In every town, county, district, etc. there are problems. Some are bigger than others, such as the difference between a cracked sidewalk to the total destruction of a main street bridge. Obviously the bridge would be more impactful on everyone in the town because people need to get home to their families after work or […]

Fear keeps people quiet and that is exactly why Tessie Hutchinson died. In the short story The Lottery, as a marxist critic, Shirley Jackson shows how political, economical , and historical standpoints contribute to the climb up the social ladder. The bizarre ritual to stone somebody each year in order to keep order portrays the […]

“Dave struck out across the fields, looking homeward through parting light. Whut’s the us talkin wide m n****** in the field” (Wright)? The author of this short story, Richard Wright, was born in Roxie Mississippi to a mother and father who were children of slaves. Wright wrote many inspiring true stories and novels such as […]

I dreaded going to my ninth grade social studies class when I heard I was going to have the same teacher that my older sister had: Mrs. Walters.According to my sister, Mrs. Walters didn’t like her–and I speculated she wouldn’t like me either. But I was surprised when Mrs. Walters introduced herself to us. She […]

Time immemorial, body modification has been a fascination of human culture. Ancient Mayan skulls show evidence of cranial modification. Excavated Hun’ bodies show evidence of scarification. From a thousand years ago to the early 1900s, Chinese women had three inch feet due to foot binding. Ancient Egyptian Mummies showed evidence of female circumcision Female circumcision […]

I am a statistic. I am one of the 2.5% of children in the United States who are adopted (“Off and Running” par. 1). Growing up without knowing whom my DNA comes from and the woman who carried me for nine months has had a detrimental effect on my mental health and has caused me […]

People, people, people. Look at your shampoo. Some people use expensive shampoos, some people use shampoos that cost fifty cents at the nearest Family Dollar, others use shampoos that are made to look fancy, like the Suave Naturals Tropical Coconut shampoo and conditioner with the coconut extract at the bottom of a 24-item list. (19 […]

So, you think your cat loves you do you? Well you know you love your cat, heck between the pictures of cats in sweaters and videos of cats bathing I think the whole internet knows you love your cat. But sometimes you’re not so sure the feeling is mutual. Maybe it’s just hard to feel […]

What’s something that’s physically small but has a tremendous effect on your life, lasts 4 hours but leaves an impact that can last a lifetime? If you’re thinking about one of those never ending lectures about life decisions, you’re about half correct, but I’m talking about 3 infamous letters that can disturb even the toughest […]

There are many great characters in books or movies that people admire or desire to be.One of these characters that I admire is Mark Anthony from the play Julius Caesar by Shakespeare. Many great characteristics and traits like being a loyal friend and an extraordinary public speaker makes Mark Anthony a character I admire. Mark […]

For my writing piece, this modernist essay will be about the topic of loneliness and how it feels to be isolated and lonely. This will mostly revolve around loneliness and isolation from a teenagers’s point of view and how the Great Depression contributed to loneliness in the 1930’s. Also, I will talk about how teens […]

The short story, “Daughter of Invention” is about a Dominican family that moved to the United States from La Republica Dominicana due to issues with the dictator in their country. The family begins to have issues within themselves while living in the United States due to their past lives in a country overran by dictatorship. […]

Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, a partially fictionalized play interpretation of the Salem witch trials, was written to resemble the American government’s actions during the Red Scare, Mccarthy’s “witch hunts” for communists committing traitorous acts within the government. As The Crucible began with an actual witchery incident, The Red Scare began with accounts of real communism […]

One’s actions under substantial stress reveals his true identity. If one possesses courage, he will perform heroic deeds. Conversely, if one possesses cowardice, he will timidly withdraw from the adverse situation. In The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, “An Episode of War” by Stephen Crane, “The Luck of Roaring Camp” by Bret Harte, […]

Twins have existed and have been recorded for millennia. It is natural for twins to fight, as portrayed in countless stories and myths. Twins are not normal – instead of the norm of one baby, there is two. From the moment they are able to, twins compete and fight, trying to excel over the other. […]

