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gender role in modern lit
... in the workplace, women are usually offered jobs like secretary, nurse, and waitress whereas men work as lawyers, doctors ... stating "I don't know", suggesting a regular pattern of the man deciding for her without her opposing it. The controlling manner of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
The Abolitionist Movement in 18th Century American Literature.
... the institution of slavery. In a 1794 letter to his secretary Tobias Lear, Washington gives detailed instruction on the sale of his ... on his joy over the "prospect of the speedy emancipation of the slaves of the United States". He also declares "I set ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Love: an illusion in American Novel
... secretary. Ellen is an outcast of society, who never really agrees with the rules of society, she is accepted because of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
"American Psycho" : Satirists make the best Moralists
... of his secretary Jeanette, are in love with him. Ellis is playing with idea of hero worship and questioning people's worthiness of ... the end of his rant there is uncomfortable silence before Evelyn states 'I have...sorbet.' This is illustrative of the face ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Mark Twain
... , in Carson City, Nevada, where his brother was a territorial secretary. After trying out silver mining, Twain met his mentor, the ... by Captain Horace Bixby, a series of events which was recorded in the novel. Twain stated in Life that he loved steamboating ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
Those Who Wait
... sixth. I knew all of this because I categorized his graded papers for him during my lunch. Yeah, a fine secretary I made, ... hips against mine, rocking back and forth. I remember being in states of near unconsciousness, as if I was there and somewhere else ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
My Summer Reading Experience
... the interior struggle of Jack Burden (who is Stark’s secretary). Burden narrates the novel, and he analyzes the personality of Willie Stark ... were awful. They were full of facts and figures he had dug up about running the state. He would say, ‘Now friends ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American