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    Theme and corresponding works in the short stories Secret Life of Walter Mitty and I’m Going! Benjamin McDonald Ashford University English 125 Professor Smith August 24‚ 2012 Gender roles and marriage have been stereotyped for years. The husband earned a living while the woman stayed home did the cooking and laundry and raised the kids. Today‚ however‚ roles have reversed in many households. The husbands stay home and take care of the children‚ do the cooking‚ and run the

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    Essay (A Form of Literary Analysis) Assignment: Your assignment is to write a character analysis of a character from ONE of the following short stories: “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin‚ “After Twenty Years” by O. Henry‚ “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber‚ or "The Lottery‚" by Shirley Jackson. (All of the stories can be found in Explorations: An Anthology of American Literature - Volume C.) In writing about a literary character‚ you should try to describe the character’s major

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    the works within your selected theme. •Race / Ethnicity ◦Country Lovers (Gordimer) ◦The Welcome Table (Walker) ◦What It’s Like to Be a Black Girl (Smith) ◦Child of the Americas (Morales) •Gender Roles / Marriage ◦The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Thurber) ◦The Story of an Hour (Chopin) ◦The Necklace (de Mauppassant) ◦The Proposal (Chekhov) ◦Country Lovers (Gordimer) •Creativity / The Creative Process ◦Poetry (Neruda) ◦Constantly Risking Absurdity

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    characters from‚ “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty‚” by James Thurber and‚ “Uncle Marcos‚” by Isabel Allende. The main character’s ‚ Uncle Marcos and Walter Mitty‚ of both stories have lots to learn from one another‚ from expressing their actions in real life to just imagining them for their own pleasure the two men are alike and different in many ways. Walter Mitty and Uncle Marcos could’ve easily influenced each other and learned tons from one another’s ideas. “Walter Mitty looked at the pictures of the

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    Jurrell D. Harrison The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and The Story of an Hour Introduction to Literature Professor Daw Monday 12th December 2011 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty‚ written by James Thurber (1939) and the Story of an Hour written by Chopin (1894) are the two literary works that will be compared and contrasted in this paper. Both these pieces depict some of the trials and tribulations of a union in marriage‚ such as the want of independence and excitement; experiences

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    Final Paper Rough Draft Review the Final Paper instructions in Week Five of this course. Then‚ write a rough draft for your Final Paper‚ in which you compare and contrast two literary works from this course that share the same theme (using the “Themes & Corresponding Works” list in the Week Five Final Paper instructions‚ as a guide). The paper should be organized around your thesis (argument)‚ which is the main point of the entire essay. When developing a thesis for a comparative paper

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    The Unicorn in the Garden The story ‘Unicorn in the Garden’ has two characters which revolve around the event of sighting a Unicorn in the garden by the husband. The story portraits the husband as a mild characterised person and the wife as mean spirited. At first the husband’s character comes to the reader as somewhat not in touch with reality. Then it further progresses to the wife’s character and portraits the wife as demeaning towards the husband. The story starts with highly imaginable and

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    9.9 of every 100‚000 teenagers are the cause for deaths. Steve Harmon is a high school student‚ who is sent to jail and is being tried for murder. The plot takes place in Steve’s jail cell and the court room. The lesson to be learned from the book is‚ if someone does something wrong they have to pay for it. The book is a murder mystery‚ that can entertain anyone. This book is a must read in my opinion. The plot of the book Monster includes setting‚ main character‚ and conflicts. First‚ the story

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    The purpose of this paper is to address the question of whether Wilfred of Ivanhoe‚ the main character of Sir Walter Scott’s book‚ Ivanhoe‚ married the right woman. The two women in the book to be discussed are Rebecca‚ the kind healer daughter of the rich Jew‚ and Rowena‚ the princess of the Saxons living in England. Both women loved Ivanhoe‚ and at the end of the tale‚ what he does surprises the reader‚ marries Rowena‚ bringing his race together even more fully in England. Ivanhoe has been away

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    Gay Marriage Kizzy Jones SOC120: Introduction to Ethics and Social Responsibility Daniel Beteta December 17‚ 2012 Gay Marriage Gay marriages are a worldwide issue of should it be allowed or not in today’s societies and has been a topic for many years. Gay marriage is a marriage between two people of same sex or gender. There are states and countries that are against just as well as for same sex marriage. It has been a problem about whether same sex couples should be able to marry since 1971

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