The choices as they were, were either staying with my mom, or moving to my dad's. I weighed my options carefully, thinking of the consequences. As the day drew to a close, I packed my things. I was moving. My mom was devastated, my dad was ecstatic, and I guess ... Read More
Life Forever Changed In the story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O' Conner a hard lesson is learned through the character of a grandmother to a murdered family that pleads to the killer for her life. The grandmother is described by the killer at the end ... Read More
"Historians agree that World War II changed life for American women in the 20th century. The Civil War had just as great an impact on the lives of American women in the 19th century." (httpwww.defenselink.mil) Staying at home, women could help the war effort by running businesses, making clothes, and ... Read More
Learning to take life seriously has been an interesting journey for me. My life started out basically as a vacation. I began traveling the United States in the back seat of my moms Buick at the age of four. From surfing the bright windy beaches of southern California, to panning ... Read More
Since I have been struck with the question, I have come to realize that I would not prefer the accompany of a man. It is not the fact that I am a homophobic teenager, or the idea of being criticized by every male member in my family it merely is ... Read More
Whats Important in Life? Image you have just graduated high school and it is time to decide what to do next. Would you rather spend the first early part of your twenties going to college or start a family? Everyone has their own opinions on what they find important in ... Read More
For many reasons the human race could be called a blessing. Great advanced in technology, medicine and even the fact we are the most sophisticated species on the planet. Are we a gift to planet Earth, or far from it? With cast amounts of pollution and destruction of the planet, ... Read More
That religious perspective gives a person purpose and meaning in life. Religious perspective allows a person to believe in more than the physically existent and therefore gives them somewhere to turn when life changes course. This is evident in the underlying meanings and concepts of the articles. The issues of ... Read More
War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona, 1942-1946 On March 18, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order No. 9102, "Establishing the War Relocation Authority in the Executive Office of the President and Defining its Functions and Duties." This order created a civilian agency in the Office for Emergency Management ... Read More
Victor Herbert Victor Herbert had always felt music in his blood. He knew he was to be a musician from an early age. Even his grandfather, Samuel Lover, was a musician of sorts. He wrote songs and for part of his life was a traveling performer. When Victor was three ... Read More
In Arthur Miller's drama, All My Sons, the characters of Jim Bayliss, Frank Lubey, Chris Keller and George Deever, all have difficulty in accepting the realities of life, and the possibilities of the future. Though all different in nature, they all willing to settle instead of striving for what they ... Read More
Tupac Shakur Tupac Shakur, in my thoughts, is the best rapper there is. Tupac Amaru Shakur was born on June 16, 1971. He was born in New York. Tupac Amaru are Inca words. Tupac Amaru means a "shining serpent." Shakur means "thankful to God," and that came from the Arabic ... Read More
n 1960 John Steinbeck decided to reacquaint himself with America after being away because, in his own words, "I've lost the flavor and taste and sound of it. I'm going to learn about my own country." So he set out on a 3 month journey with his dog to do ... Read More
Tennesse Williams has written a number of plays in his lifetime. The success he gained from one of his plays "The Glass Menagerie" written in the 1940s has proven him to be a very popular and appealing playwright in America. Through a series of twists and turns of the play ... Read More
Thoreaus statement on the Classics In the novel Walden, Henry David Thoreau states that the classics are the noblest recorded thoughts of man. He also believed that the written word is the work of art nearest to life itself. Walden fits this description through many elements in the novel including ... Read More
Thomas Jefferson was a man of great moral character, who has been excoriated regularly over the last 30 years by historical revisionists and presentists. Hiscommitment to America and his vast contributions to the framing of society as it is today are overlooked in favor of base analysis of his character ... Read More
The Life of a Knight The Middle Ages were a time of frequent war and brittle peace, grand spectacles and devastating plague, high moral standards and bitter persecution. It was a time of the brightest hope and the darkest despair. Through it all, the knight was there, an integral part ... Read More
LIVE FOR LIFE Poor health is a huge issue in society today. Many people simply do not take care of themselves, which is one cause of lack of good work performance, which causes companies to lose thousands of dollars every year. A new program is being created to help these ... Read More
Love, Love, Love- We are Surrounded by Love "Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality- not as ... Read More
John Locke (1632-1704) was one of the greatest philosophers in Europe at the end of the seventeenth century. It is accurate to say that John Locke is the theoretical architect of democracy as it exists in the western world today. His ideas, as expressed in his famous Second Treatise on ... Read More
Marijuana has been illegal for years because of the thought that it was a drug similar to cocaine, or heroin. Drugs such as cocaine and heroin affect the neurotransmitter dopamine. Dopamine is the neurotransmitter associated with extremely pleasurable sensations. If a drug interferes with its production and causes too much ... Read More
The books I want to save The book "Fahrenheit 451" gave me the idea to write about the books I want to save for the world after me. The government likes to read through all books before they come out. And they don't let them all come out or just ... Read More
The Truth of Dreams Dreams, what are dreams? For many years I have wondered what dreams are made of. After much thought and deliberation I have stumbled upon three possible answers to this question. First of all, I think it could be a period of total escape from reality and ... Read More
The Powerful Slave Frederick Douglass account of his days as a slave, Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, shows a clear contrast between the slaveholders treatment of slaves as property, and the many slaves who fought against and refused objectification. Throughout his book, Douglass shows clear examples of the ... Read More
The Meaning of Truth and Judgment In society, truth has no meaning because people in numbers, rule and come together, only believing what they want to believe. Great strength in numbers is a key factor in The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller. What the townspeople of Salem said, always went. ... Read More
Franz Kafka published a relatively small amount of stories in his lifetime. Almost all of them are autobiographical in nature. In this way, his novella, The Metamorphosis, could be considered an allegory for his own life. The whole idea of a metamorphosis seems to come from Kafkas life. This story ... Read More
The Life and Tragedy of Jack Kerouac Jack Kerouac was a poet who focused on the forgotten people of the world. Wherever he traveled he found the places nobody wanted to find and turned the un-pretty into magnificent poetry. Kerouac used the people no one wanted to remember and turned ... Read More
What Makes Joseph Conrad Tick? Do we really know all there is to know about him? We interviewed him to give the world a more accurate look at his life, his work and his complex personality. Here is our tribute to a man of brilliance... Conrad was born on December ... Read More
As with almost all "Christian" holidays, Easter has been secularized and commercialized. The dichotomous nature of Easter and its symbols, however, is not necessarily a modern fabrication. The Story of Easter has been held as a holy celebration throughout the past, and still remains sacred today. The events leading up ... Read More
The Dirty South During the times of the Civil Rights Movement the black communities of Birmingham, Alabama suffered severely due to the notorious acts of racism geared towards them simply because they were black. They boldly endured beatings, lynching, bombings, and demeaning treatment from the white community and especially from ... Read More