Dead letter office

getting to Romeo before Friar Lawrence’s letter, explaining Juliet’s “death”, was a crucial part of the story. This was shown as Balthasar stated to Romeo, “I saw her laid low in her kindred’s

place of their given names, and giving ridiculous, cartoonish descriptions of their personalities. They are defined by their roles – Turkey works in the mornings and Nippers in the afternoon. Bartleby himself is never described as a person so much as a dead body – “cadaverous” and “motionless” – and is overlooked until he refuses to review his copy,

for a lawyer and seems to only do work fitting his job title. Bartleby only does copying and nothing else. He does not examine his work afterwards like the other employees. When the whole office tries to get him to examine his work, he never refuses, he just “prefers not to.” This shocks the rest of the office as he just won’t do what they ask. “Preferring not to” implies that Bartleby does not see the point in his obligations. Bartleby is a strange case, as he works in isolation and does not socialize

ONE Bruno is not dead. His voice still rings in my head, his scent of cacao and dirt still linger in my nose. I wish I could touch him and wrap my arms around torso, and tell him how sorry I am. But I cannot, I am a coward. I am afraid of looking at my son. I know that he is still around, I can feel him following me. I can feel his cold stare lurking behind me, I can feel the guilt he put upon me. Whenever you lose something, a necklace, your keys or whatever. Everyone tells you to look in the last

brought home to many the grim reality of the war and the challenges men faced. It was a graphic record and did not avoid the realities of the fighting, the crumpled dead and the helpless wounded. Its effect was to strengthen further the resolve of families to ‘see this thing through.’ Private Frank Webster of Crowle summed it up in a letter home when he wrote, ‘ It is common knowledge that England was unprepared for such a campaign as this is, but she has similarly proved it was not beyond her power

Henry Ford once said, "A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business." In Bartleby, by Herman Melville, the narrator follows a similar view of Henry Ford. The narrator's decision-making skills and failure to recognize his workers as human beings leads to Bartleby's downfall. The narrator's immorality in Bartleby is present in the narrator's selfishness and inability to accept his own faults. Throughout the novel, the narrator focuses more on his own business and material support for

The St. Joe and Iola railroad as it was called, ran north from St. Joseph, across the Chipola River at the Dead Lakes on to Iola. The plan worked for a few years, and St. Joseph boomed, but the collapse of Florida currency coupled with a yellow fever outbreak doomed the Saint Joseph venture. At that time, St. Joseph was using very unstable Florida currency

She found love after her recent husband was assumed to be dead and gave birth to a child. Living in a conservative society, Hester was put under the judgement of her community. The church saw her actions as a sin that should be permanently punishable. She was pushed to the outside of her town and ignored by those

anything, Zodiac is nearly three hours of people talking and chasing dead ends and bad leads."It's still scary," Fincher says. "But I've done movies where my process of making the movie hindered it. I enjoyed this more than Panic Room because we don't get away from the story."Perhaps that's because Fincher, who was raised near San Francisco, remembers being 7 and riding in a police-escorted school bus after the Zodiac suggested in a letter to the press that "school children make nice targets."The experience

the 1600’s and takes place in Salem, a town located in the northeastern side of Boston, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony that was established by the Puritan settlers. “Bartleby the Scrivener”, by Herman Melville, is set in New York in 1853 in a law office staffed with peculiar men. Both stories have some prejudice aspects. The definition of prejudice is “preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience” (“Prejudice”). In “Young Goodman Brown the issues of prejudice center around