Abstract
This book analyzes the character Lady Brett Ashley from "The Sun Also Rises", a novel by Ernest Hemingway. The paper describes her as a strong and independent female that is comfortable with her sexuality. The author considers Brett an early feminist and describes her flighty behavior and relationships with men. The paper also explains why, despite her questionable behavior in the novel, Lady Brett Ashley can still be considered a sympathetic character.

From the Paper
"She is the dominant figure in her relationships and she does not permit herself to be pressured into a relationship. Brett also has a soft side that is displayed by the way that she shows kindness to the men in her life by breaking things off early on. If she married them, they would certainly be miserable because of her flighty behavior. She is unhappy with her circumstances and frustrated that she is unable to be with the one man that could possibly bring her contentment. Despite her questionable behavior in the novel, Lady Brett Ashley can still be considered a sympathetic character."

Tags:feminist, relationships

Abstract
The paper examines how Hemingway, in his novel "The Sun Also Rises," draws a parallel between the bulls and the steers, and Jake and Brett Ashley, providing insight to the meaning of masculinity. The paper goes on to illustrate how this imagery is particularly poignant for the novel's historical context, and shows the crippling effect of WWI on the young.

From the Paper
"Brett Ashley, a woman who anticipates a divorce from her separated husband, in contrast, is flirtatious and provocative. Her feminine traits are represented in the bull/steer metaphor as the cape. The cape is red and entices the bull. However, in a role-reversal, she displays bull like characteristic. In some ways she is tom-boyish. Her hair is short and her nick-name, "Brett," is masculine.She displays more self-confidence and independence than her counterpart, Jake. Her sexual appetite is bullish. She toys with the many men who fall for her beauty and she drinks like a sailor but in the end all of these activities are exposed as shallow and meaningless."

Tags:masculinity, imagery, strength, insecurities

Abstract
This paper discusses how even though Lady Brett Ashley could be thought of as an independent, strong, modern woman, she is more accurately described as a woman of the Lost Generation of Hemingway's time. It looks at how she has been trying since the war to find some meaning in her life and how she found Jake, with whom she feels a connection stronger than any other, but who unfortunately is impotent. The writer describes how even when she finds something real in Pedro Romero, she cannot make it happen, because she knows that she will ruin him and his career. The paper concludes that Brett never finds her "truth", so she is doomed to go about life numbing her pain and trying to temporarily find love wherever she can.

From the Paper
''After World War I many men came home wounded. Wounded mentally, from seeing death and confronting fear first hand, and many wounded physically, these men returned less naive. Society as a whole was less naive. It cast off the simple views of Romanticism and became Modernist. People questioned their romantic religious beliefs, as new truths were uncovered by Freud and Darwin. They did, however, begin to look to the past for any truth that could be found. In art, they explored the ancient myths that defied time. This "mythic method'' allowed many works to be written in present day setting, but retelling ancient myths of truth, such as epoch quests, myths of initiation, myths of the scapegoat, and more. The writer explored a fragmented voice. Writers like Hemingway and Faulkner wrote stories using fewer words, but saying more.
''Many writers fled America for Europe, to explore life and art there. These expatriates were pessimists largely. They clung to the cities, drinking heavily to forget their wounds.''

Tags:Pedro, Romero, Jake

Abstract
This paper provides an analysis of Ernest Hemingway's novel "The Sun Also Rises". The analysis focuses on how Lady Brett Ashley is portrayed as a Circe-like figure but one whose behaviors and attitudes make her more akin to a woman of the 2000s, than a woman from the early part of the twentieth century.

From the Paper
"In "The Sun Also Rises", the character of Lady Brett Ashley is compared to that of a mythological enchantress known as Circe in Greek literature. Circe, just like Lady Ashley, turns men into swine. In the novel, Lady Ashley is portrayed as superficial, selfish and careless. Despite this portrayal, she possesses great charm and beauty which are alluring to men. Yet, even though the novel was written long before the Women's Movement originated in U.S. society, Lady Brett Ashley is..."

Tags:career, sexuality, gender, norms, values, marriage, commitment, desire, Hemingway

Abstract
This paper examines the Pillow Angel Ashley case, which is marked by complex ethical issues and questions including human choice and the best interests of a mentally impaired child. According to the paper, a great deal of ethical analysis and public debate resulted over the surgery and estrogen therapy. The paper further points out that the controversy was both in support of the doctors' decision and outrage over what they had done. Eventually the hospital involved admitted that the procedure was illegal and that a court order actually was needed to justify the surgery.

From the Paper
"The case of Pillow Angel Ashley is marked by complex ethical issues and questions including human choice and the best interests of a mentally impaired child. By 2007, a great deal of ethical analysis and public debate resulted over the surgery and estrogen therapy. The controversy was both in support of the doctors' decision and outrage over what they had done. Eventually the hospital involved admitted that the procedure was illegal and that a court order actually was needed to justify the surgery. Basically, proponents in the debate argued that the procedures were..."

Tags:autonomy, choice, action

From the Paper
"INTRODUCTION

The idea of immortality has been addressed by many different philosophers either testing the evidence or speculating on the meaning of immortality, with some determining that there is life after death, some deciding that there is not, and some finding the question itself to be meaningless. Interesting as many of the arguments may be, in the final analysis this is a question that is answered by faith rather than reason. It is something that is believed rather than proven one way or the other. It is also the subject of Ashley Montagu's book Immortality, Religion, and Morals. A portion of this book was delivered as a series of lectures before the Ebenezer Butterick Foundation at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences in New York in 1951. The subject of these lectures was "immortality," and they have been augmented ..."

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"This paper will discuss the career and personal style of designer, Laura Ashley. The discussion will include a brief background on the designer, and will show the type of business that the designer ran, as well as explain how her company lasted for five decades. Finally, the paper will illustrate examples of the designer's products and look, as well as explain why this designer is important.

The apparel and furnishing designer, Laura Ashley, began her career in fashion and interior decorating by selling tea towels. Ashley first started silk-screening linen dish towels with her husband, Bernard Ashley, on their kitchen table in 1953. Mrs. Ashley was experiencing a difficult first pregnancy and wanted to pass the time until her child's birth by making patchwork home furnishings. Ashley was ..."

Tags:BIOGRAPHIES

Abstract
Ashley Furniture is a large, continuously growing, and dynamic organization. This paper describes the company's goals according to the outlook of its owners. The author highlights Ashley Furniture's incentive program, such as rewards for employees that strive towards improving their workplace. The paper also explores competition in the market place and how the company deals with it. Charts illustrate the company's growth, and its mission statement is given considerable attention. The author interviewed the president of the company and his comments are an integral part of the paper.

Table of Contents:
Ashley Furniture Industries Report
References
Background
Organizational Structure
Leadership
Culture
Interview Info

From the Paper
"There are formal and informal rewards for employees. Along with having competitive pay and excellent benefits, there are other programs in place to promote productivity and lower costs. Ashley Furniture can boast of a widely used suggestion program that pays rewards for suggestions that are implemented. There is also a company wide reward payout to all employees for their efforts to reduce levels of scrap and waste. There is a formal awards banquet held every year to recognize top performers. One could argue most employees utilize the suggestion system not for the monetary rewards but to truly improve their workplace. Another monetary reward comes in the form of how employees are paid. Hourly production employees are paid by the piece rate method. This method rewards or pays employees for their productivity. This is not the best system for all employees. The employees who have; the motivation and willingness to continuously improve their efficiencies, do well with this system (Wanek, 2006)."

Tags:Ashley, Furniture, mission, statement

Abstract
This paper provides an analysis of Ernest Hemingway's novel "The Sun Also Rises". The analysis focuses on how Lady Brett Ashley is likened to a Circe-like figure in the novel and how different men, from Romero the bullfighter to protagonist Jake Barnes, escape her wiles.

From the Paper
"In Ernest Hemingway's novel "The Sun Also Rises", Lady Brett Ashley is likened to the mythological siren, Circe, whose charms lured unwitting men to their doom. As Odysseus is saved from Circe in Homer's "The Odyssey" so Romero the bullfighter in Hemingway's novel is rescued from Lady Brett who we are told like Circe, turns men into swine. Though Hemingway depicts Lady Ashley as a selfish, careless and superficial woman, her physical appeal and psychological wiles ensnare men like protagonist Jake Barnes as surely..."

Tags:Odysseus, trap, emotions, psychology, wounds, control, gender

Abstract
This paper shows that despite Jake Barnes' physical and mental disabilities in Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises", he, more than any other character, virtually embodies the new breed of hero, the survivor, of the twentieth century.

Paper Outline:
I. Jake as the new hero
A. Problems of Jake
1. War wound, impotency
2. Numbness, emptiness
3. Unsureness of how to cope
4. Fear of getting hurt
5. Moral vacuum, wasteland
6. Night demons
B. Strengths of Jake
1. Presses on
2. Aficionado
3. Adaptable
4. Will to find a way to live
5. Accepted truth of his fate
II. Comparison of Jake to other characters
A. Pedro Romero
1. Is classic hero
2. Can provide Brett with what she needs
B. Lady Brett Ashley
Conclusion: As times change, people, ideas, and standards all need to adapt.

From the Paper
"Jake was a World War I veteran who, sometime during his service, was wounded and left impotent. This enormous defilement to his manhood was a fatal blow to his dignity and self-esteem. He became unsure of how to cope in this new, morally bankrupt, world as numbness, emptiness, and apathy invaded his heart, mind, and soul. Jake was scared of getting hurt, so he avoided personal relationships, alienated himself from people, and stayed on the outside of reality, playing it safe. As one critic described, "The fear is not of hidden presences, but of emptiness, universal absence, oblivion" (Butterfield 197). The daily distractions of company, small talk, food and especially alcohol temporarily eased his mind, but they were only that, temporary."

Tags:Pedro, Romero, Brett, Ashley