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    A Rose for Emily Explication “It was a big‚ squarish frame house that had once been white‚ decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies‚ set on what had once been our most select street. But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emily’s house was left‚ lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps—an eyesore among eyesores.

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    feels for you. Like in the story a rose for Emily there were many symbols that meant a lot of things. Like the rose meant love that miss Emily had for Homer Barron also another example was Tobe he meant slavery because he was a negro. In the short story a rose for Emily there was a young lady named Emily her father

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    Dwayne Johnson MILS 1120 CPT Vogan 2.11.13 First Aid Lab Ever since warfare started humans have had to find ways to mend and preserve there bodies for fighting with medical care. The battlefield has been the birth place of many modern techniques used today to treat injury. One of the most important area of warfar is First Aid. First Aid is extremly important in the military‚ especialy while in a hostile area or on the batttlefield. First Aid is thee to take immediate action in treating the

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    Most readers of Faulkner’s story “A Rose for Emily” would agree that its meaning is somehow connected with the motive which prompts Emily Grierson to poison her lover and conceal his corpse from the public for some forty years ( 1). The short story covers approximately three-quarters of a century; starting with the birth of Emily Grierson taking place around the Civil War and ending with her death in the late 1920’s - 1930’s (2). In “A Rose for Emily” Faulkner uses many instances that relate to

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    Get Over the Past‚ Focus on the Present “A Rose for Emily”‚ by William Faulkner and “The Lottery”‚ by Shirley Jackson are both short stories that deal with conflict from either the community or individually. Faulkner hints us readers the main conflict in “A Rose for Emily” is not only Emily but other characters in this short story. For “The Lottery”‚ Jackson hints the readers the conflict is more on the social side meaning the community or society not only the main characters. But the main comparisons

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    The Insight Into “A Rose for Emily” In the literature piece of “A Rose for Emily” it’s clear that change is essential in a person’s life. Emily is an example of this based on how she stays in the past throughout the story. She remains the same since her pre-civil war self and Faulkner would agree that the past should stay in the past. The narrator is spoken in third person and he is seen as ghostly since his identity is unknown‚ from context clues you can assume it’s someone in the town “But the

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    On the Analysis of Miss Emily in "A Rose for Emily" In the fiction" A Rose for Emily "‚Miss Emily’s life in particular its gruesome and saddened by the outcome of Tan Wan and as well as the central figure in the daily lives of the other two - her father‚ her dead lover’s fate‚ should not only to us Bring thriller‚ and the offensive suppressed‚ perhaps‚ there should be more apprehensive and thinking‚ because this can be called Faulkner’s short story on behalf of its work‚ its title has been

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    Faulkner “A Rose for Emily’’ we think about who is Emily‚ what does the rose symbolizes‚ and most of all who is the narrator. Throughout most of Faulkner’s story for me as a reader I wanted to figure that out. In the beginning Emily is presented as a woman who grew up wealthy never having to worry about anything. But over time things changed after her father’s death. Later on‚ Emily never really takes notice of the present. She never really got over being under her father’s wing. Emily became

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    William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” characterizes each generation and its struggles. Every generation thinks they can improve on the ideas and accomplishments of the past. The next generation fails to realize they are really relying on the past. Faulkner uses the townspeople to represent‚ in effect‚ the changing of the guard. In the story there are three distinct types of townspeople. The first type is the gentlemen‚ or in other words southern aristocrats. The second type is the younger generation

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    The Spread of Germs in In our everyday life we see students doing things like coughing‚ sneezing‚ not being clean‚ or simply not washing their hands. Students do not realize that all these factors can affect their health. There are many ways that we can prevent health problems being passed in the campus caused by eating in the incorrect place. One solution to help out health is reducing the spread of little creatures that live in our hands‚ personal belongings‚ and foods. The most common way

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