Miss.

Emily doesn't socialize, have company, or leave the

house..... she also doesn't invite anyone in. The villagers are
content with this arrangement because they think she's crazy.
Thus, the secret is never discovered until visitors actually go into
the house, something that couldn't and wouldn't happen until
she was dead.
What other people think about miss Emily?
Miss Emily has no close friends and she rarely leaves her house except
during the short time that she was being courted by Homer Barron. We do
know that many people in Jefferson think that
... the Griersons held themselves a little too high for what they really
were.
People in Jefferson thought of her as a "fallen monument" and a
"curiosity."
Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty and a care; a sort of
hereditary obligation upon the town...
When the authorities came to her home to collect back taxes, she was
rude and unfriendly, ordering her servant, Tobe, to show them the way
out. Others were happy that she had become "humanized" after her
father's death, and they "felt sorry for her" after the episode of "the smell."
The townspeople knew that insanity ran in the family, but
We did not say she was crazy then.
When Emily began seeing Homer, some people were happy for her, but
they soon began whispering that "she was fallen." They believed that she
... demanded more than ever the recognition of the dignity of being the
last Grierson...

Yet they held out hope that she would eventually persuade Homer to
marry her. But when the two were seen, unchaperoned, on Sundays, the
believed that
... it was a disgrace to the town and a bad example to the young people.
Following her death, she was remembered fondly by the older members
of the town,
... talking as if she had been a contemporary of theirs, believing they had
danced with her and courted her, perhaps.

When the ladies of the town went to the house to call on Miss
Emily the day after her father's death, Miss Emily told them that
her father was not dead. Finally, after three days and under
threat of law and force, she allows her father to be buried. The
townspeople did not say she was crazy then, because they
assumed she had to "cling to that which had robbed her" of a
married life, since her father had driven away her suitors.

Throughout the Eighteen Years of my life I read many interesting short stories. Some stories where
more eye catching than others. Furthermore A Rose For Emily by William Faulkner and
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka were not on the top of my list. In my opinion, the stories were eye
catching because of how the author made its characters react and respond toward the suspense
and eeriness in certain parts of the climax of the stories. For example, in A Rose For Emily the
ladies of the community said We did not say she was crazy then. We believed that she had to do
that (Faulkner 81)

Was the Civil War inevitable?

Almost any time the issue of war is debated, one of the fundamental questions that is always
asked is whether the war was inevitable or if it could have been avoided; the US Civil War no
different. On December 20th, 1860, South Carolina declared its intent to secede from the
Union. The Secession of South Carolina was followed by the secession of six additional states
from the Deep South. By February 1861, the seven southern states had drafted a provisional
constitution and became the Confederate States of America. I intend to argue that the
secession of the Southern states and the Civil War that ensued was inevitable. There were far
too many differences between the two factions for peaceful reconciliation. The United States
was essentially two separate nations forced to co-exist as one. To support my thesis I will
discuss four fundamental areas of difference between the North and South that made war
inevitable. The differences include: ideological differences; economic differences, political
differences; and social differences.

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Abraham Lincoln and Civil war

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was the sixteenth president of the United States during one
of the most consequential periods in American history, the Civil War. Before being elected
president, Lincoln served in the Illinois legislature and lost an election for the U.S. Senate
to Stephen A. Douglas. Nevertheless, his fierce campaign earned him a nomination for the
presidency. The first Republican president ever, Lincoln led the Union to victory in the Civil
War and ended slavery in America.
With firm conviction, Lincoln declared South Carolina's secession illegal and pledged to go
to war to protect the federal union in 1861. During the four years of the American Civil War,
the president steered the North to victory and authored the Emancipation Proclamation,
which dealt a severe blow to the institution of slavery in the U.S. Lincoln was a thoughtful
and soft-spoken man who used words sparingly but to great effect. His brilliance was
captured in the Gettysburg Address, in which he movingly related the ongoing Civil War to
the founding principles of America, all in less than two minutes. Lincoln's assassination on
14 April 1865 removed his politically moderate influence from the national stage, giving
way to a more radical form of Reconstruction.