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“Rose of Sharon, Junior, and I carried our twenty-dollar bill and our five dollars in loose change over to the 7-Eleven and bought three bottles of imagination. We needed to figure out how to raise all that money in only one day. Thinking hard, we huddled…

entitled “A Rose for Emily” written by William Faulkner and “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather focus on two main characters. Both Faulkner and Cather use their characters to prove a point or an outcome of a theory. Williams Faulkner uses Emily as his main character. Emily is a beautiful girl who used to live with her father. On the other hand Willa Cather used Paul as his main character. Paul is a high school student who also used to live with his father. Both stories focus on one main factor. In “A…

A Rose For Emily In William Faulkner’s, A Rose For Emily, Faulkner illustrates a southern town that is rapidly changing to fit the times. Emily Grierson is an old fashioned woman who watches her town alter around her but, her tenacious attitude towards change prohibits her from adjusting to a new lifestyle. Faulkner portrays the change in the social structure of the American South in the early twentieth century with Homer Barron, Miss Emily’s house, and the townspeople. Homer Barron was a dark…

William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" is a story that addresses the symbolic changes in the South after the civil war. Miss Emily's house symbolizes neglect and poverty of the new times in the town of Jefferson. The rampant symbolism and Faulkner's descriptions of the decaying house, coincide with Miss Emily's physical and emotional decay, and also emphasize her mental degeneration, and further illustrate the outcome of Faulkner's story. Miss Emily's decaying house, not only lacks genuine love…

political upheaval. In England between 1455 and 1487, a dynastic power struggle between two houses of the Plantagenet royal family marks the beginning of the English early modern period. This contention for the throne was known as the Wars of the Roses, and was a large factor in the end of feudalism in England. While most other major powers in Europe had already begun the transition into modernity, England was slightly behind, and its government was still largely decentralized, with most areas…

In the short story, “A Rose for Emily”, by William Faulkner, gossip functions as the main way that most people in the town learn anything about Emily. Throughout Emily’s life the townspeople were never able to know her personally and this caused the townspeople to make assumptions and gossip about her life. A few good examples include when Emily purchased the silver men’s toilet and when she bought arsenic. When Emily was seen in public buying arsenic, many people quickly assumed that she was…

Whenever thinking about the word people often associate the word with a person who is famous for something, that is someone for them. However, what is forgotten by many is that, everyone is someone they just haven't achieved their greatness yet. The White Rose was a group of people that called for the end of horrific events during the Nazi regime. They lived with so much moral courage that they continued even up to their own execution. From their actions they became people who showed the…

“A Rose for Emily,” written by William Faulkner, is a story that proves that a refusal to let go of the past and accept change can be self-destructive, and that rejecting the changing realities of life can lead to physical and mental anguish. During the story, the protagonist, Emily Grierson, is a static character and through her refusal to adapt to the changing social environment around her; she ultimately tears her life apart and in turn ends the life of another. Death is a main theme…

The buildings in the Elizabethan Era, were the biggest and most awkward looking things ever. The buildings were built out of wood, were decorated nicely, and were mostly built on hills in a village format. One question people tend to ask very often is, “What were these buildings made out of?” Most of these buildings were Half Timbered. Made up of mostly wood with extremely large windows. The timbers that the architects used were usually very tall and widely spaced out. People's houses…

So it was that early in the middle ages, a small town banded together and created one of the greatest Christian sanctuaries the world has ever known. In many ways, it would set the standard for all other gothic cathedrals: It is the Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres. Chartres Cathedral stands on a hill above the river Eure, in the town of Chartres. Its spires rise like beacons on the horizon, and can bee seen miles away. Today, its majestic carved towers and facades project a mediaeval…