.... to Catholicism, or be put to death. This was not a surprise to the Jews of Spain. Since 1931, there had been anti-Jewish riots throughout Spain. For years, the Jews had been converting to Christianity to escape religious persecution. These Jews were called conversos. The twist to this tale is that these conversos actually were only putting on a front. They still considered themselves Jews. They practiced in secret.1 The Spanish made every attempt to search out and punish these conversos. Some Jews chose not to convert and they moved to Portugal. . Unfortunately, Portugal, in 1497, expelled the Jews from its borders as well. Anti-semitism was growing in .....

.... From beginning to end, you see him struggling to survive life. He is constantly trying to be the best at everything. From the very start he was working out his arms trying to make himself bigger that way to make up for being to short. He joined the cub scouts with his friends and marched in the memorial day parade. He hit a home run his first time at bat in little league. When he grew he joined the wrestling team and constantly won first place in competition. When he lost, it was so emotional that he would cry. He would do anything to be first, even if it meant incredible agony. The coaches made us do sit-ups, push-ups, and spinning drills u .....

.... black lips (Shelly 56). Frankenstein, having chosen the parts for his creature, is the only one possible to blame for its appearance. Martin Tropp states that the monster is "designed to be beautiful and loving, it is loathsome and unloved" (64). Clearly it is Frankenstein's lack of foresight in the creation process to allow for a creature that Frankenstein "had selected his features as beautiful," (56) to become something which the very sight of causes its creator to say "breathless horror and disgust filled my heart"(56). He overlooks the seemingly obvious fact that ugliness is the natural result when something is made from parts of different corpses and pu .....

.... that he is a slave. Jim is a very modest person, he will sacrifice anything to help his fellow man. Huck sees this and begins to think of Jim as a human being also, and will “go to hell ” for Jim. Although Jim is a slave, he does not think of people based on their skin color, but in fact believes that everyone is equal regardless of skin, and even age. One may ever say that Jim is Huck's true father. Both Jim and Huck have experienced life at a tedious level. They have their highs and lows, but mainly life is not all it is cracked up to be. For Huck, he must experience having a horrendous father who beats Huck to a pulp any time he is sober. And for Jim .....

.... rats began to pile into large masses and burned. Soon after there were some people that got very sick, which made Mr. Rieux very curious. These reports of these ill people and the death of the rats were the beginning of the parallelism for this story. Since Bernard was a doctor he was the first to actually attempt to help one of these sick people. Michael was his first patient in this matter. He was the sickest person that the doctor had ever seen. Michael was pale white and vomited often, he hurt so much from the vomiting that he seemed paralyzed. Mr. Rieux tried to help the man the best that he could, but he ended up dying. Michael was the first .....

.... because his canoe was destroyed and his hut was burned. Scorpion attacks are also a factor in Mexico. Kino’s child, Coyotito, was stung and poisoned by one. Kino also has to worry about the Spanish people who are desperately attacking and trying to steal the pearl from him. These were the kind of things that made life hard for the Indians. Kino, Juana and the rest of the natives are all under the oppression of the Spanish people who took over their land. These Spanish people have no concern for the lowly Indians because they think of them as merely animals. This is shown in the novel when Kino goes to the Spanish doctor for help with Coyotito’s scorpion bi .....

.... in “Madame Bovary” kept up appearances but they would never quite make it to the full rank of bourgeois. Because the level of one’s social class status is determined so much by appearances, an individual can keep up a good front and be accepted into the circle when they are out of town where no-one knows the truth. Both Emma and Homais followed this practice in their pursuits to really belong. “Madame Bovary” is about a sense of self, a search for personal identity and reality versus illusion. The symbolism throughout the story is clearly indicative of this fact (Barron’s 5). To what social class did the characters belong, in reality, in appearan .....

.... get published, but then she found a job as an editor of research publications at the University of Washington. Her short story wasn’t published, but she turned that story into a novel, The Apothecary Rose. Candace is now the author of two ongoing mystery series featuring medieval sleuths, the Margaret Kerr Mysteries and the Owen Archer Mysteries. Ms.Robb researched a lot for these novels. Candace read a lot of depressing readings, both in statistics and in handbooks for physicians that were written in the period. Through many letters, sermons, 1 and the plague handbooks, she tried to get a sense of how the people fought to survive with the horror of the .....