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Heredity-related cancers involve two types of genes: ones that display the inability to repair cellular damage or are lacking entirely, and others that engage in unmitigated proliferation. Hereditary cancers are particularly insidious because there is little one can do to prevent them, unlike avoiding an environmental carcinogen or virus that causes cancer such as HPV.

Both of these stories contain strong overtones of both the Victorian notions of class and also of a conflicted, but mostly negative, attitude towards women. In Henry James’ story, “Daisy Miller: A Case Study,” Daisy is constantly portrayed as an “American flirt” who is “uncultivated” by Winterbourne’s aunt’s assertion (512). Similarly, Waythorn finds that he “hated the womanish sensibility which made him suffer so acutely from the grotesque chances of life” (1032).

Most critical readers of Charlotte Perkins Gilman choose to focus on the feminist significance of the work. While this is clearly the most important historical aspect of the short story, it also provides an interesting window into the psyche of someone who is at first forced, and then opts of their own free will, to spend time introspectively.

The overreaching theme of T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is one of dying slowly. Life is filled up by coffee spoons, night walks, and banal conversations so slowly that the person living through it does not notice that their mortality is approaching until it is too late. What the author wants to say is left unsaid. However, there are other themes that emerge in this complex poem: pollution, isolation, and the pointlessness of ritualized social niceties.

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Carver’s “Little Things” is told with minimal description, anonymous characters, and with brevity of length. The narrative could take place in any North American area, and this helps to underscore that the issue of familial instability and child abuse could take place anywhere or any time. The couple could be black or white, poor or rich, educated or high school dropouts. When the woman says “she will have it, this baby,” we can see that Carver even shies away from assigning gender ...

Otherness as an alienating factor occurs most frequently based on ethnic background (visited in Algranati’s essay “Being an Other,” which explores how problematic these divisions are becoming) and ideology, either political or religious. However, it can also manifest whenever a divergent group can be identified: the learning disabled (they used to be shocked or locked away in institutions), the elderly, the gay and bisexual, and, as we shall see in Doty’s Firebird, the fragile and sensi...

Jackson’s and Rushdie’s short story and essay both illustrate the logical fallacy of “appeal to tradition” as well as showing that the consequences of blind faith can be deadly. Both encourage the reader to develop their own morality and to question authority. “The Lottery” tells the story of a village that has a tradition of selecting a member of their community to be stoned to death annually in the springtime.

Elementary aged children in northeast Philadelphia are faced with multiple challenges that prevent or retard their abilities to realize their full potential. The largest is that of poverty. While poverty affects developing minds and bodies in the form of nutrition, medical care, and social development, it is particularly crippling to the academic development of the early child, because it creates a vicious cycle.

The play My Fair Lady and the Nathanial Hawthorne short story “Birthmark” share themes of transformation and a seeking of perfection. However, in both works we can also find similar commentary on society’s views towards women, and even some parallels to mythological and religious themes. In both works, the transformers become obsessed with their aims, working night and day to mold their hapless charges into their view of an ideal.