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Everyone has experienced envy, sorrow, pain, and confusion. The selfish Mathilde Loisel has brought these emotions to a great extent. In the Diamond Necklace Guy De Maupassant tells how Mathilde put her life in a landslide towards bankruptcy and to add an overall stressful and drab life. Mathilde suffered ceaselessly, feeling herself born to enjoy all delicacies and luxuries. She was depressed at the poverty of her dwelling, at the bareness of the walls, at the shabby chairs, ugliness of the curtains

Death angel. Izabel Taylor One lady told the story about the angel of death and how about two weeks ago, she attended the funeral of an acquaintance of her husbands. She had brought her kids (ages 5 and 7) with her to the graveside service.. Apparently, while during the ceremony at the Cold Springs grave-site while people took turns praising the dead Taxi driver. Suddenly, the 5-year-old started walking off as if towards the grave. Everyone was shocked and a bit weirded out. They couldn't pull the

One often dreams of making an impact on the world; however these dreams, more often than not, remain adventurous thoughts. For the Mirabal sisters, of the Dominican Republic, dreams quickly became a reality. Minerva, María Teresa, and Patria Mirabal helped to free the Dominican Republic of their oppressive leader, Rafael Trujillo. In Julia Alvarez’s novel, In the Time of the Butterflies, the inspiring and heroic story of the Mirabal sisters is told through the perspectives of the sisters. Alvarez

In “The Necklace,” Guy De Maupassant depicts the consequence of hiding the truth between the Loisel’s and Madame Forestier. In this short story, the married couple asked if their wealthy friend, Madame Forestier, would be able to lend a diamond necklace for a party that the couple later lost during the night. In panic, they spend more money than they actually have to replace the necklace, finding out in the future it was just a piece of costume jewelry. In relation, Ericsson’s The Ways We Lie, expresses

status that a person plays in society that also can affect a person's personality, values, and behaviors. Not everyone can be born into a wealthy family, and the life they’re given might not be suitable for them. In the short story, “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant is about social rank and how you should be happy with what you have.  Mathilde and her husband have been invited to a party, but Mathilde is not delighted because she does not have fancy clothes to wear. It’s not just superior clothes that

entire mountainside...throughout the place came wailing of hunger and hurt…” poverty is everything but a laughing matter (Parks). Photograph and writer, Gordon Parks, in his essay, “Flavio’s Home” reveals the struggles of families in poverty in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, highlighting a social-political concern faces in many countries around the world. Parks’ essay, originally published in Voices in the Mirror during the 1990’s, adopts an evocative tone in order to appeal to the incognizant rich to persuade

Greed and Misfortune in The Necklace The quality of one’s emotional life changes over the years. But the basic instincts and desires, greed and hope, seem to remain constant. In short story “The Necklace” written by Guy de Maupassant is about a woman by the name of Mathilde. She’s described to be average in the physical sense and was married to a clerk by the name of Loisel. The couple get invited to a ball and shortly after, Mathlide complains that her wardrobe was too embarrassing to wear

Indroduction People automatically draw a clear borderline in between when hearing the words men and women. Simone de Beauvoir, in her most well-known literature work The Second Sex, describes them, correlatively, as “two types of individuals within a species for the function of reproduction”, but the division of two sexes “is not always a clear-cut” (29). Contradict to common sense, fixed entities cannot determine given characteristics. This is to say, sex exceeds the boundary that we normally perceive

ABC News affiliate, reports a stolen Willem de Kooning painting was found hanging on a wall behind a door in a deceased couple’s home. Someone stole the rare painting from the University Of Arizona Museum Of Art over 30 years ago (UAMA). Experts estimate its value to be $160 million. BACK STORY Investigators are still baffled by the painting’s theft, which took place more than 30 years ago, based on WFAA reporting. The mystery surrounds the Willem de Kooning painting called “Woman on Ochre”. The

a poet named Earl de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford. Numerous scholars disregard Hank Whittemore’s claim and believe William Shakespeare is the legitimate poet, but historical evidence suggests Shakespeare’s education background would have made him unfit to write such masterpieces. The true master-mind behind the Shakespearean works is not William Shakespeare, but rather Earl de Vere. Shakespeare was incompetent to have written the plays, and overwhelming evidence suggests Earl de Vere is the wordsmith