.... it can be seen as an attempt to describe the confusion experienced by Japanese Americans torn between two cultures. First, and most obvious, Monica Sone accounts for, in an autobiographical manner, the important events and situations in her life that helped create her self-identity. She recounts an event at the age of five, when she found out that she, “had Japanese blood.” This recognition would spark the chain of many more realizations to come. Sone describes the relationships she had with her parents and siblings. She seems very pleased with and delighted by the differing, yet caring personalities of each person in her family. Sone describes he .....

.... a very special mode of being, the concrete manifestation of which is the clean, well-lighted place” (Hoffman 176). This cafe is a warrior against this nothingness. The place is clean, pleasant, and orderly. There is no music. It is a plain and simple refuge against the lonely, dark world that awaits outside (Hemingway 256). However, this cafe must close at some time or another thus proving that the cafe isn't enough to combat the nada. It is not even a place but an artificial, man-made building that tries to fight against this real idea of nada. If one has the internal qualities, cleanliness and inner vision, they can cope with the nothingness even out .....

.... remarkable that when you wake up in the morning you nearly always find everything in exactly the same place as the night before. For when asleep and dreaming you are, apparently at least, in as essentially different state from that of wakefulness; and therefore, as that man truly said, it requires enormous, presence of mind or rather quickness of wit, when opening your eyes to seize hold as it were of everything in the room at exactly the same place where you had let it go on the previous evening. That was why, he said, the moment of waking up was the riskiest moment of the say. Once that was well over without deflecting you from your orbit, you could take h .....

.... the action in the play, through the consequent chain of events. However this indicates that Lear is imprisoned by his responsibility to society, he is bound by a social harness. He renounces the throne to lead the rest of his life in pleasure and in doing so he disrupts the Great Chain of Being, he challenges the position that he has been given and thus his family and indeed the entire nation, descend into disorder and chaos. The storm is symbolic of this occurrence, the weather imitates the state of men. "One minded like the weather," the gentle man recognises the disquiet and unrest of the storm, as a manifestation of the turbulence in Society at .....

.... other Cyclopes would come and ask who was with him, they would think that "Nohbdy" was there. In another episode, Odysseus outsmarted the Sirens; he wanted to listen to their sweet song, but he knew he would try to jump overboard. It was then he got the notion to tell his crew, "…you are to tie me up, tight as a splint, / erect along the mast, lashed to the mast, / and if I shout and beg to be untied, / take more turns of rope to muffle me." (pg. 459, 536-539) This and telling the crew members to put wax in their ears ensured that Odysseus, alone, could listen to the Sirens' song and not die. When Odysseus had to figure out how he could kill the Suitors .....

.... only alcoholism but also mental breakdowns through out the middle and later part of his life troubled Theodore Rothke. Rothke’s beginning poems were written about the different worlds in nature. His earlier poems were not Rothke’s most popular writings. Rothke was amazed while at the same time scared about many things, one of these fears were the natural world. The other two things he was amazed by would be the mysteries of human speech and how a poet writes about their innermost feelings. His love poems in the later part of his life were his most popular. Rothke was regarded as not only a great poet but also known as a great teacher. Theod .....

.... ways of looking at the problem. Specifically, the question of why Aristotle says that propriety in ridicule “eludes definition” will be considered. The problem is that Aristotle defines ridicule in a later part of the same paragraph, in a way that seems not to admit any acceptable forms. When looking at good and bad company, Aristotle considers it entirely in terms of “entertaining conversation,” such as humor, wit, or ridicule. He argues that “adaptability” in the way we talk to people is desirable, since there is a time and a place for everything. The paragraph begins with indirect definitions of two extremes of humor, the buffoon and the humorless person .....

.... gives Henry some letters for his family. During the first battle Henry fights good. The troops hold the enemy back. while they are resting the enemy comes for more. Now Henry is very scared. When two men standing near him run, he throws down his gun and races with them. He tells himself that the unit was about to be wiped out, and that he was saving himself. Soon after realizes that the line stayed. Now he is upset at the other soldiers for making him look like a scared little girl when he thought that he was right. Feeling awful, Henry walks into the woods. Soon Henry confronts a horrible sight- a dead man decayin .....