A Cold Winter It was in the middle of winter on a dark smoggy night, chills were running through the house in and out of my room like a quiet ghost silently coming and silently going. As I lie awake in my bed thinking of what the next day should bring, my eye's start to grow heavy a...

Images in a Pond Hemingway, as most authors do, put a great deal of himself into the characters in his short stories. The two stories that become the focus of this paper are, "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" and "Hills Like White Elephants." The thoughts and feelings of the char...

Evil: The Covering Over the Divinity Within "No one who conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast and seeks to wrestle with them can expect to come through the struggle unscathed." -Dora (Complete Psychological Works) There exists an all powe...

Women in Movies Women in Movies Since the 1940's, movies have predominately portrayed women as sex symbols. Beginning in the 1940's and continuing though the 1980's, women did not have major roles in movies. When they did have a leading role the women was either pretreated as unintel...

Everyone falls in love sometime in their life. Whether it is love at first site or love built up after being with someone after a long period of time, they all attain different characteristics of a loving relationship. In the story Selway by Pam Houston, the narrator has a love and a drive to sta...