Essays Tagged: "Rose"

Fallen from Grace. On the use of symbolism in William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily.'

f symbolism. -Fallen from GraceA comparative essay on the use of symbolism in William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily.'Authors traditionally use symbolism as a way to represent the sometimes intangible q ... es intangible qualities of the characters, places, and events in their works. In his short story 'A Rose for Emily,' William Faulkner uses symbolism to compare the Grierson house with Emily Grierson's ...

(3 pages) 334 0 4.5 Apr/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Booker T. Washington: Fighter for the Black Man

an beyond words. His perseverance and will to work were well known throughout the United States. He rose from slavery, delivering speech after speech expressing his views on how to uplift America's vi ...

(5 pages) 184 0 3.9 Feb/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

A Hamlet Childhood Memo y

int. I knew things were getting weird but I didn't realize the magnitude of it until my dead father rose from the grave to explain things to me. I remember back in the day when things were good. Now e ...

(2 pages) 33 0 4.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet

Angreb på hellig ko. Omhandlende Jyllandspostens leder fra den 13/03/01 og brev til regeringen om brugerbetaling.

rne skydes/skyder i vejret. Denne sandhed bruger forfatteren i det sidste afsnit af artiklen til at rose de radikales sundhedsordfører, Inger Marie Bruun-Vierø, for sin udtalelse om at d ...

(4 pages) 39 0 3.5 Mar/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Specific Policies

A review of William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"

"A Rose for Emily"In "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, we see how past events effect the main cha ...

(3 pages) 250 0 4.1 Apr/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday

The Man who Stepped into YesterdayOnce upon a time, there was a mountain which rose out of a vast, green forest. and in the forest there were birds and lakes and rocks and trees a ...

(8 pages) 76 1 4.0 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

Setting in "A Rose for Emily" by Willliam Faulkner

Setting in A Rose for EmilyIn William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," Faulkner's details about setting and atmosph ... f Miss Emily and the rest of the town, and changing the mood or tone in the story.The setting in "A Rose for Emily" is Faulkner's fictitious post-civil war Jefferson, a small town in the deep south of ...

(3 pages) 289 0 5.0 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

"A rose for Emily" (Faulkner) or something more? Talks of symbolism

A symbol is a person, object, or event that suggests more than its literal meaning. In the story 'A Rose for Emily,' the symbolism shows more about the character than is detailed by the author, Willia ... that she had already begun her entrance into that nether-world(a world which is depicted later as ' rose-tinted)' (149)Another example of Emily's change is also exhibited in how the house begins to de ...

(5 pages) 486 0 3.4 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Welfare reform in the USA, a Matter of Justice

from $20.1 Billion in 1984, only 10 years earlier. In the same 10 years state spending on Medicaid rose over 250 percent from $16.5 Billion to $58.2 Billion. Under the current Medicaid programs, Medi ...

(7 pages) 317 0 4.2 May/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government

Archetypes in "A rose for Emily" by William Faulkner

of experiences that come upon us like fate, and their effects are felt in our most personal life. A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner contains many of this particular critical method. Although there ... inist struggle is hard to detect but it is still there.In conclusion, there are two archetypes in A Rose for Emily: Emily's father and Homer Barron. Emily's father is the chief archetype because he is ...

(2 pages) 99 0 3.0 Apr/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

How how a community's actions, or in this case, lack of action can contribute to one's madness in "A Rose for Emily" by Faulkner.

d the values which it holds will eventually be a key factor in determining Miss Emily's madness. 'A Rose for Emily', tells the story of a woman who fails to live up to her high reputation and fitting ... munity's actions, or in this case, lack of action can contribute to one's madness.Faulkner opens 'A Rose for Emily' with a lengthy fifty-six-word single sentence that shows the community's reaction to ...

(6 pages) 188 1 3.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

A review of "A rose for Emily" by Faulkner

'A Rose for Emily' came out in 1930. To some readers this horror story is the most 'gothic' that Faulkn ... f horror is all he/she gets from the story then that person is missing the meaning of the story. 'A Rose for Emily' is told by a nameless narrator(first person) describing the life of a pathetic women ... ks out in mind. Miss Emily and Mrs. Compson both wanted to be seen and considered 'ladies'. From a 'Rose' you can conclude this by what the town thought of her at one point of the story. 'It was as if ...

(8 pages) 358 0 3.0 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The Aztec society, the great pyramid of Tenochtitlan

as the 'icpac tlamanacali,' or The Great Pyramid.It's base was square, and 150 yards to a side. It rose toa height of 70 yards, and hadsmooth sides. The staircase ascending the front was actually two ...

(6 pages) 150 0 3.9 Jan/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > Central & Southamerican History

Compare and Contrast ancient Civilizations in the lands surrounding the Mediterranean sea

ell as the differences of these fascinating early civilizations.Approximately 5000 BCE civilization rose from disorder in Mesopotamia, the modern day area of Iran and Iraq, and formed what is arguably ... day area of Iran and Iraq, and formed what is arguably the first example of human civilization. It rose upon the banks of the Tigris-Euphrates river, formed by a tribe known as the Sumarians. They we ...

(10 pages) 406 0 3.7 May/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

The Symbolic Meaning of the Scarlet Letter.. discusses themes & symbols in the Scarlet Letter

beginning, middle, and the end of the story. He also uses the concept of nature such as the brook, rose, and forest but the most significant symbol that is shown throughout the novel is the scarlet l ...

(4 pages) 510 3 4.3 May/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Transitions in Water

oday's estuariesbegan to take their current form during the last interglacial period, when sea levelrose about 120 m (Braun 36). However, the relatively high sea levels and extensiveestuaries found to ...

(2 pages) 39 0 3.5 Jan/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Traffic Control

sen 15.9% (Clark 387-404). Between the years 1975 and 1985, the number of miles driven by Americans rose 34.6%, but the number of miles of roads increased by only 4.4% (Doan 64).Cars and other vehicle ...

(15 pages) 152 0 4.7 Dec/1994

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

Crime and the United States

ut now it has increased to a murder every 16 seconds. Crime per thousand from between 1983 and 1992 rose 9.4 percent but from 1991 to 1992 it went down 4 percent. In recent years crime has been decrea ...

(3 pages) 84 0 4.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Traffic Control

sen 15.9% (Clark 387-404). Between the years 1975 and 1985, the number of miles driven by Americans rose 34.6%, but the number of miles of roads increased by only 4.4% (Doan 64).Cars and other vehicle ...

(15 pages) 231 0 4.8 Dec/1994

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Murder

Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when theywere in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel hisbrother, and slew him.' (Genesis 4:8)Back in those days, murder wa ...

(7 pages) 123 0 5.0 Feb/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays