Abstract
Over the centuries, women have struggled to find their place in the world without bending the constraints of social customs. While being a wife and a mother are roles that should be admired, they are not the fate of every woman. In particular, this paper discusses how two women that demonstrate this point are in Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse" and Emma Bovary in Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary". The paper examines how both of these women are strong because they refuse to be shaped by societal norms. They follow their instinct that there might be something more to life than getting married and having babies.

From the Paper
"In Madame Bovary, Emma is a symbol of the unhappily married woman. She is not satisfied and cannot bear to think of living the rest of her days without the type of satisfaction she needs. She is operating on the basis of very basic human needs and desires because she is unhappy. Her affairs with Rodolphe and Leon bring her the type of intimacy she longs for even though they cause her much pain. Emma saw her affair with Rodolphe as vengeful because so much of her life felt like it was void of love. We are that she was "becoming a part of her own imaginings, finding the long dream of her youth come true as she surveyed herself in that amorous role she coveted" (Flaubert 175). She did not feel guilt; in fact, she "savored" (175) her relationship with Rodolphe and was without "remorse, disquiet or distress" (175). Emma is overwhelmed with emotions when it comes to Rodolphe and she did not know if she "regretted yielding to him, or whether she didn't rather to aspire to love him more . . . It was not an attachment but a continual excitement" (183). "

Tags:wife, mother, Mrs., Ramsey, Rodolphe

Abstract
In this essay the writer notes that growing up in a negative social environment can influence a person's behavior and attitudes significantly. For example, the writer explains that this experience can cause a child to hold antisocial attitudes and to exhibit antisocial behaviors. On the other hand, antisocial behaviors can also arise quite spontaneously of external pressures, apparently simply because a person has a naturally wicked nature. This can be seen in a comparison of the two short stories, 'The Scream' by H. Briscoe and Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery'.

From the Paper
"It is possible for a negative social upbringing to cause bad behaviors, but it is also possible for bad behaviors to happen not because of the environment, but because the person is naturally wicked."

Tags:jackson, briscoe, upbringing

Abstract
This paper looks at the treatment of art in Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse", D.H. Lawrence's "Women in Love" and James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by examining the way in which Gudrun, Stephen Dedalus, Lily Briscoe and other characters in the novels view art. It discusses whether art is truly the central priority of the modernist era by looking at it as a means of making life eternal and explores how art is used to "capture the moment" forever and how this is one of the main themes of modernism.

From the Paper
"What comes across most strongly in To the Lighthouse is its attempt at permanence, or the character's struggle for permanence. As Mrs. Ramsay watches the sea beat at the rocks, prompting her to think that "It was all ephemeral as a rainbow" (20) and her husband paces to and fro, musing on the nature of fame and immortality, and conceding in anguish that "...the very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare" (41), we think of Woolf herself. Was the author using this, her most autobiographical work, as an attempt to make life (which is transitory) eternal, or crystallized through art?"

Tags:briscoe, dedalus, gudrun, lily

Abstract
One of the most poignant quotes in American literature comes from Donald Briscoe, who stated that "To understand American Literature, it is necessary to examine both its fiction and its non- fiction because the key to the American Spirit can be found in both." This paper assesses Briscoe's quote through addressing two works of American fiction and two works of American non- fiction with the intent of proving how the spirit of the American people is reflected in both types of literature.

Tags:assessing, the, american

Abstract
The paper shows how the Hammond Aerospace case is illustrative of the need for not just greater ethical training and awareness but also of legal and regulatory enforcement of the rules and laws currently governing ethical domains. The paper believes that while Hammond's ethical issues are deep, pervasive and endemic, they have also passed beyond the sphere of mere ethical lapses into potential criminality because of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (Finder 3-4). The paper goes on to discuss how the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), originally passed in 1978, explicitly forbids the payment of bribes to foreign officials (Briscoe). The paper explains that the FCPA was amended in 1988 to include several other provisions such as the payment of bribes to intermediaries that might then pass them on to foreign officials.

From the Paper
"The Hammond Aerospace case is illustrative of the need for not just greater ethical training and awareness but also of legal and regulatory enforcement of the rules and laws currently governing ethical domains. While Hammond's ethical issues are deep, pervasive and endemic, they have also passed beyond the sphere of mere ethical lapses into potential criminality because of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (Finder 3-4). The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), originally passed in 1978, explicitly forbids the payment of bribes to foreign officials (Briscoe)."

Tags:hammond, aerospace, fcpa

Abstract
The paper addresses themes of authenticity and illusion, and the temporal nature of adult relationships in Edward Albee "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" and Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse". The paper highlights how these works have more in common than one might think in accounts of two varieties of personality and two distinct approaches to life rooted in courage or fear. The paper notes that Martha is rather opposite to Lily Briscoe whereas all characters show much in common with Woolf's literary characters in "To the Lighthouse".

From the Paper
"This paper discusses two rather timeless themes in adult psychology, in people determined to live authentically, free from illusions, as a theme raised in Edward Albee's play of 1962 that is found in a different form throughout Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse", too. Virginia Woolf's heroine is determined to express herself in art for its process and is indifferent to art as an achievement or source of recognition. All of this grows difficult in the murky world of adult relationships that are rarely..."

Tags:albee, v woolf, authenticity