.... is a disorder in which young women binge on food and then force themselves to vomit. They also often use laxatives to get food out of their system. All of these young women who suffer from this problem are considered to suffer from a psychiatric disorder. While the causes are debatable, one thing that is clear is that these young women have a distorted body image. (Wolf, pp.214-216) What is extremely alarming is that the current thin ideal for women in Western society, which is unattainable for all but a very small percentage of the population, is compounding this problem. It is a very serious issue when someone's body shape is determined by genetic .....

.... of India. Plot: Kim grew up on the streets of Lahore. His Irish mother had died when he was born. His father, a former colorsergeant of an Irish regiment called the Mavericks, died eventually from doing drugs and having too much to drink, and left his son in care of a half-caste woman. So young Kimball O'hara became Kim, and under the hot Indian sun his skin grew so dark that one good not tell that he was of the Caucasian race. One day a Tibetan lama, in search of the Holy River of the Arrow that would wash away all sin, came to Lahore. Struck by all possibility for an exciting adventure, Kim attached himself to the lama as his chela. His adventures began a .....

.... they have grown up with. They often go against their parents' and grandparents' wishes. They put life to the test and usually come to realize what is of most value to them eventually. The young man set out on what would be a journey of self discovery. He had a lot of pride in his heart. "He had the idea that in Indian country, where there was danger, all white men were kings, and he wanted to be one of them." But he was knocked down the first notch when he discovered out there that some men could still be his superiors even when they couldn't read like he did. These men still had the necessary skills to be good at what they needed to be good at in th .....

.... the differences that existed between Daisy (Buchanan’s wife) and Myrtle (Buchanan’s mistress), they shared many similarities. For example, both women liked the finer things in life. That is, they were happy as long as they possessed rich material possessions. Another similarity between them is that they both cheated on their husbands with men richer than their own husbands. Gatsby was richer than Tom and Tom was richer than George. With all these things in mind, we must also keep in mind that Myrtle and Daisy are from two different social classes. Myrtle is not very high class. She proves this to us several times. For instance when she buys a copy of t .....

.... worst nightmare, which gives him conflicting thoughts, emotions and fears. The young character soon realizes as all of these things affect him emotionally and physically, that the war is very different from what he had hoped it was going to be. Although the soldier becomes nervous and even runs away at the Battle of Chancellorsville, he eventually returns to find that he and his fellow soldiers have grown. They had learned more about themselves then they ever believed possible. The young soldier becomes a man with plenty of courage by the end of this book. Stephen Crane brings the reader into his book, first with his power of describing details so eloquen .....

.... invalidated facts can destroy anyone's reputation. Racism is mentioned throughout the second part of the novel. It is the prime and most mentioned part of this section of the novel. , even though it was a classic, was the only book that Harper Lee ever published, though she was said to have written many other unpublished books. That we may never find out. It was a great accomplishment that Harper Lee only wrote one book and won the Pulitzer Prize. There are many themes and symbols in this book. Scouts father, Atticus, tells Scout and Jem, “I’d rather you shoot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all th .....

.... sexual urges. One is a timid outsider bullied by his classmates. The other is courageous enough to confront and question authority. One devoutly hopes to become a priest. The other cynically rejects religion. Stephen loves his mother, yet eventually hurts her by rejecting her Catholic faith. Taught to revere his father, he can't help but see that Simon Dedalus is a drunken failure. Unhappy as a perpetual outsider, he lacks the warmth to engage in true friendship. "Have you never loved anyone?" his fellow student, Cranly, asks him. "I tried to love God," Stephen replies. "It seems now I failed." The force that eventually unites these contradictory Stephens is hi .....

.... such a clear sense of what a man should be as Last of the Mohicans. Cooper portrays the hero, Hawkeye, as brave, independent, and skillful in the ways of the woods. He is a tracker, he can hit a target with a bullet from any distance, he can fight the evil Iroquois Indians without batting so much as an eyelash. The makers of the movie take great pains to preserve these facets of Hawkeye, but then go beyond what Cooper originally laid down as the basis for his hero's character. In the book, Hawkeye displays very little feeling and the reader has very little empathy with him, even though he is the hero. In the movie, however, there is a great romance be .....