“It isn’t fair, it isn’t right,” Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her” (Jackson). “The Lottery” is a short story by Shirley Jackson; it was published in 1948 and caused a large amount of controversy. Jackson was the kind of writer that could, “write a tenebrous horror story in the Gothic mold in […]

Artificial Intelligence is something that has begun to spring into action and slowly take over our lives one step at a time. From Siri to great amounts of American citizens being laid off because of a machine having a higher success rate than the person. But is Artificial Intelligence really something to be feared? Are […]

Richard Wright once said “Blues, spirituals, and folk talks recounted from mouth to mouth… all these formed the channels through which the racial wisdom flowed” (Thinkexist.com). This quote is related to “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” because they both have racism intertwined in them. The story is about a 17 year old negro […]

Marilyn Monroe’s entire life was shrouded in mystery,even to this very day, from the time of her birth to the night of her untimely death.She was the It-Girl of Hollywood, starring in over 25 movies throughout her 16 year career in the film industry (Things She left Behind). August 5, 1962 was the tragic date […]

On November 10, 1861, Lewis Levy and Isabelle Levy nee Levin (Diniejko), an affluent couple in Clapham, England (“Levy, Amy, Poet” 211), introduced a legacy to the world. “Very much her own woman,” (Whittington-Egan, 42) Amy Levy, whose literary and social influences began from a young age, left quite an impression on the Jewish population, […]

Throughout my life, I have been thrust into environments and situations that are new and unlike anything I have ever previously experienced. Entering into these new situations has caused me a certain level of anxiety and insecurity. I have had to learn to work through these feelings in order to become successful in the new […]

“She carried her head high enough—even when we believed she was fallen” (Faulkner). William Faulkner was an author of novels, short stories, poetry and occasionally screenplays. He had “A Rose for Emily” published in a major magazine on April 30, 1930 (eNotes). “A Rose for Emily” is a short story about Emily Grierson, a well […]

GTL! Gym, tan, laundry minus the “t” when summer is over people tend to go to the tanning salons more often to keep their summer tan. Sun tanning and tanning is the process of where skin is colored or darkness. People deliberately tan their skin by going to the tanning salon, spray tanning and self […]

Imagine this: on December 21, 2012, we will face the extinction of.. . all languages except English. What, not the apocalyptic end you were expecting? True, no bombs, no erupting volcanoes,no flesh-eating zombies, but a world where only the English language exists? If this ling-pocalypse were to happen, here’s what my day would sound like. […]

“Since humans began writing, they have also been communicating in code”(Singh, The Code Book, 1999). The art of code writing is the basis of deception. Not only by writing, a code can be classified as deception just through a simple thought. A code or encryption is just what obstructs the message or idea that needs […]

Picture a quaint family with a wife, husband, and a few children living in the suburbs, on the outskirts of a city. While the children and father begin their carefree morning around eight, the mother begins her hectic day at the crack of dawn. Her morning consists of cooking lunch for her children and husband […]

The right amount of sleep is necessary for every human being, especially high school teenagers, yet most teenagers are not getting the right amount of sleep. Instead, they are staying up doing homework, and then the students have to wake up early for school the next morning. Students are expected to get to school before […]

Seven killed at California State University in 1976. Five killed at Cleveland Elementary in 1989. Four killed at Lindhurst High in 1992. Thirteen dead at Columbine. Another seventeen dead in Parkland last month. When will this infinite string of school shootings end? As it turns out, America’s teens have traded out their safety scissors and […]

Recognizing Ideologies EssayBy: JonathanH123 In the famous quote by Benjamin Franklin(“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”) he said that if you’re going to give up your liberty for a little safety then you shouldn’t have either. I agree with what Benjamin Franklin said […]

In the decades immediately following the American Revolution, American society was fundamentally altered socially, politically, and economically as the thirteen separate states embarked on a historically unique journey to build a functional, long-lasting democratic republic. These three spheres of change naturally intersected considerably; any alterations in one arena undoubtedly affected change in other areas of […]