Abstract
This paper examines the life and works of writer, James Aloysius Joyce. The paper describes his early writing career and how his career was impacted by his life. The successes that Joyce enjoyed and the aspects of his writing that were unique and inspired are also discussed. In addition, the paper presents a timeline for the production of his most well-known works.

From the Paper
"At fifty-seven in 1939, Joyce's Finnegans Wake is finally published in London and New York. In the midst of these times, Joyce continued to devote his personal life to the care of his daughter who had slipped further into mental illness. He was also still agonized by his near-blindness while he underwent eye operations. Exhausted, Joyce did not pursue anymore writing, and in 1940, once again, he moved his family to Zurich from Paris because of the threat of WWII. Just three weeks short of his fifty-ninth birthday in 1941, Joyce died after an abdominal operation for a perforated ulcer."

Tags:novel, masterpiece, legacy

Abstract
The paper compares how the play "Doubt: A Parable" by John Patrick Shanley and the short story "On the Rainy River" by Tim O'Brien are built on the foundations of uncertainty and doubts. The paper also shows how the two works allow the reader to come to his own conclusions about what ultimately happens in these two works. The paper relates that these works teach that one needs to question what he knows and believes and to understand there will always be uncertainties in life.

From the Paper
"The uncertainties at the end of this play are very clear. First, there is a real uncertainty that Father Flynn did anything at all, and that he was simply afraid of Sister Aloysius and her accusations, and chose to leave rather than to acknowledge them. Today, with so many scandals following priests in the Catholic Church that is not hard to believe, even though this story is set in 1964. However, there are more uncertainties than just Father Flynn's guilt by the end of the play. Should Sister Aloysius be so absolutely sure of her suspicions, even though she has absolutely no proof? Is she really so convinced of her suspicions that she felt it was all right to lie, she a woman of the cloth and a person the children of the school are supposed to look up to? How could anyone be so self-righteous and despicable, and how could she possibly be a nun?"

Tags:change, certainty, Father, Flynn, Sister, Aloysius, O'Brien