... girls could only dream of. To be a Knight in shining armour you have to perform many darning deeds. In First Knight Sir Launcelot started his courageous deeds with fighting a man three times his size and bets him. Then he rescues the queen, rescues the queen again and just to make thing better rescues her one more time and still manages to fight in wars and save Camelot from invasion. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight performed by both Sir Gawain and the Green Knight the fact that The Green Knight went to Camelot and challenged the Knight of the round table by saying to them… You haven’t a man that could ...

... The Tiburon is also used as a metaphor for Santiago’s life. The boy in the story parallels what Santiago’s life once was. The struggle with the Tiburon represents the struggle that Santiago is having with himself. The constant struggle makes Santiago realize that he is no longer as young as he thinks he is and he must rely on the help of others. This is shown when Santiago is battling the Tiburon. “ ‘Bad news for you fish’, he said and shifted the line over the sacks that covered his shoulders. He was comfortable, but suffering, although he did not admit to the suffering at ...

... being a loving and nurturing father; instead he concentrates on another aspect of paternity, the acquisition of property. Macon aspires to own property and other people too. His words to his son, "Let me tell you right now the one important thing that you'll ever need to know: Own things. And let the things you own own other things too. Then you'll own yourself and other people too". The owning of things as well as other people is a rather remarkable statement, coming from a descendant of slaves. Macon has not inherited this trait from his father, even though he mistakenly thinks so. His father had owned thing ...

... (Poe 3). "If you still fancy me mad, you will think so no longer." Here lies yet another description of the narrator's defense proclaiming his sanity which was resounded even after killing the old man (Poe 6). The physical evil as inferred by the narrator, has been blamed upon a single eye belonging to old man. The eye "haunted" the narrator "day and night" which ran his "blood cold" whenever it looked at him (Poe 3). "It was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye," (Poe 4). After the narrator's reinstatement of his aggravation, a new physical terror overcomes him. The beating of the old man's heart h ...

... First Amendment of the Bill of Rights is the American public in a nutshell. The best part about being an American is the freedom of religion. Our country was started with that idea as the Pilgrims came here to escape the religious persecution in England. Now, there are over 200 different variations of popular religions from around the world. Where else may an individual may “flip-off� another and then write a contemptible letter to the President without a blink of an eye by officials? In other countries, such actions could cause one's life to be lost by sun-up the next day. This is the rationalization of Fi ...

... away when he is animated and the fall of the Frankenstein family awaits them. Victor Frankenstein’s family was normal to begin with. He had a mother and a father, but later on when Elizabeth becomes sick with a fever, his mother nurses her back to health at the cost of her own life. On her deathbed, Victor’s mom says, "Elizabeth, my love, you must supply my place to my younger children. Alas! I regret that I am taken from you; and, happy and beloved as I have been, is it not hard . . . a hope of meeting you in another world" (42). Elizabeth is expected to fill in as the role of the mother by taki ...

... was owning your own home, yet I refuse to believe that this was all that the American Dream was about. Is this why NAFTA went through so easily or why Cuba antagonizes so many? It is such a paradox, yet there are ultimately American, like fast food stands and Reganomics. Like I said, fascinating. "I hold the future to you and all that pass through."() This is engraved on the entrance of Ellis Island in New York Harbor. It has been a welcoming to millions of hopeful immigrants coming to America. They search for a dream. The American dream. What is this dream that so many came looking for? The American dream i ...

... , found in Open Secrets, exemplifies Munro’s characteristic approach to short story writing as it explores central character’s lives that are revealed from a combination of first person narrative and third person narrative. By using both narratives, Munro adds realism, some autobiographical information about her own life in the short stories, as the stories are also based on fiction as can it be found in earlier written short stories. Since many of her stories are based on the region in which she was born, the characters and narrators are often thought of as being about her life and how she grew up; and maki ...

... on the burial of Polyneices clashed, creating a contradiction between morals. ’s side of the conflict held a much more divine approach, as opposed to the mundane path Creon chose to travel. feels that Creon is disregarding the laws of the heavens by ordering it unlawful for anyone to provide a proper burial for her brother Polyneices. ’s opinion is one that supports the Gods and the laws of the heavens. Her reasoning is set by her belief that if someone were not given a proper burial, that person would not be accepted into heaven. was a very religious person and the acceptance of her brother by the God ...

... on the streets with the company of a man, or for the reason of a funeral or religious festival. Only the poverty stricken women were allowed to work outside the home. They were not allowed to own property. They lived their lives under the control of a male figure. (Kishlansky 75) Women in marriage did not gain much pleasure. They married between the ages of twelve and eighteen. (Kagan 53) The marriage was arranged by their fathers. Marriages were conducted with these words, “I give this women for the procreation of legitimate children...I accept...And I give a certain amount as dowry...I ...