is visiting her cousin Marjorie for a couple of weeks. Marjorie has many friends‚ and socializes with her peers very well. On the other hand Marjorie’s cousin‚ Bernice‚ is the complete opposite. Bernice is quiet‚ doesn’t know anyone in town and is very awkward when others attempt to socialize with her. Although Marjorie tries to convince her friends to dance with Bernice at parties‚ no one really wants to be around Bernice. Throughout the story we see how Bernice and Marjorie first get along but like
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Young Love Fails in Hemingway’s “The End of Something” There is a lot of speculation about what causes the end of the relationship between Nick Adams and Marjorie in Hemingway’s early story of young love‚ “The End of Something.” Indeed‚ there does seem to be some vagueness in the narrative as to the reason for the breakup: Nick says when Marjorie asks what the trouble is: “’I don’t know.’” Even the title suggests this vagueness. Freudian theories abound‚ however: some suspect impotence; homoeroticism
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not afraid of Virginia Woolf -- of the‚ ‘crisis’ in the humanities by Anne E. Fernald‚ The Crisis in the Humanities and the Corporate Attack on the University by P. Winston Fettner and College is not a commodity. Stop treating it like one by Hunter Rawlings‚ I began to understand more about other perspectives of college that have broadened my understanding of higher education. Some of the main advantages for teaching Humanities in higher education is that it leads
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Symbolism and Character Analysis in “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” The short story "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" was based‚ by Fitzgerald’s own account‚ on his letter to his sister‚ the story itself is "virtually a handbook of advice on how to become a successful “flapper". Fitzgerald "borrowed his major elements and themes‚ which we can see from the symbolism and characters in the novel‚ from Little Women and turned them "upside down in a Jazz Age revision."1‚ showing the changing social mores of Fitzgerald’s
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gun‚ and the boy on the horse‚ which is pretty violent for a “13-15 year old. An act of violence in All the Pretty Horses occurs when Rawlings is stabbed the morning after he and John Grady talk to Perez for the first time. Rawlins is stabbed by a man with an “Italian switchblade‚” passing it across Rawlings’ shirt three times. This erupts into a fight as Rawlings leaps “three times backward with his shoulders hunched and his arms out flung like a man refereeing his own bloodletting” (188-189). The
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what she wears‚ is thought out. Bernice decides to confront Marjorie in the kitchen the morning after hearing her lash out about her to her mother. The reader has insight to how shocked Marjorie will be after realizing she is caught when Fitzgerald sets up the scene with "Bernice paused before she threw her hand-grenade". Marjorie is trapped and Bernice ’s words are like a bomb exploding in the air shattering the silence. "Marjorie never giggled‚ was never frightened‚ seldom embarrassed" (Fitzgerald
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something else. Marjorie and Nick go fishing‚ and Nick breaks up with Marjorie‚ implying that there are other fish in the sea. Marjorie rows off in the distance as a new character‚ Bill‚ comes forth and also begins to watch the fishing rods; possibly‚ he will take his chance with Nick. 2. Nick and Marjorie observe the ruin of the old mill that used to support the entire town‚ which has become a ghost town. Thus the “old ruin” is part of the theme of the end of something. Marjorie sees it as an old
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The Economic Development of Ghana Ghana is an African country located on the western side of Africa. Its neighbors are Burkina Faso to the north‚ Togo to the east‚ the Atlantic Ocean to the south‚ and Cote D’Ivoire to the west. It has a population of 18‚100‚ 703 and a population density of 197 people per square mile. Ghana is 92‚098 square miles and English is its official language. The capital city of Accra has around 1‚ 673‚000 people residing in it. There are the physical statistics‚ now onto
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character‚ she is the worst person in “Bernice Bobs Her Hair.” Throughout the story Marjorie is harsh and unsympathetic to her cousin Bernice. When the two cousins discuss their views on women‚ Marjorie completely rejects Bernice’s ideas and values. Marjorie doesn’t show any sympathy for Bernice when she says‚ “You little nut! Girls like you are responsible for all the tiresome colorless mariages” (Fitzgerald 47). Marjorie doesn’t realize that Bernice’s beliefs aren’t her fault and mindlessly rants and
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in and their interactions with the place mirrors and shows how the couple’s relationship falls apart. The story begins with Nick and Marjorie‚ a couple on a fishing escapade‚ rowing nearby the lumber mill of Hortons Bay‚ a deserted lumber town. After fishing‚ the couple disembarked on a bank near the shoreline. As they are pulling the boat to higher ground‚ Marjorie asks Nick if there is something wrong. Nick responds by saying‚ “I don’t know”. After making a fire‚ they sat down beside each other
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