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- 101: GI Jane
- ... men have been serving us for generations. While claiming to be every bit as good as the men, they have for a most part failed once they got in. Ms. Faulkner won her legal battle to enter the Citadel, breaking a 152 year tradition of training men only. On August 14, 1995, during her first day of military training, she collapsed from heat exhaustion. Within days, she abruptly withdrew from the college, forced to admit that she could not withstand the rigors of "hell week." Ms. Faulkner, fighting back tears, explained that two and a half years of stress had "all crashed in" on her in the first days there. After not quite making the cut, and ...
- 102: Barn Burning: An Endless Circle
- Barn Burning: An Endless Circle William Faulkner's short story “Barn Burning” is the tale of a southern man forced into a role by society. “Barn Burning” takes place in the post Civil War South where a ... authority figure, and reverting back to his mercenary ways. Having no allegiance, Ab makes the move from helping hand to the enemy by burning down barns. Along with many of Faulkner's short stories, “Barn Burning” is set in the imaginary Mississippi county of Yoknapatawpha. During the restoration of the South, the time period following the Civil War, the only thing ...
- 103: Speech Recognition Technology
- ... Company. Judge, Paul C. Business Week. "For some, a Necessity." February 23, 1998. Pg. 74. © 1998 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Kolor, Joanna. Bank Technology News. October 15, 1997. © 1997 Faulkner & Gray Publishing, NY. Sinton, Peter. The San Francisco Chronicle. "Schwab Offers High-Tech way To Get Quotes." September 18, 1996. Pg. D1. © 1996 The Chronicle Publishing Co. Wilson, Warren. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "Speech Recognition Technology." January 1, 1996. © 1996 Journal Sentinel Inc. Iversen, Wesley. Financial Service Online. "Words You Can Bank On." July, 1997. 1997 Faulkner & Gray Publishing, NY.
- 104: Absalom: Using The Three Narratives to Understand Sutpen
- Absalom: Using The Three Narratives to Understand Sutpen William Faulkner wrote Absalom, Absalom by utilizing narrative voices to develop different perspectives on the most complex character of Thomas Sutpen. Each narrative provides diverse character insight as each describes their story ... Mr. Compson saw the old south as being more heroic and containing more people of importance, but those people were also victims of the southern system. Using three narrators allowed Faulkner to examine a character in multiple viewpoints. A romantic viewpoint develops the character's personality; an objective factual viewpoint kept the character believable and understandable. And the third narrative provided ...
- 105: A Rose For Emily: Emily’s Disbelief in the Truth
- A Rose For Emily: Emily’s Disbelief in the Truth As I searched for a topic to write upon, I was overwhelmed by the number of times I found William Faulkner’s name under tragedy, death and dying. Unfortunately, I have only read one of his pieces, “A Rose for Emily.” This story was very interesting by way of plot, storyline and metaphor. The focus of this essay places an emphasis on the dissatisfaction with existing belief, and Emily’s refusal to let go. In “A Rose for Emily”, Faulkner contrasted the past with the present. The past being characterized in Emily, the Colonel, the servant, and the townspeople that allowed her taxes to be remitted. Emily symbolized the past ...
- 106: Expanation Of A Rose For Emily
- A Rose for Emily William Faulkner wrote the short story A Rose for Emily . It was published in 1930. The story was set in the Deep South, Jefferson to be precise. The time period was from 1884 to 1920. Emily Grierson was the main character in the story. Faulkner uses characterization to revel the character of Emily, he expresses the content of her character through physical description, through her actions, words, and feelings, through a narrator s direct comments ...
- 107: Tragic Differences
- ... how can someone enjoy the pain and the suffering of others? But like everything else tragedy has laws. One of the laws is Hubris. A Rose for Emily, by William Faulkner, can easily be classified as a tragedy. It is a repulsive story about a woman, who died just as she lived: lonely. Emily Grierson was a peculiar woman, who owned ... homer himself had remarked he liked men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elk s Club that he was not a marrying man. (Faulkner 280) Poor woman probably never even had the chance. But shortly after the two had been acquainted, Homer disappeared, and the woman became even more alienated, until she stopped coming ...
- 108: As I Lay Dying: Character's Words And Insight To Underlying Meanings
- ... I Lay Dying: Character's Words And Insight To Underlying Meanings Fulfilling a promise they had made to their mother, Addie, Cash, Darl, Jewel, Dewey Dell, and Vardaman, in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, journey across the Mississippi countryside to bring her body to be buried in Jefferson, alongside her immediate family. Each one, in turn, narrates the events ...
- 109: Donald Barthelme
- ... H. Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters for his book The Dead Father. His book Sixty Stories was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner award for Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize all in 1982. Barthelme also had the privilege of being widely regarded as one of the ablest and most versatile ...
- 110: Barn Burning: Abner Snopes Character Analysis
- William Faulkner’s short story "Barn Burning" describes a typical relationship between wealthy people and poor people during the Civil War. The main character, Abner Snopes, sharecrops to make a living for ...
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