changing times, her hold on loved ones and the importance of tradition and reputation, held Emily in the past and left her with nothing but dust in her final years. The readers of “A Rose for Emily” are left feeling sympathy and compassion for a woman who was never able to conform with the world and who became twisted and crazed as she continually held onto the…

Culture, location, reputation and upbringing are all main contributors to the way someone’s life turns out. For most people, they are given the option to choose their own path in life and their past becomes a positive contributor to who they chose to be. However, for others, the past can prevent the future from happening, it can hold one back from accomplishing their hopes and dreams because they end up stuck in the same routine and traditions that they were taught at a young age. Being stuck in…

The Tragedy of Richard III was based on the true life king who ruled 1483 to 1485, just two short years. Richard III was no doubt a really bad guy. He was a murderer, a tyrant, a hypocrite, and a traitor. Shakespeare presents Richard in an extremely negative way throughout the entire play. He was shown as an evil person; who was fascinated with the control that only being the king could have brought him, and he would have taken any risk that was needed to become the King. He was motivated by his…

this research paper, I will concentrate on the happenings of the War of the Roses in 1455-1487. The War of the Roses commences as Henry VI’s mental health begins to deteriorate. Due to King Henry VI’s indisposition and consequent weak rule, Richard, Duke of York acquired an interest in seizing the English throne for himself. Opposing the York house was Henry Tudor of Lancaster. Throughout the bout of the War of the Roses, Sun Tzu’s philosophies dictated in his book, “The Art of War,” were…

Venkatrarma’s painting of the Kurukshetra War serves as an artistic response to war, primarily because it portrays the battle between a group of cousins (Kauravs and Pandavs) for the throne of an Indian Kingdom known as Kuru. The account of the battle is from the epic Indian story, Mahabharata. The painting by the artist depicts the time when chakravyuh was formed as a defensive formation which appears like a blooming lotus by the commander in chief of Kauravs in the battle of Kurukshetra. As…

The problem with Emily In the passage “A rose for Emily” by William Faulkner the protagonist Emily Grierson who lived in the south where a person’s social class determined the expectations of a person’s behavior and how society viewed and treated them. Emily Grierson is an older woman who comes from a wealthy family but suffers from schizophrenia. “Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness characterized by incoherent, illogical thoughts, and bizarre behavior” (Kazdin 2000) Miss Emily goes…

Parents often have a large impact upon the way their children mature into adulthood. In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” Miss Emily Grierson’s actions are influenced by her father. Emily lives in an old, dilapidated farmhouse in a small town in Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, between 1861 and 1933. Emily’s father shelters her for her entire life and keeps her all to himself. Rarely allowed outside of the house, she is hardly able to socialize with the people in the town. Her…