.... with Celie when she tells Harpo to beat her and she reveals to Celie details of her painful past. “All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my cousins and my uncles. But I never thought I’d have to fight in my own house. I loves Harpo. God knows I do. But I’ll kill him dead before I let him beat me.” (42). Sofia can no longer tolerate this kind of abuse and she thought that when she married Harpo she had finally escaped it. Later Celie admits that she told Harpo to beat her because she is jealous of Sofia. Celie is jealous because Sofia can fight back and she knows she can’t. S .....

.... became mentally ill in that short period of time. This experiment probably wouldn't be ethical now, but at the time no one knew what would happen, so I think the experiment wasn't unethical. I never would've expected this to happen. I thought the students would just wait the time out and leave when it was over. I had no clue the experiment would have such an affect on them. This experiment was useful in that it showed people that the environment does have an impact on behavior. It was also realistic, because there have been cases of mental illness in jails and things like this have happened in real life. The second experiment was the ROTC Experiment. I .....

.... Contrary to the evidence stated in the text, “Sarah Boyle is a vivacious and intelligent young wife...proud of her growing family which keeps her busy and happy around the house” (192), the reader can see that the main character, Sarah Boyle, is quite unsatisfied with her place in life. This unhappiness stems from a wasted education, causing the apathetic housewife to resort to ceaseless contemplation, which shapes the life she has created for herself and the home she is trapped in. The fact that Sarah Boyle was well-educated is pointed out clearly in the first few paragraphs, “Sarah Boyle is a vivacious and intelligent young wife and m .....

.... wrong. As the story begins, the woman -- whose name we never learn -- tells of her depression and how it is dismissed by her husband and brother. "You see, he does not believe I am sick! And what can one do? If a physician of high standing, and one's own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hysterical tendency -- what is one to do?" (Gilman 193). These two men -- both doctors -- seem completely unable to admit that there might be more to her condition than than just stress and a slight nervous condition. Even when a summer in the country and weeks of .....

.... alcoholism. Of all these topics, Poe's favorites were the death of a beautiful woman, a feeling which he knew all too well, and the general topic of death. During Poe's life, he experienced extreme social isolation. These feelings of separation began when his father died or disappeared around the time of the birth of Poe's sister, Rosalie. The family then moved and he was separated from his older brother, who was left with relatives in Baltimore. During those toddler years, Poe found his mother in the last stages of tuberculosis. Upon her death, he was then separated from his younger sister, Rosalie. Another major low point in his life was the deat .....

.... than marry me after…“ (Zeena, 83) The first way failure is shown in the book is through the marriage of Ethan and his wife. He married her because she had tried to help his mother recover from an illness and once his mother died he could not bear the thought of living in the house alone. His wife was seven years his senior and always seemed to have some kind of illness. It seemed all she ever did was complain, and he resented this because it stifled his growing soul. Since his wife was continuously ill, and her cousin needed a place to stay, they took her in to help around the house. Ethan took an immediate propensity to her cousin, Mattie, becaus .....

.... more effectively. Alice Walker's The Color Purple and William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury depict two girls going through a bad childhood. Celie and Caddy experience abuse from their parents, which causes Caddy and Celie to have emotion difficulties in their adult life. Caddy's parents never beat her or sexually molest her; she suffers from psychological neglect, which many people do not see as a type of abuse. Psychological neglect includes the lack of emotional support and love, or the parents never attend to the child. Neither Mr. Compson nor Mrs. Compson says, "I love you" to Caddy; they do not show any type of emotional support. The fathe .....

.... trying to decide where to order pizza from. The arrangement of pepperoni might be particularly inspiring, which would help with your paper. Call up all your third and fourth year friends, trying to see if any of them had your professor. If so, ask them if he has a particular preference for being called "Mister" or "Professor". Check your e-mail again. Again. And again. Read over every e-mail you have ever gotten; maybe someone mentioned writing a paper just like yours, which would help immeasurably. Use the "word count" feature on Microsoft Word. Obsessively. Claim it's wrong, and count all the words manually to check this. Blame your lack o .....