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    Throughout the Eighteen Years of my life I read many interesting short stories. Some stories where more eye catching than others. Furthermore “A Rose For Emily” by William Faulkner and “Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka were not on the top of my list. In my opinion, the stories were eye catching because of how the author made its characters react and respond toward the suspense and eeriness in certain parts of the climax of the stories. For example, in “A Rose For Emily” the ladies of the community said

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    It is not so much that Philip Roth disagrees with the concept of the American dream; he simply does not wish to buy into the myth of it all. In American Pastoral Roth laments the loss of innocence, as exemplified by both Seymour Levov, the protagonist, and Nathan Zuckerman, the narrator. Both grew up in an idyllic Jewish Newark neighborhood, both being the sons of Jewish parents. The separation of their commonality came at a young age, when Zuckerman began to idolize the golden boy of the neighborhood

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    Aristotle said, "We are what we repeatedly do." In the case of Alexander Portnoy he was doomed to repeat his mistakes and continue to feel the guilt lain upon him at every turn by his parents, his lovers and himself. Their overpowering nature kept him a perpetual child and his efforts to seize the opportunity to be the authority in each relationship left him more frustrated and eager to control the downward spiral he called life. At the base of his family was Judaism. Their identity was firmly

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    Retirement, Are You Saving Enough?      As and investor, you are overwhelmed with advice in newspapers, magazines, and mailings discussing what to invest in for a successful retirement nest egg, when to start saving for retirement and who to invest with. There are millions of people who realize that an investment portfolio for retirement is necessary, but do they really understand the investment instruments and the amount they must invest for tomorrow? The subject of retirement

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    Saul Bellow wrote many novels; one of his novels “Leaving the Yellow House” is about an elder woman who lives in a yellow house and is incapable to take care of herself. Her neighbors tell her that they will help her only in return for her house. The Rolfe’s are the only neighbors that really care about Hattie and do not want her house in return. “Leaving the Yellow House” was one of Saul Bellow’s most known short story. When Bellow was young he was hospitalized for a while. The time he spent in

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    I am Philip Roth. I had reason recently to read for the first time the Wikipedia entry discussing my novel “The Human Stain.” The entry contains a serious misstatement that I would like to ask to have removed. This item entered Wikipedia not from the world of truthfulness but from the babble of literary gossip—there is no truth in it at all. Yet when, through an official interlocutor, I recently petitioned Wikipedia to delete this misstatement, along with two others, my interlocutor was told by

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    IRA Cons

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    you will have enough to live off of. There are different types of IRA’s to pick and choose from to best fit what the individual needs along with what they are eligible for as well. The main 3 are “Traditional, SEP (Simplified Employee Pension), and Roth” (Internet Retirement Allowance). All of these IRAs have different requirements and but the one thing they have in common

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    Dave Ramsey Dave Ramsey is a New York Times Bestselling Author who has written over 15 books that gives the reader practical guidance on eliminating debt and building wealth. Dave’s story started out as a picturesque “American Dream” type of a story that most people dream of living. By the age of twenty-six he has amassed a portfolio worth four million dollars. He later lost it all by the age of thirty (Lampo Licensing, LLC, 2015). Since his financial downfall Dave Ramsey has devoted his life educating

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    Aspects of Postmodernism in "Happy Endings" and "Videotape" According to Neil Bessner (Bessner), postmodernism is a "slippery term to define" (15). If we look at the literal meaning of the word in a regular dictionary, we may encounter something like "a style and movement in art […] in the late 20th century that reacts against modern styles, for example by mixing features form traditional and modern styles" . In fact, it has extended many of the fundamental techniques and assumptions of modern

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    Roth: The Stain of Mankind Essay

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    is these experiences and how you react to them that shapes and gives you your character. The Human Stain, a novel by Philip Roth is a detailed account of the past of the characters and how the choices that they made build them to be the person that they are today. Everyone has things that they are not proud of from their past. These are essentially the human stains that Roth used as a foundation for The Human Stain. These stains are not limited to a specific person, gender, race, or even society.

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