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    Most of an urban people have higher income and better opportunities than small town people. Based on the location and surrounding of a person‚ it can influence his/her dreams‚ objectives‚ and goals. The person who grew up in New York City is most likely to have a dream of working in Wall Street (Investment firms‚ Banking‚ Business Analysis) or 5th Avenue (Designing‚ Modeling‚ and Retail Businesses). And the person who grew up in country side around farm lands is most likely to dream of becoming a

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    character ’s emotional devastation. People have categorized O ’Connor ’s work as "Southern Gothic" (Walters 30). In Many of her short stories‚ A Good Man Is Hard To Find for example‚ Flannery O ’Connor creates grotesque characters to illustrate the evil in people. Written in 1953‚ A Good Man Is Hard To Find is one of O ’ Connor ’s most known pieces of work and has received many awards. Throughout the story‚ you come across many twists and turns when you least expect it. A Good Man Is Hard To Find is a story

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    The Secret Life of Bees within the Southern Gothic Genre Most southern gothic literature deals with the disturbed and flawed characters; one of the most famous writers of this genre is Edgar Allan Poe. The southern gothic genre is characterized by grotesque‚ gruesome‚ or unbelievable incidents. The southern gothic genre is portrayed in many ways. Lily‚ the main character‚ goes through many difficult life experiences and learns many tough lessons. This book does not have a happy ending like a fairy

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    Mary Flannery O ’connor wrote two short stories entitled "Good Country People" and "Revelation". O ’conner displays similarities between the characters and the differences in the role they play at the end of their stories. Inside the two short stories are four characters‚ Joy and Manly Pointer from "Good country people" and Mary Grace and Mrs. Turpin from "Revelation". Consider the similarities between Joy and Mary Grace‚ the nineteen-year-old teenager with sever acne problems. O ’conner describes

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    In Flannery O’Connor’s stories‚ “Good Country People”‚ “Everything that Rises Must Converge”‚ ”A Good Man is Hard to Find”‚ and “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”‚ there are many similar characters and situations. Few‚ if any of the characters are likeable‚ and most of them are grotesque. Two of the stories have characters that view themselves as superior in one way or another to those around them‚ and in some cases these characters experience a downfall‚ illustrating the old proverb‚ “Pride goeth

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    Ethics In my personal opinion I think that human beings are combination of good and bad with many factors in hand. What I may think is bad can be good to others and what I think may be good could be horrible to others. In other cases something may be wrong morally. Something may be wrong because society says so. It’s a matter of opinion. Here are a few examples to justify my argument. A child for instance can be brought up with a family that society sees as near perfect and still turn in

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    My First impression of reading “good country people” was how interesting how the narrator portrayed each characters Mrs. Freeman and Mrs. Hopewell. I felt they were the most judgmental people and in my opinion Mrs. Hopewell was excessively critical with her daughter Joy. Mrs. Hopewell may portray nice‚ but she’s definitely can be negative all the time. For Instance‚ in the following Mrs. Hopewell would say “When Hulga stumped into the kitchen in the morning (she could walk without making the awful

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    Good roads are essential for the development of a country. The Romans realized this centuries ago. Wherever they established themselves‚ they tried to improve the roads there. Today‚ the governments of all countries in the world are building more and more roads to gain access to the remotest regions of their countries. Roads link towns and villages and enable the people of one place to communicate with the people of another place. When food is scarce in one place‚ it can be brought from another

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    The Castle of Otranto‚ whose story contained almost every element of what is viewed today as a Gothic Tale. Most stories that are classified under the subgenre of gothic fiction involve many elements that create a sense of suspense or mystery‚ with features that develop a dark feeling or unsettling atmosphere and sometimes even overwrought emotion. Through the analysis of short stories written by Gothic authors such as‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates‚ “The Yellow

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    Good People What does it mean to be a good person? How can one respect oneself without hurting others? Are we able to judge whether a decision is wrong or right? Do we really know what love is? ... Questions like these have always existed‚ but what happens when an author tries to comprehend the complexity of being ‘good people’? Is it possible to write about an issue like this? In David Foster Wallace’s short story “Good People” from 2007 we experience an attempt to do so. In the short story

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